Bokens kapitel utgör viktiga bidrag i en kritisk granskning av svenskmatematikutbildning utifrån sociopolitiska samhällsperspektiv. Motbakgrund av bokens olika kapitel belyser vi upplevelser och konsekvenser av att konstrueras som den andre i svensk matematikutbildning.Med hjälp av begreppet andrafiering synliggör vi författare till dettakapitel tillsammans ’dom andra’ och deras erfarenheter i relation tillmigration och matematikutbildning. Vi som författat detta kapitel, tvånyutexaminerade lärare och två forskare, har därför ingått en så kalladallians. Vårt kapitel visar hur matematikutbildning bidrar till processerav andrafiering och skapandet av den andra och hur dessa processerpåverkar flerspråkiga elevers och lärarstudenters identitetsskapandeoch därmed även deras möjligheter att lära matematik. Flerspråkighetbehöver synliggöras och normaliseras. Alla elevers och lärarstudentersspråk och kulturer måste få ta plats, inte som exotiska inslag av kulturella uttryck utan som en del av den ordinarie matematikutbildningen. 

Förintelsen är viktig i svensk historieundervisning. Men när elever fokuserar på medborgerligt ställningstagande i svar på provfrågor om Förintelsen, underkänns deras svar ofta. Fredrik Alvén beskriver problemet med historieämnets dubbla uppdrag (red).

Because Swedish teenagers bring with them a cultural background that affects their perception of history, this, in turn, affects how they understand and receive the history taught in school. For some decades now, the students´ historical consciousness should be the starting point to their history education in compulsory school in Sweden, that is, their understanding of their own lives in a temporal perspective. Consequently, educators should be interested in how the students understand societal issues through time, as this influences how they will understand history. This study explores the students’ understanding of gender equality in a temporal perspective. As the method is quantitative, the results must therefore be interpreted with caution. Nonetheless, there are some interesting results that should be taken into account before teaching gender equality in history. The girls understand the theme as mostly a conflict in the past, while the boys worry about the future. Moreover, the girls more easily imagine perspectives where women are the victims, while the boys more easily understand perspectives where men are the victims. These results call for a nuanced history teaching to reach both boys and girls.

In Sweden, immigrant students with a non-European background perform worse in school than students from the majority group. Research has so far focused on language problems, and political investments have been concentrated around developing immigrant student’s language because it is hard to manage school without a functional language. However, social science in school also rests on cultural understanding, which is difficult if you are not a part of the culture. This is certainly true for the subject of history, which has a strong tradition of fostering a historical nationalistic canon. By analyzing the items in the national test in history relative to how the immigrant students perform, this study investigates whether there are certain types of items that, on the one hand, discriminate against them and, on the other hand, work to their advantage. This is important knowledge if we want to be able to make fair and just assessments.

In this article, I introduce third-order concepts in the history teaching as a way to reachpowerful knowledge. If we understand powerful knowledge as a means to give students a competenceto understand the contemporary world, to help them to engage in society ́s conversations and debatesabout itself, and to understand the grounds for accepting or rejecting knowledge claims, we must thenhelp them to understand what ontology the discipline of history rests upon. Consequently, third-orderconcepts can help students as these concepts shed a light on what perception of reality the historicalnarratives and the first-order concepts build upon in the history classroom. However, at the end of theday, I have my doubts – what if we provide arguments for groups that have an anti-liberal and anti-democratic agenda?

The scholarly question and the moral answer: The Holocaust in the knowledge and perception of students

All over the world, the Holocaust occupies a prominent position in historical culture, the area in which a society evaluates and communicates the history considered the most valuable and useful. Sweden is no exception. Since the 1990s, the Nazi genocide of the Jews has attracted an enormous amount of attention, first in the political and educational spheres, gradually also in Swedish cultural life and historical scholarship. In the Swedish school history curriculum, the Holocaust has been singled out as the only mandatory content. Based on this multifaceted interest in genocide, this article analyzes student responses to a question in the national examinations in history for the final year of Swedish compulsory school regarding the causes of the Holocaust. The answers are analyzed based on two different templates, one focusing on a traditional historical understanding of the Holocaust as linked to a specific historical setting, the other being a “civic” interpretation, viewing the genocide as a time-transcending phenomenon with a clear moral message for the present. This is a distinction with international resonance in historical culture related to Holocaust history. One result of the analysis is that one of four students is incapable of giving a satisfactory answer to the question. Another result is related to quality and grades. Many weaker answers are not primarily morally oriented. Rather, they focus on perpetrators - Hitler, the Nazis and Germans – often simplistically depicted as exchangeable and driven by the same genocidal intentions but in want of a historical context. The best answers are based on historical aspects, such as Germany’s defeat in the First World War, as well as on more complex, functionally oriented explanations, even if the figure of Hitler remains a key explanatory factor. The conclusion is that history and morals must be understood and made operative as two reciprocally linked dimensions. From a scholarly perspective, it is certainly necessary to do justice to the Holocaust in its own, contemporary right. However, it is just as imperative to realize that the Holocaust belongs to those “borderline” events that cannot be enclosed into themselves but must be made to transcend their temporal boundaries, as lessons of history. How this is to be done is an urgent scholarly and didactical task.

