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A quest for legitimacy : on the professionalization policies of Swede...
Lilja, Peter Journal article in Journal of Education Policy; : Taylor & Francis (2013)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:

The aim of this article is to contribute to the ongoing discussion on teacher professionalism by analyzing the professional strategies of Sweden’s two teachers’ unions from an organizational perspective. Drawing on institutional theory, the article argues that the teachers’ unions’ focus on strategies of professionalization has as much to do with questions of legitimacy in the eyes of the public, as with any speciﬁc effort at transforming the practice of teaching in a professional direction. Against the background of two recent Swedish education reforms, the article shows that the unions are ‘trapped’ within a normative order emphasizing professionalization as the primary way of organizational development and legitimacy, resulting in a need for the unions to adopt professional attributes. In the case of the Swedish unions, this is accomplished through mimetic processes whereby union policies, aimed at the improvement of teaching, are modeled upon the medical profession, regardless of the differences between the technologies and practices of the occupations. In this way, the professional rhetoric of the unions is decoupled from the practice of teaching in order to maximize the public legitimacy needed for improving the declining societal status of teaching.

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Föräldraskap i förtätad dokumentations- och bedömningspraktik
Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine Journal article in Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige;4 : Göteborgs universitet (2011)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

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Studien syftar till att beskriva och prövande diskutera föräldraskap i en förtätad dokumentations- och bedömningspraktik, med fokus på relationen hem-skola i Sverige. Med förtätad avses en intensifiering där elektronisk dokumentation kopplas till icke-elektronisk dokumentation och bedömning i skola och förskola. Forskningen baseras på fältarbete online. Urvalet består av två internetmiljöer för föräldrar och familjeliv. I dessa miljöer har det varit möjligt för föräldrar att själva ta upp samtalstrådar om dokumentations- och bedömningspraktik. Studien koncentreras till samtalstrådar rörande IUP, utveck¬lings¬¬samtal och standardiserade observations¬material, totalt ca 120 sidor. Resultatdelen består av en prövande diskussion där fyra dimensioner av föräldraskap tonar fram i en flerdimensionell gränspraktik. I gränspraktiken framträder policyrelaterade, marknads¬orienterade, evidensrelaterade, och civilt erfarenhets¬-baserade dimensioner av föräldraskap.

Different forms of assessment and documentation in Swedish preschools
Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine Journal article in Nordisk Barnehageforskning;5 (2012)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:

The aim is to describe and discuss documentation and assessment practices in Swedish preschools from a didaktik perspective. What different forms of documentation and assessment are found in the preschools? Preschools in both urban and rural municipalities are included in the selection. Document and textual analysis are used. A varied multi-documentation emerge. The multi-documentation at each preschool expose that preschool teachers seem to switch between different forms of documentation and assessment, including summative, formative and other assessments. The concept of transformative assessment may capture the different assessments interwoven in the multi-documentation. Transformative assessment is a concept focusing on reshaping and interplaying assessments that are intertwined in the registration and complex documentation at different levels and directions.

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Parenthood in intensified documentation and assessment practice : wit...
Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine Journal article in International Journal about Parents in Education;1 (2012)	peer-reviewed scientific ARTICLE

English abstract:

The study seeks to describe and analyse parenthood in intensified documentation and assessment practice, with the focus on the home-school relation in Sweden. The research is based on fieldwork on the Internet. What currents of thought and dimensions of parenthood can be detected? What is considered in assessments and documentation of children? Who assesses whom? Whose interests can be interpreted as being involved in parenthood? The sample consists of material from two Internet sites, a total of about 120 pages. The unit of analysis in the study consists of online text-based communication initiated by parents in 2008–2009. Textual analysis was performed with an extended hermeneutic approach. The material from the Internet includes threads dealing with personal development interviews, individual development plans with written assessments, and standardized test and observation material. In the material there are examples of teachers assessing children, and examples of parents assessing teachers, other parents, and themselves. Four dimensions of parenthood emerge, which can be described as policy-related, evidence-related, market- and media-oriented, and experience-based. The dimensions that indicate which interests are involved can be interpreted as being either concordant and interwoven or contradictory. The study contributes to a greater understanding, qualifies the discourse, and offers alternative interpretations of what is at stake in an intensified documentation and assessment practice.

Att fostra forma och förankra : skolan i mångfaldens barndom
Tallberg Broman, Ingegerd Journal article in Skola och Samhälle; : Malmö högskola (2012)	ARTICLE

Swedish abstract:

The article is a summary of the projekt Childhood in multiple contexts.The project was focused on five separate but interconnected social rooms; these are the school, friends, sport, and the family. In addition the boundaries for activities within and for the transgressions between rooms were set in the overarching social room of politics. The starting point for the project was the observation that childhood currently is characterised by an increase of contexts. There is an increase in the number of involved actors as well as the crossing over the borders between different social rooms. Also, schools function more than ever as the institution in which normality and defiance are defined which esepcially is discussed in this article.

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