Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aberdeen University, 2009. / Title from web page (viewed on July 20, 2009). Includes bibliographical references.

<p>Syftet med denna uppsats är att ta reda på vilka attityder elever i grundskolans senare år har gentemot den praktiska undervisningen i de naturorienterande ämnena sett ur ett genusperspektiv.</p><p>För att studera elevernas attityder har enskilda semistrukturerade intervjuer valts som metod. Semistrukturerade intervjuer ger intervjuaren möjlighet att följa upp respondenternas svar med olika följdfrågor, som kan varieras relativt fritt vilket bidrar till att intervjuaren kan bilda sig en uppfattning om respondenternas attityder.</p><p>De attityder gällande praktisk undervisning i de naturorienterande ämnena som påträffats var främst positiva och samtliga respondenter var eniga om att den praktiska undervisningen hjälper till att öka förståelsen. Undersökningen visade att flickorna föredrog biologi eftersom detta inte ansågs vara lika svårt som fysik och kemi, medan pojkarna i undersökningen fann mer intresse i fysik och teknik. Meningarna huruvida den praktiska undervisningen examineras gick isär.</p><p>Slutsatsen som kan dras från uppsatsens undersökning blir således att pedagoger bör försöka att utveckla en praktisk undervisning som passar alla dagens ungdomar, oavsett kön, samt att tydliggöra syftet och målet innan det praktiska arbetet inleds.</p> / <p>The aim of this dissertation is to study the attitudes that exist among secondary-school pupils, to practical education in natural science, through a gender perspective.</p><p>Semi-structured interviews were chosen as method of studying the pupils’ attitudes. A semi- structured interview gives the interviewer a possibility to follow up the answers given by the respondent with varied attendant questions. For the interviewer this contributes to develop an insight of the attitudes.</p><p>The interviews reveal that most of the pupils have a positive attitude towards practical education in natural science and all of the respondents agreed on the fact that practical education helps to improve their understanding. The research showed that girls prefer biology since they find it less difficult than physics and chemistry, while boys on the other hand prefer physics and technology. There is a disagreement among the respondents on whether or not examinations exist in practical education.</p><p>The conclusion of the dissertation is that pedagogues need to develop a practical education suited for all youths irrespective of gender, as well as stating the aim and purpose before the practical education starts.</p>

Syftet med denna uppsats är att ta reda på vilka attityder elever i grundskolans senare år har gentemot den praktiska undervisningen i de naturorienterande ämnena sett ur ett genusperspektiv. För att studera elevernas attityder har enskilda semistrukturerade intervjuer valts som metod. Semistrukturerade intervjuer ger intervjuaren möjlighet att följa upp respondenternas svar med olika följdfrågor, som kan varieras relativt fritt vilket bidrar till att intervjuaren kan bilda sig en uppfattning om respondenternas attityder. De attityder gällande praktisk undervisning i de naturorienterande ämnena som påträffats var främst positiva och samtliga respondenter var eniga om att den praktiska undervisningen hjälper till att öka förståelsen. Undersökningen visade att flickorna föredrog biologi eftersom detta inte ansågs vara lika svårt som fysik och kemi, medan pojkarna i undersökningen fann mer intresse i fysik och teknik. Meningarna huruvida den praktiska undervisningen examineras gick isär. Slutsatsen som kan dras från uppsatsens undersökning blir således att pedagoger bör försöka att utveckla en praktisk undervisning som passar alla dagens ungdomar, oavsett kön, samt att tydliggöra syftet och målet innan det praktiska arbetet inleds. / The aim of this dissertation is to study the attitudes that exist among secondary-school pupils, to practical education in natural science, through a gender perspective. Semi-structured interviews were chosen as method of studying the pupils’ attitudes. A semi- structured interview gives the interviewer a possibility to follow up the answers given by the respondent with varied attendant questions. For the interviewer this contributes to develop an insight of the attitudes. The interviews reveal that most of the pupils have a positive attitude towards practical education in natural science and all of the respondents agreed on the fact that practical education helps to improve their understanding. The research showed that girls prefer biology since they find it less difficult than physics and chemistry, while boys on the other hand prefer physics and technology. There is a disagreement among the respondents on whether or not examinations exist in practical education. The conclusion of the dissertation is that pedagogues need to develop a practical education suited for all youths irrespective of gender, as well as stating the aim and purpose before the practical education starts.

