Teacher’s stories about teaching newly arrived refugee youths at a vocational upper secondary school in Sweden

• This article presents the stories of four teachers teaching newly arrived refugee youths at a vocational uppersecondary school. The youths came to Sweden in 2015 and later, and they live in a so-called vulnerable area.This is a period when many unaccompanied children and adolescent refugees arrived in Sweden.The studyaims to contribute to knowledge about teaching newly arrived refugee youths and the way these youths caninfluence teaching in a vocational school.The methodological and theoretical starting point for the studyis based on a narrative perspective. The stories are analysed thematically and show that these studentshavegreat solidarity with each other,areambitious, and create a good mood in the classroom.In addition, thereis always “someone” who does not believe in democratic values, although most of the students value theSwedish democracy and equality between men and women. The expulsion decision that some studentsreceive affects the teachers’ teaching as well, since it means that theyalso have to deal with teachingsituations where their students’ lives and deaths are involved in the sense that they are refugees threatenedby expulsion.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

eachers’ work

teaching newly arrived refugee youths

narrative research

teachers’ stories

vocational upper secondaryschool2022: 3doi:10.24834/educare.2022.3.7

Pedagogiskt arbete

Educational Work

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)