Educating the Old and Newcomers: Perspectives of Teachers on Teaching in Multicultural Schools in Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Obondo, Margaret A.; Lahdenperä, Pirjo; Sandevärn, Pia
Titel	Educating the Old and Newcomers: Perspectives of Teachers on Teaching in Multicultural Schools in Sweden
Quelle	In: Multicultural Education Review, 8 (2016) 3, S.176-194 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Obondo, Margaret A.) ORCID (Lahdenperä, Pirjo)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2005-615X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; Multicultural Education; Student Diversity; Immigrants; Focus Groups; Interviews; Student Needs; Inclusion; Culturally Relevant Education; Standardized Tests; Teaching Methods; Municipalities; School Districts; Qualitative Research; Heterogeneous Grouping; Educational Practices; Cultural Pluralism; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Inklusion; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Magistrat; School district; Schulbezirk; Qualitative Forschung; Bildungspraxis; Kulturpluralismus; Schweden
Abstract	This study focuses on teachers in schools with large numbers of new arrival immigrant pupils in a provincial school district in mid-Sweden. Drawing from focus group interviews and examples from the teachers' lessons, we examined the views of the teachers regarding the challenges experienced in responding to the pedagogical needs of new arrival pupils in culturally and linguistically heterogeneous classrooms. The findings reveal the structural and organisational problems at the city council and at the school and classroom levels as the major challenges. These include the pressure to create inclusive and safe classrooms for diverse cultural and linguistic pupils in an atmosphere where there is limited resources and emphasis on standardised assessment and teaching for tests within a prescribed curriculum However, the teachers' pedagogical practices demonstrate attempts at intercultural teaching that build on the pupils cultural and linguistic experiences and compares well with principles of cultural responsive pedagogy. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01