Text in Afrikaans / OPSOMMING `n Verkennende en beskrywende studie is onderneem om wetenskaplike gefundeerde riglyne ten opsigte van die benutting van onderrigtegnieke vir praktykopleiers beskikbaar te stel vir maatskaplikewerksupervisie aan voorgraadse studente. Om supervisie effektief te kan aanwend, moet praktykopleiers van onderrigtegnieke kennis dra en dit kan aanwend. Die literatuurstudie fokus op die onderrigfunksie van supervisie en `n klassifikasie en beskrywing van onderrigtegnieke wat binne die supervisieproses aangewend kan word. Al twee-en-twintig supervisors/praktykopleiers wat betrokke is by gesinsorgorganisa- sies in die Metropool- en Bolandstreek, Wes-Kaap is betrek. `n Gestruktureerde vraelys is as data-insamelingsmetode benut. Die bevindinge en resultate toon aan dat voortgesette opleiding deur middel van informele opleidingstrategieë van praktykopleiers noodsaaklik is, om hul kennis ten opsigte van die onderrigfunksie van supervisie uit te brei asook die benutting van onderrigtegnieke aan te moedig. Verdere navorsing kan fokus op die benutting van onderrigtegnieke uit die Gestalt- of ander benaderings tydens supervisie. SUMMARY An exploratory and descriptive study was undertaken to provide scientifically based guidelines regarding educational techniques used by practical trainers when providing social work supervision to undergraduate students. To apply supervision effectively, practical trainers must have knowledge of educational techniques and be able to apply these. The literature study focuses on the educational function of supervision and provides a classification and description of educational techniques that can be applied within the supervision process. The sample included twenty-two supervisors/practical trainers at family welfare organisations in the Metropolitan and Boland regions, Western Cape. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data. The findings and results show that continuing education through informal training strategies by practical trainers is essential to expand their knowledge of the educational function of supervision and to encourage the use of educational techniques. Further research should focus on educational techniques from the Gestalt approach or other approaches. / Social work / M.Diac.

Text in Afrikaans / OPSOMMING `n Verkennende en beskrywende studie is onderneem om wetenskaplike gefundeerde riglyne ten opsigte van die benutting van onderrigtegnieke vir praktykopleiers beskikbaar te stel vir maatskaplikewerksupervisie aan voorgraadse studente. Om supervisie effektief te kan aanwend, moet praktykopleiers van onderrigtegnieke kennis dra en dit kan aanwend. Die literatuurstudie fokus op die onderrigfunksie van supervisie en `n klassifikasie en beskrywing van onderrigtegnieke wat binne die supervisieproses aangewend kan word. Al twee-en-twintig supervisors/praktykopleiers wat betrokke is by gesinsorgorganisa- sies in die Metropool- en Bolandstreek, Wes-Kaap is betrek. `n Gestruktureerde vraelys is as data-insamelingsmetode benut. Die bevindinge en resultate toon aan dat voortgesette opleiding deur middel van informele opleidingstrategieë van praktykopleiers noodsaaklik is, om hul kennis ten opsigte van die onderrigfunksie van supervisie uit te brei asook die benutting van onderrigtegnieke aan te moedig. Verdere navorsing kan fokus op die benutting van onderrigtegnieke uit die Gestalt- of ander benaderings tydens supervisie. SUMMARY An exploratory and descriptive study was undertaken to provide scientifically based guidelines regarding educational techniques used by practical trainers when providing social work supervision to undergraduate students. To apply supervision effectively, practical trainers must have knowledge of educational techniques and be able to apply these. The literature study focuses on the educational function of supervision and provides a classification and description of educational techniques that can be applied within the supervision process. The sample included twenty-two supervisors/practical trainers at family welfare organisations in the Metropolitan and Boland regions, Western Cape. A structured questionnaire was used to gather data. The findings and results show that continuing education through informal training strategies by practical trainers is essential to expand their knowledge of the educational function of supervision and to encourage the use of educational techniques. Further research should focus on educational techniques from the Gestalt approach or other approaches. / Social work / M.Diac.