The main objective of the study was to analyze how Swedish and Spanish pre-service teachers’ temporal orientation influences their narratives and moral conceptions about gender inequality. 55 Spanish students and 76 Swedish students participated. The narratives were analyzed through a separate process of coding by both authors and the subsequence crossing of information in order to achieve agreement and reliability for the codes used. The analysis shows differences depending on cultural context, which may reflect the learning of narrative templates in History Education instead of a reflexive and critical learning. Mainly Spanish students described time under the concepts of change and continuity while Swedish students oftener saw time more as abrupt changes when describing the differences of current gender inequality regarding past times. Likewise, in almost all the narratives there is a naive way of understanding the sense of change over time. In the narratives there are no calls for individual action or descriptions of what possible actions there are for us to fight for a better future probably because history education does not provide examples in the past which mirror current social issues. These reflections make us to question why we teach history and how we do it. 

Over the past three years, the Western world has seen many conflicts aroundhistory. Statues have been torn down, anniversaries have been debated, historical figureshave been re-evaluated, and many have begun to question or defend their own nationalhistorical narrative. Social media has heightened the debate, with antagonists engaging infierce and usually not very nuanced debates on Twitter and Facebook. In this text, we try tobuild a digital historical didactic framework for how teachers can work with controversialhistory in the multi-cultural classroom by using social media as a resource. Through ananalysis of second order concepts such as significance, historical perspective, and historicalempathy based on a historical cultural perspective and with the use of history in focus, wehope that teachers in the classroom will be able to contribute to increased interculturalcompetence. In a final example, we analyze how people with different backgrounds anddifferent purposes in a thread on Twitter debate the history behind the celebration ofColumbus Day in a city in the USA.

Mathematics is full of mystery. We illuminate the myth to expose two conflicting senses of mystery at work in mathematics and its education practices. There is a sense of boundlessness with mathematics-the idea that we never fully know. There is also a practice of concealment, in which an answer or solution is known by special people who may support or provide a scaffold for students' navigation to the "special" knowledge, but may also challenge their access to it by erecting barriers and boundaries. In remythologizing mystery, we identify that the valorization of mystery in mathematics is rooted in the wonder of exploring boundless landscapes and is used misleadingly to justify school mathematics with the other sense of mystery-uncovering the concealed.

When we count, we have to decide what counts and what does not count. Thus, counting is a political act. Certain language repertoires are necessary to convey the ideas and perhaps even to perform counting actions. At the same time, the language used to describe these ideas and enact the processes shapes the way we conceptualize them. Our interest in the experience of counting includes the way counting and its communication position people. In this chapter we identify how micro-political moves are manifested in language and counting situations, including reciting numbers, counting things present and not, and subordinating counting to another goal. In our analysis, we look for language strategies that enable the process of deciding what to (not) count as the process of establishing boundaries or categories, and we consider how these processes work as political acts.

Denna rapport har som syfte att kartlägga kunskapsområdet sexualitet och samlevnad i svensk lärarutbildning 2016 med särskilt fokus på hiv, STI och SRHR. Resultatet visar att det finns skillnader mellan olika lärosäten, såväl i antal förekomster av indikatorer för kunskapsområdet i olika kurser som på olika utbildningsprogram och stadier. Flera lärosäten har kursplaner som skriver fram ett omfattande innehåll som rör kunskapsområdet sexualitet och samlevnad, medan andra lärosäten presenterar kursplaner med ett betydligt mer begränsat innehåll.

