Open this publication in new window or tab >>2024 (English)In: Book of abstracts, 2024, p. 635-635Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
According to the Swedish Education Act (SFS 2010:800) all students are entitled to not only guidance and stimulation, but also additional adjustments and special support, when there is risk that the student does not achieve the minimum grade E. When a student is in need of support, the support should be based on the student’s whole education, i.e. all subjects. Consequently, the teaching staff must cooperate and share not only problems or obstacles but also success factors.
In Swedish context, Vocational Education Students in Upper Secondary Schools on one hand tends to need more support activities, e.g. action programs, but on the other hand mainly in core subjects or theoretical subjects. Additionally vocational teachers’ claim to have other conditions. My thesis therefore focuses on vocational teachers’ perspective on their work with support activities and also the vocational teachers’ role in the schools’ workflow when it comes to support activities.
Since there are no universal method of teaching that ensure the knowledge development of every student, one starting point is didactic concepts when trying to capture the complexity of teaching not at least when meeting students’ different needs. One way to describe and understand the relationship between The Education Act and the schools and teachers are by using concept from Curriculum theory (Lindensjö & Lundgren, 2000). However other factors also affect the work such as school culture and the knowledge that exists in the organization, which could be one way to explain the different ways schools organize the work with support activities (Yngve, 2020).
Exploring the borderland between Vocational Education and Training (VET) and Special Needs Education (SNE), the collecting of empirical data is mainly going to be done through observations and supplementary interviews with vocational teachers. Also, Special Educators will be interviewed while support activities not only are formed and performed in classroom context but also are, or should be, a part of the school organization. Where and how Vocational Education and Special Needs Education encounter and in what way my role as researcher and special educator, on one hand affect and on the other hand is influenced from my own experiences and knowledge when observing, are two questions I would like to discuss.
Hopefully my thesis will highlight the work of Vocational Teachers and especially when it comes to students in need of support activities and also VET-teachers role in the school's workflow around support activities in general.
Research concerning Special Needs Education (SNE) in combination with Vocational Education and Training (VET) a is sparsely not only in Sweden but also in Nordic context. My contribution is an attempt to find and highlight where and how Vocational Education and Special Needs Education encounter.
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-74612 (URN)
Conference
NERA: The Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) 2024 : Adventures of Education: Desires, Encounters and Differences, Malmö University, March 6-8 2024
2025-03-102025-03-102025-03-10Bibliographically approved