{"title":"Why are all dogs male?","authors":"Cathrine Norberg, Marie Nordlund","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.3.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.3.8","url":null,"abstract":"Studies conducted over the past sixty years have reported stereotypical gender representation in school materials. Initiatives to counteract sexism have led to improvements, and the most overt gender-biased examples are less visible today. Despite this, studies still report gender imbalances. Since language has an enormous impact on how normative perceptions are created, increased knowledge about how we communicate and create knowledge about gender is needed. This study focuses on gender in EFL textbooks used in Swedish primary school. To reveal patterns of representation, a corpus was constructed and tagged to enable searches. The study reveals both equal and unequal representations. Equal patterns are shown in the numerical representation of proper names, and in verbs and adjectives collocating with females and males. However, animals and fantastic characters identified as either male or female in the books show traditional gender representations, with male characters not only occurring more frequently than equivalent female characters but also being represented as more active and innovative. The pronoun he is also considerably more common than she in the material.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131955180","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":"Teacher’s stories about teaching newly arrived refugee youths at a vocational upper secondary school in Sweden","authors":"Hamid Asghari","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the stories of four teachers teaching newly arrived refugee youths at a vocational upper secondary school. The youths came to Sweden in 2015 and later, and they live in a so-called vulnerable area. This is a period when many unaccompanied children and adolescent refugees arrived in Sweden. The study aims to contribute to knowledge about teaching newly arrived refugee youths and the way these youths can influence teaching in a vocational school. The methodological and theoretical starting point for the study is based on a narrative perspective. The stories are analysed thematically and show that these students have great solidarity with each other, are ambitious, and create a good mood in the classroom. In addition, there is always “someone” who does not believe in democratic values, although most of the students value the Swedish democracy and equality between men and women. The expulsion decision that some students receive affects the teachers’ teaching as well, since it means that they also have to deal with teaching situations where their students’ lives and deaths are involved in the sense that they are refugees threatened by expulsion.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125299591","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":"Lärares iscensättning av stöttning vid nyanlända elevers digitala textproduktion","authors":"A. Hell","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies describe scaffolding as fundamental for newly arrived students to understand and create texts. In this article, scaffolding students’ multilingual palette (the full range of multilingual resources) is vital for their meaning-making. This study aims to make linguistic diversity visible when scaffolding newly arrived students during digital text activities in narrative and retelling text in Swedish as a second language. The following research question guides the study: How do scaffolding processes during digital text activities contribute to opportunities for newly arrived students with varying backgrounds and experiences of the Swedish language to use their multilingual palettes? The data consists of ethnographic fieldwork in three primary schools (year 3), focusing on scaffolding during nine newly arrived students’ text activities. Through an iterative analysis process, scaffolding emerged to have the following functions: 1) to promote multilingualism, 2) to develop textual competence, 3) to support student space. Scaffolding of newly arrived students who did not yet speak Swedish contributed to all students being able to create text within the text types. However, the scaffolding did not support their use of multilingual resources during individual text activities. For students to develop multilingual resources, scaffolding must focus on translanguaging and non-verbal means of expression, even during individual activities. For this, using digital technology is advantageous.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128756753","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":"Elevperspektiv på vad som väcker intresse för litteraturhistoria","authors":"J. Johansson","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research on teaching and learning of literature has called for empirical investigations on classroom practice concerning literary history. As an answer to this call, the study aims to develop knowledge about what sparks students’ interest in the teaching of literary history in upper secondary school. In relation to the introductory lesson in literary history, students’ attitudes were collected through questionnaires and interviews. 286 students from ten classes in five different schools participated, all from various university preparation programmes. Thematic analysis was applied to analyse students’ responses. The analysis showed that themes of (1) content and (2) teachers’ ways of leading and organising the teaching, contributed to spark students’ interest in literary history in various ways. In relation to content, the students’ foregrounded students’ experiences; intertextuality; similarities and differences between different periods; epochs, authors and works; and aesthetic elements. Regarding teachers’ ways of leading and organising the teaching, the students emphasised passion and engagement, content legitimation, interaction and participation, variety, structure and delimitation and grades or de-emphasis on performance. These findings are discussed in relation to theories of interest and teaching.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126341787","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":"Deconstructing Video Clips in Class","authors":"Lisa Molin","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the recent decades of rapid digitalization digital multimodal texts have become increasingly common. Almost anyone can also produce, edit and publish texts which have resulted in an increasing necessity for critical literacy in order to handle texts in digital domains. The purpose of this article is to explore how students’ critical literacy can be developed through in situ classroom activities. Grounding the study in sociocultural theories of learning and the concept of critical literacy, a design research approach was adopted, and an intervention was jointly designed by the researcher and the teachers. In focus was a class of 14-15-year-olds who were involved in activities of deconstructing a video clip from a popular teenage online series. Through interaction analysis of the classroom observations, it became evident that, by means of a step by step lesson structure, opportunities arise for increasing students’ awareness of how modes function concurrently and carry both separate and interconnected meanings. Through this process, students also discovered that different modes can be contradictory, enabling enhanced critical analysis in their making meaning of the text. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127035584","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":"Teaching in Flexible Spatial and Digital Conditions","authors":"Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, A. Hipkiss","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the opportunities and challenges of teaching under flexible spatial and digital conditions of the learning environment of a newly build school analyzing how teaching is organized and what curricular genres can be discerned, what resources and practices are offered to stimulate students meaning-making and what framing, relations and accessibility can be discerned in the flexibility of furniture and classroom space. The analyses of one teacher team’s planning and teaching of the thematic work project on Space in years 2-3 (8-9 old children) reveals varied teaching strategies between teacher-led and student-centered forms offering students linguistic, visual and audiovisual resources to make meaning of shared content via different subjects. Spatial framing allows for free movement or static and focused teaching strategies of rather traditional forms of assignments and assessment. These young students practice reading comprehension, both of written texts and films, that also serves building their knowledge about space, thus engaging in skills discourse in combination with thinking and learning discourse. \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126992145","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}
