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Affektive orienteringer af hvidhed: : Metodologiske refleksioner fra børnehaven som forskningsfelt
No full textDenne artikel er et opråb – og et nødråb – til de af os, for hvem det hvide privilegie kan være lige så usynligt, som det kan være behageligt. Med afsæt i et kritisk etnografisk inspireret feltarbejde gennemført i to danske børnehaver, stiller artiklen skarpt på affektive responsers ’gøren’ i relation til hvid forskerpositionalitet. Artiklen viser, hvordan hvidhedens affektive ladninger er socialt cirkulerende og magtfulde i deres orienteringer af kroppe, steder og (forsker)praksisser og dermed bidrager til opretholdelsen af den (u)synlige hvide norm. Artiklen argumenterer for, hvorfor affektive responser, som for eksempel vrede og usikkerhed, er gode at tænke med, når forskningens ambition er at forstyrre diskursivt medierede forståelser af normativ hvidhed, der optræder som en situeret del af racialiseret forskerpositionalitet.
Editorial: Researcher positionality and race in color-evasive Nordic educational contexts
No full textThe editorial introduction to the special issue on researcher positionality and race in color-evasive Nordic educational contexts frames the necessity of this inquiry into historical and contemporary forms of racism and current discourses of Nordic exceptionalism. Reflecting explicitly on researcher positionality with respect to race and Whiteness can be seen as an act of interrupting the silence and avoidance that tends to characterize Nordic educational research. The articles in the special issue are summarized and connected to these overall aims
Beyond Push and Pull: A New Theory of International Student Mobility
No full textThe global mobility of students is a central feature of the internationalization of higher education. The discussions in the current literature on the issue of international student mobility seem to concentrate on three main questions: 1) What is the current pattern of international student mobility? 2) How do we explain the current mobility pattern? 3) More importantly, should we regard the current mobility pattern as a normal state of affairs or a cause for concern? What is missing in the current discussions is how we should steer the future direction of international mobility. Based on a review of the different theoretical approaches to understanding international student mobility, this paper aims to propose a new Glo(bal)-Noble Theory that recognizes the benefits of globalization and the role of neoliberal forces but encourages noble and mindful practices in international education to gradually narrow the gap between the rich and the poor in the world
Kontextualiserad yrkesdidaktik: Perspektiv och tillvägagångssätt
No full textSyftet med detta temanummer, som inkluderar 16 artiklar med forskning från Sverige, Norge, Danmark och Finland, är att fördjupa och klargöra förståelsen av kontextbaserad yrkesdidaktik, som ständigt utvecklas med samhällsförändringar och teknologiska framsteg. Artiklarna behandlar olika aspekter av yrkesdidaktik, inklusive stöd för elever med särskilda behov, digitaliseringens roll och samarbetet mellan skola och arbetsliv. Temanumret betonar vikten av att anpassa undervisningen till en föränderlig arbetsmarknad och utbildningssystem, samt att förbereda eleverna för både yrkeslivet och som demokratiska medborgare.The aim of this special issue, which includes 16 articles featuring research from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, is to deepen and clarify the understanding of context-based vocational didactics, which continuously evolves with societal changes and technological advancements. The articles address various aspects of vocational didactics, including support for students with special needs, the role of digitalisation, and the collaboration between school and working life. This special issue emphasises the importance of adapting teaching to a changing labour market and education system, as well as preparing students for both professional life and as democratic citizens.Syftet med detta temanummer, som inkluderar 16 artiklar med forskning från Sverige, Norge, Danmark och Finland, är att fördjupa och klargöra förståelsen av kontextbaserad yrkesdidaktik, som ständigt utvecklas med samhällsförändringar och teknologiska framsteg. Artiklarna behandlar olika aspekter av yrkesdidaktik, inklusive stöd för elever med särskilda behov, digitaliseringens roll och samarbetet mellan skola och arbetsliv. Temanumret betonar vikten av att anpassa undervisningen till en föränderlig arbetsmarknad och utbildningssystem, samt att förbereda eleverna för både yrkeslivet och som demokratiska medborgare.Syftet med detta temanummer, som inkluderar 16 artiklar med forskning från Sverige, Norge, Danmark och Finland, är att fördjupa och klargöra förståelsen av kontextbaserad yrkesdidaktik, som ständigt utvecklas med samhällsförändringar och teknologiska framsteg. Artiklarna behandlar olika aspekter av yrkesdidaktik, inklusive stöd för elever med särskilda behov, digitaliseringens roll och samarbetet mellan skola och arbetsliv. Temanumret betonar vikten av att anpassa undervisningen till en föränderlig arbetsmarknad och utbildningssystem, samt att förbereda eleverna för både yrkeslivet och som demokratiska medborgare
