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- Beach, Dennis, 1956-, et al.
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Rurality and education relations : metro-centricity and local values in rural communities and rural schools
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - : Sage Publications. - 1474-9041. ; 18:1, s. 19-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on ethnographic fieldwork in six different types of rural area and their schools in different parts of Sweden, this article identifies how rural schools relate to the local place and discusses some of the educational implications from this. Recurrent references to the local community were present in some schools and people there explicitly positioned themselves in the local rural context and valorised rurality positively in education exchanges, content and interactions, with positive effects on young people's experiences of participation and inclusion. These factors tended to occur in sparsely populated areas. An emphasis on nature and its value as materially vital in people's lives was present as was a critique of middle-class metrocentricity. Such values and critique seemed to be absent in other areas, where rurality was instead often represented along the metrocentric lines of a residual space in modernizing societies.
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- Nylund, Mattias, 1980, et al.
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Socialisation and citizenship preparation in vocational education : Pedagogic codes and democratic rights in VET-subjects
- 2020
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Ingår i: British Journal of Sociology of Education. - : Routledge. - 0142-5692 .- 1465-3346. ; 41:1, s. 1-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous studies of citizenship preparation in upper secondary school, including studies on vocational programmes, have primarily focused on general subjects. Potential and actual roles of vocational subjects in this context have received little attention, so we have little knowledge of what is likely a significant part of the citizenship preparation that occurs in vocational programmes. Drawing on the work of Basil Bernstein and ethnographic data, this study presents an analysis of socialisation processes in vocational elements of three vocational programmes in Swedish upper secondary school. The analysis addresses the formation of pedagogic codes in various vocational programmes and subjects, and how these codes condition students’ practice of citizenship at individual, social and political levels. The results show how different pedagogic codes have different implications for the students’ practice of citizenship, and thus raise questions about factors and processes that may either constrain or strengthen, this aspect in vocational subject classes.
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- Nylund, Mattias, 1980, et al.
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The academic-vocational divide in three Nordic countries : implications for social class and gender
- 2018
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Ingår i: Education Inquiry. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2000-4508. ; 9:1, s. 97-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study we examine how the academic–vocational divide is manifested today in Finland, Iceland and Sweden in the division between vocationally (VET) and academicallyoriented programmes at the upper-secondary school level. The paper is based on a critical re-analysis of results from previous studies; in it we investigate the implications of this divide for class and gender inequalities. The theoretical lens used for the synthesis is based on Bernstein´s theory of pedagogic codes. In the re-analysis we draw on previous studies of policy, curriculum and educational praxis as well as official statistics. The main conclusions are that contemporary policy and curriculum trends in all three countries are dominated by a neo-liberal discourse stressing principles such as “market relevance” and employability. This trend strengthens the academic–vocational divide, mainly through an organisation of knowledge in VET that separates it from more general and theoretical elements. This trend also seems to affect VET students’ transitions in terms of reduced access to higher education, particularly in male-dominated programmes. We also identify low expectations for VET students, manifested through choice of textbooks and tasks, organisation of teacher teams and the advice of career counsellors.
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- Hjelmér, Carina, 1956-, et al.
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Time, space and young people´s agency in vocational upper secondary education : a cross-cultural perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: European Educational Research Journal. - Oxford, United Kingdom : Symposium Journals Ltd. - 1474-9041. ; 9:2, s. 245-256
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on ethnographic studies in the context of vocational education: two in Sweden and one in Finland. The Swedish data originate from the Vehicle programme and the Child and Recreation programme; the Finnish data originate from the social and health-care sector. In this sense, the authors’ perspective is cross-cultural. The article focuses on temporal and spatial dimensions of these three educational contexts and analyzes how young people exhibit their agency when negotiating their time and constructing their own space. The authors’ analysis elucidates how time–space paths in the context of vocational education are classed and gendered. In the female-dominated fields of vocational upper secondary education, disciplinary practices related to time and space are more visible than in the male-dominated fields. Moreover, it is argued that the political atmosphere in Sweden has been more favourable for promoting equality than that in Finland. Despite this, divisions between students and pigeonholing exist in everyday school life.
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- Ledman, Kristina, et al.
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Gendered distribution of ‘knowledge required for empowerment’ in Swedish vocational education curricula?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. - Abingdon : Routledge. - 1363-6820 .- 1747-5090. ; 70:1, s. 85-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sweden is internationally commended for a high degree of gender equality, but many divisions in Swedish society, including the labour market, disadvantage women. This paper addresses gendered divisions of preparation for civic participation in the vocational upper secondary national curricula, which may participate in reproduction of the pattern. In a comparative analysis of the curriculum guidelines for different vocational upper secondary programmes, we focus on the inclusion of important knowledge for empowerment and how knowledge is contextualised in terms of valued labour positions. We deploy Bernstein’s concepts of horizontal and vertical discourse and Connell’s concepts of production, consumption and gendered accumulation. A general finding is that vertical discourse is contextualised towards discourses of consumption in girl-dominated programmes and towards discourses of production in boy-dominated programmes. Boy-dominated programmes include more knowledge that can be clearly classified in recognised disciplines or fields, whereas girl-dominated programmes include courses of undefined knowledge, such as creativity and entrepreneurship. We conclude that the vocational curricula reinforce rather than challenge existing gender structures in the labour market and wider society. In a historical perspective, it can be concluded that Swedish vocational education policy has a continuum of ‘gender-blindness', and thus confirming with wider norms.
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- Nylund, Mattias, 1980-, et al.
