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- Kesak, Hennie, et al.
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Interculturalism, ethnicity, and multilingualism in upper secondary school: an analysis of social pedagogical identities during pedagogical work with students newly arrived in Sweden
- 2023
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Ingår i: Intercultural Education. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1467-5986 .- 1469-8439. ; 34:2, s. 180-198
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of the present study is to attain new knowledge about interculturalism, ethnicity, and multilingualism in the upper secondary school context in conjunction with pedagogical work with students who are newly arrived in the country. The empirical material for the studies was collected in the upper secondary context in Sweden and consists of documents, field notes written up from fieldwork, and qualitative ethnographic interviews. Analysis shows that a distance relationship is created and recreated in the interactive flow between the newly arrived students and the teachers–institution when ethnic social pedagogical monitoring and control are represented in writing by the institution (the upper secondary school) and verbally in the observed and recounted situations. Social pedagogical identities are produced and reproduced in the interactive dynamic, in which the newly arrived student is represented as a successful student, developing in the social pedagogical meaning. However, the newly arrived student also is represented as a humiliated, weary, excluded student who, through demonstration of moral dissolution, displays an ethnified victim student identity that is in opposition to the teachers and institution (upper secondary school). This represented humiliation, weariness, and exclusion of the newly arrived student constructs and reconstructs the image of a disadvantaged student. The effect is likely a negative impact on the aims of the upper secondary school to include and integrate newly arrived students into the school community and society at large.
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- Kesak, Hennie, et al.
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Interculturality and Multilingualism in Upper-Secondary Schools : An analysis of opportunities and obstacles in organisational and practical activities with newly arrived migrant students
- 2021
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Ingår i: <em>Nationell specialpedagogisk konferens. Inkludering i etikens motljus</em> (”National special education conference in Sweden. Inclusion in the backlight of ethics”), Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.. - Örebro, Sweden.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the present study is to achieve a new level of knowledge of interculturality and multilingualism in conjunction with practical and organisational activities involving newly arrived migrant students in upper-secondary education. The analysis revolves around the following three research questions: (1) How do head teachers, teachers and other professionals working in upper-secondary schools describe interculturality and multilingualism in conjunction with practical and organisational activities involving newly arrived migrant students? (2) How do newly arrived migrant students describe interculturality and multilingualism in conjunction with practical activities in upper-secondary schools? (3) How do those involved describe newly arrived migrant students’ identity formation and reformation during teaching and learning activities in upper-secondary schools, and the significance of such processes to social integration? The empirical material used in the study consists of qualitative interviews, field notes and documents related to upper-secondary education obtained from a number of Swedish municipalities. In addition to newly arrived migrant students, the study’s informants are representatives of various professions working in upper-secondary education. Thirty interviews have been conducted with professionals working with newly arrived migrant students, as well as interviews with 10 newly arrived students attending different upper-secondary schools in Sweden. Analysis of the collected empirical data shows that the ethnic identities of both professionals and students are constructed and reconstructed during teaching and learning activities in upper-secondary schools. During these activities, an ethnified position of “us” and “them” is produced and reproduced between actors in the context of upper-secondary education. These positions are analysed in the present study as both an obstacle (“us” and “them” in the relationship between various ethnic categories of student and teacher, or as ethnified monitoring and social control in the school context) and an opportunity (a common ethnified “we” in the relationship between teacher and student).
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- Kesak, Hennie, et al.