Rättsliga och pedagogiska förutsättningar för verksamhetsförlagd utbildning på sjuksköterskeutbildningen i Sverige med nordisk utblick
No full textNursing education of good quality and with a high throughput is an important welfare issue to meet the need for competence supply in health care. In order to increase the number of clinical training positions, access to health care organizations where the extensive practical part of the nurse education can be carried out is required. The universities have a responsibility to arrange clinical training for nurse students in accordance with law, however practically carried out in health care. This article examines the complex legal and pedagogical conditions for clinical training in Swedish nursing education. A brief overview of the conditions in Denmark, Finland and Norway is also presented. An interdisciplinary approach is applied, combining legal method and analysis of pedagogical development research and the local regulation of nursing education at the universities. The authors conclude that the conditions for clinical training in the Nordic countries are governed by agreements between the universities and health care institutions. This requires an extensive cooperation between the parties, not least from the perspective of legal certainty for students. Clinical training must also fulfil the requirements according to EU law, which regulates nursing education in detail and requires at least half of the stipulated educational duration standards to be carried out clinically in direct contact with patients in health care. The conclusion is that EU law restricts methods for carrying out clinical training such as simulation, even though simulation is applied in many of the member states and can be justified both from a pedagogical and patient safety perspective.En sjuksköterskeutbildning av god kvalitet och med god genomströmning är en viktig välfärdsfråga för att tillgodose hälso- och sjukvårdens kompetensförsörjningsbehov. För att utöka antalet utbildningsplatser krävs platser för klinisk verksamhetsförlagd undervisning för den omfattande praktiska delen av utbildningen. Sådan verksamhetsförlagd utbildning sker på lärosätenas ansvar enligt den högskolerättsliga regleringen, men genomförs i hälso- och sjukvården. I denna artikel undersöks de komplexa rättsliga och pedagogiska förutsättningarna för verksamhetsförlagd utbildning på sjuksköterskeutbildningen i Sverige. En översiktlig utblick mot Danmark, Finland och Norge görs också. Undersökningen genomförs tvärvetenskapligt med rättsanalytisk metod samt genom analys av forskning om pedagogiskt utvecklingsarbete och lärosätenas lokala reglering. Här konstateras att förutsättningarna för verksamhetsförlagd utbildning i de nordiska länderna styrs av avtal mellan lärosätena och hälso- och sjukvården. Detta kräver omfattande samverkan mellan parterna, inte minst ur studenternas rättssäkerhetsperspektiv. Verksamhetsförlagd utbildning måste också vara anpassad till EU:s yrkeskvalifikationsdirektiv, som detaljreglerar sjuksköterskeutbildningen och innebär att minst hälften av utbildningens reglerade minimitid ska utgöra klinisk undervisning i direkt kontakt med patienter i hälso- och sjukvården. Slutsatsen är att direktivet begränsar metoder för genomförande av verksamhetsförlagd utbildning såsom simulering, trots att sådana övningsmöjligheter förekommer i många av EU:s medlemsstater och kan vara motiverade både ur pedagogisk och patientsäkerhetsmässig synvinkel
Healthcare Professionals’ Identification of, and Solutions to, Health Problems for Hard to Reach Patients with Diabetes
