Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk profession by Title
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Förtroendefulla relationer mellan lärare och elev
(2013-05-24)This thesis aims to explain how trustful relationships between teachers and students are expressed in the Swedish compulsory school system, and to explore what a trustful relationship implies for teacher and student. The ... -
”I svenska två vågar jag prata mer och så”. En didaktisk studie om skolämnet svenska som andraspråk
(2015-09-23)This thesis takes its point of departure in recent criticism directed at the Swedish school system, especially regarding the fact that students with a foreign background do not get the same opportunities or attain the same ... -
Immigrant Groups and Cognitive Tests – Validity Issues in Relation to Vocational Training
(2013-04-02)Psychologists at the Employment Service use cognitive tests to assess suitable work or training areas. The tests are standardized on a Swedish population and possible differences in cognitive constructs, prognostic properties ... -
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 ... -
”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 ... -
Kritiskt tänkande i grundskolans samhällskunskap. En fenomenografisk studie om manifesterat kritiskt tänkande i samhällskunskap hos elever i årskurs 9
(2013-11-21)Cultivating students’ critical thinking skills is recognized as a highly important educational goal in many societies in the western world, not least in Sweden. Despite this the research community has so far produced ... -
Lärares arbetsglädje : Betydelsen av emotionell närvaro i det pedagogiska arbetet
(2014-03-19)This thesis aims to explore teachers’ ‘work enjoyment’ and thereby deepening our understanding of teachers’ work and professionality. Positive emotions in teachers’ work are an underestimated and under-researched dimension ... -
Making Sense of Negative Numbers
(2011-02-10)Numbers are abstract objects that we conceptualize and make sense of through metaphors. When negative numbers appear in school mathematics, some properties of number sense related to natural numbers become contradictory. ... -
Mellan osynlighet och avvikelse – nyanlända elever med kort skolbakgrund i grundskolans senare årskurser
(2023-12-22)The education of newly arrived students in Swedish schools has garnered increased attention in research, media, and policy discussions in the last couple of decades. This doctoral thesis explores the educational situation ... -
Möte med multimodalt material. Vilken roll spelar dyslexi för uppfattandet av text och bild?
(2014-05-28)The aim of the thesis is to describe how two different groups of respondents, with and without dyslexia, experience and reproduce information from text and images compared with text only, and whether and in what way ... -
Naturvetenskap möter etik: En klassrumsstudie av elevers diskussioner om samhällsfrågor relaterade till bioteknik
(2015-05-08)The aim of this thesis is to contribute to increased understanding of students’ learning from discussing different socio-scientific issues in connection to biotechnology. In the international literature there is a call ... -
Pedagogisk takt i betygssamtal
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2014-12-18)This thesis aims to explore how grades are explained and understood in grade conferences between teachers and students in Swedish upper secondary school. The empirical material is based on 149 video-recorded conferences ... -
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 ... -
Reasoning in a Science Classroom
(2015-03-26)In research on science education, there is a need to further understand the relation between longer and shorter processes of teaching and learning in the classroom. With a theoretical framework based on dialogical theories ... -
Reconfiguring Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood Education: a Post-anthropocentric Approach
(2020-04-01)The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it explores how the notion of sustainability is conceptualized within early childhood education discourses and how it is manifested in early childhood curricula. Second, ... -
Samtal om undervisning i naturvetenskap - Ämnesdidaktisk kollegial utveckling i lärarutbildning och lärarprofession
(2020-08-28)The overall aim in this thesis is to explore professional conversations about science teaching experiences, both in an educational setting with student teachers, and in a local professional development project with a science ... -
Seeing the parts, understanding the whole - A technology education perspective on teaching and learning in processes of analysing and designing programmed technological solutions
(2021-08-17)Analysing and designing Programmed Technological Solutions (PTS) has been introduced as a part of technology education in an effort to bring elements of programming into the curriculum for compulsory school, in order to ... -
Self-awareness and self-knowledge in professions. Something we are or a skill we learn
(2012-10-04)This study explores how issues associated with the professional as a person can be dealt with in professional education. It has been done by exploring what participants learn in a course of personal development with ... -
Skolförändring, reformer och professionella villkor - en etnografisk studie
(2023-08-25)This is a dissertation primarily built on ethnographic methodology. It examines how teachers and principals react to and handle change. The overall aim of the study is to investigate how general and specific changes have ... -
Skriva historia. Literacyförväntningar och elevtexter i historieämnet på mellan- och högstadiet
(2019-09-04)The importance of developing subject-specific literacy is emphasized in linguistic and didactic studies. This thesis contributes to the knowledge on literacy in compulsory school history, by comparing expectations for ...