Läroplansanalys : Läroplaners styrning och utbildningars praxis för förnybar energi och gränsöverskridande arbetskraft i Jämtland och Trøndelag

 The Swedish and Norwegian curricula for vocational education (VET) in electrical and energy technology show both similarities and differences that are important to consider in order to meet future labor market needs. Both countries emphasize sustainability and environmental considerations in their education, which is crucial for preparing students for the green transition. In Sweden, the Electrical and Energy Program is divided into different packages with specific credits for general subjects, program-specific subjects, specializations, and individual choices. Norway has a more integrated structure with common core subjects and program subjects that cover a certain number of hours per year. An important difference is that Sweden uses the term "renewable energy" in some courses within energy technology. At the same time, Norway includes renewable energy as part of the subject energy and control systems. Assessment in Sweden is course-based, while Norway has a more integrated assessment of competence goals.To ensure that vocational education can match the labor market needs, it needs to become more responsive and integrate digital technologies to support workforce transition. The educational programs should also include a deeper understanding of Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) to warrant that the workforce is well-prepared for environmental and safety requirements. Local educational initiatives are important to adapt education to regional labor markets, especially in rural areas such as Jämtland and Trøndelag. Collaboration between educational institutions, industries, and policymakers is crucial to meet future demands. Pilot projects and co-development between different actors are important to create new or alternative narratives and influence institutional decisions. By addressing these needs and consequences, educational systems can better prepare the workforce for the challenges and opportunities of the green transition. In summary, both the Swedish and Norwegian curricula focus on sustainability and the environment, but there are differences in structure (e.g., economy, teacher competence), terminology, and assessment methods that can affect how well they meet future labor market needs. Den svenska och norska läroplanerna för yrkesutbildning inom el- och energiteknik visar både likheter och skillnader som är viktiga att beakta för att möta framtidens arbetsmarknadsbehov. Båda länderna betonar hållbarhet och miljöhänsyn i sina utbildningar, vilket är avgörande för att förbereda eleverna för den gröna omställningen. I Sverige är El- och energiprogrammet uppdelat i olika paket med specifika poäng för gymnasiegemensamma ämnen, programgemensamma ämnen, inriktningar och individuella val. Norge har en mer integrerad struktur med gemensamma kärnämnen och programämnen som omfattar ett visst antal timmar per år. En viktig skillnad är att Sverige använder begreppet "förnybar energi" i vissa kurser inom energiteknik, medan Norge inkluderar förnybar energi som en del av ämnena energi och styrsystem. Bedömningen i Sverige sker i kurser, medan Norge har en mer integrerad bedömning av kompetensmål. För att yrkesutbildningen ska kunna matcha arbetsmarknadens behov behöver den bli mer responsiv och integrera digitala teknologier för att stödja arbetskraftens omställning. Utbildningsprogrammen bör också inkludera en djupare förståelse för miljö, hälsa och säkerhet (Enviroment, Health, and Safety, EHS) för att säkerställa att arbetskraften är väl förberedd för de miljömässiga och säkerhetsmässiga kraven. Lokala utbildningsinitiativ är viktiga för att anpassa utbildningen till regionala arbetsmarknader, särskilt i landsbygdsområden som Jämtland och Trøndelag. Samarbete mellan utbildningsinstitutioner, industrier och beslutsfattare är avgörande för att möta framtida krav. Pilotprojekt och samutveckling mellan olika aktörer är viktiga för att skapa nya eller alternativa berättelser och påverka institutionella beslut. Genom att adressera dessa behov och konsekvenser kan utbildningssystemen bättre förbereda arbetskraften för de utmaningar och möjligheter som den gröna omställningen medför. Sammanfattningsvis har både de svenska och norska läroplanerna ett starkt fokus på hållbarhet och miljö, men det finns skillnader i struktur (bl.a. ekonomi, lärarkompetens), terminologi och bedömningsmetoder som kan påverka hur väl de möter framtidens arbetsmarknadsbehov.Green-VE

Accessibility, usability and universal design - still confusing? : Harmonisation of key concepts describing person-environment interaction to create conditions for participation

PurposeTo contribute to an in-depth understanding of how the concepts accessibility, usability, and universal design interact and can be harmonised to create conditions for participation in the 21st century.Material and MethodsIdeas, empirical research, and selected literature from health science, engineering, and design constituted the material for a scientifically grounded analysis.ResultsWe describe recent developments, how the concepts relate to and complement each other, and the synergies they create. Reflecting on the lack of clarity in their application, we argue that definitions are crucial and that the concepts can be combined and harmonised in a synergistic entity: The participation of all is the ultimate goal of society. Universal Design is the value-based vision and approach to design grounded in human rights that, through intersectionality and involvement, should permeate all aspects of society to create the best possible conditions for participation for all citizens. Accessibility and usability are tools for operationalising and translating universal design into practice, applicable at the individual, group, and societal levels.ConclusionIntended for implementation at all these levels, we propose a harmonised model where the concepts are explicitly defined and closely connected, with each other and the conditions to reach participation at scale