I resultatdiagram synliggörs tydligt två kluster av indikatorer med höga antal förekomster i kursplanerna. Det ena klustret av indikatorer är etik, genus, demokrati, normer, normkritik, det andra värdegrund, barnkonventionen, mänskliga rättigheter, diskriminering och kränkande behandling. Dessa indikatorer förekommer vanligtvis i utbildningsvetenskapliga kurser på alla nivåer samt i olika samhällsorienterande kurser och i akademiska ämneskurser som historia, religionsvetenskap och samhällsvetenskap. Indikatorer som hivprevention, STI, graviditet och preventivmedel saknas helt i de undersökta kursplanerna, i både grundlärarutbildning och ämneslärarutbildning. De förekommer inte heller i biologi, naturkunskap eller i de naturorienterande ämnena för grundlärare i årskurserna 4-6.

Utifrån kartläggningens resultat 2016 föreslås följande:

1. Kunskapsområdet sex och samlevnad behöver ringas in så att åtminstone en slags baskurs innehållande moment som rör stora delar av indikatorerna i denna kartläggning kan konstrueras. Denna bör vara obligatorisk för alla blivande lärare.

2. I enlighet med januariöverenskommelsen om att sex- och samlevnadsundervisning ska bli obligatorisk på alla lärarutbildningsprogram bör UKÄ lägga till ett examensmål, som behandlar kunskapsområdet sexualitet och samlevnad i examensordningen för lärarutbildningar för alla olika stadier inom den svenska skolan. Examensmålen bör omfatta såväl kunskap om och förståelse av sexualitet och forskningsbaserad undervisning, som färdighet och förmåga att undervisa om kunskapsområdet. (Ett examensmål om kunskapsområdet lades till i september 2020.)

3. För att tillgodose god kvalitet och gedigen kompetens hos såväl lärarutbildare som lärarstudenter behövs kontinuerliga och fördjupade utbildningsinsatser.

4. Ett nationellt centrum för kunskapsområdet sexualitet och relationer föreslås. Detta centrum bör vara ämnesövergripande och tvärvetenskapligt samt också fokusera på didaktik. Ett sådant centrum skulle kunna utgöra ett kunskapsstöd för lärarutbildningarna, särskilt under den inledande fasen, när sexualitet och relationer ska bli obligatoriskt och etableras på alla lärarutbildningar. Ett sådant centrum skulle öka möjligheten att alla lärarutbildningarna bygger upp och har tillräckligt hög kompetens inom kunskapsområdet. Ett nationellt centrum skulle dessutom vara ett stöd för verksamma lärare och skulle även kunna erbjuda fortbildning.

5. För att utveckla kunskapsområdet sexualitet och samlevnad behövs ny och aktuell forskning som också kopplas till internationell pågående forskning. Denna forskning kan vara både ämnesinriktad och skolinriktad och av både kvantitativ och kvalitativ art.

6. Den osäkerhet som lärare enligt Skolinspektionens rapport har när det gäller att undervisa om normer och om hbtq-frågor visar att lärarutbildningarna måste ha tydliga inslag som ger kunskaper om hur olika normer kan påverka och begränsa eleverna och även deras lärande.

Avslutningsvis visar resultatet av kartläggningen från 2016 en bild av att kunskapsområdet sexualitet och samlevnad förekommer i alla programutbildningar för blivande lärare. Dessutom visar kartläggningen hur kunskapsområdet uttrycks i kursplaners olika delar genom förekomsten av antalet indikatorer enligt konstruktiv länkning. Tillsammans med de sex förslagen på åtgärder ovan kan därmed kartläggningens syften anses vara uppnådda.

Assessment of bilingual children in only one language fails to acknowledge their distributed linguistic competence and has been shown to overidentify language disorder in bilingual populations. However, other factors, sometimes associated with bilingualism, may also contribute to low results in language assessments. Our aim was to examine the impact of these factors on language abilities. We used the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals - Fourth Edition, Swedish (CELF-4) to investigate core language abilities of 224 7- to 8-year-old children. Results showed 30 and 80% of monolinguals and bilinguals, respectively, performing more than 1 SD below the normative sample mean, calling into question the clinical utility of the test. However, participant and school characteristics provided a deeper understanding of the skewed results. In isolation, bilingualism predicted 38% of the variance in the CELF-4 Core scores. With level of parental education entered the variance explained by the model increased to 52%, but the unique contribution of bilingualism was reduced to 20%. Finally, with information added on school characteristics and enrollment in the school's recreation center the model explained an additional two percent, with the unique contribution of bilingualism further reduced to 9%. The results indicate an increased risk for low results on the CELF-4 Core when children present with multiple risk factors. This highlights the need to look beyond bilingualism in language assessment of bilingual children and adolescents and to consider other explanations to academic struggle. Available interventions must be considered and applied proportionately to their respective impact on the individual's development.

