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Slöjdämnet och karriärreformen: Förstelärares berättelser om uppdrag och professionell utveckling
No full textEn karriärstegsreform introducerades 2013 i svensk skola med den nya befattningen förstelärare. Reformen avsåg förbättra elevers resultat genom stärkt lärarprofessionalism. Syftet med denna artikel är att undersöka hur slöjdlärares professionella identiteter framträder i berättelser om deras arbete som förstelärare och diskutera vilka förutsättningar karriärreformen ger för utveckling av undervisning i slöjdämnet. Med utgångspunkt i narrativ teori och Mishlers definition av berättelser som identitetsframträdanden har analys genomförts i tre steg av positionering, vändpunktsanalys och kontextualisering där lärarnas berättelser relaterats till metanarrativ om den professionella läraren. Resultatet visar hur lärarna i sina berättelser tar stöd i metanarrativen och hur detta kan relateras till varierande grad av stabilitet i den professionella identiteten, till variationer i det uppfattade handlingsutrymmet och det personliga engagemanget samt i det strukturella stödet för arbetet. I artikeln diskuteras vilken professionalism och vilka utvecklingssatsningar karriärreformen tenderar att stödja samt vilka konsekvenser detta får för slöjdlärares möjligheter till utveckling av slöjdämnet.En karriärstegsreform introducerades 2013 i svensk skola med den nya befattningen förstelärare. Reformen avsåg förbättra elevers resultat genom stärkt lärarprofessionalism. Syftet med denna artikel är att undersöka hur slöjdlärares professionella identiteter framträder i berättelser om deras arbete som förstelärare och diskutera vilka förutsättningar karriärreformen ger för utveckling av undervisning i slöjdämnet. Med utgångspunkt i narrativ teori och Mishlers definition av berättelser som identitetsframträdanden har analys genomförts i tre steg av positionering, vändpunktsanalys och kontextualisering där lärarnas berättelser relaterats till metanarrativ om den professionella läraren. Resultatet visar hur lärarna i sina berättelser tar stöd i metanarrativen och hur detta kan relateras till varierande grad av stabilitet i den professionella identiteten, till variationer i det uppfattade handlingsutrymmet och det personliga engagemanget samt i det strukturella stödet för arbetet. I artikeln diskuteras vilken professionalism och vilka utvecklingssatsningar karriärreformen tenderar att stödja samt vilka konsekvenser detta får för slöjdlärares möjligheter till utveckling av slöjdämnet
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A ‘reverse’ academic drift?
No full textThe prerequisites for formal training in Swedish educational Crafts have changed over time under the influence of two long-lasting societal processes: academisation and digitalisation. In different, yet interconnected ways, these processes of change are challenging the materiality, the making and the action-based knowledge that characterise educational Crafts. The paper presents how primary school teachers’ view the influence of academisation and digitalisation in their work and explores the consequences that change processes hold for the teaching practice in Crafts. The study is based on
qualitative interviews with Craft teachers whose graduation year was between 1983 and 2021. Theoretically, Craft is considered to be a living ecology in an educational system. In the analysis, academic drift
on various levels is combined with media-ecology concepts to clarify the diffusion of academisation and digitalisation in both time and space. The findings show academic drift leading to increased text-based knowledge production on several levels, yet also an unexpected weakening of action-based knowledge in Crafts. Balancing student and staff drift is further shown to result in the avoidance of written text in favour of digital visual, oral and bodily mediations in the production of knowledge. The study’s overall results question an ongoing ‘reverse’ academic drift and what is at stake in the Crafts ecology’s efforts to achieve balance
Om slöjdämnet och sociala aspekter av hållbarhet
No full textThis essay is about social aspects of sustainability in sloyd in Swedish compulsory school, against the backdrop that this knowledge area is perceived as difficult to teach by teachers. Drawing on previous research from differing fields, implications for teaching and learning are discussed in relation to students’ emotional experiences and to the role of materials and sloyd artefacts in social interaction. While interaction between the student and the material/artefact is at the core of sloyd, education for social sustainability, as a new challenge, requires new approaches for teaching
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Textile Sloyd as Emotional Practice : Students’ experiences and changing descriptions of the subject’s emotional dimension
No full textStudents' emotional experiences of the working processes is an important aspect of the school subject Sloyd and influences students´ learning. The emotional dimension of Sloyd has been visible, and sometimes prominent, in Swedish curricula and syllabus since Sloyd entered school until the latest curricula was introduced in 2011. How emotional aspects have been formulated varies over time. Aspects stressed are highly related to current political and ideological movements, and seems to have a legitimizing function. Development shows that emotional aspects have been intellectualized and reificated. Earlier national evaluations of comprehensive school describes students' perceptions of Sloyd as something fun and enjoyable. In the study this is problematized, and students´emotional expressions, experiences and Textile Sloyd as emotional practice are investigated. Diversity among students, when it comes to attitude and positioning in practice, is used to show opportunities and challenges for learning in Sloyd. </p
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