Tracing unique trajectores of participation for a 'girl with ADHD': From 'unwilling student' to 'agentive learning'

Evaldsson, Ann-Carita,1958-Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier,CLIP (author)

Tracing unique trajectores of participation for a 'girl with ADHD' : From 'unwilling student' to 'agentive learning'

The overall aim of this study is to explore how individual children with long-term school difficulties follow unique ‘trajectories of participation’ in special educational needs settings, sometimes in unexpected ways, and how this contributes to alternative forms of identification and processes of learning. The data draws on long-term video-ethnographic work, tracing trajectories of participation during the course of a school year for an individual girl with an ADHD diagnosis who is a newcomer to a special support school in Sweden. We use a multi-layered theoretical and methodological framework to learning, identities and participation as situated practices to explore how the focal girl, through her everyday participation in classroom contexts structured to amplify the student’s capabilities, gradually moves from an ‘unwilling student’ to an ‘agentive learner’. Through a multimodal interactional analysis, we demonstrate how the focal girl’s actions and the teacher’s scaffolding responses are interactionally organised, and the emotional and relational dimensions in the creation of participation frameworks for learning. It is argued that the student’s agency and emerging emotional engagement in school-based learning are intimately linked to the pursuit of building long-term learning relationships based on mutual trust.

Svahn, JohannaUppsala universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier,PS(Swepub:uu)johsv802 (author)
Uppsala universitetInstitutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier (creator_code:org_t)

In:Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties: Informa UK Limited24:3, s. 254-2721363-27521741-2692

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