Anton Nilsson (1887–1989) är en av den svenska arbetarrörelsens mest kända personer och en framträdande aktivist med status av ikon. Medlem av den ungsocialistiska rörelsen i arbetarstaden Malmö placerade han i samband med en omfattande hamnarbetarkonflikt i de svenska hamnarna en bomb på logementsfartyget Amalthea som hyste 73 engelska strejkbrytare. Anton Nilsson dömdes till döden i en efterföljande rättegång, men efter omfattande protester, också utomlands, omvandlads dödsstraffet till livstids straffarbete. I samband med den första socialdemokratiska/liberala regeringen gavs han amnesti 1917 och släpptes ur fångenskapen. Midsommarafton 1919 tog Anton Nilsson ett internationellt flygcertifikat och med det begav han sig till den unga sovjetstaten och blev flygare i Röda armén.

In recent decades, changes in the professional role of librarians – in terms of both content and complexity – have led to an increased need for further education. This need is particularly prominent in reading promotion for groups where reading and reading proficiency is decreasing (Sverige. Litteraturutredningen 2010). This article concerns two “research circles” where librarians reflected on and explored different possibilities for reading promotion. The purpose of this article is to understand how the research circle was used as a resource for knowledge building, and for the changes and development of the librarians’ work with reading promotion in different contexts. The overarching theoretical framework is sociocultural (Vygotskij 1978, Bakhtin, 1984; Wertsch 1998). The source of data used includes audio-recorded meetings, the reflections I wrote in proximity to the meetings and interviews with the participants. The results show how the participants became important resources for each other through the exchange of experiences and through critical reflection. The investigations challenged the participants’ flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and to remain open to change. The interviews indicate that there have been changes in the participants' understanding of reading-promotion and that this kind of supplementary education has the prerequisites to achieve lasting results. The research circle work was linked to a discussion regarding the changed professional role of librarians and the challenge of linking the profession to a wider social and democracy perspective, where questions about access to language, knowledge, power and democratic influence are crucial for the development of librarians’ professional work.

This article deals with research on the reading practice of ordinary readers in a book club. The background is the increasing interest in book club activities, but also the growing gap between professional reading within the academy, characterized by critical distance and analysis, and ordinary readers reading, often considered as immersive, naïve and uncritical. The lack of research on ordinary readers reading has been noticed by several scholars (Felski, 2008, Miall, 2006; Persson, 2011). The purpose of the study is to understand the characteristic features of the reading practice and the meaning making processes that takes place within it. The case study was carried out in a book club with seven women who meet regularly to discuss fiction. The material consists of four documented meetings, interviews with all participants and notes taken in connection with the meetings. The result show a multifaceted reading practice characterized by, on the one hand, immersion and strong emotions and, on the other hand, critical reflections on both the fictional and the real world. The reading practices affects the participants’ reflections on their lives and their place in society in a decisive way. The result can provide important insights for the teaching of literature.

I Litteraturundervisning och interkulturella möten behandlas frågor om hur ett väl genomtänkt arbete med skönlitteratur kan få oss att utmana föreställningar och tankemönster. I mötet med det som är främmande och annorlunda kan både elever och lärare lockas att gå utanför sina bekvämlighetszoner och kritiskt granska både sig själv och det egna samhället. Boken ger både konkreta exempel på arbete med skönlitteratur i heterogena klassrum och teoretiska perspektiv på läsande och lärande. Lärarnas viktiga roll i valet av texter, arbetsformer och i relation till eleverna ägnas särskild uppmärksamhet. Målet är att skapa en trygg arena som ger utrymme för en mångfald av engagerade röster och kritisk reflektion.  

A major challenge for first-year students is the demands on academic writing. The purpose of the study is to identify students' difficulties with writing at the beginning of their education to contribute to the discussion about how students' writing development can be supported. The overall theoretical perspective is systemic functional linguistics (SFL). The data consists of texts from the first examination of a primary teacher program. The analysis includes partly a corpus analysis of 125 texts concerning sentence length, word length, the proportion of long words, word variation, and lexical profile, and partly a qualitative text analysis of a selection of eleven students' texts from the larger group concerning text cohesion, composition and use of references. The results indicate that the task design is of great importance for how advanced the students' texts are, based on the proportion of long words, word variation, and lexical profile. Furthermore, students struggle with paragraph division and creating clear relationships between and within paragraphs to create coherent texts. The results also show that the students need support to develop their ability to write from sources. Based on the results, the authors discuss how subject teachers in higher education can support students' writing development. 

