Vitenskapelig publikasjon
(side 1-13)
av Karen Karen Wistoft og Helle Merete Nordentoft Jakobsen
This article examines the impact of a value-reflective approach in health education by demonstrating the nature of professional competence development connected to this approach. It is based on findings ...
Engelsk sammendrag
Value reflected health education:
Competence development among school health nurses
This article examines the impact of a value-reflective approach
in health education by demonstrating the nature of professional
competence development connected to this approach. It is based on
findings from two three-year health educational development projects
carried out by school health nurses and researchers at primary schools
in Denmark from 2004‑2009. We argue for the importance of reflecting
on values in school health nursing in order to navigate between
human values and values deriving from medicine. Our studies demonstrate
that value clarification, peer observation and reflective spaces
at work develop pedagogical competences in health education that
improve school children’s’ health.
Keywords:pedagogical competence development, value reflection, health education, school health nursing
Vitenskapelig publikasjon
(side 14-30)
av Åsa hirsh
The issue of this study is how assessment in Individual Education Plans (IEPs) is expressed through targets and strategies for future learning, given to pupils in Swedish compulsory school. Drawing ...
Engelsk sammendrag
A tool for learning? An analysis of
targets and strategies in Swedish Individual Education Plans
The issue of this study is how assessment in Individual Education
Plans (IEPs) is expressed through targets and strategies for future
learning, given to pupils in Swedish compulsory school. Drawing
on socio-cultural perspectives and using qualitative content analysis
as a method, the IEP is viewed as a tool for learning, and two models
for analysing the textual aspects of this tool are developed.
The results show that the being aspect – pupils’ personality
and behaviour – is involved in target-strategy combinations in various
ways. They also indicate difficulties in formulating targets and
strategies that are concrete and individual.
The content of the target-strategy types are discussed in relation
to the tool-for-learning aspect. An increased focus on learning
targets and concrete strategies, and a view of the individual as
part of an adaptable learning environment, is suggested in the conclusion.
Keywords:Individual Education Plan (IEP), targets, strategies, tool for learning, formative assessment
Vitenskapelig publikasjon
(side 31-44)
av Ulrika Tornberg
Using a curriculum theory approach the aim of this text is to discuss a persistent tradition in foreign language pedagogy to include culture in its objectives, where culture is seen ...
Engelsk sammendrag
The unbearable lightness of culture –
on a blurred object of knowledge in foreign language pedagogy
Using a curriculum theory approach the aim of this text is to
discuss a persistent tradition in foreign language pedagogy to include culture in
its objectives, where culture is seen as a self-contained,
nationally shared static system of values and norms, i.e. a notion
that was once applied in orthodox anthropolgy. This discourse of culture is
also expressed and presented as an important object of knowledge
in The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages,
a taxonomy elaborated by the Council of Europe for the teaching
and learning of foreign languages in the member states. By contrasting
the discourse of culture expressed in The
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with some
references to current culture theorizing in sociology and political
philosophy, it is argued that the notion of culture in
the text from the Council of Europe is lagging far behind its time,
leaving not only an obsolete but also blurred and problematic object
of knowledge to deal with.
Keywords:culture, foreign language pedagogy, curriculum theory approach
Vitenskapelig publikasjon
(side 45-61)
av Eva Larzén-Östermark
During the past decades, the work of Finnish school leaders has been affected in a profound way due to the decentralisation of the Finnish educational system and ever increasing teacher ...
Engelsk sammendrag
School leadership in today’s Finland:
challenges and motivation.
During the past decades, the work of Finnish school leaders has
been affected in a profound way due to the decentralisation of the
Finnish educational system and ever increasing teacher professionalisation.
The purpose of this study is to deepen our understanding of the
challenges facing Finnish school leaders in their daily work, and
to shed light on the circumstances affecting their work motivation,
in a positive as well as a negative way. The empirical material
consists of interviews with three strategically selected principals
from different educational levels. The material is analysed and
interpreted within a narrative three-step model, and the results
are discussed with reference to three arenas: the individual arena,
the school arena and the societal arena.
Keywords:school leadership, challenges, motivation, narrative research
