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This study is to be seen in relation to the intensified ‘assessment culture’ that has evolved in today's educational system. The purpose is to discuss how the dualistic mission of the curriculum is being handled in preschools systematic quality work, by studying the representation and recognition of ideational and interpersonal knowledge. The study is based on video-observations of preschool teachers’ planning, work and follow up of three educational activities in two different preschools. The theoretical basis consist of a multimodal and design theoretical perspective used in combination with Ludwik Flecks work on thought styles and thought collectives. The analyse shows that the curriculum objectives are handled in contradictory ways. This is visible in interaction patterns that exhibit traces from incompatible thought styles. Denna studie skall ses i relation till den intensifierade "bedömningskultur" som har utvecklats inom dagens utbildningssystem. Syftet är att diskutera hur det dualistiska uppdraget i läroplanen hanteras i förskolors systematiska kvalitetsarbete, genom att studera vilken innehållslig och relationell kunskap som kommer till uttryck och erkänns. Studien bygger på videoobservationer av förskollärares planering, arbete och uppföljning inom tre arbetsprocesser i två olika förskolor. Det teoretiska ramverket består av ett multimodalt och designteoretiskt perspektiv och används i kombination med Ludwik Flecks arbete om tankestilar och tankekollektiv. Analysen visar att läroplanens mål hanteras på motstridiga sätt och det kommer till uttryck i interaktionsmönster, som uppvisar spår från oförenliga tankestilar.

The main purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse how museum visitors engage with and make meaning from what is being offered to them in terms of the various resources made available in two exhibitions. Yet another purpose is to describe and analyse the design of these exhibitions. The empirical data stems from observational studies at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm, and includes the investigation of two exhibitions: Prehistories I and II. Eight ‘visiting pairs’ were videotaped and the tapes were multimodally transcribed and analysed. Data also includes digital photos and maps produced by the visitors. In a comparative analysis, descriptions of the exhibitions and their analysis and the visitor study are discussed in relation to earlier research and to the issue of learning. A design-oriented and multimodal perspective on learning is used as a theoretical and methodological framework. The different visits are compared and the visitors’ responses are discussed as different forms of engagement. The results are interpreted within an institutional perspective connected to contemporary discourses within museum studies. The exhibitions are considered as an expression of the museums’ ambition to adjust to a pressure for change. Both exhibitions are, in a greater or less degree, considered as examples of ‘new’ exhibitions in that they rhetorically put forward visitors’ participation, cultural rights, post colonial perspectives and immaterial aspects of cultural heritage. The study presents learning as a social and sign-making activity. It stress how meaning-making and learning happens as a transformation in several steps. As visitors engage in different semiotic resources in the exhibitions’ design, they form new signs through their representations – as a ‘re-design’ of the exhibition – which in turn give them new possibilities for making meaning. Museet, utställningen, besökaren. Meningsskapande på en ny arena för lärande och kommunikation

The main purpose of this thesis is to describe and analyse how museum visitors engage with and make meaning from what is being offered to them in terms of the various resources made available in two exhibitions. Yet another purpose is to describe and analyse the design of these exhibitions. The empirical data stems from observational studies at the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm, and includes the investigation of two exhibitions: Prehistories I and II. Eight ‘visiting pairs’ were videotaped and the tapes were multimodally transcribed and analysed. Data also includes digital photos and maps produced by the visitors. In a comparative analysis, descriptions of the exhibitions and their analysis and the visitor study are discussed in relation to earlier research and to the issue of learning. A design-oriented and multimodal perspective on learning is used as a theoretical and methodological framework. The different visits are compared and the visitors’ responses are discussed as different forms of engagement. The results are interpreted within an institutional perspective connected to contemporary discourses within museum studies. The exhibitions are considered as an expression of the museums’ ambition to adjust to a pressure for change. Both exhibitions are, in a greater or less degree, considered as examples of ‘new’ exhibitions in that they rhetorically put forward visitors’ participation, cultural rights, post colonial perspectives and immaterial aspects of cultural heritage. The study presents learning as a social and sign-making activity. It stress how meaning-making and learning happens as a transformation in several steps. As visitors engage in different semiotic resources in the exhibitions’ design, they form new signs through their representations – as a ‘re-design’ of the exhibition – which in turn give them new possibilities for making meaning. Museet, utställningen, besökaren. Meningsskapande på en ny arena för lärande och kommunikation