This article explores students' experiences of intellectual, social, and emotional growth during the first year at university and the extent to which these experiences can be considered transformative (Mezirow, 1981). The study is a qualitative interpretative multiple-case study built on semi-structured interviews with students in two higher education contexts, Argentina and Sweden. The results show that most students experience similarly interrelated changes concerning self-confidence, knowledge- and language abilities, critical thinking, and values and beliefs. For some students, these changes lead to profound shifts in how they perceive themselves and their possibilities. Such transformative experiences are emancipatory and empowering, giving students more control over their lives. Other students are gradually changing, experiencing growth in knowledge, literacy, and self-confidence. However, they do not yet experience profound changes in their worldview and how they perceive themselves. Contextual factors related to family life and future profession affect the significance the students attach to experienced changes.     

Låt oss ta er med in i ett ögonblick. Någon har sagt något, som fått någon annan att säga något echaufferat, kinder hettar, hår smiter ur frisyrer, röster höjs. Rummet präglas av stigande intensitet. Någon ifrågasätter. Någon vill instämma. Någon ytterligare vill ställa till rätta. Så fortsätter det ett tag. En sorts intellektuell storm. Det kan vara i seminarierummet, föreläsningssalen, kafferummet. Och så, liksom mitt i, begär Anders Persson ordet. Hans röst är låg, så låg att den kräver att folk slutar skrapa med stolsben eller viska med grannen, den är infernalisk, den skär rakt in i och igenom det som just avhandlats och den ställer det på huvudet, eller riktar strålkastarljuset mot det från ett helt annat håll. Det han säger gör mycket lite för att inordna sig, likt den beskäftiga och irriterande främling sociologin kan vara (Bauman & May 2004, s. 22).

Vi människor möts alltid i ett sammanhang. Och för att förstå dem vi möter måste vi samtidigt förstå samman­hanget. Och bli överens om det. Den här boken handlar om sådana situationer, ögonblick, där människor möts. Det kan vara för att lära sig cykla, för att övertyga en rättsinstans om den egna förträffligheten som förälder eller för att hålla sams med en granne. Det kan också, bland mycket mer, vara för att begripa varför man just stämde in i ett hånskratt riktat mot sig själv eller den yttersta innebörden av att säga Jag älskar dig.

Vi som skrivit den här boken har alla i olika sammanhang mött bokens mottagare: professor Anders Persson, Lunds universitet. Och vi har alla, med honom, ställt den där frågan: Vad pågår här?

AbstractIn Sweden as well as internationally the teaching and research nexus has been described as the defining charac-teristics of higher education promoting generic skills such as information analysis and critical reflection. Vertically Integrated Projects has been proposed as one educational strategy where research and teaching are linked by in-viting students to take active part in actual research projects. The strategy is well aligned to Scholarship of teaching and learning enabling the transition from a teacher-centred accepted knowledge to a student-centred perspective where students are invited as producers of knowledge. The aim of the current study was to explore students’ experiences of participation in a research-based learning activity with academia and industrial partners, designed as a qualitative explorative study using focus group interviews. Findings describe not only factors students find motivating for learning, but also their experience of being part of professional life with its benefits and challenges.

