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Gothenburg Studies in Educational Sciences
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Editors: Elisabet Öhrn, Christel Larsson, Olof Frack and Pia Williams
ISSN 0436-1121
Published by the Faculty of Education of the University of Gothenburg
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Policyarbete i fritidens gränsland: Om förebyggande insatser för barn och unga i den urbana periferin.
(2025-11-21)Preventive interventions targeting children and young people in marginalised urban neighbourhoods have gained growing political attention in recent decades. This dissertation examines a municipal initiative seeking to ... -
Rektorers arbete i osäkra tider. En aktör-nätverksstudie
(2025-11-20)This thesis explores school leadership and how principals’ scope of action is enacted and continually reshaped in times of unpredictable and uncertain societal changes. The large influx of newly arrived students during the ... -
Det stillasittande hotet. En studie om hur policyaktörer, fackliga tidskrifter och personal i fritidshem konstruerar barns fysiska aktivitet.
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2025-09-19)Barns fysiska aktivitet inom utbildning är ett fenomen som vuxna i samhället under lång tid har uttryckt skiftande åsikter om och haft olika förväntningar på. Det gäller vad den fysiska aktiviteten ska syfta till och ... -
SENCOs’ agency in Swedish upper secondary schools. A lifeworld phenomenological study of how Special Educational Needs Coordinators navigate and manage their everyday worklife.
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2025-09-18)The research interest in this thesis concerns what it means to be and to act as a SENCO. More specifically, the thesis explores nine SENCOs’ lived experiences of agency. To study this, focus has been directed towards ... -
Toward an Animal Standpoint in School? Critical Animal Pedagogy as Sustainability Education.
(Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2025-08-29)The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how critical animal pedagogies (CAP) can contribute to environmental and sustainability education (ESE) by addressing, challenging, and transforming current exploitative ... -
Att kommunicera historia. Språkliga resurser och kunskapserbjudanden i högstadiets historieundervisning
(2025-08-22)The overarching aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of how substantive historical knowledge is communicated to lower secondary students and what knowledge-building opportunities this communication affords. ... -
Educational work beyond carceral logics—Stereoscopic engagements with educational philosophy and abolitionism
(2025-06-13)Schools are often burdened with solving societal problems. The way in which these problems are defined by society influences the approaches taken to address them and informs how the work and purpose of schools is understood. ... -
Does teaching quality matter for student learning outcomes?
(2025-05-23)High-quality teaching is assumed to provide students with learning opportunities that may mitigate educational inequities and narrow achievement gaps. This thesis aims to examine aspects of student-perceived teaching quality ... -
Vad är viktig historia? Att utforska, problematisera, utveckla och synliggöra tankeredskapet historisk signifikans
(2025-05-23)Vad är viktig, eller signifikant, historia, hur avgörs det och av vem? Att synliggöra hur elever resonerar om signifikant historia ger värdefulla insikter i deras historiska tänkande. Trots detta är tankeredskapet historisk ... -
Teachers' Professional Competence and Working Conditions in Swedish Schools. Relationships with Student Achievement
(2025-04-30)The Swedish teaching profession has undergone extensive reforms over the past four decades, leading to variations in teacher competence and specializations. More recently, the teaching profession has also faced challenges ... -
Opportunities and challenges with the shift to climate-adapted food consumption: Balancing nutrition, climate impact, and acceptance in public and private meals
(2025-04-08)This thesis explores the transition toward climate-adapted food consumption, combining insights from both public and private domains. Through four studies, the thesis investigates the balance between reducing carbon ... -
Estimating added and free sugars intake in Swedish adolescents - methods, food sources, nutritional implications, and potential food label impact
(2025-03-07)Excessive intakes of added and free sugars are associated with several adverse health effects. However, due to an absence of objective or standardised methods to measure intake, there is limited knowledge about consumption, ... -
Play-Responsive Teaching: Navigating Semiotic Repertoires and Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Education and Care
(2025-02-07)This thesis focuses on teaching in ECEC and how it can be responsive to bi-/multilingual children’s semiotic repertoires and support their participation in activities involving digital technologies. It is grounded in PRECEC ... -
Generationsmötets ambivalenser - Kritiska perspektiv på ålder, tid och rum
(2025-01-30)This thesis examines the production of intergenerational encounters and its function in social life. The aim of this study is to produce knowledge about how municipally arranged intergenerational interventions condition, ... -
Health Promotion in Swedish Schools: Navigating Institutional, Social and Professional landscapes
(2025-01-10)This thesis explores school health promotion (HP) as a set of policy discourses and professional practices embedded in the institutional context of the Swedish school. School settings provide a unique opportunity for HP ... -
The Quality Dialogue. An Activity-Theoretical Study on Systematic Quality Work in a Municipal Preschool Administration.
(2024-11-14)Quality dialogues have become increasingly common in systematic quality work which is legally mandated by the Swedish Education Act. The present thesis aims to contribute to knowledge on quality dialogues in local education ... -
Att lära om statisk och dynamisk proportionalitet - En studie av den didaktiska transpositionen av svenska matematikuppgifter med proportionalitet
(2024-11-12)The purpose of this study is to shed light on how static and dynamic proportionality is treated by authors of teaching materials, on national tests and by teachers and students in the classroom, as well as how students ... -
Interdisciplinary research and youth sport injury: Developing methodological insights
(2024-10-04)Recognising sport injuries as complex phenomena has urged calls for alternative research approaches to better understand their causes. Instead of adhering to traditional research approaches only, scholars advocate for a ... -
The self in the school context: Mathematics self-concept and self-efficacy in PISA
(2024-09-18)Self-concept and self-efficacy are important constructs in educational psychology, defining an individual’s general perception of their abilities in school subjects and belief in accomplishing specific tasks. These ... -
Doing Knowledge @Scale: Sociomaterial Practices and Professional Learning of Software Developers on Stack Overflow
(2024-09-13)When millions of people gather online to produce and distribute knowledge, the vast digital platforms they use – Facebook, Reddit, X, or the focus of this study, Stack Overflow – become integral to how they learn and work. ...
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