Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences: Recent submissions
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Vad är religionslärarkunskap? En diskursanalys av trepartssamtal i lärarutbildningen
(2016-12-09)From an overall perspective, the aim of this thesis is to investigate teachers’ knowledge in relation to Swedish teacher education and to the school subject religious education (RE), by exploring constructions of essential ... -
Den svårfångade motivationen: elever i en digitaliserad lärmiljö
(2016-10-28)Student motivation and personal achievement goal orientations in a digitalized learning environment is the topic dealt with in this thesis. The investigated group of the thesis is the year nine students of three independent ... -
Det motsägelsefulla bedömningsuppdraget. En etnografisk studie om bedömning i förskolekontext
(2016-10-21)This study examines the assessment practices and discourses in Swedish preschool in times of changing principles for state control and steering. These practices and discourses are analyzed in relation to theories about ... -
Diamant - diagnoser i matematik. Ett kartläggningsmaterial baserat på didaktisk ämnesanalys
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När fysik blir lärområde i förskolan
(2016-09-09)This dissertation includes four separate empirical studies, and is directed towards what happens when physics becomes a learning area in preschool. It is about children and preschool teachers exploring and working with ... -
Hälsocoach i skolan - En utvärderande fallstudie av en hälsofrämjande intervention
(2016-05-27)Today young school children in Sweden spend less time taking part in physical activities, compared to what they did 15-20 years ago. Physical activity is a major health component, which can make children maintain or increase ... -
Bedömning som gemensam angelägenhet - enkelt i retoriken, svårare i praktiken. Elevers och lärares förståelse och erfarenheter
(2016-04-27)The thesis focuses on students’ understanding of assessment and their agency in assessment practices. It discusses assessment in relation to arrangements that shape students’ and teachers’ mutual assessment practices. The ... -
Mästarcoacherna. Att bli, vara och utvecklas som tränare inom svensk elitfotboll
(2016-04-08)This thesis aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of what it means to learn to become, be and develop as a coach in Swedish male professional football. The theoretical framework is inspired by sociocultural perspectives ... -
I den betraktades ögon. Ungdomar om bedömning i skolan
(2016-03-23)The present study examines how young students in the last year of comprehensive school make sense and use of the formal assessments they are given regarding their school performance. By interviewing 28 students in year ... -
Musical Play: Children interacting with and around music technology
(2016-03-18)This thesis explores young children and music learning in the ecology of music technologies. The research is a part of an EU project called MIROR (Musical Interaction Relying on Reflection) that had the intention to develop ... -
On the impact of extramural English and CLIL on productive vocabulary
(2016-02-03)In this thesis, the possible impact of English encountered and used in two different contexts – in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and through extramural English (EE) – on students’ writing proficiency is ... -
Extrem jakt på hälsa. En explorativ studie om ortorexia nervosa.
(2016-01-15)Orthorexia nervosa was termed by the physician, Bratman, in the late 1990s. He defined it as an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy food to achieve ‘optimal’ health. The term has since received attention in science ... -
Takt och hållning - en relationell studie om det oberäkneliga i matematikundervisningen
(2016-01-15)This microethnographic classroom study takes its point of departure in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. It examines opportunities and obstacles for children to participate in democratic educational relationships, ... -
Doing project work: The interactional organization of tasks, resources, and instructions
(2015-11-27)In the Swedish educational system, there is a strong emphasis on student autonomy, active knowledge seeking, and critical reflection. Students regularly work individually or in groups with projects that are organized around ... -
I spänningsfältet mellan kontroll och utveckling. En policystudie av systematiskt kvalitetsarbete i kommunen, förskolan och fritidshemmet.
(2015-11-20)The aim of this thesis is to explore how Systematic quality development work (Sqdw) is enacted in municipalities, preschools and leisure-time centres. In Sweden Sqdw comes within the statutory obligations of preschools ... -
Mind the Gap - Ethnography about cultural reproduction of difference and disadvantage in urban education
(2015-11-06)This thesis examines cultural reproduction of difference and disadvantage in the pedagogical content and practices in urban education. Cultural differentiation is seen as a social and ideological practice that is constructed ... -
Rektorers praktiker i möte med utvecklingsarbete. Möjligheter och hinder för planerad förändring
(2015-10-16)This thesis focuses on how principals’ practices in improvement work are formed and how these practices affect principals’ possibilities to work with planned change. The study takes its departure from ten Upper Secondary ... -
Autism-in-context. An investigation of schooling of children with a diagnosis of autism in urban India
(2015-10-07)Informed by the significance given to context in the postcolonial critique of disability in the South, the overall aim of this thesis is to develop a contextual understanding of the schooling of children diagnosed as being ... -
Kön, kropp, begär och teknik: Passion och instrumentalitet på två tekniska högskoleprogram
(2015-09-30)This thesis addresses the co-production of gender and technology as articulated in two programs at a Swedish university of technology: Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Chemical Engineering (CE). It builds on the ...