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The purpose of the study is to investigate teachers' experiences of developing cooperation and participation with students in history teaching in order to strengthen students' learning. The goal is particularly interested in understanding what collaboration and participation are in history teaching according to teachers'experiences and which methods are used to achieve this. In addition, it examines what conditions are needed for this to be achieved. Finally, it is also examined whether challenges can arise in order to create cooperation and participation in history teaching. The study is based on a semi-structured qualitative interview method with three teachers. The teachers are from two upper secondary schools and one secondary school in Sweden. The result shows that cooperation and participation can be achieved in different ways, but that the concepts relate to each other. What perhaps appeared surprising was that the relationship with the students was emphasized more than the methods themselves, which were quite basic. Another decisive factor that stood out was the teacher's ability to find inputs for the student and make personal connections to the history subject. When the teacher found the entrance, participation and cooperation also increased. The teacher's passion for the profession was also something that influenced the students' participation.

Syftet med denna studie är att synliggöra hur studenter, i speciallärarutbildningen med inriktning utvecklingsstörning, upplever handledningen under sin VFU. Dessutom syftar studien till att få en bild av hur yrkesverksamma speciallärare, i särskolan, ser på samarbetet med högskolan samt få deras syn på handledning av blivande speciallärare. Som metod har en enkätstudie med blivande speciallärare och en intervjustudie med fem verksamma speciallärare på särskolan genomförts. Analysförfarandet utgår från hermeneutisk fenomenologisk ansats med fokus på relationell pedagogik. Analysen utgår från frågorna hur och vad studenterna och intervjupersonerna säger om handledning och samarbete.Resultatet visar att tid till reflektion och bemötande är två viktiga faktorer i handledning. Det har också framkommit att samarbetet kan utvecklas genom att högskolan ger tydligare direktiv gällande mål för studenters VFU och att högskolan får tillgång att forska i skolans verksamhet. Speciallärarna i verksamheten vill få ta del av ny forskning och fortbildning i ett samarbete. Kunskap om speciallärarprofessionen är viktig och när det gäller studenter som läser till speciallärare med inriktning utvecklingsstörning är fördjupade kunskaper om barn på tidig utvecklingsnivå något som behöver utvecklas. En ny yrkesprofession, nämligen förstelärare, är en grupp som eventuellt skulle kunna ha handledning som del i uppdraget, eftersom tre av fem intervjupersoner redan har det uppdraget och är dessutom intresserade av att handleda studenter.Det finns potentiella utvecklingsområden inom VFU i speciallärarutbildningen, inriktning utvecklingsstörning, där kunskap från denna studie kan bidra med att höja kvalitén på VFU:n i speciallärarutbildningen samt att utveckla och sprida kunskap om handledning i VFU, det vill säga hur yrkesteoretisk handledning som studenten möter på sin VFU bör se ut, såväl som vikten av samarbete mellan högskola och särskola. Mer forskning behövs. / The purpose of this study is to make visible how the students, in the special education teacher training program, focusing on intellectual disability, and experience supervision during their “working integration learning” (WIL). In addition, the study aims to get a picture of cooperation between the University and supervising teachers in school for children with intellectual disabilities as well as their views on the supervising of students. The methods employed were a questionnaire with the preparing special education teachers and interviews with five special education teachers at the school who took responsibility for supervision. The analysis upon the theoretical traditions of hermeneutist phenomenology with focus on relational pedagogy with an emphasis on what students and interviewed teachers say about supervision and cooperation.The results show that more time for reflection and a good treatment from the supervisor are two important factors in supervising preparing special educators. It also emerged that cooperation can be improved if the university provides clearer direction regarding goals for the students during WIL and the university provides access for prospective teachers to do research for science lessons. Special education teachers in the school for children with intellectual disabilities want to explore new research and training in a new partnership. Knowledge of the special education teaching profession is important and when it comes to students studying special education with an emphasis in intellectual disabilities, they need to acquire a deeper knowledge of children at early stages of development. An emerging position in schools is the head teacher or “first” teacher who might have supervision of preparing teachers assigned as a part of their job description. Three of the five teachers interviewed have supervision as a part of their work assignment and are interested in supervising preparing students.There are potential growth areas within the special education teachers regarding WIL, focusing children with intellectual disabilities, where the knowledge from this study may help to raise the quality of the WIL, and to develop and disseminate knowledge about supervision in the WIL as well as the importance of cooperation between universities and special schools. More research needs.

