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Ohlsson, R. (2023). Representationer av hjärnan och neurovetenskap i svensk massmedia. In: : . Paper presented at CKVO-konferens: Jämlik hälsa i en osäker värld, 11-12 maj, 2023, Stockholm, Sverige.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Representationer av hjärnan och neurovetenskap i svensk massmedia
2023 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

De vetenskapliga framstegen har varit stora när det gäller att förstå den mänskliga hjärnan och relevansen av den ”neurovetenskapliga” kunskapsutveckling framhålls ibland vara av stor betydelse inom olika delar av samhället; inte bara inom hälso- och sjukvården, utan också andra samhällssektorer, liksom på ett mer fundamentalt plan för vår förståelse av oss själva. Vad vetenskapen visar och implikationer av olika forskningsresultat är frågor som diskuteras utanför de specialiserade forskningssammanhangen vilket innebär att de behandlas av personer som står utanför den neurovetenskapliga praktiken. Att en form av översättning från ett specialiserat vetenskapligt sammanhang krävs för att dessa frågor ska kunna hanteras blir särskilt tydligt då forskningsresultat ska tillgängliggöras för en bredare allmänhet. En sådan process kan beskrivas i termer av popularisering – dvs. att idéer, kunskaper och perspektiv omformuleras på ett sätt som gör att en bredare publik kan tillgodogöra sig dem. Detta utgör en form av meningsskapande som syftar till att göra resultaten från en vetenskaplig praktik möjlig att införliva i den ”vardagskunskap” som finns tillgänglig i samhället. 

Presentationen tar sin utgångspunkt i en empirisk studie av hur neurovetenskaplig kunskap populariseras i massmedia genom en kvalitativ analys av texter från svensk dagspress under ett års tid. Resultaten ger en bild av framträdande idéer om hjärnan som förekommer i massmedia samt hur kroppsliga fenomen relateras till psykiska i dessa texter. Resultaten lyfter fram objektifierande och subjektifierande representationer och diskuterar betydelsen av metaforik och metonymi i de texter där neurovetenskaplig forskning görs tillgängliga för allmänheten. 

National Category
Other Humanities not elsewhere specified
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-217077 (URN)
Conference
CKVO-konferens: Jämlik hälsa i en osäker värld, 11-12 maj, 2023, Stockholm, Sverige
Projects
Understanding the brain: representations of neuroscience in Swedish mass media
Available from: 2023-05-12 Created: 2023-05-12 Last updated: 2024-05-20Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R., Karlsson, G. & Pelters, P. (2022). Forskningsområdet pedagogik och hälsa. In: Ulf Fredriksson; Frans Hagerman; Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg; Małgorzata Malec Rawiński; Lázaro Moreno Herrera; Camilla Thunborg; Annika Ullman (Ed.), The department of education at Stockholm university: developments and footprints in education and research (pp. 178-195). Bokförlaget Atlas
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Forskningsområdet pedagogik och hälsa
2022 (Swedish)In: The department of education at Stockholm university: developments and footprints in education and research / [ed] Ulf Fredriksson; Frans Hagerman; Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg; Małgorzata Malec Rawiński; Lázaro Moreno Herrera; Camilla Thunborg; Annika Ullman, Bokförlaget Atlas, 2022, p. 178-195Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bokförlaget Atlas, 2022
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-210777 (URN)978-91-7445-038-5 (ISBN)
Available from: 2022-10-26 Created: 2022-10-26 Last updated: 2023-04-14Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2021). Meningsbegreppet i pedagogiken: En reflektion över meningsdomäner och meningsskapandets modaliteter. Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, 26(2-3), 85-110
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Meningsbegreppet i pedagogiken: En reflektion över meningsdomäner och meningsskapandets modaliteter
2021 (Swedish)In: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige, ISSN 1401-6788, E-ISSN 2001-3345, Vol. 26, no 2-3, p. 85-110Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [sv]

Mening och meningsskapande lyfts ofta fram som något centralt i definierandet av pedagogikens kunskapsområde. Artikeln presenterar en översikt över hur mening behandlas inom olika teoretiska perspektiv med relevans för den vetenskapliga pedagogiken. För att synliggöra likheter och skillnader i de innebörder som meningsbegreppet har inom olika teoretiska perspektiv görs en distinktion mellan tre olika meningsdomäner: (1) språkliga tecken, yttranden och text; (2) livsvärldserfarenheter; och (3) handlingar och temporalitet. En andra distinktion görs mellan hur mening inom respektive domän beskrivs som antingen realiserad/aktualiserad eller immanent. De olika meningsformerna presenteras med utgångspunkt i semiotisk, fenomenologisk, hermeneutisk, pragmatistisk och narrativ teoribildning, varefter gemensamma inslag i dessa diskuteras i termer av: mening på olika nivåer; samkonstitution, mediering, samt meningens situerade och perspektivberoende karaktär. Avslutningsvis argumenteras för att menings-begreppet har en central roll för pedagogikens kunskapsobjekt men också för reflektion över pedagogisk forskning då denna kan betraktas som ett tolkningsprojekt.