No full textThis article examines how healthcare professionals understand children with type 1 diabetes and their families, and how they consider them hard to reach. Based on observations and analysis of healthcare professionals’ case conferences, the article finds that families’ lack of compliance with professional recommendations is explained by parental lack of resources, ability, willingness, and complex social and personal problems of the family members. To find solutions to these diabetes management problems, the professionals integrate and synthesize knowledge based on experience, judgment, and practical skills. They also recognize organizational limitations of the healthcare system and, consequently, dependency on other organizations with other functions and knowledge. The article contributes to new knowledge about how organizations and professionals try to address and solve problems of health inequality in practice. A major finding is that the capacity to address individual health literacy depends just as much on organizational health literacy
Scaling as Methodological and Material Activation Technique
No full textIn this methodological paper, we propose that knowledge production and worldbuilding creations (in the context of scholarship) often provide a sense of activation and urgency to act. Namely, we focus on scaling as one possible activation technique for qualitative inquiry building on particular worlds, potential relationships, and emerging ‘(dis)order’ within the world. Scaling as an activation technique and the concept of scale enable scholars to consider their relationality with others, to identify within themselves relationalities regarding their areas of study, to consider how close/far data, knowledge, and participants are and become, which theories and practices are foregrounded and backgrounded, and how relationality within scales and scaling might operate. First, we discuss the relational nature of scaling and how scales are situated in relational spaces. Then we draw from the past scaling traditions and situate scaling in the context of mountains and mountain matter(ings). Finally, we share two scaling activation examples and conclude with a discussion about boundaries and the limits of humanely perceived relationalities and scaling. We propose that nonhuman and/or more-than-human ‘scales’ are particularly pertinent to understanding the limitations of human knowledge and various forms of relationalities
Editorial
No full textThis issue of Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology gathers together an exciting collection of papers that seek to make contributions to the field of educational enquiry by taking the reader on unexpected journeys that are intentionally provoking. Traversing multiple continents and geopolitical contexts together these papers offer a series of unlikely entry points, as well as myriad opportunities to pause and consider what approaching research differently can potentiate in the pursuit of more critical scholarship and deeper connections to life on/with this troubled planet. In various ways the authors in this issue of the journal work with methodological innovation as the means to activate ethics, ideologies and philosophical ways of knowing and acting upon the world – that are sensed, that reverberate, and that also hold the potential to disorientate – with generative consequences. Or as McKittrick (2020, 16) stresses, there is a burning imperative for researchers ‘to read outside ourselves, not for ourselves but to actively unknow ourselves, to unhinge, and come to know each other’
Global Assemblages and National Narratives: A Critical Rethinking of Evidence-Based Policymaking in the Nordic School Reforms
No full textThis article builds on the author’s doctoral dissertation and the accompanying lectio praecursoria, offering a critical reflection on evidence-based policymaking in Nordic school reforms. Drawing on assemblage thinking and spatiotemporal theory, it explores how global policy discourses and national ambitions are interwoven through networks of experts and knowledge. The article highlights the contested and co-constructed nature of evidence-based policymaking, shaped by multiple actors and sites in national, Nordic and global policy spheres. It argues for a nuanced and relational understanding of policy space—one that enables researchers to trace sites and situations of policymaking and identify potential moments of interruption. These ideas are further developed in the author’s current postdoctoral project, which follows future vision for comprehensive education in the making in Finland
Af hensyn til automatisering: Tillid og mistillid i forbindelse med digitaliseringen af det offentlige ejendomsvurderingssystem i Danmark