This diploma thesis investigates attitudes of students and teachers of secondary schools (gymnasia) towards the use of dissections into educational process. Questionnaire survey is a part of the research, by which opinions about animal dissections are examined in terms of a particular interest in dissections, of general interest in natural sciences, disgust towards the peculiar facts and situations taking place during dissections and finally in terms of ethical standpoint of all respondents. Statistic processing of results examined relations between all presented aspects and between gender, age, school grade and targeting of studies, experience with dissections and interest of all teachers themselves. At the beginning of the inquiry the following research questions were stated: 1. Are attitudes of students towards dissections during the lessons of biology different between genders? 2. Are those attitudes affected by factors such as subject preference, targeted field of study, own experience with dissections, favoured method of teaching anatomy or owning a pet? 3. Do mutual correlations between the attitude of a student and a particular teacher exist? 4. Are standpoints of teachers towards dissections during the lessons of biology influenced by various factors such as implementation into educational...

While literary scholars have written extensively about sensibility in the past two decades, most of the studies have treated either the history of sensibility itself or how it interacted with a particular aspect of English culture and literature, such as sexuality or politics. My project instead examines how a single author, Maria Edgeworth, used sensibility in her writing over the course of her career. I analyze the use of sensibility in three of her novels: Belinda (1801), her first full-length novel; The Absentee (1812), her influential Irish national tale, written at the height of her popularity in the middle years of her career; and Helen (1834), her last novel. This analysis illustrates the changing attitude of both Edgeworth and English society to sensibility and its representations in literature. In Belinda, Edgeworth uses sensibility to demonstrate the virtue and superiority of the characters who possess it, and also to rehabilitate the concept itself. She differentiates between mere affectation and true sensibility by creating both positive and negative examples of sensibility in Belinda – characters clearly possess true sensibility, and those who only pretend to it. In The Absentee, Edgeworth adheres much more closely to the conventions of sentimental fiction than she had in her previous society novels. In my discussion of The Absentee, I demonstrate how Edgeworth uses the conventions of sentiment both to make Irish culture accessible to her English audience and to justify the Irish estate system which put Anglo-Irish landowners in a position of authority over native Irish tenants. My final section focuses on Edgeworth's last novel, Helen, which marks a return to the genre of the society novel with which she began her career. While Edgeworth still uses sensibility as a sign of virtue in Helen, she is also much more interested than previously in the interplay between education and inborn qualities of personality – the very qualities whose existence she was so skeptical of in her education manual, Practical Education, published two years before she began her career as a fiction writer.

