scholarly journals How an Upper Secondary School Teacher Provides Resources for the Transition to University: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. em0634
Author(s):  
Inés Gallego-Sánchez ◽  
José María Gavilán-Izquierdo
Author(s):  
Pauliina Peltonen

Second language (L2) speech fluency has usually been studied from an individual’s perspective with monologue speech samples, whereas fluency studies examining dialogue data, especially with focus on collaborative practices, have been rare. In the present study, the aim was to examine how participants maintain fluency collaboratively. Four Finnish upper secondary school students of English completed a problem-solving task in pairs, and their spoken interactions were analyzed qualitatively with focus on collaborative completions and other-repetions. The findings demonstrated that collaborative completions and other-repetitions contribute to interactional fluency by creating cohesion to the interaction. Collaborative completions were also used to help the interlocutor to overcome temporary (individual) disfluent phases. Overall, the findings suggest that individual and interactional fluency are intertwined in spoken interaction, which should be acknowledged in theoretical approaches to L2 fluency and in empirical studies examining L2 fluency in interactional contexts.


2020 ◽  
pp. 4-33
Author(s):  
Pernilla Ahlstrand

The article presents the results of an educational development project conducted from 2017-2018. The aim of the project was to identify common subject-specific concepts of quality regarding stage performance, with a focus on ability to perform dramatic text. Student assignments in the form of stage performance were video recorded. Thereafter, the documentation was examined and discussed by a team of teachers. Audio recordings from the discussions were analysed using phenomenography. The results are presented in four qualitatively different categories of descriptions and in aspects of the different ways of knowing involved in the phenomenon. In this article, it is argued that this kind of research is essential for designing and developing teaching instructions, giving competent feed-back, and efficiently assessing and grading the students’ work. Moreover, it is argued that being able to identify such quality differences of stage performances is also essential for the student in the future work as an upper secondary school teacher.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-117
Author(s):  
Ilona Rinne

Exploring teaching as an upper secondary school teacher through lived experience offers pedagogical insights that have been challenged over a period of 25 years, when neoliberal educational policies gradually transformed the conditions for teaching in Swedish schools. The article is grounded in the assumption that the teaching profession is complex and there are multiple tacit dimensions inherent in being and becoming a teacher. Several of these dimensions are captured by the notion of pedagogical tact and have to be learned through practice. However, over the past few decades, the implementation of neoliberal policies in the Swedish education sector have changed the conditions for teaching, and created an area of tension between the teacher’s pedagogical alignment and the educational practices influenced by neoliberal values. The aim of the study is to describe how the author experienced these tensions, and what they meant for her becoming and being a teacher in three different pedagogical sites: a higher education preparatory program, a vocational preparatory program, and in adult education. The description is grounded in the lifeworld phenomenological approach and carried out through personal narrative.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Barlow

This case study explores how pupils might address the issues of bullying and friendships during primary-secondary transition through drama conventions. The research was implemented on the west coast of Scotland during the final four weeks of primary education in three associated primary seven classes. Research methods included pupil questionnaires (primary and secondary school), teacher observations, researcher’s diary, semi-structured interviews (teachers) and a focus group (pupils). The data suggest that some pupils conceptualized their primary-secondary transition as ‘moving up’. However, as the drama developed pupils recognized the multiple and multi-dimensional aspects of their transition. In addition, pupil and teachers indicated that when pupils engage with a drama transition curriculum, it supports the promotion of friendships while diminishes fears and provides strategies for those who might encounter bullying.


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