Eva Insulander, P. Hernwall, Anna Åkerfeldt, Elisabeth Öhman
{"title":"Assessment in Transformation","authors":"Eva Insulander, P. Hernwall, Anna Åkerfeldt, Elisabeth Öhman","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Using data from focus group interviews, this study aims to analyze the perceived opportunities and challenges encountered by groups of secondary school teachers regarding the assessment of multimodal texts. Previous research has shown that digital technologies introduce new kinds of texts in the classroom. The possibility of combining verbal text with image, sound, and movement has an impact on students’ text production. However, the changing role of writing on the screen has left teachers uncertain of how to assess these new forms of texts. Apart from attending to digital competence, assessing multimodal texts may involve following writing conventions and organizing text using different resources and components. Quality in multimodal texts may concern using multimodal components to communicate complex ideas effectively, which may or may not be noticed by teachers. The data is based on group interviews with 11 secondary school teachers at two different schools. The study conducted a thematic content analysis using the analytical concepts of transformation, recognition, design, and form and meaning. Findings show that teachers find it challenging to acknowledge certain qualities in students’ multimodal texts without support from the steering documents. On the other hand, they notice opportunities to follow students’ learning processes. In addition, they stress an increased opportunity and need for shared assessment across school subjects. The article concludes with a discussion of tensions regarding opportunities and challenges when assessing students’ multimodal texts in relation to the different subject syllabuses.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125600297","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":"Students' Insights from Interactive Visualizations Arranged Multimodally in Knowledge Visualizations","authors":"Ulrika Bodén, Linnéa Stenliden, Jörgen Nissen","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a visual analytics application is put into practice in Swedish secondary school social science classrooms. The application offers support to analyse vast amounts of data through interactive data visualizations. Previous studies have demonstrated that the visual interactive interface challenges the traditional practice in school, where students usually demonstrate their knowledge by means of written texts. Thus, this study examines what happens if students work with more malleable, adaptable, or fluid modes when attempting to express their conclusions from work with interactive data visualizations. It aims to detect patterns in how knowledge visualizations are produced and arranged multimodally. Inspired by design-based research, the study conducted two classroom interventions followed by video captures. It employed a socio-material semiotic approach, which enables the study of interactions between both social and material actors. Three patterns emerged when students’ insights were translated into knowledge visualizations – exploring, gathering, and inserting. It became obvious how different actors taking part of such a digital multimodal writing activity affect and change every actor/everyone/everything, which in turn transfers, relocalizes, reformulates, and re-presents the communicated message. Knowing how knowledge visualizations are produced might strengthen students’ visual abilities when transforming insights multimodally.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126329785","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}
P. Fastrez, Nathalie Lacelle, J. Bihl, Eve Gladu, Éric Delamotte, Catherine Delarue-Breton, Christophe Ronveaux, Denise Sutter Widmer
{"title":"The The Media Literacy of Teenagers","authors":"P. Fastrez, Nathalie Lacelle, J. Bihl, Eve Gladu, Éric Delamotte, Catherine Delarue-Breton, Christophe Ronveaux, Denise Sutter Widmer","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"IIn this paper, we present the conceptual framework, objectives, and methodology of an interdisciplinary research program (2018–2022) on the media literacy competence of teenagers in French-speaking Belgium, Quebec, France, and Switzerland. The program is undertaken by researchers in four universities, one in each national context. Focusing on information search and multimodal production as core media literacy activities, this program develops a multi-level assessment method to measure media literacy competence at varying levels of complexity. Additionally, we relate task-based measures of competence with self-reported competence and practices and seek to document the influence of the students’ interpretation of the tasks contexts and purposes, their motivation and feeling of empowerment, and their collaborative practices on the exercise of their media literacy. Preliminary results reveal that students report substantially higher levels of competence in information search than in web production; however, this difference is reduced when students assess their ability to perform specific search-related or production-related actions. These results are discussed in light of the potential usefulness of the program for teachers and for curricular design.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132650010","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":"Texts, Information and Multimodality in the Digital Age","authors":"Anna-Lena Godhe, Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, Linnea Stenliden","doi":"10.24834/educare.2022.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24834/educare.2022.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In the last three decades, the development of digital technology, and not least the Internet, has affected how we communicate, make meaning, and learn, both on an individual and on societal levels. Changes in communication patterns also coincide with increased globalization, changes in production and economic conditions. What drives what is difficult to ascertain, but all factors impact the educational system and contribute to the changing conditions for teaching and learning. Teaching nowadays involves the use and incorporation of digital technologies where learning increasingly becomes a matter of student-active participation, collaboration and sharing. Moreover, students need to be able to interpret information from a diversity of sources and media, formulate questions for this content and solve problems (Binkley et al., 2012; EU, 2017; Godhe et al., 2020). This special issue aims to showcase digital approaches to communication with the help of case studies that illuminate how text, information and multimodality in the digital age shape and influence education.","PeriodicalId":395881,"journal":{"name":"Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114754751","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}