• ‘You do it in your own particular way.’ : Physical education, gender ...
  Apelmo, Elisabet   Journal article in Sport, Education and Society; : Taylor & Francis (2018)	Journal article

  

  

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  The aim of this article was to explore, from a gender perspective, how young sporting women with physical impairments experience physical education (PE), and which strategies they use to manage situations that arise in the everyday interaction in connection with those lessons. Phenomenology provides a theoretical framework that includes the body. Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with the women, aged 15–28. In addition, semi-structured interviews were held with three boys, aged between 10 and 15, and with one male coach. Those latter interviews are used in the article as material for comparison. The young women had a strong aspiration to appear normal. However, in relation to PE, the participants highlighted issues dealing with experiences of exclusion and special treatment. It appeared to be difficult for teachers to see these women as the sports-interested youths that they were. The young women used different strategies of resistance. Some of them did not participate in certain aspects of PE, or chose to quit the whole course. To receive a higher grade, another participant showed the teacher her medals from the Swedish national swimming championship, thus stressing her competence. When the women finally described the stigmatization that they had been subjected to, they avoided positioning themselves as victims, by downplaying the seriousness of a discriminatory situation or by using in the interview the word ‘we’ instead of ‘I’, thus describing the incident in collective terms. Previous research supports the suggestion that the students’ opportunities to show their capacities and strength during PE are dependent on the students’ gender. While one of the boys and a male coach gave examples of experiences of more inclusive PE, with a potential to challenge the able-bodied norm within the subject, the gender norm remained unquestioned.

  You do it in yo ... gender and dis ability.pdf   (1.247Mb)

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13573322.2018.1452198

• An abstract and nameless, but powerful, bystander : ‘unaccompanied ch...
  Herz, Marcus; Lalander, Philip   Journal article in Nordic Social Work Research; : Routledge (2018)	Journal article

  

  

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  This article investigates how ‘unaccompanied children’ in Sweden experience one part of the reception system – the social workers – in the context of their everyday life. The aim is to describe and analyse how these young people view and experience social workers and their relation to them, as well as their perceptions regarding the social worker’s nature. The article is drawn from a research project where 20 ‘unaccompanied children’ participated for over two years. During this period, the researchers have met with the young people continuously doing interviews, observations and informal conversations once a month. The results indicate that the social worker tends to become something of a bystander, a representative of the authorities who has played no active role in the young people’s everyday life, except for when they ‘pop up’ to make a decision affecting their everyday life. The social worker becomes a bystander with power. This is discussed in relation to situational ethics and the importance of building relationships and trust to service users in general and to ‘unaccompanied children’ in particular.

  An abstract and ... cial workers in Sweden.pdf   (923.8Kb)

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2156857X.2018.1457558

• Editor’s notes : Socio-pedagogical knowledge expertise across the soc...
  Dychawy Rosner, Irena   Review article in Papers of Social Pedagogy;1 : University of Warsaw, Institute of Social Prevension and Resocialisation (2018)	Review article

  

  

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  A major challenge in contemporary welfare societies is the delivery of services affirming people’s expectations for their life standard, health and social care services. For decades, there has been a search to understand new ways of conceptualising social pedagogy as a field of practice, as a theory, and as a programme design and implementation. Despite the growing body of literature on social pedagogy, to date, little has been written on the subject of the unique complexities of social pedagogy knowledge expertise when bridging the supporting relationships between an individual and the social dimensions in his/her world. Based on research conducted in Northern Europe, particularly focusing on Denmark and Sweden, the aim of this special issue of International Journal of Papers of Social Pedagogy (PSP) on Contemporary Issues in Social Pedagogy in Northern Europe is to convey the central importance of social pedagogy for the study of vitality and diversity behind social pedagogy thought. The presented research projects in this special issue are, in their foundation, associated with a constructivist approach that views the body of knowledge development as an active and cooperative process of knowledge construction and its application in social pedagogy discipline. This article intends to provide a general perspective concerning the presence of various knowledge forms according to the search for, and implementation of, thinking and acting in a social pedagogy inspired way, and working under various conditions.

  PSP_SI_2018.pdf   (1.721Mb)

  https://pedagogikaspoleczna.uw.edu.pl/resources/html/articlesList?issueId=11078

• ‘Becoming’ a possible threat : masculinity, culture and questioning a...
  Herz, Marcus   Journal article in Identities; : Routledge (2018)	Journal article

  

  

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  A debate on masculinity and immigration rose across Europe in 2015 after an incident with sexual harassments taking place in Cologne, Germany. The incident refuelled a debate positioning unaccompanied young men as a possible threat. This article is based on a research project where we during this time ethnographically followed 20 young men, having arrived in Sweden as ‘unaccompanied’ minors. The aim is to examine how the young men themselves talk about, reflect on and negotiate masculinity and gender during this period. The article concludes that masculinity cannot be approached as something stable easily being inherited or transferred from one’s origins. One difference for ‘unaccompanied’ young men is how conflicts or tensions emerging in relation to issues of gender and masculinity tend to be interpreted differently, and publicly, putting the young men in a ‘gendered situation of questioning’.

  Becoming a poss ... ed young men in Sweden.pdf   (1.691Mb)

  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1070289X.2018.1441692

• The impact of migration on attitudes to female genital cutting and ex...
  Johnsdotter, Sara Malmö University. Centre for Sexology and Sexuality Studies   Review article in Current Sexual Health Reports; : Springer Nature (2018)	Review article

  

  

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  Purpose of review: The purpose of this review was to explore current research on the impact of migration on issues related to female genital cutting and sexuality. Recent findings: There is growing evidence that migration results in a broad opposition to female genital cutting among concerned migrant groups in western countries. In addition, after migration, affected women live in the midst of a dominant discourse categorizing them as “mutilated” and sexually disfigured. There is also, in contrast to what is shown by most research, a public discourse saying that female genital cutting (FGC) leads to lost capacity to enjoy sex. Concurrently, a vast body of research demonstrates a strong correlation between a negative body image or body shame and sexual dysfunction. Summary: Care for women with FGC needs to be holistic and, while offering medical care when needed, the health care providers should avoid feeding into self-depreciatory body images and notions about lost ability to enjoy sexual life.

  Johnsdotter FGC FSD 2018.pdf   (513.9Kb)

  http://rdcu.be/HEYn

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