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Pizza och magiska stunder i undervisningen

en kvalitativ studie av processinriktad undervisning med utgångspunkt i två pedagogiska inriktningar

AimThe aim of this study is to discuss process orientated education by identifying and describing general elements in two alternative pedagogies that in different ways attempt to separate themselves from the didactics in the traditional school. The questions are:1. How do the general elements for example the pupil, the knowledge and the lesson, in classroom education appear at a Waldorf and a Freinet school respectively?2. How do the general elements for example the teacher, the lesson planning and the overall goal, that teachers obey to and create in their lesson?s planning appear at the two schools respectively?MethodThe study is based on four days of observations in one ninth grade class at a Freinet school and a corresponding amount of time in one eighth grade class and one ninth grade class at a Waldorf school. At each school three teacher interviews were also made. Both observation scheme, questions for the interviews and the following data analysis are based on models of analysis inspired by the Activity theory.ResultsThe result depicts two pedagogies very separate from each other. The Freinet pedagogy starts out from the pupils and is very close to the model of analysis that in this study defines and describes process orientated education. The Waldorf pedagogy on the other hand appears traditional and old fashioned and is closer to the model of analysis that in this study defines and describes traditional education.A corresponding picture appears by the way that the teachers at the Freinet and the Waldorf schools describe their starting point in the education planning. While the Freinet teachers in different ways start out from interaction with the pupils the Waldorf teachers rather start out from their own thoughts.ConclusionsThe conclusions of the study is that the Waldorf pedagogy unlike the Freinet pedagogy in great parts lies far away from the definition of process orientated education presented in this study. There are also, with reference to the research in the educational field reasons to ques-tion some thoughts in the Waldorf pedagogy. This study though misses tools to bring us nearer to the deeper thoughts of Waldorf. Thereby the picture shown might in some cases not fully justify this pedagogy.  

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Jonatan Thulin

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Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH/Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap

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