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Öhrn, Elisabet; Beach, Dennis; Johansson, Monica; Rönnlund, Maria; Rosvall, Per-Åke – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2023
In the autumn of 2015 a large number of mainly Syrian refugees arrived in Sweden. They were unevenly distributed geographically by the authorities and smaller municipalities received proportionally larger numbers than others. The schools became central in the local reception processes. They faced difficulties but also possibilities, both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Rural Schools, Student Needs
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Beach, Dennis; Carlen, Margata – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
The head gangman in the Swedish building trade is a worker elected organiser in a gang comprising between about 4 and 16 workers and an "on-site" and trained representative of the trades union. In 2002 the employer association for the building industry in Sweden (BI) and the Swedish Building and Allied Trades Union (SBATU) signed a joint…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Building Trades, Unions, Administrators