Keywords
meningsskapande, lärande, meningsdomäner, meningspotentialer, aktualiserad mening
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-197854 (URN)10.15626/pfs26.0203.07 (DOI)
Available from: 2021-10-18 Created: 2021-10-18 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2019). Seminariet som undervisningsform. Stockholms universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Seminariet som undervisningsform
2019 (Swedish)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Seminarier utgör ett vanligt inslag i undervisningen på universitet och högskola och tillskrivs ofta en viktig funktion för studenters lärande. För att bidra till lärares egen reflektion över hur seminariet används i undervisningen genomfördes ett projekt där ett reflektionsmaterial skapades med utgångspunkt i litteratur och intervjuer med lärare om deras erfarenheter av seminarieledning. Föreliggande rapport behandlar överväganden i planering och genomförande av undervisningsseminarier gällande: seminariers målsättningar, syften och former, upplevda utmaningar i användandet av seminariet som undervisningsform, samt rollen som seminarieledare.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholms universitet: , 2019. p. 50
Series
Rapporter om undervisning och lärande i högre utbildning, ISSN 2003-1688 ; 2019:5
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168237 (URN)
Available from: 2019-04-26 Created: 2019-04-26 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2018). Public discourse on mental health and psychiatry: Representations in Swedish newspapers. Health, 22(3), 298-314
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Public discourse on mental health and psychiatry: Representations in Swedish newspapers
2018 (English)In: Health, ISSN 1363-4593, E-ISSN 1461-7196, Vol. 22, no 3, p. 298-314Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Mass media plays a central role in shaping public discourse on health and illness. In order to examine media representations of mental health and expert knowledge in this field, two major Swedish daily newspapers from the year 2009 were qualitatively analysed. Drawing on the theory of social representations, the analysis focused on how issues concerning mental health and different perspectives are represented. The results show how the concept of mental illness is used in different and often taken-for-granted ways and how the distinction between normal and pathological is a central underlying question. Laypersons’ perspectives are supplemented by views of professionals in the newspapers, where signs of confidence and dependence on expert knowledge are juxtaposed with critique and expressions of distrust. The newspaper discourse thus has salient argumentative features and the way that conflicts are made explicit and issues concerning authoritative knowledge are addressed indicates ambivalence towards the authoritative role of expert knowledge concerning mental health. In this way, the newspapers provide a complex epistemic context for everyday sense-making that can be assumed to have implications for relations between laypersons and professionals in the field of mental health.

Keywords
expert knowledge, mass media, mental health, psychiatry, social representations
National Category
Psychiatry
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145791 (URN)10.1177/1363459317693405 (DOI)000429809800006 ()28401814 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85045240644 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2017-08-21 Created: 2017-08-21 Last updated: 2022-06-28Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2018). Student-teacher conferencing in Swedish upper secondary school: Dimensions of dominance and relations between perspectives in institutional discourse. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 18, 113-123
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Student-teacher conferencing in Swedish upper secondary school: Dimensions of dominance and relations between perspectives in institutional discourse
2018 (English)In: Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, ISSN 2210-6561, E-ISSN 2210-657X, Vol. 18, p. 113-123Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Student-teacher conferences are mandatory in Swedish upper secondary school. Steering documents prescribe that these conversations should be characterised by equality between the interlocutors and “dialogue” is presented as an ideal for these interactions. This is a challenging task since this institutional discourse actualises the formal roles of student and teacher, and the interlocutors' relationship is inherently asymmetrical. This paper presents findings from an empirical study of audiotaped student-teacher conferences. By drawing on the concepts of perspectivisation and dominance the findings highlight ways that perspectives are related to each other in the conferences. The results show that the teachers' interactional role in the conversations was characterised by interactional dominance, while forms that had been filled out in preparation were used as tools that mediated student-teacher interaction and dominated the conferences semantically. Results pertaining to dominance and perspectivisation are further presented in terms of: perspective elicitation in the conversations; validation of the student perspective; playing down of asymmetry; and the ways that verticality between perspectives is established. It is concluded that when using guidelines involving self-assessment in a routine way as an agenda, the conferences acquires an educational and formative character rather than the open exploratory character prescribed in policy documents.

