Åsa Bartholdsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5984994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Åsa Bartholdsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Åsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartholdsson |
| SIGNATURE | BARTHOLDSSON Å |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalarna University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
When there is a book to stick to”
With focus on teachers’ experiences and understandings of manual-based programmes, this article explores the implications for teacher professionalism. It locates teachers’ use of manual-based programmes in the intersection of two currents of ideas in contemporary society and within education: therapy culture and the evidence movement. The article builds on material from interviews with teachers and participant-observation in a kindergarten and a …
Dare to share
”Dare to share!”: Confession, motherhood and resistance in The great mother confessionThis article explore the meaning of confession in a commercial, secular event – The great mother confession (TGM). The event is understood as imbedded in a therapeutic culture where emotional disclosure, in the form of confessions, is a highly valued practice. In a web-based confession-blog that constitutes part of the TGM-concept, confessions serve to free moth…
Narrating Anger
This article offers a critical investigation into the conceptualisation and the representations of anger in manual-based programmes for social and emotional training used in a Swedish preschool group and in a preschool class. The study is based on participant observation and analysis of programme materials (teachers' manuals, materials for exercises, children's workbooks) used in these settings. Anger is hyper-cognised in the programmes, highligh…
Cultivating the socially competent body
Social emotional learning (SEL) is common in preschools and schools both in Europe and North America today. Programmes for socio-emotional training and the rise of what is labelled therapeutic education have dramatically increased during the first decade of the millennium. In this article, a manual-based programme used for SEL in a Swedish school context is analysed from perspectives rooted in childhood sociology and post-structural studies. The …
Konsten att konstruera sanning
It has been repeatedly argued by various Swedish experts and quoted in media, that parents only spend a few minutes in daily communication with their children. A quest for the source of this argument developed into an interest in both the phenomenon itself, and in the general understanding that adults of today are “poor” parents.The article has two aims, the first is to illustrate how this kind of “truth” is constructed and reproduced in arenas s…
Cultivating the socially competent body
Social emotional learning (SEL) is common in preschools and schools both in Europe and North America today. Programmes for socio-emotional training and the rise of what is labelled therapeutic education have dramatically increased during the first decade of the millennium. In this article, a manual-based programme used for SEL in a Swedish school context is analysed from perspectives rooted in childhood sociology and post-structural studies. The …
Narrating Anger
This article offers a critical investigation into the conceptualisation and the representations of anger in manual-based programmes for social and emotional training used in a Swedish preschool group and in a preschool class. The study is based on participant observation and analysis of programme materials (teachers' manuals, materials for exercises, children's workbooks) used in these settings. Anger is hyper-cognised in the programmes, highligh…
When there is a book to stick to”
With focus on teachers’ experiences and understandings of manual-based programmes, this article explores the implications for teacher professionalism. It locates teachers’ use of manual-based programmes in the intersection of two currents of ideas in contemporary society and within education: therapy culture and the evidence movement. The article builds on material from interviews with teachers and participant-observation in a kindergarten and a …
Dare to share
”Dare to share!”: Confession, motherhood and resistance in The great mother confessionThis article explore the meaning of confession in a commercial, secular event – The great mother confession (TGM). The event is understood as imbedded in a therapeutic culture where emotional disclosure, in the form of confessions, is a highly valued practice. In a web-based confession-blog that constitutes part of the TGM-concept, confessions serve to free moth…
Konsten att konstruera sanning
It has been repeatedly argued by various Swedish experts and quoted in media, that parents only spend a few minutes in daily communication with their children. A quest for the source of this argument developed into an interest in both the phenomenon itself, and in the general understanding that adults of today are “poor” parents.The article has two aims, the first is to illustrate how this kind of “truth” is constructed and reproduced in arenas s…
Narrating Anger
This article offers a critical investigation into the conceptualisation and the representations of anger in manual-based programmes for social and emotional training used in a Swedish preschool group and in a preschool class. The study is based on participant observation and analysis of programme materials (teachers' manuals, materials for exercises, children's workbooks) used in these settings. Anger is hyper-cognised in the programmes, highligh…
Cultivating the socially competent body
Social emotional learning (SEL) is common in preschools and schools both in Europe and North America today. Programmes for socio-emotional training and the rise of what is labelled therapeutic education have dramatically increased during the first decade of the millennium. In this article, a manual-based programme used for SEL in a Swedish school context is analysed from perspectives rooted in childhood sociology and post-structural studies. The …
Dare to share
”Dare to share!”: Confession, motherhood and resistance in The great mother confessionThis article explore the meaning of confession in a commercial, secular event – The great mother confession (TGM). The event is understood as imbedded in a therapeutic culture where emotional disclosure, in the form of confessions, is a highly valued practice. In a web-based confession-blog that constitutes part of the TGM-concept, confessions serve to free moth…
When there is a book to stick to”
With focus on teachers’ experiences and understandings of manual-based programmes, this article explores the implications for teacher professionalism. It locates teachers’ use of manual-based programmes in the intersection of two currents of ideas in contemporary society and within education: therapy culture and the evidence movement. The article builds on material from interviews with teachers and participant-observation in a kindergarten and a …
Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Early childhood education (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (2 works) · Law (2 works)