No full textDet nye digitale offentlige ejendomsvurderingssystem i Danmark har mødt markant kritik, og det er blevet påpeget, at processen omkring offentliggørelsen af foreløbige ejendomsvurderinger for 2022 kan have bidraget til at undergrave borgernes tillid til skattemyndighederne. Det står i kontrast til det primære formål med projektet, som siden igangsættelsen i 2013, har været at genskabe borgernes tillid til de offentlige ejendomsvurderinger. Denne artikel undersøger beslutningsprocessen omkring og udmøntningen af det nye ejendomsvurderingssystem med særligt fokus på offentliggørelsen af de foreløbige 2022-vurderinger. Som metode anvendes kvalitativ indholdsanalyse af empirisk materiale, der består af offentligt tilgængelige dokumenter relateret til ejendomsvurderingssystemet. Analysen identificerer fem kriterier for et tillidsskabende system, som eksperter, lovgivere og myndighederne har fremsat, og det belyses hvordan processen omkring offentliggørelsen af de foreløbige 2022-vurderinger har fejlet på alle fem. Resultaterne af analysen diskuteres i lyset af det, som præsenteres som en panoramisk opfattelse af tillid, ifølge hvilken tillid er et komplekst fænomen med forskelligartede tillidsrelationer, såsom tillid til andre mennesker, tillid til institutioner og tillid til teknologi, her specifikt i form af tillid til digitalisering. Et aspekt af tillidsopfattelsen er, at der kan udvises for meget tillid, og at det kan gøre én sårbar overfor risici. Artiklen sandsynliggør, at for meget tillid til digitalisering hos en række aktører kan have bidraget til at skade borgernes institutionelle tillid til skattemyndighederne.The new digital public property valuation system in Denmark has met with significant criticism, and it has been pointed out that the process surrounding the publication of preliminary property valuations for 2022 may have contributed to undermining citizens’ trust in the tax authorities. This is in contrast to the primary purpose of the project, which since its inception in 2013 has been to restore citizens’ trust in the public property valuations. This article examines the decision-making process and implementation of the new property valuation system, with a particular focus on the publication of the preliminary 2022 valuations. As a method, qualitative content analysis of empirical material consisting of publicly available documents related to the property valuation system is used. The analysis identifies five criteria for a trust-building system put forward by experts, legislators and the authorities, and it highlights how the process of publishing the preliminary 2022 assessments has failed on all five criteria. The results of the analysis are discussed in the light of what is presented as a panoramic view of trust, according to which trust is a complex phenomenon with diverse trust relationships, such as trust in other people, trust in institutions and trust in technology, here in the form of trust in digitalization and automation of the assessment decisions. One aspect of this view of trust is that one can trust too much making one too vulnerable to risks. The article points out that too much trust in digitalisation and automation among some of the actors has contributed to damaging citizens’ institutional trust in the tax authorities.Det nye digitale offentlige ejendomsvurderingssystem i Danmark har mødt markant kritik, og det er blevet påpeget, at processen omkring offentliggørelsen af foreløbige ejendomsvurderinger for 2022 kan have bidraget til at undergrave borgernes tillid til skattemyndighederne. Det står i kontrast til det primære formål med projektet, som siden igangsættelsen i 2013, har været at genskabe borgernes tillid til de offentlige ejendomsvurderinger. Denne artikel undersøger beslutningsprocessen omkring og udmøntningen af det nye ejendomsvurderingssystem med særligt fokus på offentliggørelsen af de foreløbige 2022-vurderinger. Som metode anvendes kvalitativ indholdsanalyse af empirisk materiale, der består af offentligt tilgængelige dokumenter relateret til ejendomsvurderingssystemet. Analysen identificerer fem kriterier for et tillidsskabende system, som eksperter, lovgivere og myndighederne har fremsat, og det belyses hvordan processen omkring offentliggørelsen af de foreløbige 2022-vurderinger har fejlet på alle fem. Resultaterne af analysen diskuteres i lyset af det, som præsenteres som en panoramisk opfattelse af tillid, ifølge hvilken tillid er et komplekst fænomen med forskelligartede tillidsrelationer, såsom tillid til andre mennesker, tillid til institutioner og tillid til teknologi, her i form af tillid til digitalisering og automatisering af vurderingsbeslutningerne. Et aspekt af tillidsopfattelsen er, at der kan udvises for meget tillid, og at det kan gøre én for sårbar overfor risici. Artiklen sandsynliggør, at for meget tillid til digitalisering og automatisering hos en række aktører har bidraget til at skade borgernes institutionelle tillid til skattemyndighederne