Keywords
communicative genre, institutional discourse, student-teacher conferencing, dialogue, dominance, perspectivisation
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-154959 (URN)10.1016/j.lcsi.2018.03.010 (DOI)000445311900008 ()
Available from: 2018-04-09 Created: 2018-04-09 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2018). Uppväxtårens svårdefinierade psykiska ohälsa. In: Eva Jeppsson Grassman, Sonja Olin Lauritzen (Ed.), Mellan hälsa och ohälsa: Ett livsloppsperspektiv (pp. 85-106). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Uppväxtårens svårdefinierade psykiska ohälsa
2018 (Swedish)In: Mellan hälsa och ohälsa: Ett livsloppsperspektiv / [ed] Eva Jeppsson Grassman, Sonja Olin Lauritzen, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018, p. 85-106Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
National Category
Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155490 (URN)978-91-44-11717-1 (ISBN)
Available from: 2018-04-23 Created: 2018-04-23 Last updated: 2022-02-26Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2016). Diagnosis as a Resource in the Social Representation of Mental Illness. Papers on Social Representations, 25(1), 12.1-12.24
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Diagnosis as a Resource in the Social Representation of Mental Illness
2016 (English)In: Papers on Social Representations, ISSN 1021-5573, E-ISSN 1819-3978, Vol. 25, no 1, p. 12.1-12.24Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The theory of social representations has been applied in empirical research that examines shared understandings of mental illness in different communities. Another line of inquiry, drawing on a number of theoretical perspectives, has dealt with the functions of diagnosis in everyday sense-making regarding mental problems. This paper suggest how the theoretical model of social representation can be extended in order to account for representation as interactive sense-making in which diagnostic concepts serve as a mediating resource. An empirical study of discourse in self-help groups with people sharing experiences of mental health problems is used to explore the role of diagnosis in establishing shared understandings and identity. It is argued that when diagnoses are anchored in lay knowledge, they acquire new meaning potentials and serve new functions for representation that have ontological, epistemological, and moral dimensions.

Keywords
Diagnosis, social representation, self-help groups, cultural tools, meaning potential
National Category
Pedagogical Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-145790 (URN)000405507500009 ()
Available from: 2017-08-21 Created: 2017-08-21 Last updated: 2022-06-28Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2014). Public discourse on mental health and illness: representations and perspectives in Swedish newspapers 2009. In: : . Paper presented at BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Public discourse on mental health and illness: representations and perspectives in Swedish newspapers 2009
2014 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Mass media plays a central role in the continually changing public discourse on health and illness. In order to examine how shared knowledge is produced and transformed in mass media the ways mental health related issues were represented in the two major Swedish daily newspapers in 2009 were subjected to a qualitative analysis. Drawing on the theory of social representations the analysis focuses on how different perspectives are applied in the articles and how issues concerning mental health are represented. The results show that this discourse can be characterized as a dialogue with salient argumentative features: the perspectives of lay persons are supplemented by views of medical experts and others in what constitutes a field of contestation (Crossley 2006) where a number of conflicts are made explicit and central issues concerning both the nature of mental health/illness and authoritative knowledge are addressed. Representations of mental health and illness are characterised in terms of a tension between 'othering' and 'normalizing' representations. A tension between confidence/dependence and contestation/distrust is likewise found to characterise representations of expert knowledge. The results indicate an ambivalence regarding the authoritative role of expert knowledge concerning mental health as critique and expressions of distrust are juxtaposed with signs of confidence and dependence on professionals. The implications of the study applies to the relations between lay persons and 'psy-professionals' (Rose 1999) and the expectations that are placed on expert knowledge in a wide range of societal issues and in peoples’ everyday life.

Keywords
mass media, mental health, authoritative knowledge
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107507 (URN)
Conference
BSA Medical Sociology Group Annual Conference
Available from: 2014-09-17 Created: 2014-09-17 Last updated: 2022-02-23Bibliographically approved
Ohlsson, R. (2012). Samtal om utveckling eller utveckling genom samtal? Villkor för dialog i gymnasieskolans utvecklingssamtal. In: Boel Englund, Birgitta Sandström (Ed.), Dialogen som idé och praktik: (pp. 103-162). Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Samtal om utveckling eller utveckling genom samtal? Villkor för dialog i gymnasieskolans utvecklingssamtal
2012 (Swedish)In: Dialogen som idé och praktik / [ed] Boel Englund, Birgitta Sandström, Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2012, p. 103-162Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Carlsson Bokförlag, 2012
National Category
Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-82579 (URN)978-91-7331-551-7 (ISBN)
Available from: 2012-11-19 Created: 2012-11-19 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved
Organisations
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ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-4646-3591

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