Research on how higher education institutions work with professional formation indicates that insufficient attention is currently paid to issues of professional responsibility and ethics. In the li ...
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There is a current trend to see higher education primarily in terms of its utilitarian and economic role and its ability to deliver employable candidates to society. In this paper we seek to chall ...
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There is a current trend to see higher education primarily in terms of its utilitarian and economic role and its ability to deliver employable candidates to society. In this paper we seek to challe ...
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This contribution is about situations in classrooms when students express racism, leaving teachers feeling uncertain about how to act. The study is mainly a theoretical contribution inspired by Joh ...
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This paper focuses on ’formation’ in higher education. In the international context of competitiveness, internationalization, ‘entrepreneurialism’ in ‘research intensive’ environments, how do uni ...
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What role might writing within and after preschool teacher education have for the professional practice?
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At core will be the responsive interaction with teachers and peer students and what role different forms of responses play; university teachers’ formative feedback and peer assessment play, and how they influence the development of... more
At core will be the responsive interaction with teachers and peer students and what role different forms of responses play; university teachers’ formative feedback and peer assessment play, and how they influence the development of teacher students’ writing and their sense of what matters in writing. By using two different learning and writing environments in teacher education, preschool teacher education and teacher education, we distinguish between different forms of ideals, demands and feedbacks on their writings as they are articulated and practiced in different disciplines. Thereby we analyze ‘academic literacies” and discuss what kind of ‘formation scripts’ that seems to emerge in the interactions in different social practices within teacher education.
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In this semi-longitudinal study we follow three student teachers (Sara,Eva and Helen) in preschool teacher education (PTE) during two years. They can be described as non-traditional students with w ...
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How might we explain and understand Swedish educational policy and the development of the Swedish school system, from the comprehensive, equality-oriented direction introduced in the early 1960s to the fragmented and divided system of... more
How might we explain and understand Swedish educational policy and the development of the Swedish school system, from the comprehensive, equality-oriented direction introduced in the early 1960s to the fragmented and divided system of today? In the following I will claim that two fundamentally different educational policy periods can be discerned. The first coincides with the first three decades of the comprehensive school system, from 1962 to 1989, the second with the three decades from 1989/1990 to the present. These two periods have created quite different conditions for the work of schools, and also for educational research. The crucial reforms laying the foundations for the shift in educational policy between the two periods were heavily influenced and inspired by the transnational emphasis in the late 1980s on the individual rights set out in international conventions, implying a parental right to educational authority. In recent decades, the consequences of this shift have ma...
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This article presents a longitudinal study of three students’ experiences with learning to write academic texts in preschool teacher education. Through in-depth interviews and drawing on an academ ...
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Despite the general recognition that critical thinking is one of the most important outcome of higher education (Barnett2003, Englund 2008), what critical thinking entails or should imply is itself ...
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Institutional Settings and Civic Education: A Comparative Study of Different Types of Publicand Private Schools. Since the 1990s, the Swedish school systemhas become increasingly more diversified. Decentralization, the introduction... more
Institutional Settings and Civic Education: A Comparative Study of Different Types of Publicand Private Schools. Since the 1990s, the Swedish school systemhas become increasingly more diversified. Decentralization, the introduction ofprivate schools, the ...
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Vad innebar det att som larare vara professionell och vad innebar det att agera professionellt? I denna artikel anknyts inledningsvis till en alltmer betydelsefull distinktion mellan larares profes ...
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Education, the curriculum, society and citizenship : starting points for a historical-sociological comparative approach
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Complexity and challenges characterise twenty-first century western democratic societies, and our everyday lives are highly dependent on well-qualified professionals. We need to trust that professionals perform in a competent and... more
Complexity and challenges characterise twenty-first century western democratic societies, and our everyday lives are highly dependent on well-qualified professionals. We need to trust that professionals perform in a competent and responsible way within the uncertainty of current societies and work life. Realising this calls for deliberate professionals who are able to understand and cope with the unforeseen. Thus, students in higher education qualifying for work must not only learn and critically evaluate the knowledge of their profession, but also develop an awareness of the relationship between theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and the moral and social dimensions and implications of and in professional work. To develop the capacity needed, critical thinking is often referred to as an important learning outcome of higher education. In this chapter, we review the ways in which different meanings of critical thinking are articulated within some of the highly ranked research literature on higher education. We argue that critical thinking, as an individual capacity, is necessary yet insufficient for learning and enacting professional responsibility and propose an extended mode. Deliberative communication provides a more adequate model for building the necessary collective capability for making nuanced judgments and decisions tailored to individual circumstances.
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In this study we follow seven students in their writing in preschool teacher education during two and a half years: From their second semester in higher education, to a finished essay in the end of ...
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Despite the general recognition that critical thinking is one of the most important outcome of higher education (Barnett2003, Englund 2008), what critical thinking entails or should imply is itself ...
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Pragmatism involves a conception of a critical public, free inquiry and communication, the growth of imagination, and the embodiment of purposeful habits of conduct as essential not only to the realization of inquiry but to the ultimate... more
Pragmatism involves a conception of a critical public, free inquiry and communication, the growth of imagination, and the embodiment of purposeful habits of conduct as essential not only to the realization of inquiry but to the ultimate goals of life as well. With its claim that all knowledge is inescapably fallible, it radically opposes the fundamentalist tendencies of this age of abstraction toward final solutions (Rochberg-Halton, 1986, p. 18)
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Vardepremisser i framjande och forebyggande program i skolan : rapport fran forskningsprojektet En vardefull skola
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Villkoren för skolans demokratiuppdrag har förändrats. Det offentliga huvudmannaskapet har utsatts konkurrens från privata initiativ och en ökad kulturell mångfald har konfronterat skolan med nya utmaningar. Vad betyder detta för skolans... more
Villkoren för skolans demokratiuppdrag har förändrats. Det offentliga huvudmannaskapet har utsatts konkurrens från privata initiativ och en ökad kulturell mångfald har konfronterat skolan med nya utmaningar. Vad betyder detta för skolans möjligheter att bidra med ...
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Taylor and Francis LtdCUS_A_167049.sgm10.1080/00220270600670775Journal of Curri ulum Studies0 22-0272 (p i t)/136-5839 (online)Original Article2 06 & Francis0002 6omasE glu dt mas.englund@pi.oru.se This paper seeks to make use of later... more
Taylor and Francis LtdCUS_A_167049.sgm10.1080/00220270600670775Journal of Curri ulum Studies0 22-0272 (p i t)/136-5839 (online)Original Article2 06 & Francis0002 6omasE glu dt mas.englund@pi.oru.se This paper seeks to make use of later works of Habermas in the field of education. The theme, developed out of the pragmatic tradition, is that of deliberative communication as a central form of activity in schools. This implies a displacement of traditional teaching and learning as the central form of activity to the creation of meaning through deliberative communication. Deliberative communication can be understood as an endeavour to ensure that each individual takes a stand by listening, deliberating, seeking arguments, and evalu-ating, while at the same time there is a collective effort to find values and norms on which everyone can agree.
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