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The theory of social representations has been applied in empirical research that examines shared ... more The theory of social representations has been applied in empirical research that examines shared understandings of mental illness in different communities. Another line of inquiry, drawing on a num ...
Seminarier utgor ett vanligt inslag i undervisningen pa universitet och hogskola och tillskrivs o... more Seminarier utgor ett vanligt inslag i undervisningen pa universitet och hogskola och tillskrivs ofta en viktig funktion for studenters larande. For att bidra till larares egen reflektion over hur seminariet anvands i undervisningen genomfordes ett projekt dar ett reflektionsmaterial skapades med utgangspunkt i litteratur och intervjuer med larare om deras erfarenheter av seminarieledning. Foreliggande rapport behandlar overvaganden i planering och genomforande av undervisningsseminarier gallande: seminariers malsattningar, syften och former, upplevda utmaningar i anvandandet av seminariet som undervisningsform, samt rollen som seminarieledare.
Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige
Mening och meningsskapande lyfts ofta fram som något centralt i definierandet av pedagogikens kun... more Mening och meningsskapande lyfts ofta fram som något centralt i definierandet av pedagogikens kunskapsområde. Artikeln presenterar en översikt över hur mening behandlas inom olika teoretiska perspektiv med relevans för den vetenskapliga pedagogiken. För att synliggöra likheter och skillnader i de innebörder som meningsbegreppet har inom olika teoretiska perspektiv görs en distinktion mellan tre olika meningsdomäner: (1) språkliga tecken, yttranden och text; (2) livsvärldserfarenheter; och (3) handlingar och temporalitet. En andra distinktion görs mellan hur mening inom respektive domän beskrivs som antingen realiserad/aktualiserad eller immanent. De olika meningsformerna presenteras med utgångspunkt i semiotisk, fenomenologisk, hermeneutisk och narrativ teoribildning, varefter gemensamma inslag i dessa diskuteras i termer av: mening på olika nivåer; samkonstitution, mediering, samt meningens situerade och perspektivberoende karaktär. Avslutningsvis argumenteras för att meningsbegrep...
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
Health:An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Mass media plays a central role in shaping public discourse on health and illness. In order to ex... more Mass media plays a central role in shaping public discourse on health and illness. In order to examine media representations of mental health and expert knowledge in this field, two major Swedish daily newspapers from the year 2009 were qualitatively analysed. Drawing on the theory of social representations, the analysis focused on how issues concerning mental health and different perspectives are represented. The results show how the concept of mental illness is used in different and often taken-for-granted ways and how the distinction between normal and pathological is a central underlying question. Laypersons’ perspectives are supplemented by views of professionals in the newspapers, where signs of confidence and dependence on expert knowledge are juxtaposed with critique and expressions of distrust. The newspaper discourse thus has salient argumentative features and the way that conflicts are made explicit and issues concerning authoritative knowledge are addressed indicates amb...
The aim of the thesis is to explore socially shared ideas about mental illness in everyday contex... more The aim of the thesis is to explore socially shared ideas about mental illness in everyday contexts. Drawing on social representation theory, organizations for users of mental health services and self-help groups are regarded as communities where social knowledge is constructed that makes intersubjective understanding of illness experiences possible. In order to investigate such knowledge as a resource in joint construction of meaning, a theoretical model is introduced where a distinction is made between a discursive level of situated 'representational work' and an underlying level of sociocultural resources. A focus group study was carried out with 27 participants who label their health problems as anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder, and were members of service user organizations. The focus group conversations were analysed with regard to thematic, interactional and discursive features to answer the questions: 1) how is mental illness represented, 2) how is the mentally ill person represented, and 3) how are others' views on mental illness represented. The results show how mental illness is represented as a complex phenomenon that is contextualised to a number of frames of reference. Further, the analysis identified different types of resources that are utilized in representational work: local knowledge of the communities, medical concepts, different explanatory models, narrative structures, metaphors and conceptual dichotomies. It also revealed dialogical properties of the representational work that have rhetorical functions for self-presentation as a team performance. The discussion suggests that widely shared resources are put to use in group-and situation-specific representational projects, and that representations that are produced in group discourse can be characterised as 'polemical social representations' that respond to a double stigma of mental illness in everyday life where mental illness is regarded as a sign of 'weakness' as well as 'otherness'.
