Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings
This article discusses teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students in poor settings and the effect these attitudes have on organization of education on classroom level. It draws on results from two ethnographic studies where some primary school classes in Sweden were followed with participant obs...
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| description | This article discusses teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students in poor settings and the effect these attitudes have on organization of education on classroom level. It draws on results from two ethnographic studies where some primary school classes in Sweden were followed with participant observation and interviews as main research methods. The article focuses on classroom activities and teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students and students with low socio-economic status. In the article is argued for the importance of presenting students in poor settings with demanding tasks and challenging education. In these cases, intellectually undemanding tasks in combination with little room for students’ own initiatives resulted in low enthusiasm among students regarding schoolwork and accordingly low learning, while classroom work that demanded active involvement by students in combination with high level of students’ influence on what took place in classrooms resulted in high level of students’ engagement and high outcome. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ffecce0580144fbb45ac8a381d0f6332023-02-15T16:10:24ZengKura PublishingInternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education1307-92981307-92982015-07-0172169188Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settingsÅsa Wedin0Dalarna UniversityThis article discusses teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students in poor settings and the effect these attitudes have on organization of education on classroom level. It draws on results from two ethnographic studies where some primary school classes in Sweden were followed with participant observation and interviews as main research methods. The article focuses on classroom activities and teachers’ attitudes towards immigrant students and students with low socio-economic status. In the article is argued for the importance of presenting students in poor settings with demanding tasks and challenging education. In these cases, intellectually undemanding tasks in combination with little room for students’ own initiatives resulted in low enthusiasm among students regarding schoolwork and accordingly low learning, while classroom work that demanded active involvement by students in combination with high level of students’ influence on what took place in classrooms resulted in high level of students’ engagement and high outcome.https://iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/73/71Challenging educationImmigrant studentsDiverse settingsTeacher attitudesDeficiencies |
| spellingShingle | Åsa Wedin Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education Challenging education Immigrant students Diverse settings Teacher attitudes Deficiencies |
| title | Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| title_full | Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| title_fullStr | Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| title_short | Non-challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| title_sort | non challenging education and teacher control as factors for marginalization of students in diverse settings |
| topic | Challenging education Immigrant students Diverse settings Teacher attitudes Deficiencies |
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