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Kollegialt lärande för skol- och undervisningsförbättring bygger på flera års praktiknära forskning och annan forskning inom skolutveckling, professionsutveckling och pedagogiskt ledarskap. Den erbjuder pedagogiska teorier, modeller och metoder för kollegialt lärande i ett helhetsperspektiv som stärker alla elever. I boken framträder kollegialt lärande både som ett arbetssätt och ett förhållningssätt, och du som läsare rustas med verktyg för att hantera det kollegiala lärandets möjligheter och utmaningar. Dessa verktyg är vetenskapligt förankrade. Kollegialt lärande för skol- och undervisningsförbättring vänder sig till lärarstudenter, lärare rektorer, kvalitetsutvecklare och skolchefer inom alla skolformer. Boken är lämplig som litteratur på rektorsprogrammet och för lärarutbildningens utbildningsvetenskapliga kärna, framför allt inom områdena utvärdering, utvecklingsarbete och pedagogiskt ledarskap.

Sport is a key educational and leadership arena for societal change and today’s sustainability challenges. Sports organisations have the potential to provide, initiate and create processes, situations and spaces for learning, socialisation and meaning making that go beyond traditional schooling and lead community change and capacity building towards sustainable development. This article is located in the research fields of public pedagogy and the intersection of leadership and sport for development, and contributes knowledge about how sports organisations’ public pedagogical practices and leadership support community change towards sustainability. The study is confined to soccer and the non-governmental sports organisation Futebol dá força (Football gives strength). The approach of public pedagogical leadership is developed and used to analyse and reflect on the function of sports organisations’ pedagogical leadership in community change and capacity building towards sustainability.

Political participation of young people is important for a sustainable democratic society now and in the future, for a society with knowledgeable members and a good public health. But why is it that young people still do not have full opportunities for political participation? Why are they still not fully counted as democratic actors when it comes to shaping their own and other people’s lives? Why are they, to a large extent, still denied civil rights and excluded from vital decision-making processes? For democratic revitalization in general, and survival of local communities in particular, youth political participation is a crucial pedagogical concern. The overall purpose of the chapter is to contribute knowledge that can be used to explore, understand, and improve young people’s political participation in local democracy. To do this, three major challenges concerning young people’s political participation in the public pedagogy practice of local democracy are discussed. A way forward to pragmatically deal with these challenges is offered in terms of a public pedagogical leadership approach. The approach is supported by a set of pedagogical principles for young people’s political participation and the pedagogical political participation model (the 3P-M).

The research field of (young people’s) political socialisation faces methodological challenges in (1) handling individual agency and political culture as simultaneous and mutual, (2) handling the relation between continuity and change and (3) observing the process of meaning-making in political socialisation. The aim ofthe article is to theoretically argue, present and analytically demonstrate a methodological approach for the study of young people’s political socialisation in action, in the meaning-making process of being and becoming (a) political (subject). Within the research framework of situational political socialisation, a transactional methodological approach is contributed and analytically demonstrated with an empirical analysis of political norms in action. Political socialisation is handled as an observable communication and meaning-makingpractice, thus implying a subjective, situational, relational, participation and action-oriented approach in order to counteract the risks of treating the rising generation as depoliticised objects for political fostering.

By recognising young athletes as active socialising agents in their own right and how they experience parents’ behaviour, the article contributes knowledge about parent-created educational practices and conditions for players’ political socialisation in competitive youth games in grassroots soccer. Parents play an important role in the creation of educational practices and the conditions for young people’s political socialisation in sport. Young people’s formation of political identities, values, attitudes and norms, their adaption to, learning about and sometimes changes in the political culture of a community are dimensions that have hitherto not been explored to any great extent in youth sport research. Three types of educational practices are identified in which the conditions for political socialisation are shown to be marked by social cohesion, security and respectability; group segregation, selfishness and manipulation; disrespect, hostility and blame.

