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- Carlson, Marie, 1950, et al.
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Gender in Language Education and Civic Orientation for Adult Migrants in Sweden: A Study of Policy Documents and Teaching Materials
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice. Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Educational Research. - Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany : Springer. - 9783030809010 ; , s. 193-209
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Different social models for integration and citizenship are increasingly being discussed in Europe, both in research and political organisations. This can be seen as a consequence of the decline of “multicultural” models that were fundamental to integration policy. There is a demand for participation in education such as language courses and courses on civic orientation. In Sweden, a new regulation was added in 2010 and civic orientation courses were introduced for newly arrived migrants. Each municipality is required to offer these courses. A textbook entitled About Sweden has been composed for the courses. In the present chapter, we use a narrative and discursive approach to analyse this textbook in relation to how the migrant subjects are (re)constructed as gendered subject. However, this chapter also provides a contextual analytical framework; a short review of previous research on migrants and norms and values in language education including some salient policy documents with focus on gender issues. In terms of time perspective, we searched for continuities as well as changes in views on gender issues and views on the individual in a societal context. Stereotypical and homogenising conceptions seem to continue to thrive and not been the subject of deconstruction, either in research, politics, cultural life or in public debate.
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- Carlson, Marie, 1950, et al.
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Introduction - Chapter 1
- 2021
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Ingår i: Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030809010
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: The introduction frames the view of transdisciplinary research and conceptual framework of the book. The anthology brings together scholars from different countries/regions and discuss, deconstruct and problematize “gender and education” in relation to themes in a comparative, intersectional, local, national, regional and global perspective to provide a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological boundaries. The introduction outlines and develops key themes that underpin the collection of chapters of the book. Overarching themes include increased focus on policy, practice, cooperation and action/agency, increased emphasis on theorization and critique towards the dualisms (girl/boy, male/female, masculinity/femininity) and Anglophone and Western bias. The book explores the diversity of educational settings across the European and global context, from the formal and the informal, and ranging from early childhood to adult education. Empirical examples are from countries/regions: Croatia, Indonesia, Mozambique and South Africa, Turkey, UK and Nordic countries i.e. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The introduction will also pay attention to how authors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in order to bring to life how gender and education are relevant and needed concepts within the field of transdisciplinary research.
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- Carlson, Marie, 1950
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“Swedish” Values and Norms in Language Courses and Social Orientation for Adult Migrants in Sweden: A Critical Analysis of Teaching Materials and Education since the 1960s.
- 2021
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Ingår i: Hildebrandt-Wypych, Dobrochna & Wiseman, Alexander W. (Eds.) Comparative Perspectives on School Textbooks – Analyzing Shifting Discourses on Nationhood, Citizenship, Gender, and Religion.. - London : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783030687182 ; , s. 21-45
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter is a critical review of “Swedish” values and norms in education over time for adult immigrants in Sweden, in language courses, SFI (Swedish For Immigrants) and in civic/social orientation. Values and norms are linked to a societal context and steering documents. During last years’ increase in refugee and migrant flows, a lively debate has arisen in various contexts, with controversy over what can be defined as “Swedish” values and norms and how these can best be transferred or communicated to new arrivals for better integration. Previously, there was a stronger emphasis on “multiculturalism” in various steering documents. In practice, however, steering documents, textbooks and teaching itself already contain many normative “Swedish” perspectives linked to ethnicity, gender and not least “Swedish” culture. Since 2010, social orientation for newcomers, which must now be separated from language teaching, has become increasingly homogenized in order to provide a national standard. Uniformity is expected in terms of both organization and content. The statute contains a number of defined standardized themes at the overall level. In this chapter, a critical, discourse-analytical perspective together with a narrative approach will examine what content is highlighted over time in policy documents and, above all, in educational material such as textbooks in relation to societal context and politics. The analysis shows how gendered, culturalized and ethnified discourses can be discerned over the years and how the constructions of the immigrant and the Swede play out together and fostering accompanying attitudes.
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Gender and Education in Politics, Policy and Practice.
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book presents ideas on education, gender and intersectionality through a transdisciplinary frame by crossing disciplinary and methodological borders. Exploring the diversity of educational settings ranging from early childhood to adult education, it brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss, deconstruct and problematize gender and education in relation to several themes in a comparative, intersectional, local, national, regional and international perspective. Each chapter approaches the topic in an intersectional and/or transnational manner and creates powerful gendered educational knowledge. Questions addressed in the book include: What are the challenges or barriers to gender-equal education? How can we understand the gaps between formal policies and educational practices? The chapters in the book illustrate how gender and education are relevant and needed concepts within the field of transdisciplinary research. The authors hail from a range of countries, such as Croatia, Indonesia, Turkey, UK, as well as the Nordic region, and they critically examine gender and education at all levels and in diverse sectors, and with varied lenses, such as neoliberalism in education, and the inclusion of newcomers and refugees.
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- Milani, Tommaso M., 1973, et al.
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Citizenship as status, habitus and acts: Language requirements and civic orientation in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Citizenship Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-1025 .- 1469-3593. ; 25:6, s. 756-772
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article employs the notions of citizenship as status, habitus and acts as a framework through which to capture how sovereign power, disciplinary power and biopower intersect in the context of Sweden’s current management of migration. Through an analysis of policy and media debates, the article first illustrates how citizenship as status and sovereign power in Sweden have undergone a shift from actively endorsing multilingualism and cultural dialogue to requiring migrants to demonstrate knowledge of a particular language, Swedish, and what is constructed as a singular national culture and its values. The article then homes in on a particular Arabic-language course in civic orientation for newly arrived adult migrants in a large urban area. We illustrate how disciplinary power and biopower work by socializing a group of migrants into a specific habitus of Swedish values and norms. We also unveil the acts of resistance they perform in response.
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- Milani, Tommaso M., 1973, et al.
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Civic orientation for adult migrants in Sweden – A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Swedish values and norms in the textbook About Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Fjortonde nationella konferensen i svenska med didaktisk inriktning : Didaktiska perspektiv på språk och litteratur i en globaliserad värld, Malmö 18–19 november 2020 / [ed] Pia Nygård Larsson, Cecilia Olsson Jers, Magnus Persson. - Malmö : Malmö universitet. - 1651-9132. - 9789178772841
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing upon the analytical techniques of multimodal critical discourse analysis, this article investigates the book About Sweden, an educational material employed in courses on civic orientation for newly arrived migrants. The analysis is informed by the following research questions: (1) What are represented as typically Swedish values and norms in the textbook? (2) How are such norms and values portrayed through written language and visual images? Visually the book relies on specific representations of Swedish nature without people. We argue that such pictures of the Swedish landscape are not ideologically neutral but carry connotations that are historically linked to forms of Swedish nationalism. Moreover, we interpret the lack of people in line with Berggren and Trägårdh (2006) notion of statist individualism (statsindividualism), an ideology according to which a strong interventionist welfare-state is not necessarily incompatible with the maximisation of individual freedom. Our textual analysis illustrates the textual tensions between, on the one hand, the choice of specific norms and values as Swedish, and, on the other hand, aversion towards overt national identity labels. Finally, we illustrate how Swedish values and norms in the textbook are just one link in a longer intertextual chain that connects the book to other policy documents as well as Swedish politicians’ public statements in the context of current debates about migration in Sweden.
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