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- Fredriksson, Ulf, 1954-, et al.
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Reading and education for students of immigrant origin in some Swedish municipalities
- 2009
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Ingår i: US-China Education Review. - Libertyville, IL : David Publishing. - 1548-6613 .- 1930-1529. ; 6:11, s. 17-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers from Mid Sweden University and Kalmar University organised surveys on reading skills in Swedish municipalities. This paper will focus on the surveys made in four municipalities between 2002 and 2007. All students in grade 8 in these four municipalities participated in the surveys-in total 16, 287 students. These surveys included a reading test for the students and information about the students collected from the teachers, including participation in instruction in Swedish as a second language and in their mother tongues. Students of immigrant origin in Sweden are offered the possibility to participate in instruction in Swedish as a second language and in instruction in the student's mother tongue. No obvious trends over time in the participation in Swedish as a second language and mother tongue instruction were found in the four municipalities on the tests we gave, in spite of national trends. There was no difference in results on the reading tests in Swedish between those students who participated in mother tongue instruction and those who did not, but there was a difference in test results between those who participated in Swedish as a second language and those who did not. Those who did not participate (in Swedish as a second language instruction) did, on average, score higher on the test. When different language groups are compared, it can be noted that a majority in all groups of immigrant students neither participate in Swedish as a second language nor in mother tongue instruction. However, there are important differences between boys and girls and between language groups. Girls seemed to be more willing than boys to participate in voluntary mother tongue instruction, while boys more often than girls had to participate in compulsory lessons in Swedish as a second language.
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- Fredriksson, Ulf, 1954-, et al.
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Reading and remedial education among students of immigrant origin in a number of Swedish municipalities
- 2008
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mid Sweden University and Kalmar University have organised studies on reading skills in a number of Swedish municipalities. All students in grade 8 in these municipalities have participated in the studies, approximately 24 000 students. These studies have included a reading test and information collected from the teachers about the students, including participation in remedial education. Students of immigrant origin face two problems in relation to remedial education. One problem is that these students receive remedial education because the teachers wrongly assume that the students’ reading problems are related to general reading difficulties instead of problems related to weak understanding of Swedish. The other problem is that students of immigrant origin may not get the remedial education they should have because their reading problems are not discovered as teachers assume that their problems are related to weak understanding of Swedish. In order to analyse this the students of immigrant origin will be compared with the Swedish students in respect of participation in remedial education and reading test results. The results will be further discussed and related to findings from other surveys, both national and international
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- Fredriksson, Ulf, 1954-, et al.
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Reading, reading habits, reading interest, well-being in school and perspectives on the future among 8th grade students in a Swedish municipality
- 2009
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research topic/aim: To analyse how young people read, how much they read and how they like to read and to relate this to their background, their well-being in school and what they think about their future. Theoretical framework: Literacy is a concept which takes into consideration not only reading skills, but tries to put these skills in a broader context where among other things reading habits, interests and purpose plays an important role (Street, 2001). In order to get an idea about literacy among young people today it is of interest to know more about how they read, what they read and what they think about reading. It can be assumed that different groups have different types of literacies (Heath, 1996). In order to find out more about different literacies among young people it is of interest to compare boys and girls, young persons from different social background and young persons with different cultural background. Methodology / research design In 2005 and 2006 surveys were organised in the municipality of Härnösand in Sweden. All students in 8th grade in the municipality participated in the surveys. In total participated 697 students. The surveys included a reading test and a student questionnaire. The students´ questionnaire contained a number of questions dealing with among other issues students’ gender, first language, parents education, books at home, reading habits, reading interest, well-being in school and plans about future education (Eklund, Fredriksson & Taube, 2005; 2006). The data collected in the test and in the questionnaire will be used to analyse the relations between different variables.
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- Fredriksson, Ulf, 1954-, et al.
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Strengths and Weaknesses in the Swedish and Swiss Education Systems : a comparative analysis based on PISA data
- 2009
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Symposium Journals Ltd. - 1474-9041. ; 1:1, s. 54-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden and Switzerland are among the wealthiest countries in the world, but also two countries with different approaches to how to provide welfare. Sweden has followed a social democratic welfare model and Switzerland a liberal model. This has implications for how the education systems have been organised. The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study makes it possible to compare the achievements of students in reading and mathematics. Students in Switzerland are significantly better than Swedish students in mathematics. In reading, Swedish students are significantly better than Swiss students. In both countries, girls are better readers than boys. The gender difference in reading is larger in Sweden than in Switzerland. Boys are better than girls in mathematics. The gender difference in mathematics is smaller in Sweden than in Switzerland. The difference in reading between natives and non-natives is considerably lower in Sweden than in Switzerland. Sweden is among those countries where the variance between schools is very low. In Switzerland the variation in student performance among schools is higher than the average in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Both education systems may be regarded to be of high quality in an international perspective. The Swedish system has, with the exception of the gender gap in reading, produced a system that seems to have a higher degree of equity than the Swiss system.
