To talk about, talk to or with children. A conversation between a child and its teacher should be more than the teacher telling the child what to do, how to act. It should be more like a respectful and reverent meeting between two people where the adult sets the tone. The purpose of this research is to investigate teachers' experiences of conversations with children in need of special assistance. Our issues: What do teachers say about how they meet children in need of support? How do teachers response to students who are in difficulty? What ability have teachers and their school's to meet children in need of support and what appear to be particularly important or problematic issues for them in that work? In order to find some answers to our questions we interviewed ten teachers at two schools. Some of the teachers told us that they would really like to have more of relationship building, empathetic conversations with children, but felt that the school structure, form, and the working conditions prevented them. Other teachers felt that it was not their job to take the time to converse with individual children. Good relations between teachers and children may be crucial for the child´s ability to succeed and to thrive in school. Especially when a child is in any kind of difficulty, it is important that there is someone who listens and tries to understand how to customize something for the better.

Rangstrand Hjort, Sarah (2020). Students in need of sloyd? - About the sloyd subject’s abilities to meet students in need of support. (Elever i behov av slöjd? - Om slöjdämnets förutsättningar att möta elever i behov av stöd). Master’s degree in special education, 120p, Department of School Development and Leadership, Faculty of Education and Society, Malmo University. The sloyd subject offers to some extent a different way of learning compared to the more theoretical subjects. The process and the assignments in the work become more visible as it is performed working with physical material, it also engages the student since the education often is based on the student's personal ideas and expressions. The question is if sloyd as a subject has other opportunities to meet students in need of support, and if so, what could be the reasons for it? The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze how the teaching of sloyd meets students in need of support and what abilities the sloyd subject has in order to create a accessible learning environment. The questions of the study are; How do sloyd teachers, special educators and principals reason about the sloyd subject's abilities to meet students in need of support? How are the local conditions for meeting students in need of support within the sloyd subject described? Researching sloyd as a subject requires the inclusion of research in other areas, since sloyd is still a relatively unexplored field. This study contributes to deepening the understanding of the conditions of the sloyd subject from a special educational perspective. The empirical data is based on 14 semi-structured interviews with sloyd teachers, special educators and principals at five different schools. These three occupational categories have been chosen since they probably are the ones that are best suited to answer the questions of the study. The empiric data has been analyzed based on Engeström's (1987) activity theory. The result of the study shows that sloyd as a subject in some ways has specific abilities to meet students in need of support. The smaller groups create opportunities that make it easier to meet the students in the education, it also helps creating a meaningful relationship. The practical parts of the work together with the visible physical result provide a confirmation that the given assignment has been performed. From an activity theory perspective, however, a clarification of the teaching is needed in order to find strategies to meet these students together with other colleagues at the school. Course of events and mechanisms at other levels also affect the possibilities of sloyd as a subject. Partly through the internal culture at the school, where sloyd easily falls into the background and partly through the national governance that tends to reduce the sloyd’s specific abilities and opportunities. This study, to illuminate the subject of sloyd based on the abilities to meet students in need of support, could help bringing these angles together and steer them in the direction of a school context. The study also helps to show factors that both enable and hinder the sloyd subject's abilities to meet students in need of support.

The aim with this thesis was to study how primary school teachers perceive their mission in working with inclusive education. The aim was also to study their thoughts and experience of the Special education support. To conduct the inquiry twelve primary school teachers from two different communities in Sweden were asked to give their views of inclusive education. The central issues was how the primary school teachers interprets the concept of inclusion, the opportunities and obstacles they perceived and how the Special education support was formed in the work with inclusion in their schools. The result shows that the majority part of the primary teachers interprets the concept as a spatial or social inclusion. The result also shows that primary teachers are familiar with the values given by national curriculum but to perceive all students as an asset in their daily educational work the primary teachers expressed a feeling of uncertainty. The Special education support was described as compensatory where the students mainly get help to catch up, often in a small group or individually. The conclusion is that the Special education mainly works traditionally and few teachers question the approach. The word inclusion was understood differently by the primary teachers and they perceived inclusion more like an obstacle than as an opportunity. A major reason is the requirement of high effectiveness and fear of not suffice for all students. / Syftet med denna studie var att få kunskap om hur grundskollärare ser på och uppfattar sitt uppdrag att arbeta med en inkluderande skolverksamhet. Syftet var också att undersöka deras tankar kring och erfarenhet av det specialpedagogiska stödet i detta arbete. För att genomföra studien har tolv grundskollärare i årskurserna 1-6 från två olika kommuner i Sverige genom kvalitativa intervjuer fått ge sin syn på verksamheten. Intervjuerna har utgått ifrån forskningsfrågorna hur grundskollärare tolkar begreppet inkludering, vilka möjligheter och hinder lärarna kan se med ett inkluderande arbetssätt och hur lärarna ser på det specialpedagogiska stödet vid inkludering. Resultaten visar på att de flesta lärare tolkar begreppet inkludering som placeringsorienterad, en fysisk placering, och/eller individorienterad, när enskild elev behöver stöd. Våra resultat visar också på att lärare är väl förtrogna med den värdegrundstanke som genomsyrar skolans styrdokument, men när det gäller att se alla elever som en tillgång i klassrummet och möta dem där de är, beskriver de en känsla av otillräcklighet. Det specialpedagogiska stödet beskrivs som kompensatoriskt, där eleven får stöd i att hinna ikapp övriga elever, oftast enskilt eller i liten grupp utanför ordinarie undervisningslokal. Slutsatsen blir att den specialpedagogiska verksamheten främst arbetar traditionellt och få lärare förändrar det arbetssättet. Ordet inkludering uppfattas olika av lärarna och inkludering ses mer som ett hinder än som en möjlighet. En stor anledning till det är kravet på hög måluppfyllelse och rädsla för att inte räcka till för alla elever.