Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
En fråga om frågor : hur lärares frågor i klassrummet gör det möjligt att få reda på elevernas sätt att förstå det som undervisningen behandlar i matematik och naturvetenskap
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2001)This thesis reports results from a study that focuses on how teachers can learn about their students’ learning in mathematics and science. Current perspectives on learning are positioned in terms of the acquisition and ... -
Yrkeskulturer i möte : läraren, fritidspedagogen och samverkan
(Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1999)In recent years, co-operation between teachers belonging to different teaching traditions or ”cultures”, has become common in Sweden, particularly within the first years of primary school, where teachers from a pre-school ...