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Direct linkAli Osman; Anna Lund; Stefan Lund – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2025
The present paper delves into how symbolic boundaries in a school that is undergoing a desegregation process come to shape social boundaries of 'we-ness' and 'otherness'. The theoretical framework of the study starts from an interest in analysing whether symbolic and social boundaries emerge in new encounters during a desegregation process and…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Equal Education
Arneback, Emma; Bergh, Andreas; Tryggvason, Ásgeir – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of this article is to shed light on teachers' actions to counter racism expressed by their colleagues. Based on qualitative interviews with teachers in Swedish upper secondary schools, the article presents a narrative analysis of three teachers. The article highlights the complexity of what it means to be a colleague in anti-racist work…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Racism, Interprofessional Relationship, Foreign Countries
Ennerberg, Elin; Economou, Catarina – Vocations and Learning, 2022
Amongst the most significant labour market challenges is the integration of migrants and the opportunities for individual migrants to find employment that match their qualifications. The object of this study is to analyse the formal and informal obstacles migrant teachers face when entering the labour market. These obstacles include the formal…
Descriptors: Migrants, Minority Group Teachers, Labor Market, Reentry Workers
Maria Löfdahl; Johan Järlehed; Daniel Wojahn; Tommaso M. Milani; Tove Rosendal; Helle Lykke Nielsen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This paper examines the relationship between language, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in racialized spaces, focusing on Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers in Sweden. Using a theoretical framework based on hegemonic whiteness and intersectionality, the study explores how multilingual practices and subjectivities intersect with race, religion,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Mobility, Racial Relations, Multilingualism
Brännström, Malin – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This article is based on a case study of the school life of Fatou, a newly arrived adolescent student with limited experiences of formal schooling. Drawing on Goffman's theories on impression and stigma management, the article explores the techniques employed by Fatou in order to pass as a "normal" student in the mainstream classroom.…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Immigrants, Student Experience, Secondary School Students
Gonsalves, Allison J.; Danielsson, Anna T.; Avraamidou, Lucy; Nyström, Anne-Sofie; Esquivel, Rebeca – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
[This paper is part of the Focused Collection on Qualitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination.] This article details methodologies employed to enable sharing and coconstructing the stories of three women's lives in physics. The first case explores the usefulness of timeline interviewing, where participants narrate episodes that are…
Descriptors: Physics, Self Concept, Females, Student Attitudes
Navika Gangrade; Chellandra Samuels; Hassan Attar; Aaliyah Schultz; Nanda Nana; Erqianqian Ye; W. Marcus Lambert – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2024
Background: Mentorship is critical to success in postgraduate science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine (STEMM) settings. As such, the purpose of this study is to comprehensively explore the state of mentorship interventions in postgraduate STEMM settings to identify novel practices and future research directions. The selection criteria…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Graduate Students, Medical Students
Monica Reichenberg; Girma Berhanu – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2024
The number of students with special educational needs (SEN) is growing rapidly. This study compared the correlations between the share of students identified with SEN and student diversity (socioeconomic status and ethnicity) at the school level in three countries. We used the principal questionnaire from the 2018 Teaching and Learning…
Descriptors: Special Education, Special Needs Students, Student Placement, Welfare Services
Sanni Aalto; Reeta Kankaanpää; Kirsi Peltonen; Ilse Derluyn; Nikolett Szelei; An Verelst; Lucia De Haene; Sofie de Smet; Caroline Spaas; Signe Smith Jervelund; Morten Skovdal; Arnfinn J. Andersen; Per Kristian Hilden; Marianne Opaas; Natalie Durbeej; Fatumo Osman; Anna Sarkadi; Emma Soye; Mervi Vänskä – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers' multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Well Being, Work Attitudes
Löfgren, Håkan; Aman, Robert – Education Inquiry, 2022
The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Student Experience
Spjut, Lina – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2021
This article explores ways in which textbook content can reflect national identity over time via a case study of Swedish textbooks. To this end, it analyzes and contextualizes descriptions of Finnish labor migrants in Sweden in seventy-four compulsory school textbooks. The Finnish labor group emigrated from Finland to Sweden mainly from the 1950s…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Migrant Workers
Högberg, Björn; Lindgren, Joakim – Comparative Education, 2023
In response to declining results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys, the then governing Swedish coalition in 2010-2014 introduced earlier grading, more extensive national testing and a new standards-based curriculum. These reforms coincided with a greater emphasis on inclusive' education understood in the 'narrow'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Sense of Community, Foreign Countries, Achievement Gains
Schmitt, Irina – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
The vulnerability of gender nonconforming young people is all too well documented. Arguably, "trans issues" in schools are not restricted to transphobic comments, and need to be analyzed intersectionally. Guided by Lugones' discussion of the politics of purity read together with the analysis of cisnormativity, this article draws on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People, Educational Environment
Wiltgren, Layal – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
This article focuses on the discrepancy between school staffs' views of a permissive, inclusive classroom climate, and high-performing minority students' stories of social exclusion. The students are seemingly well-integrated into the Swedish school system, they have good grades, high ambitions, and attend a prestigious school. However, students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Attitudes, Inclusion
Powell, Stina; Arora-Jonsson, Seema – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Despite the academy's commitment to the idea of meritocratic and fair principles in recruitments, promotions, student admissions and progress, gender segregation and gender inequalities continue to trouble universities worldwide. Through case-studies of two education programs at a Swedish university, we investigate how processes of formal merit,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Females, Gender Discrimination
