Holddeling: Når der gøres maskulinitet og hvidhed

This article follows a group of 13 year-old boys’ daily selection of football-teams in the schoolyard. The outcome of this repeated practice seems to be identical, i.e. the same teams are selected over and over again. Yet the boys repeat the ritual of selection. It is an empirical investigation based on a fieldwork in a 6th grade in a Copenhagen public school. The analytical focus is on how social categories such as whiteness, masculinity, and age intersect and how the intersection intertwines with other empirically relevant categories such as normality, pupilness, and (in)appropriatedness. Exploring this particular ritual of teamselection the taken-for-granted practices and understandings of teams and football among the schoolboys is explored. The analysis follows the lines of reasoning into practices of inclusion and exclusion and the relationships between the larger groups of pupils. This reading shows how understandings and practices from this particular ritual of selecting teams mingles into wider relationships and how the outcome of the ritual lends meaning to other social practices. A number of components interact in the daily processes of doing pupilness and in the analysis it becomes apparent that the requirements of appropriated pupilness can be met in a number of ways

Hvis universitetet var en biotop: – et essay om forskningsetik

In this essay I experiment with Lauren Berlant’s idea of ‘cruel optimism’ to investigate how policies of responsible conduct of research in academia have effects beyond efforts at establishing a spotless university. Based on experiences from teaching doctoral students about research integrity and ethics I unpack how culpa, vigilance and powerlessness surface. I suggest that there is a need to consider research ethics as an ethics that cares both for and about the university and for those grey areas that emerge when policies on responsible conduct of research are being introduced

Med spredning som muligt svar: Følgeforskning af Københavnermodellen for integration

Københavnermodellen for integration er et projekt, der blev vedtaget af Københavns Kommunes Borgerrepræsentation i 2005. Målet var gennem en frivillig ordning at fordele minoritetsbørn fra et skoledistrikt til et andet. Det erklærede politiske mål var at skabe bedre faglige resultater og en bedre integration og et kulturmøde mellem majoritet og minoritet. Det har fået over 800 børn med etnisk minoritetsbaggrund til at søge ud af deres eget skoledistrikt og længere væk, til en skole med overvejende etnisk-danske børn. Denne rapport markerer afslutningen på den følgeforskning, der har fulgt Københavnermodellen for Integrations første leveår. Følgeforskningen er blevet varetaget af en gruppe forskere fra Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole, Aarhus Universitet. Det afdækker spørgsmålet om, hvordan børnene ser ud til at have sociale relationer på de skoler, der er involveret i Københavnermodellen. Rapporten belyser spørgsmålet ud fra en række forskellige analyser baseret på forskelligt datamateriale. I rapporten er der viden at hente om, hvordan Københavnermodellen erfares af elever og integrationsvejledere, som løsning på de mål politikerne har opsat. Den rummer også viden om hvilke udfordringer, der opstår qua de politiske løsninger, der er blevet sat i værk i København.

Suspended liminality: Vacillating affects in cyberbullying/research

This paper develops a concept of liminal hotspots in the context of i) a secondary analysis of a cyberbullying case involving a group of school children from a Danish school, and ii) an altered auto-ethnography in which the authors ‘entangle’ their own experiences with the case analysis. These two sources are used to build an account of a liminal hotspot conceived as an occasion of troubled and suspended transformative transition in which a liminal phase is extended and remains unresolved. The altered auto-ethnography is used to explore the affectivity at play in liminal hotspots, and this liminal affectivity is characterised in terms of volatility, vacillation, suggestibility and paradox

Participatory action research in the field of neonatal intensive care: developing an intervention to meet the fathers’ needs. A case study

Background: In neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) health care professionals typically give most of their attention to the infants and the mothers while many fathers feel uncertain and have an unmet need for support and guidance. This paper describes and discusses participatory action research (PAR) as a method to improve NICUs’ service for fathers. Our goal is to develop a father-friendly NICU where both the needs of fathers and mothers are met using an approach based on PAR that involves fathers, mothers, interdisciplinary healthcare professionals, and managers. Design and methods: This PAR process was carried out from August 2011 to July 2013 and included participant observations, semi-structured interviews, multi sequential interviews, workshops, focus groups, group discussion, and a seminar. The theoretical framework of validity described by Herr and Anderson’s three criteria; process-, democratic-, and catalytic validity were used to discuss this PAR. Results: Twelve fathers, 11 mothers, 48 health professionals and managers participated in the PAR process. The collaboration ensured the engagement for viable and constructive local changes to be used in designing the concept of the father friendly NICU.Conclusions: This paper contributed new knowledge of how PAR can be used to ensure that participants engaged in the field are involved in the entire process; consequently, this will ensure that the changes are feasible and sustainable

Travelling and sticky affects: : Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian- Guattarian lens

In this paper we combine the thinking of Deleuze and Guattari (1984, 1987) with Judith Butler’s (1990, 1993, 2004, 2009) work to follow the rhizomatic becomings of young people’s affective relations in a range of on- and off-line school spaces. In particular we explore how events that may be designated as sexual cyberbullying are constituted and how they are mediated by technology (such as texting or in/through social networking sites). Drawing on findings from two different studies looking at teens’ uses of and experiences with social networking sites, Arto in Denmark, and Bebo in the UK, we use this approach to think about how affects flow, are distributed, and become fixed in assemblages. We map how affects are manoeuvred and potentially disrupted by young people, suggesting that in the incidences discussed affects travel as well as stick in points of fixation. We argue that we need to grasp both affective flow and fixity in order to gain knowledge of how subjectification of the gendered/classed/racialised/sexualised body emerges. A Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian frame helps us to map some of these affective complexities that shape sexualized cyberbully events; and to recognize technologically mediated lines of flight when subjectifications are at least temporarily disrupted and new terms of recognition and intelligibility staked out. Keywords

Can life coaching improve health outcomes?: A systematic review of intervention studies

BACKGROUND: In recent years, coaching has received special attention as a method to improve healthy lifestyle behaviours. The fact that coaching has found its way into healthcare and may provide new ways of engaging the patients and making them accountable for their health, justifies the need for an overview of the evidence regarding coaching interventions used in patient care, the effect of the interventions, and the quality of the studies published. However, in order to provide a clear definition of the coaching interventions selected for this review, we have found it necessary to distinguish between health coaching and life coaching. In this review, we will only focus on the latter method and on that basis assess the health related outcomes of life coaching. METHODS: Intervention studies using quantitative or qualitative methods to evaluate the outcome of the life coach interventions were identified through systematic literature searches in PubMed, Embase, Psycinfo, and CINAHL. The quality of the methodology was independently assessed by three of the authors using a criteria list. RESULTS: A total of 4359 citations were identified in the electronic search and five studies were included; two of them were randomized controlled trials and met all quality criteria. The two studies investigating objective health outcomes (HbA1c) showed mixed but promising results, especially concerning the patient group that usually does not benefit from intensified interventions. CONCLUSION: Because of the very limited number of solid studies, this review can only present tendencies for patient outcomes and a preliminary description of an effective life coaching intervention. The coaching method used in these studies aims to improve self-efficacy and self-empowerment. This may explain why the studies including disadvantaged patients showed the most convincing results. The findings also indicate that some patients benefit from being met with an alternative approach and a different type of communication than they are used to from health care personnel. In order to get a closer look at what is in the ‘black box’, we suggest that the description and categorisation of the coaching methods are described more comprehensively, and that research into this area is supplemented by a more qualitative approach