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  1. 1. Kompetensutveckling som styrning : Om statliga insatser för lärares kompetensutveckling och hur de förhandlas i lärares lokala praktik

    Författare :Nils Kirsten; Wieland Wermke; Eva Forsberg; Tine Sophie Prøitz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; teachers’ professional development; collaborative professional development; educational governance; policy instrument; work of governing; disciplinary literacy; content-area literacy; decentralization; teacher professionalism; Pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : Teachers’ professional development (PD) is currently promoted as an important element of the pursuit of improved school results by researchers, politicians, and international organizations. Policy actors argue that the quality of teaching is the factor within school systems with the greatest significance for students’ learning outcomes, and that PD is an important instrument for enhancing such quality. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Radiographers’ Professional Competence : Development of a context-specific instrument

    Författare :Bodil T. Andersson; Bengt Fridlund; Anders Broström; Lennart Christensson; Kerstin Öhrling; Jönköping University; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Professional competence; Radiographer perspective; Patient perspective; Nursing; Radiography; Instrument development; Self-assessment; Psychometric evaluation; RCS;

    Sammanfattning : Aims: The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and describe radiographers‟ professional competence based on patients‟ and radiographers‟ experiences and to develop a context-specific instrument to assess the level and frequency of use of radiographers‟ professional competence.Methods: The design was inductive and deductive. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Development and Autonomy : Conceptualising teachers’ continuing professional development in different national contexts

    Författare :Wieland Wermke; Viveca Lindberg; Tore West; Karin Rönnerman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Teachers continuing professional development; CPD; Teacher autonomy; Teacher professionalism; Comparative education; Germany; Sweden; Didactics; didaktik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates teachers’ perceptions of continuing professional development (CPD) in Germany and Sweden with a questionnaire study comprising a total of 711 mainly lower secondary teachers. Three conceptual terms are elaborated and explained. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Measuring Professional Judgements : An Application of the Factorial Survey Approach to the Field of Social Work

    Författare :Lisa Wallander; Karin H. Bergmark; Ruth Ludwick; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; Factorial Survey Approach; Vignettes; Professional Judgements; Sociology; Social Work; Social Services; Substance Misuse Treatment; Multilevel Analysis; Knowledge Use; Professional Development; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Sammanfattning : The focus of this thesis is the factorial survey approach as a method for studying professional judgements in social work. The factorial survey approach, which was first introduced in the social sciences around the beginning of the 1980s, constitutes an advanced method for measuring human judgements of social objects. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Samtal för samverkan : En studie av transprofessionell kommunikation och kompetensutveckling om läs- och skrivsvårigheter/dyslexi

    Författare :Lena Geijer; Mikael Alexandersson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :action research; ethnographic method; professional boundaries; professional languages; transprofessional communication; dyslexia; alterity; intersubjectivity; dialogicality; responsibility; and competence; mastery and appropriation; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; pedagogik; Education;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of the present thesis is to study whether and how professionals from such different areas as medicine, preschool and school develop and reorganize, through inter-disciplinary focus group discussions, their competence regarding reading-and-writing difficulties/dyslexia.The theoretical framework is based on sociocultural theory of mediated action, focusing on notions such as alterity, intersubjectivity, dialogicality, mastery, appropriation, practical consciousness and discursive consciousness. LÄS MER