Titel: Alla våra samtal...- En vetenskaplig essä om kollegialt lärande, relationer och språk. Syftet med denna vetenskapliga essä är att undersöka kollegialt lärande, relationella perspektiv och språk inom fritidshemmet. Essän tar sin grund i berättelser från våra egna yrkeserfarenheter för att reflektera över vårt eget problematiska handlande. Detta för att finna verktyg för att hantera komplicerade samtal. De metoder vi använt för undersökningen är vetenskaplig essä och deltagande observation. I detta har vi tagit stöd av tre teoretiska perspektiv; kollegialt lärande, relationell pedagogik och social konstruktivism. Det vi kom fram till genom våra reflektioner var de positiva effekterna av kollegialt lärande, vikten av att arbeta med relationer inom kollegiet och språkets roll inom olika relationella konstellationer. / Title: All our conversations…- A scientific essay about collegial learning, relations and language. The purpose of this essay is to examine collegial learning, relational perspectives and language in the context of school-age educare. This essay is based on our own working experiences to be able to reflect over our own problematic behavior. The reason for this is to find tools to deal with complicated conversations. The methods we used to examine this are the writings of a scientific essay and a participant observation. To support this we have used three theoretical perspectives; collegial learning, relational pedagogy and social constructivism. Our conclusions are that through our reflections we could see the positive effects of collegial learning, the importance of working with relations in the college and the part language plays in different relational constellations.

Ce mémoire propose une étude du thème de l’enfance et du concept d’infantia que contient la philosophie de Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998). Puisque la notion ne se laisse pas réduire au concept tardif d’infantia, ce mémoire mobilise les travaux de Lyotard depuis sa période militante (1954-1966) et ses premières œuvres, où l’enfance se laisse déduire, jusqu’à ses derniers textes, où il la conceptualise explicitement. Suivant la piste de la notion, nous argumentons qu’elle ne représente pas qu’un fil rouge dans sa pensée mais qu’elle fait aussi signe vers l’existence, dans l’œuvre de Lyotard, d’une philosophie de l’enfance et de l’éducation à part entière. Ainsi, nous soutenons qu’au-delà du repère qu’incarne le concept pluriel d’enfance pour les études lyotardiennes, il comporte également des intuitions pertinentes et fécondes pour permettre aux sciences de l’éducation et aux études sur l’enfance (Childhood Studies) de sortir de l’impasse dans laquelle elles se trouvent actuellement. En effet, il nous apparait que la conception de l’enfance que nous propose le texte lyotardien s’offre comme un contrepoint nécessaire à la conception développementale qui est aujourd’hui hégémonique en éducation ainsi qu’en études sur l’enfance, et qu’elle invite à une reconfiguration tout aussi essentielle de la rencontre pédagogique. S’inscrivant en faux contre l’impératif de performativité et le paradigme de l’efficacité qui dominent les sciences de l’éducation, Lyotard nous permet de penser une éducation attentive aux exigences éthiques de la relation pédagogique, affranchie de la logique de la reproduction, et donc génératrice de sens. / This thesis addresses the theme of childhood and the concept of infantia in the philosophy of JeanFrançois Lyotard (1924-1988). Since the notion cannot be confined to the late concept of infantia, this paper draws on Lyotard's work from his activist days (1954-1966) and early works, where childhood can be inferred, to his later texts, where he explicitly conceptualizes it. Tracking down the concept, we argue that childhood is not only an underlying thread of his oeuvre, but that it also heralds the existence of a genuine philosophy of childhood and education in Lyotard's work. Thus, we argue that beyond the key figure that the plural concept of childhood embodies for Lyotardian studies, it also offers relevant and fruitful intuitions to enable educational sciences and Childhood Studies to break out of the deadlock in which they are currently caught. Indeed, Lyotard's concept of childhood strikes us as a necessary counterpoint to the developmental approach that is currently hegemonic in education and childhood studies, and as an invitation to an equally essential reconfiguration of pedagogical encounters. Taking a stand against the imperative of performativity and the paradigm of effective pedagogy that dominates educational sciences, Lyotard allows us to contemplate an education that would be attentive to the ethical demands of the pedagogical relationship, liberated from the logic of reproduction, and therefore generative of meaning.

