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Papers by Ylva Odenbring
Urban Education, 2015
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who hav... more The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings. The results indicate a tendency toward more and detailed legal regulations concerning how schools act and react in relation to violent behavior.
Early Years, 2021
Research has shown that peer victimization and bullying are common phenomena among pupils in diff... more Research has shown that peer victimization and bullying are common phenomena among pupils in different educational institutions, yet we know little about these issues in the educational context of ...
I denna artikel studeras hur skolpersonal och elever i en skola i en socialt utsatt stadsdel i en... more I denna artikel studeras hur skolpersonal och elever i en skola i en socialt utsatt stadsdel i en smastad beskriver och erfar skolans integrationsarbete. Resultaten pekar pa en radande professionell kultur som praglas av ett starkt socialt och pedagogiskt engagemang. En viktig aspekt i detta arbete ar det samarbete som sker mellan amnes- och modersmalslarare. Aven elevernas flersprakiga kompetens lyfts fram som en viktig resurs for att skapa en framgangsrik larandemiljo. Resultaten pekar ocksa pa betydelsen av skolans kompensatoriska uppdrag nar det handlar om att stotta de mest socialt utsatta eleverna i deras skolarbete.
In the present study, gender constructions are analysed, as they appear in a preschool, two presc... more In the present study, gender constructions are analysed, as they appear in a preschool, two preschool classes and one class in the first grade. The analysis is based on observations of the interact ...
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Power and Education, 2015
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspec... more There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which contexts and in what ways degrading treatment is articulated in policy documents that relate to social order in Swedish schools. Methodologically, the authors use a discourse analytical approach. They study how contexts and articulations identified in policy documents relate to discourses of degrading treatment, and thus contribute to an understanding of how degrading treatment as a concept is constituted. Articulated in different contexts and in different ways, the results show that degrading treatment is constituted as a somewhat ambiguou...
Nordic Studies in Education
Nordic Studies in Education
ABSTRACT In the current article, we explore educational practises in terms of the transition from... more ABSTRACT In the current article, we explore educational practises in terms of the transition from pre-primary education to compulsory schooling. Our cross-cultural analysis is based on two ethnographic studies conducted in three educational institutions providing pre-primary education: two in Finland and one in Sweden. The analysis is guided by feminist theories intertwined with contextualised, ethnographic perspectives. In pre-primary education, children’s actions and ways of being were continuously under evaluation in terms of their future as ‘professional pupils’. These data reveal particular evaluations on children in terms of their ways of acting and being constructed as ‘ideal’. These evaluations are often based on expectations of essential differences between boys and girls, even in Sweden, where the curriculum encourages educational staff to deconstruct gender divisions and provides guidelines for promoting gender equality.
Journal of Gender Studies
This study explores teenage students' views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, ... more This study explores teenage students' views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students' sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys' sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls' consent. The girls express how the exchanging of explicit images puts them in a vulnerable position, stating that they are exposed to threats as well as slut-shaming. Sharing explicit sexual images without consent is a form of sexual harassment aimed at the girls, which has an impact on their well-being. This study hopes to contribute knowledge about teens' experiences and practices of sexting and how this behaviour shapes students' power relations in school.
The Journal of Men’s Studies
The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower sec... more The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower secondary school. The main aim of the study is to highlight and explore different types of “joking cultures” and lad cultures. This study draws from interviews with ninth grade students conducted at three schools in various geographic locations in Sweden. The results indicate that jokes and fighting for “fun” are recurrent in everyday school life and part of how boys conform in masculinity and homosocial relations. As part of conforming masculinity, boys are not expected to show pain and are expected to take part in homophobic teasing.
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden
Idag spenderar barn i Västvärlden allt mer av sin tid i olika utbildningsinstitutioner och i orga... more Idag spenderar barn i Västvärlden allt mer av sin tid i olika utbildningsinstitutioner och i organiseradefritidsaktiviteter. Hur barn själva upplever sin vardag vet vi idag inte särskilt mycket om. Det är medbakgrund av detta som föreliggande artikel närmare studerar hur svenska och amerikanska barn beskriver och erfar sin vardag och sitt vardagsliv. Studiens resultat visar att barnens berättelser, oberoende av land, ramas in utifrån diskurser kring en allt mer reglerad vardag. De amerikanska barnenuttrycker en önskan om fler möjligheter till mer fri lek, medan de svenska barnen uttrycker en önskanom mindre stress i sin vardag.
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden
De senaste två decennierna har barnböcker med karaktärer som bryter mot gängse normer blivit allt... more De senaste två decennierna har barnböcker med karaktärer som bryter mot gängse normer blivit alltvanligare inom svensk barnlitteratur. Barns vardag porträtteras på ett allt mer mångfacetterat sätt.Mot bakgrund av detta är fokus i föreliggande artikel att studera hur intersektionella aspekter av kön,sexualitet och klass porträtteras och konstrueras i Pija Lindenbaums bilderbok Lill-Zlatan och morbrorraring. I analyserna framträder fyra dominerande teman: pojkflickan, respektabel homosexualitet, marginaliserad maskulinitet samt m askulint sportideal. Trots Lindenbaums progressiva perspektiv därförfattarens utgångspunkt säkert varit att skapa en bättre morgondag och goda förbilder för barn, visaranalyserna att författaren porträtterar huvudpersonerna utifrån normativa föreställningar om kön,sexualitet och klass.
