Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik by Title
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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 ... -
Samtal under lärarlagsmöten. Diskursorienteringar i den professionella praktiken
(2021-03-25)Teacher team meetings are potential arenas for professional communication, but such meetings take many different forms and cannot automatically be viewed as forums for constructive communication. The aim of this study is ... -
School choice, space and the geography of marketization- Analyses of educational restructuring in upper secondary education in Sweden
(2019-01-17)The main aim of the dissertation is to investigate, analyze and create a research-based understanding of the spatialities of the Swedish school choice in upper secondary education using a socio-spatial framework. The ... -
Sexualitet i klassrummet. Språkundervisning, elevsubjektivitet och heteronormativitet
(2017-10-09)In this thesis, the production of sexuality in secondary language education is examined. More specifically, the aim is to explore how sexuality, pupil subjectivity and heteronormativity are produced within, and as ... -
Skicklig läs- och skrivundervisning i åk 1-3: Om lärares möjligheter och hinder
(2011-09-26)This study focuses on teachers’ opportunities and obstacles to perform skillful reading and writing instruction. It’s about the ability to accurately identify where students are in their reading and writing process and to ... -
Stability and Change
(2021-03-10)The key role Swedish upper secondary education plays in differentiating between higher education and labour market sectors has been discussed from an equality perspective over the last 60 years. Despite political incentives ... -
Student experience of vocational becoming in upper secondary vocational education and training. Navigating by feedback.
(2018-09-27)This doctoral thesis explores student experience of vocational becoming, particularly the navigational role of feedback in the process for Swedish upper secondary vocational students. Vocational becoming is explored as ... -
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 ... -
Den synliggjorda vokabulären och praktiken – gymnasieelevers akademiska skrivande på svenska
(2021-05-07)The thesis includes three studies and a kappa and it has a twofold focus; the first is on vocabulary, as the relevance of vocabulary skills is increasingly important, not least for writing in academic contexts. The second ... -
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, ... -
Tänka fritt, tänka rätt. En studie om värdeöverföring och kritiskt tänkande i gymnasieskolans undervisning
(2013-05-16)This thesis deals with value transfer and critical thinking in Swedish upper secondary education. The Curriculum for the Non-Compulsory School System (Lpf 94) entrusts a dual function to schools and teachers. They are ... -
Teacher sorting and the opportunity gap: a cross-national investigation of institutional differentiation and educational equity
Inequitable access to teacher competence (‘teacher sorting’ or the teacher ‘opportunity gap’) is increasingly the focus of international educational bodies worldwide but is still relatively underexplored empirically. The ... -
Teachers meeting the challenges of the Swedish school system. Agents within boundaries
(2020-02-06)There are many factors that may contribute to explaining variation in teacher quality, which is the key to the schools’ success. These factors include not only teacher characteristics, but also conditions of the teachers’ ... -
Teachers' work in times of restructuring: On contextual influences for collegiality and professionality.
(2019-04-18)The research in this thesis is situated in the intersection of teachers’ work and contexts of education. It departs from an interest in contextual influences on teachers’ work and professionality under restructuring. It ... -
The Dynamic Development of Cognitive and Socioemotional Traits and Their Effects on School Grades and Risk of Unemployment
(2017-10-13)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the dynamic development of cognitive and socioemotional traits and how these traits influence academic achievement and predict risk of unemployment. Data was retrieved from the ... -
Unpacking dominant discourses in higher education language policy
(2019-09-06)The overall purpose of the thesis is to investigate dominant discourses operating in the changing of HE concerning questions of language policy. It has been studied at a national level, analysing reports and government ... -
Vad gör en skicklig lärare? En studie om kollegial handledning som utvecklingspraktik
(2014-02-19)What ‘make(s)’ a good teacher? A study of peer group mentoring as a practice of professional development. Keywords: teachers’ continuing professional development, peer group mentoring, practice architectures, Foucault, ... -
Val-omröstning-styrning. En etnografisk studie om intentioner med, villkor för och utfall av barns inflytande i förskolan
(2020-05-04)This thesis takes its point of departure in an interest in exploring how children’s participation is expressed in policy texts as well as in preschool practice. Participation can be viewed as a discourse of considerable ... -
”Vi får ju inte riktigt förutsättningarna för att genomföra det som vi vill.” En studie om lärares möjligheter och hinder till förändring och förbättring i praktiken
(2013-05-24)Initially the overall aim of this thesis was to describe and analyse what was happening in the educational activities when teachers at a school that I have called Tower School introduced the computer as a tool for helping ... -
Young students’ Language Choice in Swedish compulsory school – expectations, learning and assessment
(2023-04-05)The second foreign language, referred to as Modern Languages in the Swedish curriculum, begins no later than year 6 in compulsory school. Swedish students normally make their Language Choice (in Swedish “Språkval”) in year ...