The interest of this study was preschool teachers’ experiences of creating and maintaining good relations to preschool children and the children’s response to these relations. Qualitative interviews with nine preschool teachers have been conducted in order to obtain the empirical material. The study has a lifeworld phenomenological approach and the theoretical points of departure are the interhuman thesis of Martin Buber, relational pedagogy and a philosophical caring perspective. The result shows that a good relation between preschool teacher and parents leads to good repercussions in the preschool teachers’ relation to the child. The preschool teachers’ approach concerning the ability to interpret the children’s different body languages, signals and needs is also an important part of the result. Further result shows that creating good relations to the children sometimes can be a time-consuming work. The children have a good ability to choose which adult that most satisfying can meet their current needs. The preschool teachers express the importance of the children’s right to their own emotions, mutual mental communication between child and preschool teacher, joy, positivity, to meet around common memories and an accepting and available environment. The preschool teachers also talk about being true to their own person in their relational work with the children or the children lose their trust in the adult. Different dilemmas were expressed regarding creating and maintaining good relations to the children in preschool and mainly focused on preschool teachers’ different approaches towards the children as problematic.

The overall purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about dialogues in the setting of the preschool. The more in-depth purpose is to highlight what happens in dialogues between a teacher and a child when more children join the situation of interaction in which the dialogue is taking place. A further purpose is to attempt to understand what it is that influences change in the dialogue and what significance the actions of the teacher can have for this change. The study is based on several questions that concern interaction in preschools, who it is that initiates an increase in the number of participants in those situations that involve dialogue, and what happens with the dialogue when more children join and what causes the change in the dialogue. The study is based on video observations from a preschool; approximately 10 teachers and 50 children between the ages of one and six took part in the study. The situations that were observed and documented in video format were everyday activities (both indoor and outdoor) that were led at a nominal level by teachers. In total, 40 films were recorded. Film length was between one and 60 minutes. In 32 of the films, there was interaction between a teacher and several children, and 18 of these included dialogues between a teacher and several children. Dialogue is here given a specific significance and refers to the interaction that can be described in terms of presence, listening, reciprocity, and extending. This definition of dialogue derives from a combination of Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue and aspects of interaction that earlier research found to be significant for children’s learning. In two of the 18 films that showed dialogue, no other children became part of the situation of interaction; the remaining 16 films were transcribed; and both verbal and non-verbal events were made apparent in the transcriptions. Analyses of the recorded material and of the transcriptions were conducted using analytical terms borrowed from conversation analysis as well as the central term for this study dialogue.  The results demonstrate a complex practice and also demonstrate that dialogues in the sense given in this study take place between children and teachers. Situations of interaction also occur where dialogues take place in which a number of children join. It can be the child joining the situation of interaction who takes the initiative to an increased number of participants; however, it can also be the teacher or the child in the dialogue. The initial address can take place during a moment of transition in the interaction or at the same time as another participant is talking. The dialogue often changes when more children join the situation where the dialogue is taking place. The dialogue can end completely or be interrupted and resume. The results further demonstrate that the dialogue can continue without seemingly being affected by the fact that more children join. This happens when the child joining and the teacher in the dialogue interact in a non-verbal manner at the same time as the teacher is talking with the child in the dialogue. The dialogue can also be continued with more participants. Who takes the initiative, how the initial address