International Journal of Inclusive Education
Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying i... more Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rural lower secondary school in Sweden, the current study has investigated experiences of violence and harassment routinely directed at sexual minority students at school. The results indicate that the local gender regime is strongly framed by heteronormative values that position non-heterosexual students as the Other. Sexual minority students are exposed to homophobic name-calling on a daily basis, and threats and physical violence are also common. To fit in and to 'survive' in school, sexual minority students are forced to accept the homophobic name-calling and are sometimes also forced to physically fight back. This study concludes that it is important that schools address issues around violence directed towards nonheterosexual students, and that ways to create a more inclusive and safe school environment be identified.
Ethnography and Education
The Urban Review
Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health probl... more Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding professionals' efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable students. The present study investigates how school professionals in two Swedish urban schools and the local police describe their experiences with meeting the needs of students who are suffering from mental health problems and drug use. The study draws on semi-structured interviews with the professionals and observations of the schools' student welfare team meetings. The findings reveal that self-medication, through use of pills or drugs (or both), has become quite common among adolescents, who see it as a way to 'solve their mental health problems. Although students' wellbeing and school safety were reported to be major concerns, the professionals' collaborations were sometimes obstacles. Issues connected to the complexity of adolescents' mental health not only highlight the importance of collaboration between schools and other societal institutions, but also indicate the necessary resources for such collaboration.
Urban Education, 2015
The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who hav... more The present study examines how a number of Swedish schools define and categorize students who have been exposed to different forms of violent or abusive acts in school. The study will shed light on how categorizations and forms of explanation used in the schools by professionals emerge from central institutional and professional discourses. The data are gathered from interviews with key officials and observations from school health team meetings. The results indicate a tendency toward more and detailed legal regulations concerning how schools act and react in relation to violent behavior.
Early Years, 2021
Research has shown that peer victimization and bullying are common phenomena among pupils in diff... more Research has shown that peer victimization and bullying are common phenomena among pupils in different educational institutions, yet we know little about these issues in the educational context of ...
I denna artikel studeras hur skolpersonal och elever i en skola i en socialt utsatt stadsdel i en... more I denna artikel studeras hur skolpersonal och elever i en skola i en socialt utsatt stadsdel i en smastad beskriver och erfar skolans integrationsarbete. Resultaten pekar pa en radande professionell kultur som praglas av ett starkt socialt och pedagogiskt engagemang. En viktig aspekt i detta arbete ar det samarbete som sker mellan amnes- och modersmalslarare. Aven elevernas flersprakiga kompetens lyfts fram som en viktig resurs for att skapa en framgangsrik larandemiljo. Resultaten pekar ocksa pa betydelsen av skolans kompensatoriska uppdrag nar det handlar om att stotta de mest socialt utsatta eleverna i deras skolarbete.
In the present study, gender constructions are analysed, as they appear in a preschool, two presc... more In the present study, gender constructions are analysed, as they appear in a preschool, two preschool classes and one class in the first grade. The analysis is based on observations of the interact ...
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Violence, Victimisation and Young People
Power and Education, 2015
There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspec... more There is a strong case for stating that during the past decades there has been a shift in perspective when addressing questions of how to handle and preserve social order in Swedish schools. As an institution that has focused on social order and education since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has also become an institution that focuses on social order in terms of law and legal issues. The overall purpose of the article is to explore in which contexts and in what ways degrading treatment is articulated in policy documents that relate to social order in Swedish schools. Methodologically, the authors use a discourse analytical approach. They study how contexts and articulations identified in policy documents relate to discourses of degrading treatment, and thus contribute to an understanding of how degrading treatment as a concept is constituted. Articulated in different contexts and in different ways, the results show that degrading treatment is constituted as a somewhat ambiguou...
Nordic Studies in Education
Nordic Studies in Education
ABSTRACT In the current article, we explore educational practises in terms of the transition from... more ABSTRACT In the current article, we explore educational practises in terms of the transition from pre-primary education to compulsory schooling. Our cross-cultural analysis is based on two ethnographic studies conducted in three educational institutions providing pre-primary education: two in Finland and one in Sweden. The analysis is guided by feminist theories intertwined with contextualised, ethnographic perspectives. In pre-primary education, children’s actions and ways of being were continuously under evaluation in terms of their future as ‘professional pupils’. These data reveal particular evaluations on children in terms of their ways of acting and being constructed as ‘ideal’. These evaluations are often based on expectations of essential differences between boys and girls, even in Sweden, where the curriculum encourages educational staff to deconstruct gender divisions and provides guidelines for promoting gender equality.
