A dilemmatic space: A qualitative study about teachers’ agency working with early identification of special needs

Westerholm, Kristin, 1973- (author): Linköpings universitet,Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för ämnesdidaktik,Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden;Department of Teaching and Learning, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden,matematikämnets didaktik,Pedagogik och didaktik,Utbildningsvetenskap

Lindqvist, Henrik, 1978- (author): Linköpings universitet,Pedagogik och didaktik,Utbildningsvetenskap

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Taylor & Francis, 2023
2023
English.
In: European Journal of Special Needs Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0885-6257 .- 1469-591X. ; , s. 1-15

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Abstract Subject headings

The present study focuses on challenges to the work of teachers as a result of a Swedish educational reform that mandates schools guarantee pupils receive early learning support concerning reading, writing, and number sense. The outcome of reforms is connected to how teachers achieve agency in their work , and we use the ecolo-gical model of teacher agency as an overarching theoretical frame-work and analytical dimension. The study involved interviews with 14 teachers, and the focus was on a) how teachers identify pupils in need of support and how this support is carried out, (b) how teachers would like this identification to be carried out, and how teachers would like to support pupils with weak number sense. Teachers described a ‘dilemmatic space’ (cf. Fransson and Grannäs 2013), which affects how they achieved agency in developing pupils’ num-ber sense. The dilemmatic space described by teachers in this study is framed by necessary priorities pertaining to the cultural, structural, and material conditions of the current situation. According to the study’s results, whether teachers should perform the assessment merits discussion. The study concludes there is a risk that conducting assessments and offering support risks cancelling each other out.

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