Background: The focus on translanguaging practices in multilingual classrooms canbe seen, by and large, as responding to risks of violence entailed in diverse contextsof language use, including the teaching and learning of mathematics. However, thepractice of translanguaging alone cannot counteract the hegemonic authority ofmonolingual and monologic curricula being present through interactions amongteachers, students, and researchers, as well as material resources.Purpose: Drawing on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language, we discuss dialogicalityas a critical and democratic organizing principle for the pervasive polyphony thatcharacterizes every utterance constituting heteroglossia. Dialogicality reconstitutesour relation to language through the “other” and the need to see any utterance as anonteleological process among subjects and objects. As such, the aim is to explorehow acts of dialogicality may address the potential risks of onto/epistemic violence intranslanguaging practices. Focusing on either emergent or orchestrated translanguagingin three European states: Greece, Catalonia and Sweden, we discuss how dialogicalityallows for alternative accounts of language use in complex classroom events.Method: Methodologically, we start by encountering the sociopolitical contextof monolingual and monologic curricula in Europe, where the three cases wetheorize take place, along with our considerations for dialogicality in the realm oftranslanguaging. Our theorizing-in-practice unfolds a double effort in reading. First,what can we read today as risks of onto/epistemic violence in each of these cases?1Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden2Autonomous University, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain3Malmö University, Malmö, SwedenCorresponding Author:Anna Chronaki, Malmö University, Skåne County, Malmö 205 06, Sweden.Email: anna.chronaki@mau.se1104040TCZXXX10.1177/01614681221104040Teachers College RecordChronaki et al.research-article2022  Chronaki et al. 109And second, what is the potential of dialogic translanguaging across the cases andwithin the boundaries of state monolingual policy and monologic discursive cultureof school mathematics?Findings: The present article contributes by discussing dialogicality as a relationalonto/epistemology toward addressing translanguaging practices. Concerning thefirst question, our theorizing-in-practice shares evidence of the inevitable presenceof onto/epistemic violence in every utterance. The limited scope of a crudemathematisation process through language appears continuously in mathematicsclassrooms, serving to place either the object or the subject into fixed narratives.Regarding the second question, our dialogical reading of translanguaging denotes theimportance of the importance of minor responding(s) to such moments of violentrisk. We understand them as “cracks” in the authoritative status of monolingual andmonologic mathematics curricula; we argue that such minor, yet crucial, cracks areof great significance for creating acts of dialogicality from “below,” disrupting thehegemonic authority of an assumed neutral mathematical language.Conclusions/Recommendations: The risk of onto/epistemic violence is inevitablein any discursive and embodied encounter in multilingual mathematics classrooms,including the translanguaging practices. The study suggests that acts of dialogicalitybecome minor responses to violence in ways that both counteract oppressivemonologic discourse and open toward a relational onto/epistemology withmathematics, children, teachers, material resources, and researchers. Rememberinghow Bakhtin insisted that “language is never unitary” and “dialogue” is not a panacea,we emphasize the need for a continuous focus on creating acts of dialogicality withlanguage and discourse.

I detta kapitel diskuteras studenters studieframgång, avhopp och genom­strömning. Vidare är syftet att belysa studenters känsla av tillhörighet i relation till studieframgång och olika möjligheter att minska studentavhopp. Motivet är att en ökad förståelse för studenters känsla av tillhörighet i relation till studieframgång ger stöd åt utveckling av akademiska miljöer och utbildningsprogram som i sin tur stärker inkludering och breddat deltagande.

Denna studie grundar sig på det återkommande arbetet med Early Alert vid Malmö universitet. Syftet med Early Alert är att skapa större förståelse för orsakerna bakom bristande studieresultat hos förstaårsstudenter och därefter ta fram förslag till insatser som kan utgöra stöd till studenterna att fortsätta sina studier och fullfölja sin utbildning. Undersökningen pågick mellan december 2018 och januari 2019 och urvalet fokuserade förstaårsstudenter utan rapporterade resultat tio veckor in i studierna vid samtliga fem fakulteter vid lärosätet. Totalt identifierades 548 studenter och 271 tackade ja till att delta i en intervju. Den sammantagna bilden av studien visar i likhet med tidigare Early Alert-undersökningar att det är en kombination av privata och utbildningsrelaterade orsaker som påverkar förstaårsstudenters studieresultat. En majoritet av respondenterna uppger att anledningarna till deras bristande studieresultat i hög grad är faktorer som kan relateras till en svag akademisk eller social integration. När det gäller akademisk integration kan vi se upplevda svårigheter med att använda tillgängliga systemstöd såsom exempelvis Canvas. Andra svar belyser studenters svårigheter med att se karriärvägar efter studierna. Vidare kan respondenternas svar relateras till svårigheter med akademiskt skrivande och studieteknik. Språkstöd och stöd för skrivande finns tillgängligt för studenter och kontakten förmedlades vid intervjun. En viktig fråga blir hur det blir tydligt för ännu fler studenter att det finns stödfunktioner tillgängliga för dem? När det gäller social integration kan det relaterad till begreppet känsla av tillhörighet som visat sig vara en viktig faktor för studie¬fram¬gång. Denna faktor kommer till uttryck på olika i både positiva och negativa upplevelser relaterat till psykosocial studiemiljö. Några uttrycker att stödet från kurskamrater och lärare har varit avgörande för att lyckas med sina studier. Resultaten är i linje med tidigare studier som visar att en upplevelse av stöd från kurskamrater, lärare och fakulteten ökar motivationen och minskar risken för avhopp.