”Vi leker och dom pratar” : En studie om barns uppfattningar om pedagogers närvaro i den fria leken

Trots omfattande forskning om pedagogers närvaro i barns lek, saknas studier som undersöker detta fenomen utifrån barns egna perspektiv. Syftet med denna studie var därför att undersöka barns uppfattningar om pedagogers närvaro i den fria leken, genom att närma oss barns perspektiv och livsvärldar. Studien utfördes med en fenomenologisk utgångspunkt där semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes med 32 barn från åtta förskoleavdelningar i norra Sverige, vid nio tillfällen. Därefter analyserades materialet med hjälp av tematisk analys. Resultatet visar att barnen generellt upplever att pedagoger inte deltar i deras lek. Dock är barnens uppfattningar om pedagogers närvaro delade då vissa barn uttrycker att de vill att pedagoger ska leka med dem, medan andra helst leker utan vuxnas deltagande. Avslutningsvis visar studiens slutsatser på att barnen ges möjligheter att leka på förskolan, dock med låg närvaro från pedagogernas håll. Vilket i sin tur visar på att pedagoger behöver leka mer med barnen för att möjliggöra en förskola där pedagoger tar sitt ansvar i barns lek.Betyg i Ladok 2025-01-15</p

Harmonizing patient-centric requirements for secure digital health services in heterogeneous settings

Implementing electronic health services with a patient-centric focus while adapting to the know-how of local contexts is a challenge. This paper addresses this challenge by establishing a template of modular requirements for designing a viable Electronic Health Record (EHR) system that enables transmission and sharing of patient data across primary, secondary, and specialized care, ensuring versatility in diverse healthcare environments and across varying socio-economic landscapes. The research is anchored in design science and employs an action research strategy, using northern Brazil as empirical case. The approach builds on generic requirements from standards established by the European Union, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), and the Swedish ePrescription journal system. These requirements are refined and adapted to the Brazilian context through a participatory method, considering development disparities across municipalities and aligning with national policy. A key feature is the integration of knowledge graphs, which, when combined with fieldwork iterations involving healthcare professionals and patient association representatives, facilitated the extraction of patient-centric requirements. Strategies from Brazilian healthcare policies targeting chronic kidney disease, selected as a significant challenge for specialized healthcare in emergent areas, were incorporated to generalize the design of EHR modules aimed at prevention and monitoring of population at risk. Results support that harmonization towards legacy system is strongly advised and discourage the introduction of systems designed from scratch

Desirable Leadership : A Qualitative Study of the Perspectives of Young Adults in the Swedish Retail Sector

Entering the labour market and conforming to the authority relations that characterize wage labour are central parts of becoming an adult. The aim of this qualitative study is to analyse desirable leadership from the perspective of young adult employees in the retail sector. Informants were asked to define what they view as leadership and describe what they desire leadership to be like. Interviews with 13 young adults (aged 18-28) in the Swedish retail sector, analysed with qualitative content analysis, revealed that desirable leadership meant participation and equal influence. This included the formal exercise of authority, provided that the authority considered the integrity and views of all subordinates. At the same time, leadership based on formal authority was desired. Two themes were identified as desired: leadership through cooperation, democracy and respect; and leadership through competence, command and objective feedback, summarized under the overarching theme of leadership based on professional competence and respect for individuals' integrity

Young radicals, moderates and aligned : Ideological congruence and incongruence in party youth wings

The ideological fit between party grassroots and leaderships has long been a concern for political science,with members in general, and young members in particular, thought to be more radical. However, we do not know,first, whether this is still the case and, if it is, what drives members in different ideological directions. To investigate,we propose a new typology of members as radicals, moderates and aligned, and develop a theoretical frameworkthat accounts for how political socialization and party contexts drive congruence and incongruence. We test thisusing YOUMEM survey data from over 4,000 members of 12 youth wings in six countries. Our results show thatwhile radicals are the largest group in most youth wings, they are more common on the centre-left than the centre-right. They tend to have been in the youth wing for longer than aligned members, but are under-represented amongpolitically ambitious members. Our findings thus shed light on opinion structures within political parties and providea typology for future research on intra-party cohesion

