Helena Korp

Newly arrived migrant children in the Swedish school-system : Challenges and Opportunities in a Nordic Welfare State

Background : Sweden has experienced waves of migration into the country since the end of the WWII. Pull-factors for migration were opportunities to...

Reconstructing Parenthood Post Migration : Newly Arrived Parents’ Reflections on Upbringing, Education and Parental Support in Sweden

Contribution The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how newly arrived parents construct and reconstructed parenthood...

ULF forskning : praktiknära och praktikutvecklande skolforskning

A "blind spot" : Reproduction of racism in educational landscapes

This chapter is divided into five sections. The first section starts with a narrative from one of our research projects on inclusion and equality f...

The predicament of the child refugee : €“ understanding health and wellbeing in the daily life of migrant children and young people

A 'blind-spot' : reproduction of racism in educational landscapes

Hitta drivet : Studiemotivation och genusmönster i grundskolan

Individual Development Plans in the Swedish Comprehensive School : Supporting High Quality Learning and Equity, or Rote Learning and Social Reproduction?

In Swedish compulsory school, individual development plans (IDPs) are mandatory for all students up to 6th grade. The purpose is to summarize and...

Inkludering och likvärdighetför nyanlända elever i grundskolan : en fallstudie i två kommuner

Find The Drive : On Co-Designing Practice And Experience Of A Research And Development Project Driven By Municipalities And University

This paper aims to highlight challenges and opportunities connected to collaboration between municipal school administrators, principals, teachers...

Motivational Strategies and the Reframing of English : Activity Design and Challenges for Teachers in Contexts of Extensive Extramural Encounters

Motivational strategies are underresearched, and studies so far conducted have been in sociolinguistic contexts where English is not extensively...

Studiehandledning för nyanlända elever i svensk skola

Tutoring Newly Arrived Students in Sweden : A Matter of Trial and Error?

General description This research deals with tutoring in the mother tongue to support newly arrived students in Swedish elementary schools. Althoug...

Language Training and Meaningful Waiting : the Impact on Refugees' L2, Identity and Agency of taking an Intensive Language Course While in Asylum Accommodation

Mapping of the Newcomers' Reception and Educational Situation and their transition in the School system in Sweden.

ID: 3386 / 26 SES 03 C JS: 426. Educational Leadership Paper (Copy for Joint Session) Alternative EERA Network: 07. Social Justice and Intercultura...

Migrating Newcomers' in the Swedish Educational System - What's the Politics in that? : KAN-projektet: Kartläggning av nyanlända elevers utbildningssituation och övergångar i grundskolan.

The Swedish Parliament and the Government draw up the overall national goals regarding the educational system. Education in Sweden has had a strong...

Differences in English teachers’ approaches to pupils’ out-of-school English encounters in relation to school and pupil demographic factors

The purpose of this questionnaire-based study is to investigate whether differences in ways in which teachers of English view the challenge of...

Generating Engagement : A Content Analysis of the Motivational Qualities in EFL Teachers’ Descriptions of Motivating Activities

Students’ declining motivation to learn English in school presents a major challenge for teachers (Ushioda, 2013) and motivation researchers need t...

Elevers möten med engelska i och utanför skolan : Upprop till deltagande i forskningsprojektet Bridging the Gap

Exploring multi-sited ethnography as an approach for studying good practice in the L2 classroom

Introduction This paper explores multi-sited ethnography (Marcus, 2011) as a research strategy in L2 classroom research in regard to a specific...

Smart eller inte? : Hur kulturella föreställningar om intelligens påverkar ungdomars identitet och livsbanor

Kapitlet beskriver intelligensdiskurser som kontext.

Etnografi i forskning om ungdomars vardag

'I think i would have learnt more if they had tried to teach us more' - performativity, learning and identities in a swedish transport programme

This study is based on an ethnography that was carried out in the Transport Programme (TP) in a Swedish upper secondary school (in this paper...

Identitetserbjudanden och lärar–elevrelationen

Individual Education Plans : sustaining or challenging power relations?

This study is based on an analysis of a sample of so called Individual Education Plans (IEP) from 233 Swedish students in grade five. It addresses...

Lärare och lärande i yrkesprogram och introduktionsprogram

Teachers’ implicit theories of intelligence : influences from different disciplines and scientific theories

A sample of 226 Swedish high school teachers from various knowledge domains completed self-report measures of intelligence regarding implicit...

Work Integrated Learning from the Perspective of Internationalization

The focus of this presentation is on work integrated learning in higher education that takes place in a cultural context different to that which th...

Kunskapsbedömning : Vad, hur, varför? :  kunskapsöversikt

I den här kunskapsöversikten sammanställs forskning inom området bedömning och den riktar sig främst till lärare och rektorer. Kunskapsöversikten...

What counts as being smart around here? the performance of smartness and masculinity in vocational upper secondary education

This article is based on an ethnographic study of the transport program, a vocational education with strong masculine tradition, in a Swedish upper...

Nationella prov och likvärdig betygssättning i gymnasiet

Kapitlet handlar om hur nationella prov används i gymnasiet och hur de fungerar som stöd för likvärdig betygssättning i olika program och ämnen. De...

"I think I would have learnt more if they had tried to teach us more"

Pædagogisk brug af test : et systematisk review

What counts as being smart around here? : Students' identity making and valued discourses in vocational upper secondary education

Gymnasiet, en skola för alla : men på olika villkor

Lika chanser i gymnasiet? : en studie om betyg, nationella prov och social reproduktion