Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för pedagogik, kommunikation och lärande by Issue Date
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The work of critique in architectural education
(2010)The research reported here is an investigation of instruction and assessment in architectural education. The focus is on the practice of critique, an educational activity in which instructors and professional architects ... -
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, ... -
"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 ... -
Bäst i klassen? Lärare och elever i svenska och europeiska policytexter
(2011-02-04)This thesis takes its departure in the recent criticism directed to the Swedish school system and its schools, teachers and pupils, but especially the epidemic of policies produced in order to develop and improve Swedish ... -
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 ... -
Samtal om barn och pedagogisk dokumentation som bedömningspraktik i förskolan - En diskursanalys
(2011-09-12)The preschool, nowadays an intergral part of the educational system, is to be found within a welfare state and a knowledge economy, within a society characterized by the idea of lifelong learning. As a conse-quence of this, ... -
Spaces for Solidarity and Individualism in Educational Contexts
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Flerspråkiga barn i förskolan: Villkor för deltagande och lärande
(2012-08-17)The aim of this research was to study the learning conditions in preschool that support young multilingual children’s language and communicative development, and their participation in activities. A sociocultural theoretical ... -
Variation och invarians i Maria Montessoris sinnestränande materiel
(2012-10-20)The purpose of this study was to analyse the Montessori pedagogy with the objective to theoretically describe and explain the Montessori pedagogical method. The aim has been to find an answer to what still makes the ... -
Contextualizing inquiry. Negotiations of tasks, tools and actions in an upper secondary classroom.
(2012-11-27)The challenges for education in contemporary society are complex. The emergence of the post-industrial society – an information- or knowledge society, where the development of digital technologies are pivotal – have altered ... -
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 ... -
Yngre elevers lärande om naturen En studie av kommunikation om modeller i institutionella kontexter
(2013-04-15)Abstract The aim of the study is to draw attention to and examine how young students (approximately 5-13 years) are involved in communication about nature, what approaches to nature are mediated in the social practices ... -
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 ... -
Engagerade i världens bästa? Lärande för hållbarhet i förskolan
(2013-05-10)In this thesis the aim is to acquire knowledge about and to scrutinise the ambiguity, complexity and contradictions within education for sustainability in the Swedish preschool, as well as analysing children’s agency and ... -
Att skapa läroplan för de yngsta barnen i förskolan. Barns perspektiv och nuets didaktik
(2013-10-25)This thesis takes as one point of departure the concept of the expanded curriculum where curricula encompass both the formal steering documents, as well as that which goes on within the framework of preschool education and ... -
Skylta med kunskap. En studie av hur barn urskiljer grafiska symboler i hem och förskola.
(2013-11-07)The topic of this study is to generate knowledge about children’s understanding of graphical symbols. These forms of knowledge are prevalent in contemporary societies, for example, in the form of letters, numbers, road ... -
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 ... -
Project work, independence and critical thinking
(2014-05-22)This thesis studies how students do projects in a Swedish upper secondary school. The students have to produce products and at the same time prove them self as independent in relation to the teachers, and negotiate the ... -
Formulating knowledge: Engaging with issues of sustainable development through academic writing in engineering education
(2014-10-09)Given that knowledge in society is increasingly shaped by textuality and dependent on texts, higher education holds a special responsibility for introducing and guiding students into text practices contingent on disciplinary ... -
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 ...