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Avdelningen för barn- och ungdomsvetenskap

Anna-Lena Ljusberg är docent i barn- och ungdomsvetenskap och lektor på avdelningen för barn- och ungdomsvetenskap.

Handleder doktorand Anneli Hippinen Ahlgren. Titeln på Annelis doktorandprojekt: Lärare i fritidshems undervisningskunskap: undervisningshandlingar i interaktion mellan lärare och barn

Senaste publikationer:

Caspersen, J., Vennerød-Diesen, F. F., Holmedahl Hermstad, I., Ljusberg, A.-L., Mordal, S., Pedersen, C., & Tangen, S. (2024). Innføring av rammeplan i SFO – sluttrapport fra evalueringen av de første årene med rammeplan. https://www.udir.no/contentassets/d0ad718fc71a40299e230705673451de/innforing-av-rammeplan-i-sfo.pdf

Caspersen, J. Holmedahl Hermstad, I. Ljusberg, A.-L. Pedersen, C. & Vennerød-Diesen, F. F.  (2023). Ny rammeplan i SFO. Evaluering av innføring av ny rammeplan for SFO. Delrapport 2. https://samforsk.no/uploads/files/NTNU_SamForsk_SFO_Delrapport2_UU.pdf

Ljusberg, A-L. (2023). The concept of pupils´ interests in the context of school-age educare in Sweden. Early Child Development and Care, 193(2): 223–234 DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2022.2075356

Ljusberg, A-L., & Klerfelt, A. (2021) A critical scrutiny and discussion of the significance of complementation and compensation viewed from different aspects of Extended Education in different countries, IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, (9)1, 4-6. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijree.v9i1.02

Länk till IJREE: https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/IJREE/article/download/39738/33871

Klerfelt, A., Ljusberg, A.L., & Hippinen Ahlgren, A. (2020). Fritidshemmet –en internationell utblick. I Betänkande från Utredningen om fritidshem och pedagogiska omsorg. Stärkt kvalitet och likvärdighet i fritidshem och pedagogisk omsorg, (SOU 2020:34), Bilaga 4, (s. 477 – 492). Stockholm: Nordstedts Juridik.

 

Undervisning

Undervisar och har kursansvar i

Grundlärarprogrammet med inriktning mot arbete i fritidshem och

Masterprogrammet i barn- och ungdomsvetenskap med inriktning fritidshemspedagogik.

Forskning

Forskningsprojekt

Evaluering av inplementering av rammeplanen for SFO

Projektet har varaktighet 211001 – 240501.

Finansiär: Norska Utdanningsdirektoratet.
I projektet ingår forskare från tre olika forskningsinstitutioner NTNU, NIFU och SU. Forskningsledare: Professor Joakim Caspersen, Norges teknisk-naturvetenskapliga universitet (NTNU) Samfunnsforskning i Trondheim, Norge. Från Sverige ingår PhD Anna-Lena Ljusberg, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen (BUV), Stockholms universitet.

Forskningsprojekt

Inventering av barns behov och intressen som grund för systematiskt kvalitetsarbete på fritidshem

Ett treårigt aktionsforskningsprojekt: 2018-08-01-2021-07-31.
Finansiär: Utbildningsförvaltningen i Stockholms stad, Sverige.
Forskningsledare: Fil. Dr. Eva Kane, övriga forskare knutna till projektet är Fil. Dr. Anna-Lena Ljusberg och Fil. Dr. Ann Pihlgren.

Bakgrund och utgångspunkter:
Fritidshemmets styrdokument uppmanar till att inventera elevernas behov och intressen innan aktiviteter, arbetsformer och arbetssätt som leder mot läroplanens mål definieras. Detta blir inte alltid synligt i planeringsarbetet på fritidshemmet. Fritidshemmet har såväl ett kompletterande som kompenserande uppdrag och fokus för studien är hur ett systematiskt kvalitetsarbete med utgångspunkt i elevernas behov och intressen kan se ut. Två grundskolor med olika upptagningsområden i Stockholmsområdet ingår i projektet.

