<p>This thesis looks at conditions for selections of fictional texts in the Swedish subject in the upper secondary school. Three different empirical materials have contributed to the understanding of what conditions there are for the texts to enter the classroom. The first material consists of national policy documents from 1970 to 2005. Here there is a tendency that the student goes from being an object for knowledge to becoming a subject that creates his/her own knowledge. With this development the contents and the given aims with the subject become more abstract, which leads to the framework of the curriculum becoming wider and more difficult to interpret. Simultaneously the focus is moved from mediation of given knowledge, to the development of an identity for the individual.</p><p>The second material consists of debate and method articles from Svenskläraren, a magazine for members, published by an organisation of Swedish teachers. The study comprise articles from the same period of time as the national curricula. In the articles there are three tendencies reflecting the changes in the discourse of the Swedish subject. The first tendency shows how the overall ideological debate on the subject disappears during this period. The second tendency shows how discussions about the conceptions of the subject is replaced by more and more concrete examples of methods. The third tendency depicts that the concrete text selections have moved from being partly predetermined during the seventies to become debated during the eighties, to finally during the nineties end up in a situation where some texts has a sufficient cultural capital not to need justifications, whereas others need it.</p><p>The third material consists of interviews with, and observations of, four active teachers, in order to find what conditions there are for text selections in their rhetoric and practice. The results show a clear impression of informal institutional factors and of the school culture. However, this seems to decrease with experience. There are big differences in how the teachers speak about text selections and text use and what the result becomes in practice. Here professionalism in form of knowledge in subject didactics could have a vast impact.</p>

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to knowledge about how the work and profession of upper secondary school teachers is understood and shaped by the teachers in the beginning of the 21st century, and to relate that understanding of work and professional development to the strivings of the teachers’ trade unions and the state. With the implementation of an innovation as a starting point, the teachers’ narratives also described their work in a broader sense. Connections and contradictions between those descriptions of everyday work are analysed in relation to central ideas in research and state and trade union policy. The empirical data were mainly generated through interviews and studies of state- and teachers’ trade union policy documents. Twenty-three teachers at four upper secondary schools were interviewed twice, with a one year interval. Five school leaders were also interviewed. A minor questionnaire added data concerning professional development. 102 documents published by the State and the teachers’ trade unions between 1964 and 2004 were analysed using critical discourse analysis. The analysis is eclectic, drawing on perspectives and conceptions from theories on professions, organisations, school development and the frame factor theory. The overall approach of the study is practice related research and includes an intention to draw attention to connections between micro and macro levels. The analyses of the teachers’ narratives on implementation indicate that they were able to do the job despite unsatisfactory conditions thanks to high work morale and extensive experience. The infrastructure provided by the frame factors was weak or working at cross purposes. The school-wide support for development was stronger at one of the four schools. The teachers’ formal freedom of action was substantial. In practice it was restricted by frame factors and the fact that the potential freedom was not fully used. Thus, the actual autonomy was more limited than it appeared to be. The school culture included elements of balkanised and contrived collegiality. Many tasks were delegated to the interdisciplinary work teams, but the teams did not seem to live up to expectations. Primarily, they lacked time and an appropriate group composition. There was a clash between the interdisciplinary work teams and the teachers’ need to co-operate within subject work teams. The teachers did not regard interdisciplinary work teams as useful for school or professional development. Supportive conditions for long-term, shared learning and dialogue between researchers and practitioners were largely lacking. Visions such as learning organisations were far removed from the everyday life in the schools. Changes in organisational structures at the schools have partly been counterproductive. The far-reaching restructuring of the Swedish upper secondary schools implemented from the end of the 1980s and during the 1990s was in line with international reform trends. It also had specific national characteristics. The concept professional teachers was introduced in some Government bills around 1990. The teachers’ trade unions adopted the concept and it became increasingly significant in trade union policy during the 1990s. At the turn of the millennium it was a dominant idea in their documents. During the 1990s several influential discourses became established as shared views between the State, trade unions and some researchers, e.g. what I have called change and professional discourses. They were rarely problematized in state and teachers’ trade union policy documents. The two agreements between the teachers’ trade unions and the employers, in 1995 and 2000, constituted another component of what has been termed a system-shift in the Swedish school system. They influenced the teachers’ working conditions and implied new strategies for the trade unions. The professional, change and management discourses salient in the documents were brought into schools with insufficient opportunities for the teachers to develop a deep meaning of the discourses. The study emphasizes the importance of practice oriented studies, related to wider contexts, in order to provide insights into teachers’ work and professional development. It also brings nuances to, and problematizes theoretical conceptions and discourses in the field. Key-words: teaching profession, upper secondary teachers, change, school reform, professional development, school development, frame factors, school governance, school policy, trade union

The purpose of this study is to examine the view of knowledge and the view of learner which are prominent in the ministry memorandum Specific programs and access to vocational programs (U2009/5552/G) and thereby understand the potential impact of the new transformation of the current individual program and what it brings to the students who do not achieve the objectives in grade 9. We have used a qualitative text analysis method. The background to the study describes in particular today's individual program, view of knowledge and view of learner. The result shows that the most prominent in the memorandum is that knowledge is divided into theory and practice, that individualization is the focus and the text shows freedom for interpretation.