occurs, and which content is given focus by the different participants are all factors that seem to affect what happens to the dialogue. How the teacher acts when more children join also appears to be significant in terms of what happens with the dialogue when more children join. In those situations where the teacher begins talking with a number of children about different subjects, the interaction ceases to be dialogic. When the teacher asks the joining child to wait, the dialogue is both interrupted and resumed, and on those occasions when the dialogue continues with more participants, the teacher listens to the joining child and the participants take turns speaking. / <p>Licentiatuppsatsen har författats inom forskarskolan "Utforskande lärprocesser och literacy: förskolebarns lärande i språk, matematik och naturvetenskap" som genomförts i samarbete mellan Stockholms universitet, Uppsala universitet, Umeå universitet och Högskolan i Dalarna.</p>

Abstract Research shows that the prevailing view is that the relationship between teacher and pupil is fundamental to learning. Although most studies emphasize the crucial importance of a positive relationship between teacher and student, it also highlights that more knowledge is needed about what actually happens when a teacher acts relationally. The purpose of this study is therefore to elucidate what teachers do in their practice which creates good conditions for a good teacher-student relationship with students incompulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities.The purpose is achieved by answering the questions: What good conditions for a good teacher-student relationship can be determined based on how teachers act in the teaching practice with students incompulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities? What good conditions for a good teacher-student relationship with students incompulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities can be determined based on the descriptions of three teaching teachers? and How can good prerequisites for a good teacher-student relationship with students inthe practice ofcompulsory school for children with severe learning disabilities be understood from a two-dimensional interpretation framework? The relational perspective according to Aspelin (2013, 2016) is the perspective used to interpret the study's empirics. According to this perspective, a two-dimensional interpretation framework consisting of two approaches, which Aspelin (2013) calls pedagogical approaches and pedagogical meetings, is required. In order to balance these, differentiation skills (Aspelin, 2016) are also required to have the ability to regulate proximity and distance in the relationship. Observational studies and interview studies were conducted to find answers to the study's questions. The study results show that the two survey methods complement each other, since the results of the study methods do not contradict each other, but rather substantiate and supplement, the assumption is made that this contributed to a more complex picture of relationship building. The methods illustrate the topic from two different perspectives, what the teacher does and what the teacher describes it to do. The result reflects the different ways of creating the conditions for relationships that the study's review of previous research shows. Based on a combination of the results of the study methods, it can be seen that teachers are often in the social and interpersonal dimension at the same time and that they influence and presuppose one another. Taken together, the study's results can be interpreted as the fact that specialist teachers' knowledge of the pedagogical work and their ability to self-insight is the basis of their work in building teacher-student relationships. And that differentiation creates the conditions for the teachers' ability to differentiate between private and professional as well as the prerequisite for the student to take a place as an individual. / Sammanfattning Forskning visar att den rådande synen är att relationen mellan lärare och elev är grundläggande för att lärande skall ske. Trots att flertalet studier framhåller den avgörande betydelsen av en positiv relation mellan lärare och elev lyfter den även att det behövs mer kunskap om vad som faktiskt äger rum när en lärare agerar relationellt. Syftet för denna studie är därför att belysa vad lärare gör i sin praktik som skapar goda förutsättningar för en god lärare- elevrelation i träningsskolan. Syftet uppnås genom att besvara frågeställningarna: Vilka goda förutsättningar för en god lärare- elevrelation går att utröna utifrån hur lärare agerar i undervisningens praktik i träningsskolan? Vilka goda förutsättningar för en god lärare- elevrelation i träningsskolan går att utröna utifrån tre undervisande lärares beskrivningar? samt Hur kan goda förutsättningar för en god lärare- elevrelation i träningsskolans praktik förstås utifrån en tvådimensionell tolkningsram?  