Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences: Recent submissions
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Innebörder av hållbar utveckling : en studie av lärares utsagor om undervisning
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2007)The focus of this thesis is the research of meanings of Sustainable Development as teachers express them in the accounts of their teaching. The main aim is to investigate, make visible and understand meanings of the ... -
Appropriating technologies in educational practices : studies in the contexts of compulsory education, higher education, and fighter pilot training
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004)Information and communication technologies (ICT) are viewed as progressive technologies. Normally this view entails general assertions – in the future tense – that ICT will be the solu-tion to a wide variety of problems. ... -
Om ljuset i tillvaron : ett undervisningsexperiment inom optik
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001)The main purposes of this thesis were to study the students’ learning outcome and the teachers’ response to a proposed new way of teaching based on research in science education, in the field of optics. The theoretical ... -
En longitudinell studie av 10-12-åringars förståelse av materiens förändringar
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001)The main aim of this study was to study young people’s ability to use science knowledge when talking about and explaining everyday phenomena involving transformations of matter. Pupils’ individual knowledge was studied ... -
Understandings of understanding : an inquiry concerning experiental conditions for developmental learning
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1999)This thesis is about understandings of understanding and has developed from previous research on study skill and conceptions of learning among participants in various forms of education. The purpose was to investigate ... -
Pedagogical quality in preschool : an issue of perspectives
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001)The main aims of this thesis on the pedagogical quality in preschool are: to define and describe a pedagogical concept of quality; to explore how quality is experienced and valued from different perspectives; to find out ... -
An ITiS teacher team as a community of practice
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004)In many countries around the world there have been initiatives to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools, both as a goal in its own right and as a means to enhance the pedagogies ... -
Från allmänsjuksköterska till specialistsjuksköterska inom intensivvård : en studie av erfarenheter från specialistutbildningen och från den första yrkesverksamma tiden inom intensivvården
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003)Aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to describe and analyse experiences of learning in the intensive care nurse’s knowledge and competence areas. What knowledge content is learnt in the study program, what competence ... -
Naturvetenskaplig utbildning för hållbar utveckling? : en longitudinell studie av hur studenter på grundskollärarprogrammet utvecklar för miljöundervisning relevanta kunskaper i naturkunskap
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002)In this study the concept of sustainable development is discussed and what contribution a science teacher can make. Some scientific concepts relevant for environmental education are defined. To understand the concepts mean ... -
Milda makter! Utvecklingssamtal och loggböcker som disciplineringstekniker
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2008-05-15)The title of this thesis indicates a Foucaultian perspective on power, regarding it as pluralistic and mobile; nobody owns the power, but it is voiced through and in social relations and positions. It also indicates that ... -
Attitudes towards Swedish comprehensive school : comparisons over time and between classrooms in grade 6
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006)The main aim of the study is to understand student attitudes towards different aspects of school using data from the late 1960s and 35 years later, and to analyze the impact both from teachers and students on classroom ... -
Cognitive abilities - aspects of structure, process and measurement
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2000)The overall purpose of the thesis is to describe the development of the Swedish system of measuring cognitive abilities applied at enlistment of conscripts. The Enlistment Battery has been used for more than fifty years ... -
Lust att lära naturvetenskap och teknik? : en longitudinell studie om vägen till gymnasiet
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003)The aim of the study was to follow a group of pupils from the age of twelve until they leave lower secondary school at the age of sixteen to describe and analyse how their attitudes towards and interest in science and ... -
Influences on schoolchildren's dietary selection : focus on fat and fibre at breakfast
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002)One important aim of the Swedish Action Programme for Nutrition is to increase the consumption of dietary fibre and decrease fat intake. The currently available extensive range of fat-reduced and fibre-enriched foods ... -
Evolutionsteorin i klassrummet : på väg mot en ämnesdidaktisk teori för undervisning i biologisk evolution
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004)The overall purpose of this thesis is to study how upper secondary school students (grade 10-12) develop an understanding of evolutionary biology as a result of teaching. Taking students’ preconceptions as the starting ... -
Att genuszappa på säker eller minerad mark : hem- och konsumentkunskap ur ett könsperspektiv
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2007)This study focuses on gender patterns in interactions between boys and girls in home and consumer studies, in a Swedish school context. The survey was conducted at the beginning of 2000, with a gender perspective as the ... -
Utveckling och förändring i kommunal vuxenutbildning : en yrkeslivshistorisk ingång med berättelser om lärarbanor
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2006)Municipal adult education, development, restructuring, life history, teachers, narrative analysis, trajectory, plot, project -
Synvändor : universitetsstudenters berättelser om kvalitativa förändringar av sätt att erfara situationers mening under utbildningspraktik
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2004)The main purpose of this study has been to examine the questions: Do people experience view-turns? Can they describe them? What do the processes signify? A narrative method, with an open and dual-focussed interview ... -
Docile bodies and imaginary minds : on Schön's reflection in action
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2007)The modern debate on reflection in education started in the Anglo-American world at the beginning of the 1980s and spread from there to the Nordic countries. The focus in this debate has been on how professional practitioners, ... -
Att överbrygga perspektiv : en studie av behovsbedömningssamtal inom äldreinriktat socialt arbete
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2003)The aim of the study was to describe and analyse institutional practice in need assessment dialogues. The questions were: How are the dialogues structured? How is the professional dialogue content combined with: the ...