I början av 1990-talet så genomförde den borgerliga regeringen friskolereformen vilket in-nebar att det statliga monopolet upplöstes och att fristående skolor kunde konkurrera på samma villkor som kommunala skolor. Detta medförde att det ekonomiska ansvaret för gymnasieskolan övertogs av respektive kommun och att skolpengen infördes. Reformen har inneburit ökat antal skolor och hårdare konkurrens. Detta tillsammans med minskat elevan-tal har pressat skolorna till att optimera sin marknadsföring för att attrahera elever. Syftet med uppsatsen är att beskriva och analysera om det finns någon skillnad i hur kommunala respektive fristående gymnasieskolor arbetar med marknadsföring. Samt att undersöka hur deras syn på dagens skolmarknad ser ut. För att ta reda på detta har vi intervjuat företrädare för fyra stycken kommunala och fyra fristående skolor i Stockholms län. Vi har även valt att göra observationer på Gymnasiemässan 2010. Undersökningen har visat att Öppet hus och gymnasiemässan är viktiga mötesplatser för att skapa långsiktiga relationer till eleverna. Det har även visat sig att skillnaden mellan vad skolorna kommunicerar inte beror på vilken huvudman skolan tillhör. Två av de kommunala skolorna hade problem med att anpassa sig till nyare teknologi och nyare kommunikationskanaler jämfört med två av de fristående sko-lorna som var i framkant när det gäller kommunikationskanaler. De fristående skolorna var alla överens om att det var viktigt att skydda sig mot konkurrensen genom att differentiera sig på dagens marknad. / In the beginning of the 1990’s, the Swedish government changed the rules on the school mar-ket by implementing a school reform. The reform made it possible for private actors to com-pete on the market along with the municipal schools on equal terms. The economic responsi-bility for the schools was held by the county. The reform made entry to the market easy which has led to hardened competition. By present time it is clear that the number of pupils is de-creasing. As a result, this forces the schools into optimising their marketing to attract pupils. The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse whether there is any difference in how municipal schools and independent schools conduct their marketing, and how their perception of the schoolmarket is. To study this we have made four interviews with municipal schools and four interviews with independent schools in the county of Stockholm. We have also made an observation on Gymnasiemässan (high school fair at the event hall “Stockholmsmässan”). The conclusion of the study is that to create a long term relationship with the pupils it is nec-essary to use Öppet hus (when schools invite parents and pupils to experience the school) at the schools and to attend on the High school fair. The message communicated by the schools does not differentiate depending if the school is independent or municipal. Two of the munic-ipal schools were having a problem with adapting to newer technology and newer channels of communication, compared to two of the independent schools who were in a leading position in ways of channel communication. All of the independent schools did agree upon the neces-sity to differentiate on today’s market to be protected from the competition.

This thesis looks at conditions for selections of fictional texts in the Swedish subject in the upper secondary school. Three different empirical materials have contributed to the understanding of what conditions there are for the texts to enter the classroom. The first material consists of national policy documents from 1970 to 2005. Here there is a tendency that the student goes from being an object for knowledge to becoming a subject that creates his/her own knowledge. With this development the contents and the given aims with the subject become more abstract, which leads to the framework of the curriculum becoming wider and more difficult to interpret. Simultaneously the focus is moved from mediation of given knowledge, to the development of an identity for the individual. The second material consists of debate and method articles from Svenskläraren, a magazine for members, published by an organisation of Swedish teachers. The study comprise articles from the same period of time as the national curricula. In the articles there are three tendencies reflecting the changes in the discourse of the Swedish subject. The first tendency shows how the overall ideological debate on the subject disappears during this period. The second tendency shows how discussions about the conceptions of the subject is replaced by more and more concrete examples of methods. The third tendency depicts that the concrete text selections have moved from being partly predetermined during the seventies to become debated during the eighties, to finally during the nineties end up in a situation where some texts has a sufficient cultural capital not to need justifications, whereas others need it. The third material consists of interviews with, and observations of, four active teachers, in order to find what conditions there are for text selections in their rhetoric and practice. The results show a clear impression of informal institutional factors and of the school culture. However, this seems to decrease with experience. There are big differences in how the teachers speak about text selections and text use and what the result becomes in practice. Here professionalism in form of knowledge in subject didactics could have a vast impact.