Det relationella perspektivet enligt Aspelin är det perspektiv som används för att tolka studiens empiri.Enligt detta perspektiv fordras dels en tvådimensionelltolkningsram bestående av två förhållningssätt som Aspelin (2013) benämner pedagogiskt förhållningssätt och pedagogiskt möte. För att balansera dessa krävs även en differentieringskompetens för att ha förmågan att reglera närhet och distans i relationen. Observationsstudier och intervjustudier genomfördes för att finna svar på studiens frågeställningar. Studiens resultat visar att de två undersökningsmetoderna kompletterar varandra, då resultaten från studiens metoder inte motsäger varandra, utan snarare underbygger och kompletterar, görs antagandet att detta bidrog till en mer komplex bild av relationsbyggande. Metoderna belyser ämnet från två olika perspektiv, vad läraren gör och vad läraren beskriver att den gör.  Resultatet speglar de olika sätt att skapa förutsättningar för relationer som studiens genomgång av tidigare forskning visar. Utifrån en kombination av resultaten från studiens metoder syns att lärarna ofta befinner sig i den sociala och den mellanmänskliga dimensionen samtidigt samt att dessa påverkar och förutsätter varandra. Sammantaget kan studiens resultat tolkas som att speciallärares kunskap om det pedagogiska arbetet och deras förmåga till självinsikt är grunden i deras arbete med att bygga lärare- elevrelationer. Och att differentiering skapar förutsättningar för lärarnas förmåga att skilja på privat och professionell samt förutsättningen för eleven att ta plats som en egen individ.

Syftet med denna studie var att öka kunskapen om klass 1-7 lärares olika uppfattningar om hur man skapar gynnsamma lärsituationer för flickor med ADHD. Studien kommer att undersöka vad lärare har för erfarenheter av flickor med ADHD samt studera vilka uppfattningar lärare har om hur man skapar meningsfulla lärsituationer för flickor med ADHD.  I studien användes kvalitativa insamlingsmetoder i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Intresset riktades mot informanternas erfarenheter, berättelser och uppfattningar. Intervjuderna genomfördes individuellt med sex stycken legitimerade klass 1-7 grundskollärare vid fem olika grundskolor. Studiens empiri analyserades utifrån ett sociokulturellt perspektiv eftersom jag ville använda mig av en holistisk filosofi där människans syn på verkligheten är beroende av upplevelser. Texten bearbetades hermeneutiskt eftersom jag önskade ta människans bakgrund och tidigare erfarenheter i beaktande. I min studie intresserade jag mig för meningsfullhet när jag gjorde mina reflektioner av empirin. Studiens resultat visade att goda relationer har stor betydelse i interagerandet med flickor med ADHD. Respondenterna som deltog i intervjustudien hade alla erfarenheter av att flickor med ADHD kan ha svårt att styra sina känslor och internaliserar sina svårigheter. Känslor kan ta överhanden och man kan växla snabbt mellan olika sinnestillstånd. Studien visade att när läraren medverkar till goda relationer för flickor med ADHD så leder detta ofta till meningsfulla lärsituationer samtidigt som kunskapsmålen uppnås i skolan. Läraren behöver främst förstå flickan med ADHD och svårigheterna som kan höra ihop med funktionsnedsättningen för att kunna ge adekvat individuellt anpassat stöd. Respondenterna uppfattade att flickor med ADHD ofta överpresterar för att kompensera för sina svårigheter vilket kan leda till att kunskapsmålen uppnås men med ett högt pris i form av stress och i vissa fall psykisk ohälsa. Studien visar att det finns ett samband mellan goda relationer, meningsfullhet och uppnådda kunskapsmål. / The purpose of this study was to increase knowledge about class 1-7 teachers´different perceptions of how to create favorable learning situations for girls with ADHD. The study will examine teachers´experiences of girls with ADHD and study teachers´perceptions of how to create meaningful learning situations for girls with ADHD. The study used qualitative collection methods in the form of semi-structured interviews. The interest was directed towards the informants´experiences, stories and perceptions. The interviews were conducted individually with six licensed class 1-7 primary school teachers at five different primary schools. The empirical study was analyzed from a socio-cultural perspective because I wanted to use a holistic philosophy where the human view of reality depends on experiences. The text was hermeneutically processed because I wanted to take human background and previous experiences into account. In my study I became interested in meaningfulness when I did my reflections on empiricism.  