The theory of social representations has been applied in empirical research that examines shared ... more The theory of social representations has been applied in empirical research that examines shared understandings of mental illness in different communities. Another line of inquiry, drawing on a num ...
Seminarier utgor ett vanligt inslag i undervisningen pa universitet och hogskola och tillskrivs o... more Seminarier utgor ett vanligt inslag i undervisningen pa universitet och hogskola och tillskrivs ofta en viktig funktion for studenters larande. For att bidra till larares egen reflektion over hur seminariet anvands i undervisningen genomfordes ett projekt dar ett reflektionsmaterial skapades med utgangspunkt i litteratur och intervjuer med larare om deras erfarenheter av seminarieledning. Foreliggande rapport behandlar overvaganden i planering och genomforande av undervisningsseminarier gallande: seminariers malsattningar, syften och former, upplevda utmaningar i anvandandet av seminariet som undervisningsform, samt rollen som seminarieledare.
Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige
Mening och meningsskapande lyfts ofta fram som något centralt i definierandet av pedagogikens kun... more Mening och meningsskapande lyfts ofta fram som något centralt i definierandet av pedagogikens kunskapsområde. Artikeln presenterar en översikt över hur mening behandlas inom olika teoretiska perspektiv med relevans för den vetenskapliga pedagogiken. För att synliggöra likheter och skillnader i de innebörder som meningsbegreppet har inom olika teoretiska perspektiv görs en distinktion mellan tre olika meningsdomäner: (1) språkliga tecken, yttranden och text; (2) livsvärldserfarenheter; och (3) handlingar och temporalitet. En andra distinktion görs mellan hur mening inom respektive domän beskrivs som antingen realiserad/aktualiserad eller immanent. De olika meningsformerna presenteras med utgångspunkt i semiotisk, fenomenologisk, hermeneutisk och narrativ teoribildning, varefter gemensamma inslag i dessa diskuteras i termer av: mening på olika nivåer; samkonstitution, mediering, samt meningens situerade och perspektivberoende karaktär. Avslutningsvis argumenteras för att meningsbegrep...
Learning, Culture and Social Interaction
Health:An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Mass media plays a central role in shaping public discourse on health and illness. In order to ex... more Mass media plays a central role in shaping public discourse on health and illness. In order to examine media representations of mental health and expert knowledge in this field, two major Swedish daily newspapers from the year 2009 were qualitatively analysed. Drawing on the theory of social representations, the analysis focused on how issues concerning mental health and different perspectives are represented. The results show how the concept of mental illness is used in different and often taken-for-granted ways and how the distinction between normal and pathological is a central underlying question. Laypersons’ perspectives are supplemented by views of professionals in the newspapers, where signs of confidence and dependence on expert knowledge are juxtaposed with critique and expressions of distrust. The newspaper discourse thus has salient argumentative features and the way that conflicts are made explicit and issues concerning authoritative knowledge are addressed indicates amb...
The aim of the thesis is to explore socially shared ideas about mental illness in everyday contex... more The aim of the thesis is to explore socially shared ideas about mental illness in everyday contexts. Drawing on social representation theory, organizations for users of mental health services and self-help groups are regarded as communities where social knowledge is constructed that makes intersubjective understanding of illness experiences possible. In order to investigate such knowledge as a resource in joint construction of meaning, a theoretical model is introduced where a distinction is made between a discursive level of situated 'representational work' and an underlying level of sociocultural resources. A focus group study was carried out with 27 participants who label their health problems as anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder, and were members of service user organizations. The focus group conversations were analysed with regard to thematic, interactional and discursive features to answer the questions: 1) how is mental illness represented, 2) how is the mentally ill person represented, and 3) how are others' views on mental illness represented. The results show how mental illness is represented as a complex phenomenon that is contextualised to a number of frames of reference. Further, the analysis identified different types of resources that are utilized in representational work: local knowledge of the communities, medical concepts, different explanatory models, narrative structures, metaphors and conceptual dichotomies. It also revealed dialogical properties of the representational work that have rhetorical functions for self-presentation as a team performance. The discussion suggests that widely shared resources are put to use in group-and situation-specific representational projects, and that representations that are produced in group discourse can be characterised as 'polemical social representations' that respond to a double stigma of mental illness in everyday life where mental illness is regarded as a sign of 'weakness' as well as 'otherness'.