This paper investigates how primary school teachers work with the introduction of newly arrived pupils in a municipality with a high percentage of immigrants. The paper also looks at how the teachers’ work has changed over time, between 1980 and 2008. The investigation is in the form of a survey and is based on three qualitative interviews with two teachers and one coordinator for introduction of newly arrived children in a Swedish municipality. Both teachers have worked at least twenty years in the primary schools where sixty percent of the pupils have foreign background. The result of the survey shows that the conditions have changed, to the better, for both of the teachers. When they started to work as teachers, all responsibility for the introduction of the newly arrived pupils rested on the teachers. Processes also varied within the municipality. Since 2005, when a coordinator for the introduction of newly arrived children was employed in the municipality, all the introduction of newly arrived children (0-18 years) carried out according to the same plan. Today, newly arrived pupils go to a preparation class for approximately two years before they begin in their “home class”. The transitional period between the preparation class and the home class is critical. Successful work with newly arrived pupils requires that consideration is taken to the background and former experiences of the pupil, that the pupil is taught Swedish as well as his/her mother tongue and that extra support is provided in the mother tongue. A well developed cooperation between class teachers, parents, mother tongue teachers, pupils’ wellfare staff and local authorities makes a good result.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hik-1046 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Johansson, Sofia |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Kalmar, Humanvetenskapliga institutionen, Högskolan i Kalmar |
| 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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