Previous studies have pointed to the benefits of involving students’ everyday life experiences in lessons and in contextualizing the sciencecontent to enhance learning and positive attitudes toward school science. However, most of these investigations have been conductedas intervention studies. By contrast, the present study explored how teachers, in authentic situations and without interventions, relatedthe school science context to other contexts. We analyzed a total of 490 min of lesson introductions in Swedish Grade 9 classes. Theresults revealed that teachers employed contextualization at the intersection of science content and the everyday life context, the schoolcontext, and the language context. Furthermore, it appeared that contextualization was created in the moment, as a way of explicatingthe scientific content. Compared to intervention studies, the present study shows that occasions of contextualization are rare. It ispossible to conclude that the use of contextualization in science learning situations could be viewed as a teacher competence and mustbe explicit in teacher education and professional development to achieve the benefits of enhanced student interest and learning shownin the mentioned intervention studies.

PurposePrevious research has pointed to a lack of studies concerning supervision training courses. Consequently, the literature has little to suggest, and the research field is underexplored, so questions around the content and design of supervision training courses remain unanswered and need to be addressed systematically. The main aim of the present study is to explore and map whether shared content and design exist in supervisor training courses across different vocations.

Design/methodology/approachA syllabus analysis is used in order to investigate characteristic features in supervisor training courses related to the professions of dentist, doctor, psychologist, police officer and teacher.

FindingsThe results point to the existence of shared content in the different courses, such as an emphasis on learning and supervision theories, feedback, ethics, assessment and communication. Furthermore, the results conclude similarities in design of the courses, such as a problem-based approach, seminars, lectures and homework. Thus, there are common theoretical approaches to important supervisory competences.

Practical implicationsOur results intend to offer possibilities to learn from different professions when improving supervisor training courses but may also constitute a starting point for developing a shared model of interprofessional supervisor competences. Furthermore, the results may support possible cooperation in interprofessional courses. This could include arranging interprofessional courses, where one part is shared for participants from the included professions and another part is profession-specific.

Originality/valueWe seek to contribute to the research field of supervision at workplaces with knowledge and ideas about how to learn from different professions when developing and improving supervisor training courses.

In this article, we explore the theme of choice in relation to education and work by discussing the notion of “compromise” within career guidance. In particular, we analyse compromises related to career choice in regard to groups and individuals who are restricted — or belong — to a particular geographical place and how this spatial limitation is managed and discussed by career guidance counsellors who work with unem- ployed individuals. The article is based on the following questions: How are compro- mises and restricted choices considered in relation to place and belonging? How do career guidance counsellors and other professionals discuss compromises of choice? The qualitative interviews have been conducted with career counsellors working with unemployed individuals in rural Sweden. Four themes emerge: location as a given/non-issue, location as opposed to interest, location as personal life and location as an obstacle. We argue that belonging can be seen as more available to certain groups. For example, career counsellors view the claims of belonging by young people as less valid than for individuals who can present caring and family obligations as reasons for not being mobile.

I denna jubileumsbok uppmärksammas religionskunskapsämnet på olika sätt för att fira Föreningen lärare i religionskunskap, FLR´s 50 års jubileum. Ett stort antal lärare, lärarutbildare och forskare har medverkat i denna jubileumsvolym. Här återfinns artiklar som behandlar skolämnets historia och arbete med styrdokument och kursplaner, liksom här finns artiklar som rör etik, existentiella frågor/ livsfrågor och tro och traditioner i olika religioner i världen.

Due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, teacher educators had to change the delivery mode of their teaching to online environments. In this article, we explore the changes and challenges to teacher educators' professional practices during emergency remote teaching. Since teacher educators act as both teachers, peers and role models to their students, their professional practices involve the teaching of how to be a professional body, i.e. a 'teacher body'. Central to professional practices are interactions consisting of both speech and bodily actions. In interviews, teacher educators express how their professional practices of teaching has been changed and challenged in relation to how they communicate with their students and how they can support them in their learning. Due to the restrictions in body language and gaze in emergency remote teaching, teacher educators do not recognise their professional body. Moreover, because of the destabilisation of their 'teacher body', the teacher educators find it difficult to sufficiently convey to their students what it is to be a teacher.

