Mina O´Dowd
Undervisningsinriktning:
Forskningsmetod, vetenskapsteori, social studies of science, komparativa metoder, organisationsutveckling, ledarskap och lärande i arbetslivet
Forskningsinriktning:
Komparativa studier om utbildnings-och utbildningspolitiska frågor, livslångt lärande och Bologna processen. Äldre och åldrande. Social kompetens.
Publicerade vetenskapliga arbeten:
O’Dowd, M. (under review) Hegemony through Education and Governance: Re-thinking gender education research and scholarship
O’Dowd, M (2011) Development and Humanist Concerns: A Professionalism Project for Comparative Education?. In John C Weidman & W. James Jacob (eds) Beyond the Comparative: Advancing Theory and Its Application to Practice, Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education: Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Holmarsdottir, Halla B. and O’Dowd, Mina (eds.)(2009) Nordic Voices: Teaching and researching comparative and international education in the Nordic countries. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
O’Dowd, M. (2009). Social cartography mapping in theory and practice:
A method for visualizing discourse and social change. In Halla B. Holmarsdottir and Mina O’Dowd (eds). Nordic Voices: Teaching and researching comparative and international education in the Nordic countries. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
O’Dowd, M. (2010) “The Bologna Process and The Re-structuring of Higher Education: Who will bear the brunt of “unexpected outcomes”? In Vandra Masemann, Suzanne Majhanovich,
Nhung Truong, and Kara Janigan (Eds.) Papers in Memory of David N. Wilson: Clamouring for a Better World. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
O’Dowd, M. (2009). Supranational Regimes and their consequences for education. Occasional Papers on Education and Lifelong Learning. Middlesex University, UK.
O’Dowd, M (2009). The God that Failed. Lifelong learning: From Utopianism to Instrumentalism. The Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, Conference proceedings, Vol. 7, 2009. (eds) James Ogunleye, Bruno Leutwyler, Charl Wolhuter and Marinela Mihova.
O´Dowd, M. (2006) Imagination and Scientific Dilemmas: Exclusion, circularity and infinite regress in “scientific texts” , In: Donatella Palomba and Anselmo R. Paolone (Eds) The Emergence of the Knowledge society: From Clerici vagantes to Internet. A Comparative Perspective on Universities. Rome: Aracne
O’Dowd, M. (2006).“Community Development in Sweden, with a special focus on at risk children”. Report Commissioned by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), OECD.
O’Dowd, M. (2006) “Virtual Networks, Support Stockings and Community: On-line publication- A new context of meaning for comparative education?”. Research in Comparative and International Education, Vol. 1, No. 1. pp. 31-39.
O’Dowd, M. (2005)“Learning from Childhood to Mature Adulthood: What makes people want to learn to learn and keep on learning?” Compare,Vol.35, No. 3, September 2005, pp. 323-340.
O’Dowd, M. (2003). Knowledge, theory and the logic of the relative value of human life: Investigating ways of seeing, 1939-1995. Cadernos PRESTiGE, No. 7. Lisbon: EDUCA.
O’Dowd, M., Fägerlind, I., Boudard, E., & Villalba Garcia, E (2003) The Meanings of Knowledge in Diverse Contemporary and Historical Contexts. Cadernos PRESTiGE, No. 2/2. Lisbon: EDUCA.
O´Dowd, Mina. Re-tracing the path to third-order knowledge: How did we get here and can we move on?. Compare, Vol. 31, No.3, 2001,279-293.
O´Dowd, Mina & Paul Vedder. Missing values in peer assessment of social behavior using the RCP. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal. 2001,29 (1), 71-80.
O´Dowd, Mina (2000).Intuitive and Conceptual Interpretation. Constructing a Contemporary American Psychic System. In: A. Tjeldvoll, T. Thune & M. Sneve Olsen (Eds. ), Higher Education, Quality and Evaluation in Comparative and International Perspectives. Studies in Comparative and International Education. Vol 4. Report No.7, 2000. Oslo: Institute for Educational Research. University of Oslo, Norway.
O´Dowd, Mina. Allmänmedicin Stockholm Allmänmedicin. Årgang 21. Nr 6. pp. 240- 42. 2000.
O´Dowd, Mina & Fagerlind, Ingemar (eds), (2000). Mapping European Comparative Education Perspectives. The PRESTiGE TMR Network. (Stockholm: The Institute of International Education).
O´Dowd, Mina (2000). Representations of Knowledge in Scientific Texts. In: Mina O´Dowd & Ingemar Fagerlind (eds), Mapping European Comparative Education Perspectives. The PRESTiGE TMR Network. (Stockholm: The Institute of International Education).
O´Dowd, Mina (2000). The Changing Nature of Knowledge. Mapping the Discourse of the Malmo Longitudinal Study 1939-1995. Doctoral Dissertation. (Stockholm: The Institute of International Education.
O’Dowd, Mina. Empowering Teachers in Times of Change. The Swedish Comprehensive School System. With Paul Vedder. The Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. Vol. 43, No.3,1999.
O’Dowd, Mina. Swedish Primary School Pupils´ Inter-ethnic Relationships. With Paul Vedder. The Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. Vol. 40. No.3, September 1999.
O’Dowd, Mina. Assyrian Youths in a "Concentration School" in Sweden: A Case Study. With Paul Vedder. (1998) Christoph Wulf (Ed.) In Education for the 21st Century. Commonalities and Diversities. European Studies in Education. Vol. 7. Waxmann Miister/Berlin.
O’Dowd, Mina. School Fatigue and Too Many Bad Excuses. Swedish Teenage Girls Talk about Truancy. (1998) In Education and the Welfare State in the Year 2000. (Ed.) Arild Tjeldvoll. Garland Publishing.
O’Dowd, Mina. Social Competence in Swedish Primary School Pupils. The validity of the RCP-scale. (1996). Paul Vedder & Mina O´Dowd. Stockholm: The Institute of International Education.
O’Dowd, Mina. Expectations, Education and Human Lives. A longitudinal study of a welfare state generation in a gender perspective. 1938-1994. (1995). Unpublished Master´s Thesis. The Institute of International Education.
O’Dowd, Mina. The Role of Education in Development. From International to Personal Arenas.(1995) (Eds.) Holger Daun, Mina O´Dowd & Shangwu Zhao. Stockholm: The Institute of International Education.
O’Dowd, Mina. A Longitudinal Study on Teachers´ Negative Expectations. A summary of the findings and a discussion of the implications. (1995)In Kunnskap og utvikling. (Ed.) Magnus Haavelsrud. Tromso: Norges forskningsråd og Universitet i Tromsö.
Information om administrativa uppgifter:
Ämnesansvarig Pedagogik
Titel: Docent
Övrigt:
Past President of Nordic Comparative and International Education Society, NOCIES; Member of the Regional Ethics Board, Lund. Member of the Utvecklingsrådet, Social Science Faculty.
Member of the Executive Board of World Council of the Comparative Education Societies;
Member of BAICE (British Association of Comparative and International Education);
Member of CIES (Comparative and International Education Society, USA);
member of CESE (Comparative Education Society in Europe.
Senast uppdaterad:2007-09-26
Webbansvarig: IT-service S