Maria Spante

Break the habit : Using an active learning classroom to promote collective reflection in and on action at the workplace

Routine and projects had dominated work models for preschool staff in a Swedish municipality. To break such patterns, a process approach was...

En utvärdering av studenters uppfattningar om simulering som pedagogisk modell för inlärning av vårdande moment såsom bedömning och behandling enligt ABCDE

Phubbing at work : Mobile phone behavior in social contexts at the workplace and associations with the psychosocial work environment

Background: Phubbing (from phone and snubbing) is the phenomenon of interacting with one'ssmartphone rather than with physically present persons. T...

Skrivarstuga : ett sätt att fånga arbetsintegrerat lärande i verksamhetutvecklingsprocesser

Structured Flexibility When Learning About Resourcediversity On The Globe : The Dollar Street Case

The study is situated in a school built specifically with the idea offlexible design in the learning environment providing variation ofrooms and...

Symposium : Running online formative interventions towards inclusive and just societies

The aim of this symposium is to share the successes and challenges that we have experienced, as an international community of researchers, running...

Workshop 6 : The Design Dice Model in Practice

Historicity in change laboratories: the role of the history wall tool to understand collective concept formation and model creation

In this paper we focus on how four change laboratories in schools in a Swedish municipalityactively used the history wall tool in their respective ...

In change we trust: : A study of a professional development project despite challenging times

Running online formative interventions – experiences from an international research community

The aim of this presentation is to share the successes and challenges that we have experienced, as an international community of researchers, runni...

Teaching in Flexible Spatial and Digital Conditions

This study explores the opportunities and challenges of teaching under flexible spatial and digital conditions of the learning environment of a new...

Triggering sustainable professional agency : using change laboratory to tackle unequal access to educational success collectively

Purpose This study aims to depict how a change laboratory (CL) promotes sustainable professional practice at the workplace to tackle unequal access...

Diversity in agency : experiences from three Change Laboratories to tackle gender related grade gap in school

Expansive Learning And Transformative Agency For School Professionals

The current study has been formulated in cooperation between researchers and school officers from a rural Swedish municipality, based on their...

Following the flow-zooming in on configurations : Shadowing teachers’ socio-material practice in motion

Knotworking as an Analytical Tool for Designing e-Learning While Targeting Industry Competence Needs

Learning at work through role integration in language development and digitalization processes in preschool

Various models and processes have been called for by the municipalities’ Children and Education Committee to deal with a shortage of educated staff...

Producing Digital Stories For Language Learning And Digital Competence

This study shows how a small project in an SFI (Swedish for Immigrants)classroom has the power to influence larger processes in unexpected ways if...

Struggling With Leading Digitalization : Diverse Experiences Among School Andpreschool Principals

A municipality in Sweden took initiative to enhance the competence for all principals to lead digitalization in schools. The initiative was...

Taking The Pulse Of The Puls Project : From Obedient Users To Innovative And Empowered Makers

This study reports on an initiative called PULS, due to its use of wearable heart rate monitors in a Swedish school seeking to increase physical...

Trapped in Contradictions : When Collegiality and Individuality Challenges Professional Practice

The current study has been formulated in cooperation between researchers and school administrators in a rural Swedish municipality, based on their...

Change laboratories for all schools in a Swedish municipality : A systematic approach

Digital creativity : learning by story driven digital production

Purpose The goal to stimulate perspective taking and inference making on social phenomena, such as gender roles in society, has proven to be...

Hitta drivet : Studiemotivation och genusmönster i grundskolan

MakerSpaces in schools : networked learning among teachers to support curriculum-driven pupil learning in programming

In recent years, many countries have introduced programming as contentin their national educational strategies. This study focussed on how teachers...

Producing digital stories for language learning and digital competence across generations and positions of learners in municipalities

Aim: There is a strong need for methods how to develop language learning and digital competence through all levels of education, and in particular...

Digital competence and digital literacy in higher education research : Systematic review of concept use

Digital competence and digital literacy are concepts that are increasingly used in public discourse. However, how the concepts are used and how the...

Digital Creativity : Enabling Learning Of Gender Roles In Society In Primary School By Story Driven Digital Production

To achieve knowledge and understanding in social science, students' ability to discuss and reflect is important. However, the goal to stimulate...

Digitaliseringen i skolan : möjligheter och utmaningar

Find The Drive : On Co-Designing Practice And Experience Of A Research And Development Project Driven By Municipalities And University

This paper aims to highlight challenges and opportunities connected to collaboration between municipal school administrators, principals, teachers...

Interprofessional learning as work integrated learning : when conversations regarding databases and information literacy create a common base for professional learning

How librarians and teachers in higher education collaborate in their workplace and how inter-professional learning is arranged for and experienced...

Organizing Digitalization In School : How A Municipality In Sweden Arranged For New Curriculum Implementation  Emphasizing Digitalization

This study focused on how a municipality in Sweden organized for a new curriculum implementation with the focus on digitalization following the...

Story-driven Design Using Mobile Technologies in Transmedia Practice for Multiliteracy Development

The aim of the article is to highlight and explore challenges and possibilities for literacies development within a story-driven transmedia game...

Reaching Out, Tuning in : On the Problematic Information Structure Hindering Connection between Socially Engaged Organizations and Refugees in the Municipality of Trollhättan

The recent refugee crises have caused newcomers to settle in different municipalities in Sweden. Different municipalities respond differently to th...

Teaching Civic Orientation for New Residents in Sweden : on Competence Development and Knowledge Sharing in a Growing Profession

Due to the increasing number of refugees in Sweden, there is increased pressure on integration organizations to educate new residents about their...

The Story Machine : Transmedia games in education

The paper reports on the design process of a transmedia game driven by narratives mixing fact with fiction. The aim of the game was to enhance...

Competence development at workplace : a work integrated informal learning (WIIL) approach

Learning within the organization is not only linked to the formal training and education of the employees, but also to informal processes of sharin...

Cross Competence Collaboration to Design for Inclusion

The aim of the workshop is to co-create different types of collaborative elements, models and strategies for inclusionin schools and for learning i...

Den didaktiska designens betydelse : IT-didaktiska modeller och ramvillkor

Dialog och digital teknik som stöd för att förstå människans levnadsvillkor

Kollaborativ undervisning i digital skolmiljö

Lärarprofessionens nya villkor i samhällets digitalisering

On the intended and unintended consequences of the enactment of digital management control systems in Swedish Schools

The aim of this paper is to investigate the enactment of digital management control systems in Swedish schools and what intended and unintended...

Open up for open seminars!

Open Up for Open Seminars at Universities : Student-driven Seminars as Community Involvement

This article focuses on student and refugee experiences of initiating and participating in Open Seminars at University West. There has been a...

Safety and the use of management control systems and Key Performance Indicators at a Swedish nuclear powerplant

Continuous control, testing and maintenance of systems and components are of utmost importance for maintaining safety at a nuclear power plant (NPP...

Social Networking sites for Interdisciplinary Learning at Workplace : Work integrated informal Learning (WiiL)

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) studies usually focuses on educational situations when professional organizations are actively involved in learning...

When digital support systems in school risk to fail : on the investigation of intended and unintended consequences on individual, organizational and societal levels.

The aim of the suggested project is to study the enactment of digitalized management and control systems in Swedish schools. There is a risk that t...

Collaborative Work and ICT Tools Enabling Science Teaching and Learning in a Cross-Border Context

The collaboration and cross-border communication of 14–16-year-old students from Sweden and Denmark working with various science assignments using...

Didaktisk design och IT-didaktiska samarbetsmodeller i gränsöverskridande undervisning