Syfte och frågeställningar  Studien syftar till att undersöka hur gymnasielärare i ämnet idrott och hälsa förmedlar och befäster praktisk kunskap hos elever med syfte att skapa livslång hälsa. Studiens frågeställningar: Hur arbetar gymnasielärarna praktiskt med hälsa i ämnet idrott och hälsa och hur bedöms de praktiska momenten i hälsa i ämnet idrott och hälsa? Teori och Metod Studien har en kvalitativ ansats, med semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod där intervjuguiden skapats utifrån teorin om learning by doing samt begreppet healthying. Urvalet gjordes genom ett bekvämlighetsurval där fem legitimerade gymnasielärare i idrott och hälsa deltog med ett spann mellan 18 och 42 år av undervisningserfarenhet inom ämnet. Fyra av intervjuerna genomfördes på deltagarnas arbetsplats och en intervju genomfördes på videokonferensprogrammet Zoom. Det transkriberade datainsamlingsmaterialet analyserades genom en tematisk analysmetod bestående av sex steg. Resultat Resultatet av studien visar på att undervisningen i hälsa tendrar att fokusera på den fysiska hälsan med konditions- och styrkemoment. Den psykiska hälsan undervisas främst teoretiskt genom att skriftligt och muntligt reflektera över relationen mellan det fysiska och det psykiska, men det kan även undervisas praktiskt genom yoga, mental träning och mindfulness. Den sociala hälsan undervisas genom samarbetsövningar för att föra ihop elevgrupperna, men även genom lekar och dans. Lärarna har som målsättningen att undervisa praktiskt i hälsa men trots det sker mycket av undervisningen teoretiskt för att hantera tidsbrist, en otydlig och patogen kursplan samt bedömningssvårigheter. Bedömningen i hälsa sker formativt då eleverna ges flera möjligheter att utveckla och visa sina kunskaper, därtill sker den över en längre tid och examinationsformerna varierar. Fokus ligger på att bedöma elevernas förståelse och begriplighet av hälsa och inte på att genomföra tester för att bedöma deras hälsostatus. Slutsats Alla lärarna ser ämnet idrott och hälsa som praktiskt där de starkt tror på att livslång hälsa skapas genom upplevelsebaserad undervisning. Deras syn på hälsa påverkar undervisningens utformning med tanke på kursplanens otydligheter. För att uppnå livslång hälsa krävs en förståelse som skapas över tid och därav anser lärarna att formativ bedömning bidrar till detta. / Aim and Research Questions The aim of this study is to investigate how teachers in Physical Education (P.E.) convey and consolidate practical knowledge in students with the aim of creating lifelong health. The study´s research questions: How do secondary school teachers work practically with Health in P.E. And how are the practical lessons about health assessed in P.E.? Theory and Method The study has a qualitative approach, with semi-structured interviews as data collection method where the interview guide was created based on the theory learning by doing and the concept of healthying. The selection was made through a convenience selection where five certified teachers in P.E. participated with between 18-42 years of teaching experience. Four of the interviews were conducted at the participants’ workplace and one interview was conducted over Zoom. The transcribed data have been analyzed through a thematic analysis following six steps. Results  The result of this study showcases that health education tend to focus on physical health through cardio and strength. The psychological health is mainly educated theoretically through written and verbal reflections about the correlation between physical activities and psychological, but it can also be taught practically through yoga, mental training, and mindfulness. Social health is taught through collaborative exercises to get the student group closer together but can also be taught trough games and dance. The teachers have the aim to educate practically about health, however big parts about health education are taught theoretically to handle lack of time, unclear and pathogen syllabus and assessment difficulties. The grading in health is made through formative assessment where the students are given multiple occasions to improve and show their abilities over a long period of time, and the examination format varies. When assessing, the focus is to assess students’ understanding and comprehensibility of health and not to conducting tests to assess their health status. Conclusion All the teachers view the subject P.E. as practical where they strongly believe that lifelong health creates through experienced-based teaching. Their view on health is reflected on the design of their lessons, given the ambiguities of the curriculum. To achieve lifelong health requires an understanding that is created over time and therefore the teachers believe that formative assessment contributes to this

