EducarePub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.24834/educare.2022.4.6
J. Shaun Nolan
{"title":"VTS in the English language classroom in Sweden","authors":"J. Shaun Nolan","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.4.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.4.6","url":null,"abstract":"The position in this paper is that Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) are very relevant for children’s education in Sweden, and\u0000 that their practice makes them highly adaptable to English language teaching. The rationale for this position is that this elicitation and communication technique has proven very effective in nurturing the abilities and skills which are identified in the Swedish curriculum for compulsory schooling. The impact of VTS in the Swedish education system could be significant. First, once known and understood by teachers, VTS can be a very efficient technique in the English language classroom and can directly help to fulfil several of the ambitions of the curriculum and the English language syllabus. Second, abilities and sensitivities developed by VTS correspond to the core values of Swedish society in its promotion of democratic values, which are espoused in the compulsory school curriculum. Third, VTS lends itself to being actively used across school subjects and therefore supports an interdisciplinary sensitivity in students. VTS can help student performance and confidence across subject areas, thus again fulfilling the wider ambitions of the compulsory school curriculum and encourage these students in their growing independence as individuals and as active members of society.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88744222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.24834/EDUCARE.2019.3.1
Kristin Rydjord Tholin
{"title":"Hvilke oppfatninger har barnehagelærerstudenter om omsorg?","authors":"Kristin Rydjord Tholin","doi":"10.24834/EDUCARE.2019.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/EDUCARE.2019.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to examine student’s thoughts, perceptions and understandings about care in kindergarten in the beginning at the kindergarten teacher education. The research question is: What discourses of care can we identify in kindergarten students' texts? Care is a basic value in kindergarten teacher education and a key word in The Norwegian Kindergarten Act (Ministry of Education, 2005). The study was carried out by collecting texts from 65 students. Methodological perspectives was linked to discourse and conventional content analysis. The theoretical perspectives in the study builds on Fisher and Tronto (1990) and Noddings (2013). Analysis provides insight into following result; execute-, need-, recipient- and love discourses. The article discuss implication for teaching in kindergarten teacher education.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"221 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83645231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.3.995
Susanne Dodillet
{"title":"Kunskapssamhällets excellenssatsningar – Försök och tystnader i tysk och svensk utbildningsvetenskap","authors":"Susanne Dodillet","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.3.995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.3.995","url":null,"abstract":"Although different forms of excellence initiatives have become a part of the Swedish educational landscape, educational research on this trend is rare in Sweden. The present article examines this silence by contrasting it against educational elite research from Germany. Departing from Michel Foucault's concept of critique I examine the knowledge and unspoken truths that these research fields are based on and identify some of their omissions. While excellence initiatives are conceptualized as forms of segregation in the Swedish example, the German example examines excellence as the result of selection processes. In both cases excellence initiatives are problematized as an effect of the so-called knowledge society, but in two different ways. The Swedish example criticizes a social climate in which knowledge has become a competitive factor, displacing the idea of A School for All. The German example questions whether knowledge really determines success in the ”knowledgebased” society and emphasizes meritocracy as a goal that remains to be fulfilled. The purpose of this article is not to highlight one of these examples as more appropriate as every presentation of a superior position would entail new categorical boundaries. The critique presented here is limited to revealing two ways of researching excellence initiatives.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76628987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.3.992
Sverker Lundin
{"title":"Verklighetsoptimering och verklighetsprövning – om varför goda intentioner ibland får motsatt verkan inom utbildningsområdet","authors":"Sverker Lundin","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.3.992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.3.992","url":null,"abstract":"While medical practice and research is subject to critique from other fields such as sociology and history of ideas, the educational area is almost exclusively critiqued from the inside. As a consequence, the critique of education usually aims at optimization within a commonly accepted normative framework rather than at a radical questioning of this normative framework as such. Based on a comparison between education and medicine, I suggest that many problems that are today framed as in need of an educational solution, may be framed otherwise or not even considered to be problems at all. I conclude with an analysis of how lack of radical critique can lead to the problem mentioned in the title: that wellmeaning interventions have consequences opposite to those intended. The purpose of the article is to present a radical critique of education that can contribute to a reversal of this tendency.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89537976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.3.994
Ditte Storck Christensen
{"title":"Om bildandet av ”pedagogiskt entreprenörskap” – ett prekärt projekt?","authors":"Ditte Storck Christensen","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.3.994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.3.994","url":null,"abstract":"In 2010, the Swedish government asked The Swedish National Agency for Education to make entrepreneurship into a “thread” in the primary school curriculum. I show that in this process, educational research came to function as a mediator, connecting the spheres of politics, economy and education, without threatening the autonomy of the respective fields. According to official documents, educational research was mobilized by the agency for the purpose of implementation. I argue, however, that the most important role of research was to perform an act of neutralization of disruptive differences between the fields by means of a creative reconceptualization of the concept of entrepreneurship. I suggest that this ability of pragmatic neutralization of differences, constitute an overseen “use” of research, the understanding of which is crucial for a proper assessment of its relationship to policy.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"110 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79236591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.3.990