Previous research has shown an increased student interest and enhanced learning when the school sciencecontent is related to other familiar contexts. This is particularly evident in intervention studies, whichaim to integrate the school science content with students’ everyday life. In this article, we analyse howteachers, in authentic situations, relate science content presented in lesson introductions to other contextssuch as everyday life or other school subjects. The data consists of observations of lesson introductionsin grade nine, from six different schools, in all eight hours of video recordings. The results point tothat teachers adopt a variety of ways in order to integrate the science content to other contexts, such asrelating to students’ everyday life, to different language perspectives or to other school subjects and therebyinitiate hybrid contexts. However, the results indicate that the teachers in this study initiate hybridcontexts to a low extent and seemingly ad hoc, in the moment. It is likely to believe that if students are tobenefit from contextualization as a means for enhancing interest and learning, learning activities need torelate science content to other relevant contexts in a more comprehensive way.

Within the Netherlands, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in foreign language teaching can be considered a sibling of 'Language Oriented Content Teaching' (LOCT), a pedagogy in mainstream classes with second language learners of Dutch, where Dutch is used as language of instruction. This article characterizes two decades of research on LOCT through Dutch in multilingual schools and discusses its relevance for CLIL development. A distinctive feature is the discourse coalition between subject and language researchers, teacher educators, curriculum development staff and others. Their cooperation furthered the identification of disciplinary literacies and subject specific language pedagogies which can be seen as a renewed conceptualization of content obligatory language (Snow, Met, & Genesee, 1989). LOCT work in the Dutch context shows how content obligatory language that is relevant and feasible can be identified and included in content teachers' pedagogies, findings that might be useful for the further development of CLIL.

Truth, Trust and Temporality: climate communication in times of emergency

Introduction

The importance of climate education is increasingly emphasized in relation to the addressed social transformation (IPCC, COP 26). There is a pronounced need for new ways to communicate climate issues and science to invite creative ways of thinking, and new stories of the future. Hence, there is a need to study how climate change takes shape in different contexts and groups, to better understand how environmental sciences are used in climate communication (Corner, et.al. 2017).  An interesting entrance to this, is how social movements of environmental activists communicate about the climate crises.  Since 2018 new social movements of activists addressing the climate and ecological crises has rapidly grown (e.g. Friday For Futures, and Extinction Rebellion “XR”). This study rests on the assumption that the different ways we live and act, also relates to what we know and how we experience the world around us. With inspiration of Barad’s (2007) Agential Realism this study explores discourses of phenomena through “agential cuts” by applying a diffractive analysis to actions of XR.

Research Questions

How may agential cuts make nourishing understanding of new ways in communication of climate and social change, from a grassroots movement as Extinction Rebellion?

o   In what way might these results inform and be relevant to formal education?

Methodology

Creating knowledge about the climate crises involves more than education of natural and social sciences. This means being attentive to the ways in which our knowledge and the material dimensions of the world around us, the social orders we live by, and the normative values we share are all intertwined (Barad, 2007). In a diffractive analysis it is the relational result that are of interest.  Accordingly, exploring agential cuts involves looking for contrasts and connections, and is not about representation or classification. Barad (2007) points out that, close attention is paid to detail in a diffractive analysis, to the intra-actions and to the possibilities for new ideas to evolve. The empirical data consists of texts, interviews, course material and field observations from XR's actions during 2021, collected with respect to the ethical principles of research.

Findings

The initial findings discuss how generative agential cuts through phenomena as; “time”, “truth” and “trust”, create assemblages of different understanding. As an example, time generate different meaning of the urgency or emergency of climate change due to temporalities of time. Anthropocene, term of office government, planetary boundaries, tipping points are some of these temporalities giving different meaning of the climate crises in relation to truth and trust.

Conclusion & Recommendation for theory and practice

How we allow ourselves to see the world in new ways can be crucial in creating opportunities to address the challenges posed by climate change. Attention of how we understand the world, may create attention of values, inspiration, and visions to create new stories for the future.

References

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the

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Corner, A., Shaw, C. & Clarke, J. (2017). Communicating Environmental and Sustainability Science - Challenges, opportunities, and the changing political context. A Knowledge Report for Mistra. Oxford: Climate Outreach.

Haraway, D. (2017). Staying with the trouble. Making Kin with the Chthulucene London: Duke University Press.