Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande by Title
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Handling socio-scientific controversy:Students' reasoning through digital inquiry
(2019-02-14)The ambition of this dissertation is to develop knowledge of students’ reasoning and digital inquiry about socio-scientific controversies (SSCs) in science education contexts. Motivating this research is the vast access ... -
Helpdesking: Knowing and learning in IT support practices
(2015-04-01)The background of this doctoral thesis is an interest in work achievement over extended time periods in specialized and technology-infused workplaces. Globalization, digitalization and increased focus on customer services ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Interacting – coordinating text understanding in a student theatre production
(2019-03-07)The present dissertation explores student actors’ and their teachers’ coordination of text understanding in a theatre production – a two-semester process from page to stage in an upper secondary school in Sweden. With ... -
Interaktionsmönster, social anpassning och emotioner i förskolan. En mikrosociologisk studie av interaktion mellan förskollärare och barn i målorienterade aktiviteter
The overarching aim of this thesis is to contribute knowledge about the interactions between preschool teachers and children in ongoing goal-oriented documentation activities in preschool. More specifically, the thesis ... -
Kan Batman vara rosa? Förhandlingar om pojkighet och normalitet på en förskola
(2010-08-27)Abstract Title: Have you Ever Seen a Pink Batman? Negotiating Boyishness and Normality at a Preschool. Language: Swedish with a summary in English Keywords: Performativity, gender, masculinity, normality, pre- school, ... -
Knowledge at play. Studies of games as members’ matters
(2013-05-08)On a general level, this thesis seeks some answers to the broad question of what one can learn from digital games. With an analytical approach informed by ethnomethodology, the main thrust of the work is an exploration ... -
Kunskaper som byggde folkhemmet : En fallstudie av förutsättningar för lärande vid teknikskiften inom processindustrin
(2014-03-19)Bostaden har en central roll i människors liv och bostadsbyggande är en viktig samhällsangelägenhet. Under de senaste hundra åren har kunskaper, tekniker och arbetsorganisation i byggindustrin utvecklats. Nya byggmaterial ... -
Language learning and technology. Student activities in web-based environments
(2013-04-03)The impact of the web as a communicative arena, based on the use of social software, has changed conditions for communication on all levels of society; privately, at work and in education. This has opened up for multicultural ... -
Lärares tal och barns nyfikenhet: Kommunikation om naturvetenskapliga innehåll i förskolan
(2011-05-20)The aim of this thesis is to generate new knowledge about how children and teachers communicate scientific contents in preschool. The general research question is formulated as: How do the object of learning and the act ... -
Läroböcker, demokrati och medborgarskap. Konstruktioner i läroböcker i samhällskunskap för gymnasiet
(2019-03-07)Swedish citizenship education is charged with a double mission: socialization and education of democratic citizens. This means that textbooks exist in a field of tension between conveying content as true knowledge and ... -
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 ... -
Med kroppen som illustration: Hur förskolebarn prat-skapar naturvetenskap med hjälp av multimodala och kroppsförankrade förklaringar
(2019-01-25)The aim of this thesis is to combine three research areas, namely preschool, science and illustrations, in order to examine (a) how modes are combined when references to the body are made or the body as such are used to ... -
Meningsskapande samtal. En studie om barns meningsskapande med fokus på processer och innehåll relaterat till förskolans praktik
(2021-03-04)This thesis aims to contribute to the knowledge of children’s meaning-making by focusing on processes and content in preschool practice. Meaning-making is understood as a situated process that emerges in the mutual interplay ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"Opening Higher Education:" Discursive transformations of distance and higher education government
(2010-10-25)This thesis takes as its starting point the 1990s and early 2000s political arguments for a more open and flexible Swedish higher education system. At this time, the issues of accessibility and participation were also ...