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Interculturality, Ethnicity and Multilingualism in Upper-Secondary Schools : An analysis of opportunities and obstacles in organisational and practical activities with newly arrived migrant students
- 2022
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Ingår i: Presented at: <em>Bortom krisen</em> (”Beyond the crisis”), Uppsala University and Swedish Sociological Association, Uppsala, Sweden (20220316-20220318).. - Uppsala, Sweden : Uppsala University and Swedish Sociological Association.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of the present study is to achieve a new level of knowledge of interculturality, ethnicity and multilingualism in conjunction with practical and organisational activities involving newly arrived migrant students in upper-secondary education. The analysis revolves around the following two research questions: (1) How do newly arrived migrant students produces interculturality, ethnicity and multilingualism in conjunction with practical activities in upper-secondary schools? (2) How do those involved produce newly arrived migrant students’ identity formation and reformation during teaching and learning activities in upper-secondary schools, and the significance of such processes to social integration? The empirical material used in the study consists of qualitative interviews, field notes and documents related to upper-secondary education obtained from a number of Swedish municipalities. Ten interviews have been conducted with newly arrived students attending different upper-secondary schools in Sweden. The dominant standard explanations of the category of newly arrived students (especially those who come from war zones) seem to focus on their psychiatric or medical needs. The common diagnoses that figure in the research include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, recurring nightmares, emotional apathy, and flashbacks to traumatic events. Common explanations for absence in the school context include stomach aches, restlessness, anxiety, and depression, and competing explanations seem relatively de-emphasized. These may include (1) established inequalities in society and at school, (2) material and institutional difficulties in societal and school contexts, (3) bureaucratic hurdles in school and in the rest of society, (4) ethnic monitoring and social control in society and at school, (5) the humiliated identities of the actors in a societal and school context, (6) victimization in relation to the majority in the context; (7) demeaning ethnic categorizations in society and at school, and (8) discrimination in the school context and an overall societal context. Analysis of the collected empirical data in this study shows that the ethnic identities of newly arrived students are constructed and reconstructed during teaching and learning activities in upper-secondary schools. During these activities, an ethnified position of “us” and “them” is produced and reproduced between actors in the context of upper-secondary education. These positions are analysed in the present study as both an obstacle (“us” and “them” in the relationship between various ethnic categories of student and teacher, or as ethnified monitoring and social control in the school context) and an opportunity (a common ethnified “we” in the relationship between teacher and student).
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- Kesak, Hennie
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Skolframgång för nyanlända : en interaktionistisk analys av möjligheter, hinder, identiteter och samverkan
- 2021
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studien syftar till att upptäcka, beskriva och analysera interaktiva mönster i mellanmänskliga möten i gymnasieskolkontext som påverkar lärarnas arbetssituation och förutsättningar för att skapa undervisning som främjar nyanländas integration och framgång i det svenska skolsystemet; framgångar och hinder i skolans organisering av arbetet med nyanlända elever; nyanlända elevernas identitetsskapande och återskapande under pedagogiska aktiviteter i skolan samt dessa processers betydelse för integration i samhället.Studien utgår från ett interaktionistiskt och interkulturellt perspektiv, samt har inslag av etnometodologi och socialkonstruktionism. Den interkulturella pedagogiska forskningen utgår liksom etnometodologin från att samhället inte styrs uppifrån och att samhällets normaltillstånd inte kännetecknas av essentiell struktur och tydlig ordning. Social ordning uppnås inte normativt utan genom konstituerande regler och meningsskapande som kontinuerligt produceras av handlingar som är möjliga att återge, observera och dokumentera.Studien är en kvalitativ studie som tar sin metodologiska utgångspunkt i etnografisk tradition, där huvudsyftet är att försöka förstå och beskriva människors komplexa livsvillkor och levda kultur. Studien har en fallstudiedesign där tre olika metoder för att samla in och analysera empiri har använts: intervju, observation och dokument i gymnasieskolkontext.Resultatet visar hur arbetssituationen för olika professionella lärarkategorier, samverkan mellan olika yrkeskategorier, samt mellan olika yrkeskategorier och elever och vårdnadshavare kan vara både ett hinder och en möjlighet i det praktiska arbetet med nyanlända elever. Resultatet visar även att arbetssituationen för lärare och samverkan mellan olika kategorier påverkar produktion och reproduktion av elevernas identiteter under pedagogiska aktiviteter i skolan. Under dessa aktiviteter konstrueras och rekonstrueras en ”vi” och ”de” positionering mellan aktörer i gymnasieskolans kontext. Den positioneringen analyseras i föreliggande studie som både ett hinder(”vi” – ”de” i relation lärare – elev eller i relation modersmålslärare – andra kategorier av lärare) och en möjlighet (gemensamt ”vi” i relation lärare – elev eller i relation modersmålslärare – andra kategorier av lärare – elev). Studiens resultat visar dessutom upp betydelsen av gymnasieskolans kontextbundna diskurser, attityder, engagerat ledarskap och rätt kompetens av lärarna som viktiga dimensioner för framtida utvecklingsarbete i relation till professionella aktörer som praktiskt arbetar med nyanlända elever.
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