Tvärsektoriella regeringsuppdrag : en pedagogisk praktik?

Sammanfattning: This study aims to investigate how key personnel in a government agency integrate cross-sectorial issues into their activities. The survey shows that it is possible to understand the work as a pedagogical practice. However, this approach is based on another conceptual tradition of learning than the general one. Cross-sectorial commissions do not seem to lead to the integration of different issues. It is rather the agency’s and the employees' approach to the assignment and the cross-sectorial practice that is crucial. A socio-cultural perspective on learning can help the authority consider the cross-sectorial community of practice to be an asset, thus utilising learning within them in a more strategic and systematic way. The survey also helps to understand negotiation of meaning as a way to integrate practices. The study has a deductive approach and is based on a socio-cultural perspective on learning to contribute to the understanding of the implementation as pedagogical practices. The survey includes one government agency that works with two different cross-sectorial commissions. The work of each government commission has been investigated through interviews with key persons within the agency. The phenomenological point of departure has also influenced the compilation, interpretation and thematic analysis of the results of the survey.