Konferenser

Ingick i styrgruppen för en konferens riktad mot Extended Education, där syftet var att presentera, diskutera och föra samman olika forskningsperspektiv och teorier riktat mot praktiker inom Extended Education, och att utforska olika koncept, idéer och paradigm som omger dem. Gå gärna in på konferensens hemsida.

 

Nasjonal evaluering av skolefritidsordningen

Ett projekt med varaktighet 2017-2018.

Finansiär: Norska Utdanningsdirektoratet.
Forskningsledare: Professor Christian Wendelborg NTNU Samfunnsforskning i Trondheim, Norge. Två svenska forskare är knutna till projektet: Professor Nihad Bunar och Fil. Dr. Anna-Lena Ljusberg.

Evalueringen skal inkludere en vurdering av ulike mål på kvalitet på SFO som for eksempel organisering, kompetanse, innhold og brukertilfredshet. Evalueringen skal synliggjøre hvordan handlingsrommet i dagens opplæringslov er forstått og utnyttet lokalt hva gjelder SFO. Evalueringen omfatter SFO for elever på 1.-4. trinn og SFO for elever med særskilte behov på 1.-7 trinn.

Nasjonal evaluering av skolefritidsordningen har en hemsida i Trondheim:https://samforsk.no/Sider/Prosjekter/Nasjonal-evaluering-av-skolefritidsordningen.aspx

Kvalitetsutveckling av grundlärarprogrammet med inriktning mot arbete i fritidshem

Avhandling

Avhandling 2009: Pupils in remedial classes

Pressmeddelande och intervju kring avhandlingen: "Skolan förlägger problemen hos eleven"

Forskningsprojekt

Publikationer

I urval från Stockholms universitets publikationsdatabas

  • Lärare, barn och lärande i kurslitteratur – ideologiska dilemman i talet om fritidshem

    2019. Anna-Lena Ljusberg, Linnéa Holmberg. Educare - Vetenskapliga skrifter (3), 17-33

    Artikel

    In recent years, the number of different course books focused on school-age educare available for undergraduates in teacher education programs for primary school has increased. Thus studying what particular version of school-age educare is legitimized in this discursive practice and how this is done rhetorically becomes pertinent. This article examines and illuminates how this course literature – used at several universities in Sweden – stages a certain way of speaking about school-age educare and thereby may ascribe teachers and children specific subject positions. The study shows how recurrent ideological dilemmas are used as linguistic resources to manage some constantly present contradictions: school-age educare is supposed to be both democratic and child centered, as well as professionally planned and lead. The findings illuminate a homogenous depiction of how school-age educare is distinguished from traditional and formal schooling and thereby promoted as a unique but also necessary form of education. As a consequence, an ideal teacher is someone who is specialized in being actively passive and passively active, and an expert on children’s learning while children are considered expertson themselves and in the activities as well. That is, teacher’s professionalism in educare is tied to the skill of not being formal and school-like, but still being educational in a way that promotes politically-approved learning and development.

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  • Doing Masculinity in School-Age Child-Care

    2018. Anna-Lena Ljusberg. International Journal for Research on Extended Education 6 (1), 66-79

    Artikel

    This article is based on data from a two-year ethnographic study on children in school-age child-care in Sweden. It describes a boy’s way from positioning himself as a “boy who does not fight” to a “boy who fights”. In Sweden, independence is viewed as paramount. Fostering children to independence can be seen from different perspectives, and the teachers in this particular setting hand over the power to the children. The social climate in the setting was quite tough, and the children – especially the boys – formed a social hierarchy by using their fists. The material was studied with help from analytical tools dealing with gender, position and power.

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  • Eliciting Concepts in the Field of Extended Education – A Swedish Provoke

    2018. Anna Klerfelt, Anna-Lena Ljusberg. International Journal for Research on Extended Education 6 (2), 122-131

    Artikel

    The aim of this article is to contribute to the discussion concerning the concepts used in the field of extended education by scrutinising different concepts that can contribute to research and guard the specific educational attitude of extended education as viewed from a Swedish perspective. The discussion will be based on a review of concepts used in both national and international research, as well as those formulated in Swedish policy documents and traditionally used in Swedish schoolage educare activity. Defining extended education as a social practice that aims at meaning making based on experiences from everyday life will be an important theoretical starting point to which the discussed concepts will be related. The significance of taking a point of departure in children’s perspectives is central in the article. Finally, some newly created concepts will be suggested as significant for the development of extended education.

