The National Literacy Project initiated in 2016 by the Swedish government and The Swedish National Agency for Education was a strategy from the Swedish government to improve the results of the Swedish pupils. Sweden had previously been one of the top countries in the OECD test results, but during the last two decades that had changed. The project is a school developing project with the purpose to enhance competence in literacy among teachers in different subjects, and as a consequence improve the results. The method of the project was collegial learning in minor groups of ten to twelve members with a tutor who represented expertise in literacy. In the interviews in this essay the tutors are all teachers in Swedish. This study aims to describe how six tutors of The National Literacy Project and six teachers in upper secondary school experienced their work with the project. They all work at theoretical national programs. The method is qualitative interviews in focus groups and individually and the research concerns professional identity, collegial learning and relationships in professional groups. The subject for the teachers in the groups is research and methods in literacy. Research relevant for the study is the sociological and pedagogical aspect of professional identity within a teachers’ community. The theory helps to understand how teachers involved in a school developing project initiated by headmasters, municipality, authority and utmost the government, react. Another aspect is the theory of Community of Practice, which helps to enlighten the leadership and parts in a group and also how knowledge and identity is reproduced within a group of colleagues. The result shows how six tutors and six individual teachers experience their work with The National Literacy Project; the parts in the community (tutor and group member) and the utility of the methodical and theoretical topics in the literacy material of the project.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-18675 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Löfgren, Anna |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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