The result of the study showed that good relationships are of great importance in interacting with girls with ADHD. All the respondents who participated in the interview study had experienced that girls with ADHD may have difficulty controlling their emotions and internalize their difficulties. Emotions can take over and there can be rapid changes between different states of mind. The study showed that when the teacher contributes to good relationships for girls with ADHD this often leads to meaningful learning situations while the knowledge goals are achieved in school. The teacher mainly needs to understand the girl with ADHD and the difficulties that may be associated with the disability in order to be able to provide adequate individually tailored support. The respondents perceived that girls with ADHD often overperform to compensate for their difficulties which can lead to the knowledge goals being achieved but with a high price in the form of stress and in some cases mental illness. The study shows that there is a connection between good relationships, meaningfulness and achieved knowledge goals.

The overall purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about dialogues in the setting of the preschool. The more in-depth purpose is to highlight what happens in dialogues between a teacher and a child when more children join the situation of interaction in which the dialogue is taking place. A further purpose is to attempt to understand what it is that influences change in the dialogue and what significance the actions of the teacher can have for this change. The study is based on several questions that concern interaction in preschools, who it is that initiates an increase in the number of participants in those situations that involve dialogue, and what happens with the dialogue when more children join and what causes the change in the dialogue. The study is based on video observations from a preschool; approximately 10 teachers and 50 children between the ages of one and six took part in the study. The situations that were observed and documented in video format were everyday activities (both indoor and outdoor) that were led at a nominal level by teachers. In total, 40 films were recorded. Film length was between one and 60 minutes. In 32 of the films, there was interaction between a teacher and several children, and 18 of these included dialogues between a teacher and several children. Dialogue is here given a specific significance and refers to the interaction that can be described in terms of presence, listening, reciprocity, and extending. This definition of dialogue derives from a combination of Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue and aspects of interaction that earlier research found to be significant for children’s learning. In two of the 18 films that showed dialogue, no other children became part of the situation of interaction; the remaining 16 films were transcribed; and both verbal and non-verbal events were made apparent in the transcriptions. Analyses of the recorded material and of the transcriptions were conducted using analytical terms borrowed from conversation analysis as well as the central term for this study dialogue.  The results demonstrate a complex practice and also demonstrate that dialogues in the sense given in this study take place between children and teachers. Situations of interaction also occur where dialogues take place in which a number of children join. It can be the child joining the situation of interaction who takes the initiative to an increased number of participants; however, it can also be the teacher or the child in the dialogue. The initial address can take place during a moment of transition in the interaction or at the same time as another participant is talking. The dialogue often changes when more children join the situation where the dialogue is taking place. The dialogue can end completely or be interrupted and resume. The results further demonstrate that the dialogue can continue without seemingly being affected by the fact that more children join. This happens when the child joining and the teacher in the dialogue interact in a non-verbal manner at the same time as the teacher is talking with the child in the dialogue. The dialogue can also be continued with more participants. Who takes the initiative, how the initial address occurs, and which content is given focus by the different participants are all factors that seem to affect what happens to the dialogue. How the teacher acts when more children join also appears to be significant in terms of what happens with the dialogue when more children join. In those situations where the teacher begins talking with a number of children about different subjects, the interaction ceases to be dialogic. When the teacher asks the joining child to wait, the dialogue is both interrupted and resumed, and on those occasions when the dialogue continues with more participants, the teacher listens to the joining child and the participants take turns speaking.