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Gymnasiereformens konsekvenser för den sociala fördelningen av kunskaper i de yrkesorienterade utbildningarna
- 2011
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Ingår i: Pedagogisk forskning i Sverige. - Stockholm : Stockholms universitets förlag. - 1401-6788 .- 2001-3345. ; 16:2, s. 81-100
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- I föreliggande artikel analyseras den pågående gymnasiereformen (Prop 2008/09:199, SOU 2008:27) utifrån dess innebörd för kunskapers organise-ring i de yrkesorienterade utbildningarna. För att diskutera reformens möjliga kon-sekvenser analyseras den i relation till befintliga praktiker i en fordonsprograms-klass. Problemet som står i fokus är den ojämlika sociala fördelningen av kunskap och makt som föreligger mellan olika samhällsklasser. I denna problematik har de yrkesorienterade utbildningarna en central position, då dessa huvudsakligen både rekryterar elever från, tillika socialiserar för, arbetarklasspositioner. De teoretiska begreppen hämtas framförallt från utbildningssociologen Basil Bernstein, som skil-jer på kunskap organiserad i horisontella och vertikala diskurser, vilka ger olika förutsättningar för handling i olika sammanhang. Resultaten från analysen visar att befintliga praktiker i huvudsak är horisontellt organiserade och att de riskerar att ytterligare styras i den riktningen genom att reformen premierar starkt kontextbun-den, färdighetsorienterad, kunskap. För den sociala fördelningen av kunskap inne-bär detta att reformen i högre grad än vad som redan är fallet utestänger hälften av gymnasieungdomarna, företrädelsevis med bakgrund i arbetarklassen, från vertika-la diskurser, från kunskap som ger makt.
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- Nylund, Mattias, 1980, et al.
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Historiska perspektiv på yrkesutbildning och demokrati
- 2020
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Ingår i: Yrkesämnena och skolans demokratiuppdrag, P-Å Rosvall, K. Ledman, M. Nylund & M. Rönnlund (red.). - Malmö : Gleerup. - 9789151105123 ; , s. 21-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Rosvall, Per-Åke, 1970-, et al.
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Civic education in VET: concepts for a professional language in VET teaching and VET teacher education
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Vocational Education and Training. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1363-6820 .- 1747-5090.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how Bernsteinian concepts ('pedagogic rights', 'discursive gaps' and 'pedagogic code') from the field of sociology of education can be used as didactic tools to illuminate how different ways of organising teaching in VET has implications for citizenship preparation. The paper is based on results from a five-year research project investigating the extent and nature of learning processes that can be characterised as civic education in Swedish VET. Results from the project show how VET often contributes to social reproduction through provision of class-, gender-, and ethnicity-based access to knowledge with different powers to students. However, we also identified many variations in the VET-contexts studied. In the paper at hand, examples of when and how students got access to different types of knowledge through different ways of organising teaching, and how different ways of teaching prevented or promoted different types of questions with implications for the kind of citizenship preparation the students were offered, is discussed. Our hope is that these discussions contribute to a conversation on how to make a language accessible to VET-teachers that is helpful to problematise and plan their teaching to offer greater access to an active citizenship for students in vocational programmes.
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- Rönnlund, Maria, et al.
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Vocational or academic track? : Study and career plans among Swedish students living in rural areas
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Routledge. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680. ; 21:3, s. 360-375
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This ethnographic study explores how rural lower secondary school students reflect on study and career choices, focusing on the choice between vocational and academic upper secondary programs. Applying a spatial perspective, we analyze individual students’ reflections about study and career choices within a variety of rural regions, and compare patterns in the regions. The results indicate complex interactions between structural factors and individual dispositions. In places where education levels were low and the local labor market predominantly offered unskilled manual and service work, there was a stronger tendency to choose vocational programs than in places with higher education levels and access to a more varied labor market. Likewise, there was an association between strongly gendered labor markets and gender-typical choices. However, individual students positioned themselves actively in relation to the local place, its local labor market and social relations; their choices were place-bound to varying degrees, and chose upper secondary programs and presented ideas about prospective careers that were harmonious with the local labor market in some cases, but discordant in other cases. The results are discussed in the framework of individuals' horizon for actions.
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- Norrström, Anna, et al.
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Specialpedagogers samverkansuppdrag : en undersökning av en habiliterings samverkan med vårdnadshavare, skolor och förskolor
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I dagens samhälle är samverkan en viktig beståndsdel i många yrkesgruppers arbetsuppdrag. Samverkan ses oftast som något eftersträvansvärt och framställs i huvudsak som något posi- tivt. Förhoppningen är att samverkan ska innebära konstruktiva möten och utbyten på en gemensam arena och att en samlad kompetens kan skapa möjligheter för ökad förståelse för gemensamma frågor. Samverkansaktörer handlar dock alltid inom vissa strukturella ramar, och organisatoriska förutsättningar och riktlinjer kan skapa både möjligheter och hinder för reell samverkan.I denna rapport presenteras en kartläggning och analys av en habiliterings specialpedago- gers samverkansmöten med vårdnadshavare och personal på förskolor och skolor. Syftet med rapporten är att studera den specialpedagogiska yrkesgruppens samverkansarbete samt att synliggöra specialpedagogens uppdrag vid habiliteringen. Aspekter som behandlas är bland annat det professionella uppdraget, språkbruk, organisation och struktur.Rapporten vänder sig till dig som organiserar och/eller arbetar med samverkan kring barn i behov av särskilt stöd, studerar specialpedagogik på högskolenivå eller i övrigt har ett intresse av att fördjupa dig i samverkansfrågor. Sammantaget speglar innehållet i rapporten frågor om möjligheter och hinder för att skapa reella samverkansprocesser. Rapporten kan ge upphov till reflektion och problematiserande kring tvärprofessionella möten och organisation och genomförande av samverkan.
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