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- Ljusberg, Anna-Lena, 1957-
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Children’s views on attending a remedial class – because of concentration difficulties
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Ingår i: Child Care Health and Development. - : Wiley. - 0305-1862 .- 1365-2214. ; 37:3, s. 440-445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background An increasing number of segregating solutions (e.g. remedial classes) can be seen in Swedish schools. The aim of this article is to stress how children describe why they attend a remedial class and what it means to be a pupil in that setting. Methods The data collection consists of semi-structured interviews with 10 pupils between 10 and 12 years old attending 10 different remedial classes because they had been attributed with having concentration difficulties or diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The content of the interviews was described and analysed in relation to the classroom context. The socio-cultural perspective is used as a screen to describe and understand the children’s comments about attending remedial class. Results and conclusions All interviews with the children indicate that they are carriers of their schools’ compensatory perspective. This means that they are fully aware of the fact that they are regarded as difficult, with annoying and problematic behaviour, deviating from pupils’ in general. The remedial class creates social difficulties for the children; they see themselves as deviant, they lose old friends and there are limited possibilities of establishing new friendship in remedial classes.
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- Ljusberg, Anna-Lena, 1957-
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School-Age Educare: Different Ways of Talking as Arenas for Inclusion
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- I present an approach for a proposed study using discourse analysis, with the aim of studying how pupils interact with childcare teachers during school-age childcare and during school hours.In Sweden almost 80 % of the child population between six and nine years old attends school-age child-care - mostly integrated in the school. In a Swedish thesis from 1999, Karlsudd, declares that school-age child-care can boast of being like a final integration sanctuary, while the school, unfortunately rarely succeed in their integration efforts (Karlsudd, 1999). Time has changed, in a conference paper 12 years later Karlsudd declares; the final integration sanctuary is probably soon lost (Karlsudd, 2011). In Sweden as in several other countries we can see that medical discourse has been given priority in the educational context (Ljusberg, 2009). Goals in both the Swedish school law and the curricula state that all pupils are to be regarded as equal, to have equal rights to education, and equal circumstances in school. In my thesis (Ljusberg, 2009) I am using different perspectives, a relational perspective and a compensatory perspective (also called the medical psychological perspective (Bailey, 1998), and the individual or categorical perspective (Emanuelsson, Persson & Rosenqvist, 2001). From a compensatory perspective the difficulties are attached to the pupil, from a relational perspective the difficulties are studied as situated social constructions (Hjörne, 2004; Mehan, 1993). In this paper I present my approach for a ethno-methodological study using discourse analysis with the aim to study how pupils interact/are talking with school-age child-care teachers in one hand during school-age child-care and on the other hand during school hours.
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- Ljusberg, Anna-Lena, 1957-
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The structured classroom
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Ingår i: International Journal of Inclusive Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-3116 .- 1464-5173. ; 15:2, s. 195-210
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this article is to highlight the organisation of the remedial classroom. The data were collected from observations and semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers in remedial classes for children seen and treated as having concentration deficits. The teachers use primarily compensatory language that places the deficits in the pupils. Something appearing both in the interviews and in the organisation of the classroom is the structured classroom. In the remedial class it can be expresse by dividing the pupils’ working place areas with screens or turning the pupils’ desks toward a bare wall, and strongly structuring the teaching. By pointing out the problem as pupils’ social deficits, the schools reduce their agency. The goal of remedial classes is that the pupils will return to the ordinary class. This article suggests that what pupils in remedial classes learn primarily is to be a pupil in a remedial class.
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