Swedish Curriculum Although trained in the United States, I currently live and work in Stockholm, Sweden with a completely different education system and grading criteria. I am also living in a much more diverse and multicultural place than where I lived and completed my practicum in the United States. One aspect of schools in Sweden (that can be beneficial or detrimental depending on the school…
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One of the first things Potowski brings up is the fact that in the US, assimilation was not only used, but expected among society and schools. Her example she used was about her grandparents being fluent in Lithuanian but never passing that on because of the pressures to only speak English. Even though that was in the 1950s, there still isn’t a lot of encouragement for immigrants to keep their…
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Data Collection and Results Research was gathered at this specific school setting from Year 4 students (roughly aged 9-11) and the staff working there. Both groups were asked the same questions which are as followed. What is your mother tongue? What language(s) do you use at school? What language(s) do you use at home? What language(s) do you use with your friends? At what age did you start…