Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences: Recent submissions
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Gymnasielärares mentorshandlingar. En verksamhetsteoretisk studie om lärararbete i förändring
(2018-02-23)This thesis sheds light on Swedish teachers’ work in upper secondary school during times of restructuring. The aim of the study is to examine what teachers try to accomplish in their activities besides classroom teaching, ... -
Education for Sustainable Food Consumption in Home and Consumer Studies
(2018-02-08)Education as a means to enable sustainable food consumption has gained increasing recognition as a vital means to decrease current burdens upon both natural resources and human health. In response, the Swedish compulsory ... -
Extremisten i klassrummet - perspektiv på skolans förväntade ansvar att förhindra framtida terrorism
(2018-02-02)In this thesis the development of strategies and action plans for prevention of violent extremism (PVE) in the Swedish educational system is analysed. Sweden had its first national action plan for PVE-work adopted in ... -
Det tillåtande och det begränsande. En studie om pojkars syn på studier och ungdomars normer kring maskulinitet
(2018-01-24)Girls preform generally better than boys in school. In many schools the dominant norms of masculinity are a hinder for boys to preform in school. Schools with a dominating “anti school culture” or a “effortless achievement ... -
Training to become a master mariner in a simulator-based environment: The instructors’ contributions to professional learning.
(2017-12-14)In higher education programs that aim to prepare students for professional performance in safety-critical work activities, the introduction of simulators is seen as a fundamentally restructuring of the ways in which ... -
Digital technologies as support for learning about the marine environment: Steps toward ocean literacy
(2017-11-27)Over the last century the ocean has been negatively impacted by human activities. In order to continue benefitting from marine services and goods, and the qualities afforded to human life through the ocean, citizens need ... -
”Det kan vara svårt att förklara på rader”. Perspektiv på analys och bedömning av multimodal textproduktion i årskurs 3.
(2017-11-05)Drawing and coloring have been part of young students text making as long as the writing system has been used, but with the increased use of digital tools and an enlarged focus on accountability of today there is a ... -
The Dynamic Development of Cognitive and Socioemotional Traits and Their Effects on School Grades and Risk of Unemployment
(2017-10-13)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dynamic development of cognitive and socioemotional traits and how these traits influence academic achievement and predict risk of unemployment. Data was retrieved from the ... -
Sexualitet i klassrummet. Språkundervisning, elevsubjektivitet och heteronormativitet
(2017-10-09)In this thesis, the production of sexuality in secondary language education is examined. More specifically, the aim is to explore how sexuality, pupil subjectivity and heteronormativity are produced within, and as ... -
Om lärarblivande: En livsvärldsfenomenologisk studie av bildningsgångar in i läraryrket
(2017-10-06)The purpose of this study is to understand and visualize the prospective teachers ' educational trajectories into the profession. The theoretical framework is life-world phenomenological and the method is narrative. The ... -
Fritidshem eller servicehem? En etnografisk studie av fritidshem i tre socioekonomiskt skilda områden
(2017-09-18)In recent decades there has been decreased resources and larger groups of children in the leisure-time centres. Statistics show major differences between leisure-time centres in terms of staff education, group size, staffing ... -
Hoppet om en framtidsplats. Asylsökande barn i den svenska skolan
(2017-09-01)The thesis explores how accompanied refugee and asylum-seeking children experience everyday life in Sweden. During the asylum process, as part of a policy for promoting ‘normal life’, these children have the same right ... -
Geographical Mobility of the Tertiary Educated – Perspectives from Education and Social Space
(2017-08-29)The purpose of this research is to illuminate the complexity of measuring and understanding patterns of geographical mobility from higher education to employment. This is done by employing an educationally oriented social ... -
Performativa lärarpraktiker
(2017-08-23)The preconditions for teachers’ practices in Sweden have dramatically changed during the last few decades. Since the 1990s, processes of decentralisation, marketisation and privatisation have rapidly transformed the ... -
Visuella möjlighetsrum. Gymnasieelevers subjektsskapande i bild och medieundervisning
(2017-04-05)This thesis examines upper secondary school pupils’ processes of subjectivation, resistance and creative becomings in visual art and media education. By using visual methodologies, pupils’ subjectivity is explored as ... -
Interest and Engagement: Perspectives on Mathematics in the Classroom
(2017-03-31)The aim of this research project is to illuminate interest manifested as student engagement in mathematics in years 6-9. In particular, the studies capture how engagement is recognised by teachers and researchers and what ... -
Svenskämnets estetiska dimensioner – i klassrum, kursplaner och lärares uppfattningar.
(2017-03-10)This thesis explores aesthetic dimensions in the school subject Swedish in classroom, curricula and teachers’ perceptions. In focus is the question about young pupils’ (7 – 9 years old) possibilities to use different ... -
Framåt Marsch! Ridlärarrollen från dåtid till samtid med perspektiv på framtid
(2017-02-23)Swedish riding schools are characterized by a traditional stable culture that originated in army practices. The riding instructors reinforce these military traditions. Nevertheless, riding instructors and riding schools ... -
Learning to reason in environmental education: Digital tools, access points to knowledge and science literacy
(2016-12-21)Digital technologies and environmental education represent two rather new areas in school curricula. The background of the present research is an interest at the inter-section between how students learn about environmental ...