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  • Making Magic Soup - The facilitation of play in school-age childcare

    2013. Eva Kane, Anna-Lena Ljusberg, Håkan Larsson. International Journal of Play 2 (1), 7-21

    Artikel

    This paper explores socially shared knowledge of facilitating play in a learning institution such as a school-age childcare setting (services provided for children outside school hours, often while parents are at work). Previous research makes it clear that the area of play facilitation needs further exploration. It points to a tension between children's agency in play and the constraints of the setting. The pedagogical traditions of Froebel and Dewey have been used to explore the options for action in this field of tension. Staff from four school-age childcare settings – three Swedish and one English – took part in focus groups. The transcriptions of the spoken dialogue were categorised using dialogic analysis. The paper presents samples of conversations highlighting the above tensions and analyses them in the light of the theory. The findings show that staff negotiated these tensions daily and that the developed model can be used to reflect on the intentions and approaches of a service that only partly facilitates play. The conclusion is that the ability of staff to interpret children's play as children exploring their agency is crucial when facilitating play in a learning institution.

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  • Children’s views on attending a remedial class – because of concentration difficulties

    2011. Anna-Lena Ljusberg. Child Care Health and Development 37 (3), 440-445

    Artikel

    Background An increasing number of segregating solutions (e.g. remedial classes) can be seen in Swedish schools. The aim of this article is to stress how children describe why they attend a remedial class and what it means to be a pupil in that setting. Methods The data collection consists of semi-structured interviews with 10 pupils between 10 and 12 years old attending 10 different remedial classes because they had been attributed with having concentration difficulties or diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The content of the interviews was described and analysed in relation to the classroom context. The socio-cultural perspective is used as a screen to describe and understand the children’s comments about attending remedial class. Results and conclusions All interviews with the children indicate that they are carriers of their schools’ compensatory perspective. This means that they are fully aware of the fact that they are regarded as difficult, with annoying and problematic behaviour, deviating from pupils’ in general. The remedial class creates social difficulties for the children; they see themselves as deviant, they lose old friends and there are limited possibilities of establishing new friendship in remedial classes.

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  • The structured classroom

    2011. Anna-Lena Ljusberg. International Journal of Inclusive Education 15 (2), 195-210

    Artikel

    The aim of this article is to highlight the organisation of the remedial classroom. The data were collected from observations and semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers in remedial classes for children seen and treated as having concentration deficits. The teachers use primarily compensatory language that places the deficits in the pupils. Something appearing both in the interviews and in the organisation of the classroom is the structured classroom. In the remedial class it can be expresse by dividing the pupils’ working place areas with screens or turning the pupils’ desks toward a bare wall, and strongly structuring the teaching. By pointing out the problem as pupils’ social deficits, the schools reduce their agency. The goal of remedial classes is that the pupils will return to the ordinary class. This article suggests that what pupils in remedial classes learn primarily is to be a pupil in a remedial class.

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  • IRIS Teacher Training

    2009. Jane Brodin, Anna-Lena Ljusberg.

    Övrigt

    CD in English from the IRIS Teacher Training package. International cooperation between Austria, Belgium, Catalonia (Spain), England, Portugal and Sweden. Focus is on inclusive education and classroom climate.

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  • Teaching children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in remedial classes

    2008. Jane Brodin, Ljusberg Anna-Lena. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 31 (4), 351-355

    Artikel

    This article is based on data collected in the interdisciplinary project ‘basic skills, social interaction and training of the working memory’. The trend in today's schools is to work for inclusion of all children based on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The focus of this study is teachers' and parents' views on the education of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and similar symptoms. The aim is to increase teachers' and parents' knowledge of the school context for this group of children. A questionnaire was developed and distributed to all teachers and parents involved in the project and data were compiled and reported in running text. Twenty-one teachers and school staff, and 41 parents (one dropped out) were involved. The results showed that problems in the classroom sometimes exceeded the genuine tasks of the school, and too much time was spent on reproving pupils' unacceptable behaviours.

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