Newly arrived students in mathematics classrooms in Sweden

Eva Norén (1) , Jöran Petersson (1) , Cecilia Sträng (1) , Petra Svensson (1)

1 Stockholm University

In this paper, we discuss how newly arrived students experience, and perform in, school mathematics. There is little research on immigrant students' initial time in Swedish school, and it is methodologically underdeveloped. Our own research will be revisited, and we give an account of the methodologies we have developed. We look for analytical tools using both qualitatively as well as quantitatively, to interpret classroom interaction, social practises, individual performance and achievement. Our attention to diversity and equity issues includes avoiding deficit discourses explaining both success and failure in school mathematics, in relation to backgrounds , language and culture.

Mots clés: Newly arrived; mathematics education; methodology; foreground

Domaines: Education; Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Eva Norén, Jöran Petersson, Cecilia Sträng, Petra Svensson. Newly arrived students in mathematics classrooms in Sweden. CERME 9 - Ninth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education; ERME, Feb 2015, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.1630-1636. ⟨hal-01287920⟩