A double pressure to perform? Pupils talk about grades and parents in a multicultural school setting in Sweden. Issue 1 (2nd January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Löfgren, Håkan; Aman, Robert
• Is Part Of: Education inquiry. Volume 13:Issue 1(2022)
• Page Start: 86
• Page End: 103
• Publication Date: 2022-01-02
• Subjects: Pupils' experiences -- grades -- multicultural setting -- home-school relationships; Education -- Periodicals; Teachers -- Training of -- Periodicals; Education; Teachers -- Training of; Periodicals; 370.72
• DOI: 10.1080/20004508.2020.1831287
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2000-4508

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The aim is to contribute knowledge about the ways in which Swedish pupils with a migrant background speak about school performances and their first experiences of being graded. The results describe pupils and parents as positioned as being lower down in a top-down relationship vis-à-vis school. The separation between home and school is best described as robust. Some pupils want and ask for a better school-home relationship because they think it would harmonise the relationship with their parents and facilitate their school work. The main conclusion is that pupils find themselves in a vulnerable position between schools'/teachers' demands and parents' aspirations for them.