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0000-0002-5835-9011
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Stockholms Universitet
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Publisher: OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
Date: 12-01-2018
DOI: 10.7577/NJCIE.1967
Abstract: This comparative case study addresses a timely issue engaging researchers involved in the internationalisation of Nordic Higher Education, in the context of Sweden and Finland. The study examines a hypothetical imaginary in the transition between university international policy statements and their understandings from the position of a globalised episteme. The investigation forms a tag-project as part of a funded large international research project examining ethical internationalism in times of global crises, involving a partnership between more than twenty higher education institutions in excess of ten countries across five continents. The data was collected using a mixed-methods design, whilst being controlled across the matched data collection period in 2013-2014. Data consisted of policy texts, surveys and interviews. The current research inquiry reports on a within and across comparative analyses of certain policy texts and follow-up interviews with university management. The results yield logical support for a global higher education imaginary driving internationalisation in ways which reveal paradoxical associations between the imagined and the real worlds of international scholar-practitioners.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publisher: IntechOpen
Date: 16-06-2021
Abstract: This chapter reports on recent mixed method research investigating the comparability between assessment in relation to linguistic and cultural ersity. It takes as its premise that assessment is an integral part of instruction that becomes a main component for attaining of equal opportunities. Therefore, assessment plays a key role in terms of the wider consequences at both in idual and societal levels. One of the central functions of assessment is its measure of quality assurance and comparability for grading to such an extent that it is readily employed to indicate evidence of student achievement of standards and quality. This may sometimes present issues in terms of learner ersity. We focus on the challenges facing teaching in linguistically erse learning settings in which a foreign language may be used as an alternative to instruction. Here we draw on a recent study from two separate multilingual learning contexts in Sweden. We shed light on the generic questions arising from such disjuncture in these linguistically erse educational sites as evidence on a call for much needed scholarly attention on the quality aspect in assessment.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2020
Abstract: The present study compares student teachers’ career choice motives and their relationship with stress-inducing thoughts across five European countries. A previously established factorial structure for career choice motives embedded within self-determination theory was supported. The factors consist of intrinsic motives, such as interest in educational work with children, and extrinsic motives, such as financial security. Furthermore, differences in the importance of these factors in choosing the teaching profession across countries were found. Results further revealed evidence for a link between extrinsic motives and stress-inducing cognitions. Conclusions and implications for teaching practice are discussed.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 14-06-2018
Abstract: This article begins with the proposition that inter- and transdisciplinarity offer an important methodological grounding for collaborative HE research addressing complex agendas such as HE internationalization. Internationalization acts as a figure for the ‘troubled’ nature of higher education hence we begin with the larger problem, discussing the current crises of disciplinary knowledge as the background question. We set out a framework for understanding and conceptualizing inter- and transdisciplinarity as a meta-theoretical approach that problematizes reductive and disciplinary approaches, in favour of research and analytical strategies which can work with, and across, differences. To work further through and operationalize different possibilities offered by inter-and transdisciplinary approaches to HE internationalizations, we discuss the use of tools such as social cartography to do ‘bridging work’ across different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds and contexts. A non-formal practitioner–collaborator project is discussed to highlight emergent dimensions of collaboration that might otherwise be overlooked. Inter- and transdisciplinarity are not pre-specified specialized ‘methods’ but, rather, are orientations that may take reductive, convergent, ergent or emergent pathways. Inter- and transdisciplinarity can perhaps be best treated as a problematizing and open-ended methodological approach that foregrounds plurality and contestation, orienting research frameworks towards inclusiveness, tensions, unpredictability and complexity.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1994
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2005
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-10-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-06-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S42278-022-00150-1
Abstract: Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Studien- und Berufswahlmotive von Studierenden des Grundschullehramts aus Deutschland, der Schweiz, Schweden, Rumänien und China auf Grundlage der STeaM/I-Datensätze, vergleicht sie mit den Motiven von Lehramtsstudierenden für weiterführende Schulen und setzt sie in den Kontext mit länderspezifischen strukturellen Bedingungen und Berufsbildern. Ausgehend von einem Vergleich intrinsischer, extrinsischer und pragmatischer Motive zeigen sich länderspezifische Unterschiede. Insgesamt zeigen intrinsische Motive die höchsten Ausprägungen, wobei dem chinesischen Motivprofil mit einer verhältnismäßig niedrigen intrinsischen und einer verhältnismäßig hohen pragmatischen Motivation eine Sonderrolle zukommt. Während die deutschen Befragten neben intrinsischen auch verhältnismäßig hohe extrinsische Motive aufweisen, die sich mit den Vorteilen einer Verbeamtung in Beziehung bringen lassen, messen schwedische Befragte insbesondere der gesellschaftlichen Relevanz und Schweizer Studierende biographischen Erfahrungen sowie dem Motiv des Lehramts als Traumberuf eine im Vergleich zu den anderen Ländern jeweils besonders hohe Bedeutung zu. Demgegenüber fallen die schulartspezifischen Unterschiede sowohl länderübergreifend als auch länderspezifisch gering aus. Während die generellen schulartspezifischen Tendenzen bisherige Forschung bestätigen, zeigen sich im Ländervergleich Relativierungen, etwa hinsichtlich der geringeren Rolle fachlicher Motive für Grundschullehramtsstudierende. Die Ergebnisse geben Hinweise auf den Einfluss struktureller Bedingungen innerhalb der einzelnen Untersuchungsländer auf die Studien- und Berufswahl von Lehramtsstudierenden – etwa hinsichtlich Gehaltsstruktur oder Fachlichkeit der Ausbildung – und lassen Implikationen auf die Professionalisierung von Lehrkräften zu, etwa hinsichtlich der Notwendigkeit, biographische Erlebnisse als Motivation für die Berufswahl angemessen zu reflektieren.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-10-2018
Abstract: The present study compares career choice motives of future early childhood educators studying for a tertiary qualification. Suitable analyses of this kind are still missing. Diverging training systems, traditions and professional images in the different countries are related to certain motives. These motives are categorised according to a theory that is used as a theoretical framework. The study takes into account 468 student teachers from Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and Romania and is methodologically based on variance analyses. Overall, intrinsic motives were found to be of greater significance. This applies equally to all countries. Furthermore, addressee-related motives are more pronounced among Swiss and German prospective early childhood educators than among those from Sweden or Romania. On the contrary, extrinsic motives have a stronger presence among Romanian student teachers. Income and prestige, as the only exceptions, are important for students from Sweden and Switzerland. The results are discussed referring to country-specific working conditions and the current status of professionalisation processes existing in problem areas.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-02-2009
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 31-03-2020
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2005
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1998
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