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- Fredriksson, Ulf, 1954-, et al.
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Student self-assessment and reading
- 2008
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is interesting to examine students´ self-assessment and reading for two reasons. One reason is to get an idea about how reliable students self-assessment is and another reason is that self-assessment in itself is an important skill needed as a part of the competence to learn as such. During the period 1997- 1999 were 20,000 students in grade 3 and 15,000 students in grade 8 in Stockholm tested in reading. The students had to complete a reading test, but also complete a questionnaire in which, among other questions, students were asked to make a self-assessment of their reading skills. The younger students were also asked to make a self-assessment of their reading based on how they judged their ability to read subtitles on TV. The surveys included all students in grade 3 and 8 in Stockholm in these years. Participation in the survey was compulsory for all schools with students in these grades. The paper will examine the correlation between results on the reading test and the students´ self-assessment of their reading skills. These correlations will be further analysed taking age, gender and other variables into consideration.
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- Fredriksson, Ulf, et al.
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Svenska som andraspråk och kulturmöten.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Barn utvecklar sitt språk. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9144027931 ; , s. 292-
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Kulturmötet är för många barn en viktig del av den kontext i vilken de utvecklar sitt språk. Många skäl talar för att barns språkliga och kulturella bakgrund påverkar de förutsättningar de har för att lära sig svenska. Det finns också mycket som tyder på att en del av de skillnader som finns mellan svenska elever och elever med invandrarbakgrund samt mellan olika grupper av elever med invandrarbakgrund är beroende på skillnader i elevernas sociala och ekonomiska levnadsförhållanden. I detta sammanhang är det viktig att vara försiktig så att inte kulturella skillnader tillåts skymma sociala skillander. Det är av central betydelse att lärarna har en grundläggande respekt för elevernas språk och kultur. Ytterligare en viktig utgångspunkt är att varje elev med invandrarbakgrund är unik. Beroende på invandring samt språklig och kulturell bakgrund ställs barn med invandrarbakgrund inför olika utmaningar och svårigheter. De flesta invandrarföräldrar är mycket måna om att deras barn får en bra skolgång, men kan vara osäkra om vad som är bäst för deras barn. Lärare som arbetar med många elever med invandrarbakgrund måste vara beredda att ge råd till föräldrar. Föräldrarna måste få veta att hemmet spelar en viktig roll för barnets språkutveckling. Inte minst handlar det om att ge barnet mycket språkligt stöt i hemmet.
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- Göhl-Muigai, Ann-Kristin
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Talet om ansvar i förskolans styrdokument 1945-1998 : en textanalys
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the overall aim of "analysing and comparing the language that was used during the period 1945-1998 in pre-school documents with regard to the duty of promoting the development of children into responsible persons and citizens", the thesis studies seven authoritative government texts for pre-schools. The goal documents form an intertextual chain whose first link was published under the auspices of the National Swedish Bord of Health and Welfare, when the number of institutions for the care and education of the youngest children was still very limited. The goal document which make up the latest link in the chain serves as an indication of the altered status of pre-schools caused by their becoming a part of the educational system. - Starting out from curriculum theory the thesis makes a text analysis where the methodology has been inspired by Quentin Skinner's histiorical-pragmatic and intertextual approach and by John Austin's speech act theory. The source texts are contextualised by means of parliamentary reports, government bills, and other contemporary texts. - Since 'ansvar' ('responsibility') is a contingent concept, the context has a decisive importance for the meaning. The analyses of the pre-school goal documents reveal certain differences from the usual lexical definitions of 'ansvar' ('responsibility'), which are 'punishment', 'answer' and duty, and which are used in law, moral philosophy and political science. The authority and adulthood implied by the standard meanings, and the weight, seriousness and negative axiological sense associated with these, are changed when in a "new" context, the pre-school context, the issue is children's development of responsibility. - When the goal documents refer to the youngest members of society as having the ability to take and show responsibility, this indicates not only that the sense, reference and speech act potential of the word have changed, but also that the underlying perception of children has changed. - "New", positively axiological senses of 'ansvar' ('responsibility') appering in several of the pre-school goal documents are that the children are expected to "respond to" other people and "show consideration" and a "democratic responsibility" - an interpretation which has been caused by the advocacy that children should participate and share the responsibility and also have a real influence on the everyday life of pre-schools.
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- Linnakylä, P, et al.
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Factors behind Low Reading Literacy Achievement
- 2004
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0031-3831 .- 1470-1170. ; 48:3, s. 231-249
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