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xiv, 188 p. : ill. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / Response to Intervention (RTI) is a relatively new approach to identifying students with learning disabilities that has impacted how schools coordinate resources and implement their instructional support and assessment systems. Because RTI is a federal initiative and relatively new approach, there is little consensus on specific approaches and practices to guide school in implementation. This approach has potentially great consequences in providing supports in a more efficient manner for at-risk students as well as improving outcomes for all students. However, to meet this goal, schools need a tool to help guide and evaluate their practices to ensure quality implementation. In this dissertation, I describe the development of a rubric designed to meet this need. This RTI Assessment Rubric is intended to be a tool that practitioners and researchers can use to evaluate the implementation of RTI at the elementary school level. Using qualitative methodologies, the rubric was developed based upon a review of the literature and validated by known experts in the field in terms of its breadth and depth of content. Through this process six components were identified which include evaluating: Tier 1 instruction, universal screening procedures, Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, progress monitoring practices, evidence-based decision-making, and organizational supports. Next, case studies were created on 5 second grade students who are at risk for reading disabilities in two elementary schools implementing RTI practices. These case studies included classroom observations, interviews with teachers/administrators, record reviews, as well as evaluating student response to school implemented interventions. When these case studies were examined by external reviewers using the RTI rubric, the device demonstrated initial evidence of inter-rater reliability and sensitivity in discriminating between the quality of RTI implementation in these two schools. Teachers reported that the rubric captured the RTI experience within their building. This rubric appears to be useful for both researchers and practitioners as they begin implementation of RTI in schools because it appears to provide relevant, practical, and useful information to guide schools' next steps in RTI implementation. / Committee in charge: Elizabeth Ham, Co-Chairperson, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Gerald Tindal, Co-Chairperson, Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership; Deborah Olson, Member, Special Education and Clinical Sciences; Yvonne Braun, Outside Member, Sociology

The aim of this diploma thesis is to assess the climate in the classroom on the second substage of the elementary school in the context of the ongoing reform of the education system. In the theoretical section are explained basic concepts - for example social group, social roles, positions in groups, school climate, class climate. There are also described determinants of class climate, climate participants and there aren´t missing current approaches to study the class climate. The conclusion explains what is school reform. In the practical part are defined objectives and assumptions. There are further specified measurement method and the measurement process. At the end assumptions are authenticated.

Este trabalho recupera a história do livro didático e do ensino de História em Minas Gerais no período compreendido entre os anos de 1906 e 1911, no início do vigor da Reforma do Ensino João Pinheiro. Acompanhamos o processo de reestruturação da escola promovida pelo então Presidente de Estado João Pinheiro, o Secretário do Interior Carvalho Britto e os demais sujeitos envolvidos com os processos educativos naquele momento da história do estado (diretores, inspetores, professores). Elegemos a disciplina História por entender que esse conhecimento se encontrava sob influência da política republicana mineira, de modo que esta fizesse dela instrumento de divulgação dos valores da nova ordem instituída. Através da investigação da história do livro, realizamos investimento nas demais instâncias responsáveis por sua escrita, divulgação, circulação e demais relações estabelecidas com a instrução pública primária em Minas Gerais. Em nossas pesquisas, nos deparamos com uma situação onde diversas forças compunham um cenário de conflito de interesses dentro e fora da escola, colocando os dispositivos de instrução no centro das discussões. Revelamos as identidades e estratégias dos sujeitos envolvidos com as transformações, tanto na ordem regulamentar das disposições oficiais quanto na prática cotidiana da escola, tendo o objeto livro localizado na interseção entre esses dois momentos. / This search recovers the history of didactics books in Minas Gerais State in the period between the years 1906 and 1911, at the beginning of the Education Reform João Pinheiro. We followed the process of restructuring of school promoted by the President of State João Pinheiro, the Secretary of Interior Carvalho Britto and other individuals involved with the educational processes at that moment of the history of the State (school directors, school inspectors, teachers). We had chosen the discipline History because we believe that this knowledge was under the influence of the republican politic from Minas Gerais State, and the politicians used it as an instrument to disseminate the values of the new order established. Through research of the history of the book, we made investments in other instances responsible for its writing, divulgation, distribution and other relationships with the public primary education in Minas Gerais State. In this research, we were faced with a situation where different forces made up a scenario of conflict of interests inside and outside school, making the devices of school instruction at the center of discussions. We reveal the identities and strategies of the subject involved with the school transformations, in the official order of the regulations and in the school daily, with the school books in the intersection between them.

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to find out, whether selected elementary art schools, operating under the same conditions in the same district, have chosen the same ways of creating and implementing SEP (School Educational Programme). The creation of SEP could be conceived either innovatively or by expansion of existing curriculum. The thesis also deals with the question, whether schools included in the research continuously work on their SEP and, simultaneously, whether they are able to edit and improve it according to the feedback and experience obtained in practice. The last area of research is an issue of teaching according to SEP. The thesis investigates its pros and cons from the point of view of each included school.