The University Forest Enterprise (UFE) is a special-purpose facility at the Technical University in Zvolen (TUZVO). The UFE is aimed at the practical education of students, scientific research associated with all forestry activities, demonstration objects, and management of the forest fund. lt is thus possible to demonstrate several aspects of forestry such as forest management, management of forest reproductive material, silviculture, logging operations, forestry constructions and ameliorations, landscape management, game management, fishery, and beekeeping. To follow these goals, 67 permanent research plots, 18 temporary plots, and 103 demonstration objects are currently maintained at the territory of the enterprise, all connected to the network of excursion and demonstration paths. The UFE manages the forest land fund (9,729 ha) according to the needs of the Technical University, and with respect to the purpose of the enterprise, 80% of the forest area managed by the enterprise is classified into the category of specialpurpose forests. The forest land fund is composed of state-owned forest land as well as forest properties of other owners. Forest plant communities ofthe UFE belang to five altitudinal vegetation zones (298-1035 m above sea level). Broadleaved tree species evidently predominate. Due to the special focus of management, the UFE uses as much as possible the concepts of the close-to-nature silviculture. Due to varied natural conditions, it is possible to apply several silvicultural systems. The application of shelterwood and selection systems with maximum utilisation of the natural potential of indigenous tree species is strongly preferred.

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om materialet Praktisk matematik 1 passar att använda i matematikundervisningen i årskurs 1–3 utifrån arbetssättet konkret till abstrakt med fokus på kopplingen till de matematiska förmågorna och det centrala innehållet i matematik från Skolverkets (2019) läroplan. I studien undersöks vilka fem matematiska förmågor som elever ges möjlighet att öva, genom vilket centralt innehåll elever ges möjlighet att öva dessa fem matematiska förmågor samt hur materialet är utformat för arbete genom arbetssättet konkret till abstrakt.    Denna studie innehåller en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av materialet Praktisk matematik 1. För att analysera materialet skapades kriterier utifrån de matematiska förmågorna och det centrala innehållet från den svenska läroplanen (Skolverket, 2019). Materialets utformning för arbetssättet konkret till abstrakt analyserades utifrån studiens teori.   Resultatet visar att elever ges möjlighet att öva samtliga matematiska förmågor i olika utsträckning genom arbete med materialet Praktisk matematik 1. Genom områdena taluppfattning och tals användning, geometri och problemlösning ges elever möjlighet att öva samtliga fem matematiska förmågor. Genom områdena algebra och sannolikhet och statistik ges elever möjlighet att öva begrepps-, räkne- och problemlösningsförmågan och genom området samband och förändring ges elever möjlighet att öva begrepps-, räkne-, problemlösnings- och resonemangsförmågan. Dessa förmågor ges möjlighet att öva i olika utsträckning genom de olika punkterna som områdena innehåller. Materialet är utformat för att arbeta utifrån arbetssättet konkret till abstrakt genom att samtliga kort uppmanar elever till arbete med konkret material. Vid ungefär hälften av korten följs arbetet med det konkreta materialet av abstrakta beräkningar. / The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the material Praktisk matematik 1 is suitable for use in mathematics teaching in years 1–3 based on the working method concrete to abstract with a focus on the connection to the mathematical abilities and the central content in mathematics from Skolverkets (2019) curriculum. This study analyses which five mathematical abilities students are given an opportunity to practice, through which central content students are given the opportunity to practice these five mathematical abilities and in what way the material is designed for working from concrete to abstract.   This study contains a qualitative content analysis of the material Praktisk matematik 1. To analyse the material, criteria were created based of the mathematical abilities and the central content from the Swedish curriculum (Skolverket 2019). The material’s design for working from concrete to abstract was analysed from this study’s theory.   The results show that students are given the opportunity to practice all five mathematical abilities to a verifying degree through working with the material Praktisk matematik 1. Through the areas number perception and number’s use, geometry and problem-solving students are given the opportunity to practice all five mathematical abilities. Through the areas algebra and probability and statistics are students given the opportunity to practice the ability to comprehend mathematical terms, numeracy, and the ability to solve problems. Through the area connections and change student are given the opportunity to practice their ability to comprehend mathematical terms, numeracy, the ability to solve problems and reasoning ability. These abilities are given a varied opportunity to practice through the different points the areas include. The material is designed to work from concrete to abstract because every card calls on using concrete material. The usage of concrete material is in about half of the cards followed by an abstract calculation.