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Publication Date: 2016
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"Sitting on Embers": A Phenomenological Exploration of the Embodied Experiences of Inclusion of Newly Arrived Students in Sweden
Nilsson Folke, Jenny
Gender and Education, v28 n7 p823-838 2016
What can we learn from and with the body in order to understand more about the (lived) experiences of newly arrived students in schools? This question has hitherto been given little attention in relation to the field of migration and education. Using the perspective of Ahmed's critical feminist phenomenology, this article aims to explore the embodied experiences of the different contexts that newly arrived students encounter in a rural monolingual school in Sweden. The empirical data are based on participant observation conducted in introductory and mainstream classrooms, as well as interviews undertaken with newly arrived students during a year of fieldwork. The findings of our study show how close attention to newly arrived students' embodied experiences can help to dispel prevailing myths surrounding inclusion, bringing to light thereby how the current lived conditions of inclusion in fact carry with them lines of exclusion.
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Feminism, Migration, Immigrants, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Interviews, Participant Observation, Social Isolation, Cultural Differences, Whites, Risk, Student Attitudes, Student Experience, Inclusion, Secondary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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