DU-projektet aktualiserar en grundläggande problematik vid förändringsarbete. Hur kan man utveckla en metod för förändringsarbete som är så förankrad i organisationen att den vinner gehör bland de anställda och motiverar dem att vara drivande i förändringen?
I rapporten diskuteras också begreppet delaktighet. Hur kan man i en organisation veta att man tillskriver begreppet samma betydelse och hur kan man veta att det är samma form av delaktighet som eftersträvas i organisationen? I rapporten behandlas även relationen mellan delaktighet, lärande och hälsa.
Projektet är ett exempel på förändringsarbete med syfte att skapa förutsättningar för förändring och utveckling i vård och omsorg, med delaktighet för de anställda som en central utgångspunkt. En avsikt är att verksamheten och personalens förhållningssätt ska präglas av tydlighet, öppenhet samt ha ett värde för brukarna. En annan ambition är att öka de anställdas välbefinnande och hälsa.
DU-projektet (Delaktighet och Utveckling) syftar till att skapa förutsättningar för delaktighet bland de anställda för att därigenom utveckla såväl verksamheten som de anställda. Målgrupp är samtliga medarbetare, det vill säga förvaltningsledning, enhetschefer och övrig personal. DU-projektet har genomförts vid Vuxenförvaltningen i Eskilstuna kommun. Uppdragsgivare har varit Eskilstuna kommun.
This study focuses on how ideas of ‘digitalization’ are discursively constructed in the Swedish steel industry. Using a discursive psychology approach, we identify seven interpretative repertoires in the discursive practicing of digitalization: everyone-else, speed, competition, job loss, control, safety, and equality. Examining their functions and effects, we show that not only is digital transformation constructed as more productive, efficient, competitive, technologically advanced, safe, and equal, it also involves a shift towards the blue-collar worker being more vulnerable; a construction where she is able-minded but lonely, physically fragile, obtuse and unreliable, and a victim of a development beyond her control, forcing of her to acquire new competence. We conclude that this reproduces asymmetrical power relations between workers and companies, pushing the challenges of digital transformation to the workers. At the same time, we also see how these local discourses hold a possibility of tempering this asymmetry through the construct of togetherness of different contexts, bodies, and hierarchal levels, thus connecting steel industry workers of the future through the use of digital technology.
English plays an increasingly important role at Swedish universities but not much is known about its effects on the quality of teaching and learning. Therefore, a large research project which is collaborative and interdisciplinary, crossing language studies in humanities with education, is being planned. One of several aims of the project is to study the consequences of teaching in English on learning and study achievements. A few pre-studies have been carried out in order to developmore detailed research questions. Two of the pre-studies will be presented in this paper. In one of them, ten university teachers with Swedish as their native language have been interviewed about their experiences and perceptions of strategies, problems and consequences of teaching in English. Five of the interviewees had no experience of teaching in English and five had experience. A result was that the teachers with no experience of teaching in English seemed to anticipate and fear lower quality in their teaching. This assumption was confirmed by the teachers who had experience of teaching in English. They found it difficult to explain and talk about complicated issues in a profound way and also to use humour. Another problem concerned the big differences in international students‘ knowledge of English and cultural differences. In the other pre-study, observations have been conducted in lectures, seminars and group-work sessions of a course in social sciences given in English. The results of the latter study indicated that the apprehension ofthe contents may be inflated among students who have Swedish as their native language. Furthermore, there was empirical support that their skills in both English and their native language were influenced. A conclusion is that the pilot studies confirmed that there is a great need for further research on the effects of teaching in English at Swedish universities.
Rapporten är en redovisning av ett uppdrag från Länsbildningsförbundet Västmanland att belysa folkbildningens betydelse i lokalsamhället. Ett kulturhus, två folkhögskolekurser och tre studiecirklar behandlas. aktiuviteterna ska vara representativa för folkbildning när det gäller form av aktivitet och arrangörens idémässiga tillhörighet. observationer och intervjuer har genomförts. Skriftlig dokumentation har också använts. exempel på betydelse i lokalsamhället som diskuteras är samverkan över förenings- och verksamhetsgränser, komplement till kommunal verksamhet, bidra till småföretagande, rehabilitering av sjukskrivna, integration av gamla och nya svenskar och lokal kunskapsspridning. Avslutningsvis diskuteras folkbildningen som samhällelig aktör.
The study is based on interviews and observations conducted on the central maintenance of a Swedish steel industry company in spring 2017. The report discusses organizational aspects of digitalization and the importance of employee involvement as well as employee participation in digitalization and a changed view of production as a joint assignment for operation and maintenance. Furthermore, the consequences the digitalization is expected to gain for the provision of skills. There is much analytical competence in the central maintenance of the company. It is also a competence that needs to be developed. The report concludes with recommendations for further involvement of employees in the change work at the company and on how the experience of previous skills development at the company can be used. The importance of systematically building a new education structure is emphasized.
In Sweden there has been a debate during the past decade about the efficiency of higher education in relation to its´ applicability in work life. There is also a debate about the uneven recruitment as regards class and ethnicity. During the past decades the number of students in Swedish higher education has increased enormously. The author of the paper has the assignment to investigate whether Work integrated learning (WIL) would be a way to narrow education and work life to each other. As the project has not yet started focus in this paper is on the basic assumptions and values of WIL and on some critical points on the matter. The point is to elaborate a form at the organisational level and at the work place where the two partners are cooperating and generating knowledge that can be maintained and developed in the academy as well as in work life. It might be done by mutually developing knowledge that may be regarded as a synthesis of, and distinct from, what generally are named as scientific and practical knowledge. The author claims that this kind of learning and knowledge formation to a certain extent resembles of the Aristotelian concept of praxis.
The difference between the professional competence conveyed during education and the competence demanded in working life is substantial and needs to be taken seriously. In this chapter where the case is nursing education, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) and Learning Integrated Work (LIW), are suggested as pedagogical approaches in Higher Education aiming to integrate scientific knowledge and with practical knowledge, and to provide an analytical perspective where students have the opportunity to develop metacognitive skills and praxis by learning through experiences during internship. One way to achieve this in vocational education to learn from the knowledge and skills used when performing in practice. By integrating scientific and practical vocational knowledge, one promotes professionalization that is exhibited as Learning Integrated Work (LIW), i.e. the capability to perform the expected tasks and learn at work by using a critical and development-oriented attitude in daily work and actively participatein renewals of work assignments.
The aim of this study was to conduct a validation and assess the test–retest reliability of the health questionnaire based on Nordenfelt’s Welfare Theory of Health (WTH). The study used a questionnaire on health together with the Short Form 12-Item Health Survey (SF-12) questionnaire, and 490 pupils at colleges for adult education participated. The results of the study are in accordance with Nordenfelt’s WTH. Three hypotheses were stated, and the first was confirmed: People who were satisfied with life rated higher levels than those who were dissatisfied with life concerning both mental and physical health, measured with the SF-12. The second hypothesis was partially confirmed: People with high education were more often satisfied with life than those with low education, but they were not healthier. The third hypothesis, that women are unhealthy more often than men, was not confirmed. The questionnaire on health showed acceptable stability.