Hiking Trails Facilitate the Spread of a Native High-Arctic Species

High-Arctic environments are facing an elevated pace of warming and increasing human activities, making them more susceptible to the introduction and spread of alien species. We investigated the role of human disturbance in facilitating the spread of a native plant (Papaver dahlianum) in a high-Arctic natural environment close to Isfjord Radio station and along adjacent hiking trails at Kapp Linné, Svalbard. We reconstructed the spatial pattern of the arrival and spread of P. dahlianum at Kapp Linné by combining historical records of the species occurrence (1928–2018) with a contemporary survey of the plant abundance along the main hiking trail (2023 survey) and tested the relative effects of altitude and proximity to hiking trails on the species density via a generalised linear model (GLM). We then compared historical records with the simulated annual spread of the species by assuming either only local spread or local spread plus spread from hiking trails. Finally, we used a fine-scale UAV-derived brightness index to test for terrain preference by applying a randomisation test. Distance from the station (56% explained variation) and minimum distance from the trail (28%) significantly explained the species density across the research area (best GLM R2 = 0.755). The modelled species spread including the trail effect (fitted spread ~30 m yr.−1) managed to capture the maximum extent of the occupied area, whereas simulations assuming only local spread (~2 m yr.−1) underestimated the historical extent. A randomisation test showed that P. dahlianum has a significant preference for gravel soils with low vegetation cover due to either trail trampling and/or natural processes. Along with climate warming, human activities can increase the rate of species range shift by providing hot spots of introduction (human settlements) and spreading corridors (hiking trails). Our results show that spatially explicit models can be applied to accurately predict the potential spread of species, leading to a more efficient monitoring plan. Systematic monitoring of alien species and sanitisation measures should be prioritised in polar habitats with a high incidence of human disturbances

An exclusive survey on robust controllers and novel optimization techniques for AGC of power system

This review paper addresses several robust controllers and optimization procedures for developing automatic generation control (AGC) in an electrical supply system under various electrical disturbances. Since, the electrical power system is completely dynamic and non-linear in nature, frequent control over power generation is required as per the new scheduled demand. The action that promptly oversees the electricity generation as per the new scheduled demand is referred as AGC. The AGC action mostly relies over several robust controllers for creating secondary control loop in the system. These controllers sense the error signals of the power system effectively and takes remedial immediately to assure stability in the system. The error signals are the deviation in network frequency (ΔF) and diversion in inter-area power (ΔPtie), which mutually referred as the area control error (ACE). The mismatch between net electricity generation and active gross loading is the main cause of the ACE in power system. The several control schemes like, conventional PID, Fraction value ordered PID (FO-PID), Fuzzy-PID, Fuzzy- TID, Fuzzy ruled sliding mode control (F-SMC) strategy, Type-II Fuzzy controllers etc. are demonstrated to improve AGC of the power system. The proposed controllers offer improved efficiency at their optimum state. So, optimization techniques need to be incorporated in the AGC scenario to optimal design several proposed controllers. Finally, this review article has synthesized few simulation-based case studies to validate the efficacy of the proposed controller and suggested optimization techniques. Robustness of the proposed controllers are also examined through several sensitivity studies.

Boys and Girls in the Classroom—About Didactical Perspectives in Similarities and Differences

The lower academic performance of boys in compulsory school has long been a well-known fact, but only in the last decade has it been shown in the public debate. Various explanations for boys’ underperformance mainly include background, expectations, norms, and hierarchical gender order. Few studies have focused on what can be affected, namely the teaching in the classroom. In addition, studies have not, to any significant extent, focused on the students’ perceptions. This study was conducted through eight group interviews with 2nd and 5th-grade students and explored how boys and girls perceive learning in a classroom context. Similarities and differences in perceptions emerged through a reflexive thematic analysis from a didactic theoretical perspective—the similarities in perception concerned the teacher’s leadership, interactions, learning strategies, and learning environment. The differences were about reprimands, different developed learning strategies, confidence in the teacher, and the social atmosphere. The result indicates a need for the teacher to be more aware of the processes going on in the classroom and to build both social and learning support structures with a focus on learning strategies

Emergence of learning and quality : using scientific social media facilitating a complex adaptive space in healthcare

Purpose Organizations are currently challenged to learn and develop quality at an increasing speed, as well as to navigate rising levels of complexity. This calls for new approaches to facilitating learning and quality as phenomena emerging in interconnected complex ecosystems of stakeholders. This paper explores the possibilities of facilitating the emergence of learning and quality in transformation and complexity with the support of scientific social media. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a qualitative research design. Using scientific social media [SSM] for reflection and dialogue with an action research approach, it allows individuals with specific roles/functions linked to a transformative process to reflect on strong emotional experiences and action-oriented assignments. This can be described as equipping the ecosystem with sensors to capture systemic obstacles and levers. Findings As a result, a triad with three themes of action possibilities for facilitating emergence was identified, with the support of scientific social media: (1) creating a living arena for emergence; (2) learning for emergence and (3) leading for emergence in transformation. Research limitations/implications Future research could benefit from using scientific social media and combined qualitative and quantitative data to study quality and learning as emerging phenomena. Practically, organizations could use SSM for health system transformation. Originality/value This paper provides empirical insights and new innovative ways of conducting research when exploring complex transformational changes in healthcare and the emergence paradigm of quality management