Being at home: Global citizenship in Norwegian schools. A study of children’s poems

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dc.contributor.authorErdmann, Susan
dc.contributor.authorGawronska, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T07:39:11Z
dc.date.available2024-05-22T07:39:11Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe paper addresses the question of self-perceived identity in children attending international schools in Norway. In this population, the distinction between “home culture” and “host culture” is no longer relevant, since most of the children represent “hyphenated” (e.g. Asian-British or American-Scandinavian) or merged nationalities and cultures. The goal of the study is to investigate how these pupils define themselves and the notion of “home”. To achieve at least a preliminary picture of the children’s self-perception, the authors have analysed poems on two topics: Me and Home, written by pupils of an international school and a Norwegian school, both informant groups aged 11-13. A semantic analysis of the poems indicates that the international school children present strong assertions of individual identity as defined against societal roles, while the Norwegian school pupils do not conceptualize identity formation as a struggle and their poems reflect a high degree of social, familial and national integration.
dc.identifier.citation"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2016, Vol. 2, pp. 61-76
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/lingbaw.5638
dc.identifier.issn2450-5188
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7147
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectidentity
dc.subjectinternational schooling
dc.subjectself-perception
dc.subjectmulticultural network
dc.subjectchildren’s poems
dc.subjectsemantic associations
dc.titleBeing at home: Global citizenship in Norwegian schools. A study of children’s poems
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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