For several places in the curriculum, it is clear that pupil participation is important. Students should, together with the teacher, take control and responsibility over their own learning process. This essay aims to describe and analyse pupil participation in the learning process of a class with schooling of a thematic approach. A case study has been used as a research strategy and the studied unit is an age-integrated class with pupils from grades four and five. The empirical relevance has been collected from six observations, a teacher interview and two focus-group interviews with the pupils. The result shows that the pupils have a limited influence in their learning process and that the teachers predetermine the content, methods, co-operation arrangements and rate of studies. The class is aware of the curriculum but are not familiar with what they contain. For example, the pupil’s don’t know what the word "pupil participation" means. The conclusions drawn are that the class should be given more influence in the learning process. The question is how much influence and what kind of influence they are to be given. There is insufficient research on how increased pupil participation affects pupil’s knowledge, but a dialogical communication pattern in the classroom is recommended.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:miun-10365 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Tjärnberg, Marie, Zetterberg, Therese |
| Publisher | Mittuniversitetet, Lärarutbildning, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap, Mittuniversitetet, Mittuniversitetet, Lärarutbildning, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för utbildningsvetenskap, Mittuniversitetet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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