Susanne Dodillet, Sverker Lundin
{"title":"Kritiska perspektiv på svensk utbildningsvetenskap","authors":"Susanne Dodillet, Sverker Lundin","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.3.990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.3.990","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89923157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-09-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.3.991
Leo Berglund
{"title":"Sociologiska kritikbegrepp för utbildningsvetenskapen","authors":"Leo Berglund","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.3.991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.3.991","url":null,"abstract":"Critique plays an important role within the educational field; yet it seems to function within a framework that is considerably limited by the presuppositions of its objects. Studying the debate on critique that takes place within the sociological field makes it possible to understand the forms and roles critique can take, and how to handle its immanent contradictions. It is argued that while social science can make way for critique by using totalizing theories, actors can be critical by referring to lived experience. But the latter form of critique risks to be neutralized by institutional instances of expertise. The theoretical framework presented is illustrated by an analysis of how two educations in pedagogy on an advanced level interpret their cause to equip their students with an ability to think critically. The comparison shows that one education tends to focus on expertise, and the other one is critical in a more reflexive manner. The article is concluded with a reflection on the need for a radical critique within the educational field.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78592288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.2.1065
K. Berggren
{"title":"Theorizing Power, Identity and Hip Hop: Towards a Queer, Intersectional Approach","authors":"K. Berggren","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.2.1065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.2.1065","url":null,"abstract":"Power and identity are central themes in hip hop scholarship, whether it is race and class that are in focus, or gender and sexuality, or a combination. Yet power and identity are contested concepts that are used with varying theoretical outlooks. This article seeks to outline some key differences between different understandings of power and identity, and their consequences for the study of hip hop. Four models are identified. In the expression model, hip hop is understood as the cultural expression of a specific group. In contrast, the catalogization model and the two-plane model both acknowledge the existence of different dimensions of power and identity, but treat these either in a list-like manner or according to a base-superstructure dichotomy. The limitations of these two models can be overcome, it is suggested, by turning to the complexity model, which builds on contemporary feminist, intersectionality and queer theory.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"11 10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73806052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
EducarePub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.24834/educare.2016.2.1064
E. Hannerz
{"title":"Redefining the subcultural: the sub and the cultural","authors":"E. Hannerz","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.2.1064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.2.1064","url":null,"abstract":"Arguing against the previous research’s presumption that the subcultural constitutes a single set of meaning, this article addresses the simple question of what constitutes the subcultural? What does it mean when we address an object, practice, identity, or meaning structure as subcultural? Through outlining three dominant strands in regards to how subcultural difference has been defined, the author argues that the previous research on subcultural theory has been preoccupied with a definition of subcultures as being a response to external structural problems, with the result that both the “sub” and the “cultural” become dependent variables. Drawing from his work on punks in Sweden and Indonesia the author argues that although differing, the different strands in regards to subcultural difference can nevertheless be combined into a refinement of subcultural theory that moves beyond style to how objects, actions, and identities are communicated, interpreted, and acted upon. Such a refinement, the author argues, provides for an analysis of plurality within the subcultural in relation to multiple structures of meaning. An increased focus on the prefix sub and its relation to the root cultural allows for a discussion of how the subcultural is symbolically extended and more so, how this involves both conflict and alternative interpretations.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90317839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bandformering och genus på 2010-talet: Förändrade villkor för att spela i band?","authors":"Cecilia Wallerstedt, Cecilia Björck, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt","doi":"10.24834/educare.2016.1.1068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2016.1.1068","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to discuss conditions for young people forming rock/pop bands. In particular, we focus on how the subject position band member is constituted and can be problematized through a poststructural gender approach. Our discussion is driven by an observation of three areas for societal change affecting contemporary conditions for band formation and band playing, which all draw on a discourse claiming that ”everyone can”. Firstly, rock and pop bands today get institutional support through formal schooling and music education in Sweden. Secondly, the digitization of music and internet-based resources available are suggested to make possible musical learning for all. Thirdly, equality discourses encourage girls to ”claim space” and ”be heard”, also musically. The discussion of these three areas for change is complemented empirically by a Swedish case of five 13-year-old girls playing in a band. Our material consists of videorecordings and field notes from six rehearsals and one public concert, and social media postings. Based on our results, we see that while physical conditions for band formation have changed over the past decades, the subject position band member is still conditioned, not the least by gender. Therefore, we suggest that the subject position band member needs to be re-visited and most likely re-defined as new conditions for band formation practices take form.","PeriodicalId":34339,"journal":{"name":"Educare","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80482556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}