Journal of Gender Studies
This study explores teenage students' views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, ... more This study explores teenage students' views on sexting, with particular regard to image sharing, as well as how this shapes gender relations at a rural lower secondary school in Sweden. Among the boys at the school, students' sexting practices have created a hegemonic and homosocial peer culture. Homosociality is expressed by boys' sharing images of girls with their male peers without the girls' consent. The girls express how the exchanging of explicit images puts them in a vulnerable position, stating that they are exposed to threats as well as slut-shaming. Sharing explicit sexual images without consent is a form of sexual harassment aimed at the girls, which has an impact on their well-being. This study hopes to contribute knowledge about teens' experiences and practices of sexting and how this behaviour shapes students' power relations in school.
The Journal of Men’s Studies
The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower sec... more The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower secondary school. The main aim of the study is to highlight and explore different types of “joking cultures” and lad cultures. This study draws from interviews with ninth grade students conducted at three schools in various geographic locations in Sweden. The results indicate that jokes and fighting for “fun” are recurrent in everyday school life and part of how boys conform in masculinity and homosocial relations. As part of conforming masculinity, boys are not expected to show pain and are expected to take part in homophobic teasing.
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden
Idag spenderar barn i Västvärlden allt mer av sin tid i olika utbildningsinstitutioner och i orga... more Idag spenderar barn i Västvärlden allt mer av sin tid i olika utbildningsinstitutioner och i organiseradefritidsaktiviteter. Hur barn själva upplever sin vardag vet vi idag inte särskilt mycket om. Det är medbakgrund av detta som föreliggande artikel närmare studerar hur svenska och amerikanska barn beskriver och erfar sin vardag och sitt vardagsliv. Studiens resultat visar att barnens berättelser, oberoende av land, ramas in utifrån diskurser kring en allt mer reglerad vardag. De amerikanska barnenuttrycker en önskan om fler möjligheter till mer fri lek, medan de svenska barnen uttrycker en önskanom mindre stress i sin vardag.
BARN - Forskning om barn og barndom i Norden
De senaste två decennierna har barnböcker med karaktärer som bryter mot gängse normer blivit allt... more De senaste två decennierna har barnböcker med karaktärer som bryter mot gängse normer blivit alltvanligare inom svensk barnlitteratur. Barns vardag porträtteras på ett allt mer mångfacetterat sätt.Mot bakgrund av detta är fokus i föreliggande artikel att studera hur intersektionella aspekter av kön,sexualitet och klass porträtteras och konstrueras i Pija Lindenbaums bilderbok Lill-Zlatan och morbrorraring. I analyserna framträder fyra dominerande teman: pojkflickan, respektabel homosexualitet, marginaliserad maskulinitet samt m askulint sportideal. Trots Lindenbaums progressiva perspektiv därförfattarens utgångspunkt säkert varit att skapa en bättre morgondag och goda förbilder för barn, visaranalyserna att författaren porträtterar huvudpersonerna utifrån normativa föreställningar om kön,sexualitet och klass.
International Journal of Inclusive Education
Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying i... more Studies worldwide indicate that sexual minority students often face different forms of bullying in everyday life at school, and young people growing up in communities with conservative values, such as in rural areas, are often in a particularly vulnerable position. Nonetheless, there is an absence of studies addressing the everyday lives of sexual minority students in rural schools. Drawing on interviews with students in the ninth grade of a rural lower secondary school in Sweden, the current study has investigated experiences of violence and harassment routinely directed at sexual minority students at school. The results indicate that the local gender regime is strongly framed by heteronormative values that position non-heterosexual students as the Other. Sexual minority students are exposed to homophobic name-calling on a daily basis, and threats and physical violence are also common. To fit in and to 'survive' in school, sexual minority students are forced to accept the homophobic name-calling and are sometimes also forced to physically fight back. This study concludes that it is important that schools address issues around violence directed towards nonheterosexual students, and that ways to create a more inclusive and safe school environment be identified.
Ethnography and Education
The Urban Review
Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health probl... more Today, an increasing number of students are suffering from different kinds of mental health problems. Still, we know little about how professionals in secondary school and other professionals in society handle and collaborate around these issues. The findings from the present study make an important contribution to the research field regarding professionals' efforts to meet the needs of vulnerable students. The present study investigates how school professionals in two Swedish urban schools and the local police describe their experiences with meeting the needs of students who are suffering from mental health problems and drug use. The study draws on semi-structured interviews with the professionals and observations of the schools' student welfare team meetings. The findings reveal that self-medication, through use of pills or drugs (or both), has become quite common among adolescents, who see it as a way to 'solve their mental health problems. Although students' wellbeing and school safety were reported to be major concerns, the professionals' collaborations were sometimes obstacles. Issues connected to the complexity of adolescents' mental health not only highlight the importance of collaboration between schools and other societal institutions, but also indicate the necessary resources for such collaboration.