Grassroots youth soccer is a major education environment in which coaching not only influences the quality of young athletes' performances, but also their political socialization. I.e. their formation of political identities, values, attitudes and norms, their adaption to, learning about and sometimes changes in the political culture of a community. Based on an empirical study exploring competitive games of grassroots youth soccer in Sweden, the article contributes knowledge about political socialization in coaching and the coach-created educational environment of competitive games. In particular, it offers a typology that can be used in research, coach education programmes and for practitioners to analyse and understand the socio-political dimension of coaching practice. Two main coaching approaches are identified, Growth (include all and focuses on the process) and Selective (optimizing the team and focusing on the results), constituted by different social and learning norms having specific political socialization and education consequences for the players.

Vilken påverkan har vuxna på barn och ungdomar under match? Hur kan tävling bli mer lärande, utvecklande, glädjefull och trygg för alla deltagare? Vilka är de stora barnrättsliga utmaningarna och hur kan de hanteras?

Hur vuxna förhåller sig till tävling och bemöter motståndare och domare påverkar vad spelare lär sig, vilka värden och normer som blir viktiga och vilken betydelse tävlingen får i den idrottsliga utbildningen. Aktuell forskning om vuxnas påverkan inom ungas lagidrottande och tävling behandlas tillsammans med konkreta exempel på hur spelare och domare upplever ledares och föräldrars påverkan under match.

Boken hjälper vuxna att lära känna och utforma sin påverkan. Bland annat presenteras Matchens pedagogik, en modell för att förstå och göra matchen till en del av den idrottsliga utbildningen med barnets rättigheter som grund.

Boken ger värdefull pedagogisk kunskap och vänder sig till ledare, föräldrar, domare och idrottsutbildare inom lagidrott för barn och ungdomar. Boken lämpar sig även som kurslitteratur för sportmanagers, tränare och idrottslärare.

Background: Referees, parents and coaches are vital for co-creating the educational practice of competitive games in youth sport and influencing young players’ behaviour, learning and socialisation within the game. Coaches and parents influence players in different ways incompetitive games and their behaviour can be viewed as role-modelling actions that affect players’ observational learning and communicate what is regarded as important and valuable. Referees and refereeing is an under-explored field of research; especially the experiences of referees in youth sport and soccer.

Purpose: Based on a referee perspective, the aim of the article is to contribute knowledge about the educational practice of competitive games in youth sport with a focus on the pedagogical function of parents, coaches and referees within the context of grassroots youth soccer.

Theory: Competitive youth games are approached as play activities conditioned by authority and respect for the game and the referee as are presentative of the game and as a person. In the game, players are influenced by the pedagogical function of parents, coaches and referees and their relations direct what is possible to learn and experience. The concepts help us to understand the conditions for competitive youth games and the roles of significant others in co-creating the game as an educational practice.

Method: The empirical study is part of a research project called Educating for fair play? In this project, the behaviour of parents and coaches in three grassroots soccer clubs in Sweden was explored during the 2017 sports season based on referees’ and players’ perspectives. For this article, the empirical data consists of 17 audio-recorded interviews with a total of 27 referees. A five-step qualitative content analysis has been used to analyse the data.

Findings and Conclusions: From a referee perspective, the pedagogical function of parents is to act as spectators and as proponents of roler espect and good referee relations. They are expected to encourage and praise the team and its players and to facilitate a friendly and holistic learning atmosphere in which all players, even opponents, are supported and included. The pedagogical function of coaches is to safeguard and promote referee respect, focus on their task as team leaders and player developers, facilitate an atmosphere of civility in which the participants in the game treat each other as worthy autonomous human beings and direct the players to focus on playing the game. Referees’ pedagogical function is to be authorities and representatives of the game, adopt a learning and improving approach, be game managers and enjoyment facilitators, communicate with and instruct and foster players, coaches and parents. By adjusting the expectations, for example of referees’ competence in relation to the level of the competitive game and balancing competitive seriousness and the spirit of play, parents and coaches can co-create an educational practice that emphasises the players’ own development and that of their educative experiences. As game managers, communicators and instructors, referees, with the support of parents and coaches, can orchestrate the game and create a joyful atmosphere of learning and development.