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During the past two decades, teacher education has come to comprise the largest student enrollment in higher education programs in the Swedish context. This study examines 11 students enrolled in a teacher program specializing in school-age educare (grundlärare i fritidshem). School-age educare students exhibit a notable gender balance and many come from low-level educational and/or migrant backgrounds, leading to an exploration into the (re)production of class and gender dynamics. Through a thematic analysis of interviews, this article delves into how these students articulate their educational choices in relation to migrant background, gender, and class, and envision their future profession. The study highlights the dual motivation driving their specific educational decision: a desire for higher education and the need to enhance employability. Within this context, school-age educare emerges as a distinct and special kind of teacher endeavor. Gender, as perceived by the students, could both be framed as an asset and as a possible obstacle in discussions about their future profession. Male teachers could be both viewed as important role models yet also as ambivalent figures. This study offers insights into the interplay of class, gender, migrant background and educational aspirations, contributing to a more nuanced understanding of contemporary teacher education in Sweden.

Dette studie udforsker drenges møder med seksualiserede digitale billeder af jævnaldrende piger. Billederne vækker for nogle begejstring og seksuel ophidselse, for andre væmmelse og foragt, og de diskuteres, evalueres og videredeles som en del af drengenes hverdagslige interaktioner med venner og på sociale medier, men også i mere organiserede onlinegrupper og på ulovlige internetsider. Artiklen argumenterer for, at dette affektive engagement i billederne produceres gennem en række sammenviklede sociale, digitale og kønnede dynamikker, der dog samtidig skaber nogle ret frustrerende dilemmaer og paradokser for drengene. De længes på den ene side efter den seksuelle pirring, som billederne vækker, men de føler sig også frarøvet den intimitet og bekræftelse, som kunne været opnået gennem en relation til pigerne. På samme tid fungerer billederne som en uundværlig kapital i forhandlingerne om hierarki og maskulinitet i drengefællesskaberne. Drengenes muligheder for at navigere i alt dette kompliceres yderligere af teknologien, som både faciliterer og inviterer drengene til at udtrykke deres frustration gennem (ekstremt) krænkende adfærd. Studiet er baseret på 6 måneders digital etnografi, 21 dages analogt feltarbejde og interviews med 21 unge i alderen 15-20 år og er teoretisk informeret af nymaterialisme og begreber fra affektteori, poststrukturalisme og postfænomenologi.

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Sammendrag I artiklen undersøges det, hvordan køn og etnicitet forhandles af piger anbragt på sikrede institutioner. International forskning har i stigende grad undersøgt pigers involvering i kriminalitet og gadekultur og belyst, hvordan disse tilhørsforhold former køn og etnicitet. Det er imidlertid ikke grundigt undersøgt, hvordan disse identifikationer og tilhørsforhold formes i mødet med professionelle inden for socialt arbejde. Med afsæt i en kvalitativ undersøgelse om piger anbragt på sikrede institutioner analyseres dette møde gennem to cases. Ved hjælp af poststrukturalistisk subjektiveringsteori analyseres identitet som skiftende sociale orienteringer mod sikkerhed, samhørighed og handlekraft. I konklusionen peges der på, hvordan en forståelse for identitet som flydende og foranderlig er relevant for velfærdsstatens opsøgende og behandlende indsatser for udsatte og kriminalitetstruede unge.

Gender, Church, and Leadership: A Theological Study of Young Priests in Finland and Sweden This article explores how gender, views of pastoral work and views of ecclesiology interact among young priests in the Church of Sweden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. Using a survey we develop a model used to discern if the young priests emphasize leadership or serving in their pastoral work. We then compare this model with their views on e.g. sex, gender and the Church. The article shows that sex has is a significant factor in how one tends to view pastoral work. Men tend to see pastoral work more as leadership, whereas women tend to emphasize serving others. At the same time, another factor – to what degree they are enculturated in church culture and tradition – plays a role in clarifying some patterns in the data. This factor, too, interacts with sex, but in some cases it has more explanatory power than sex. The article sheds light on a polarization in views among priest in both Finland and Sweden.

In this article the male dominance of the university is discussed. Studies of academic life indicate that many women feel unfamiliar with the structures within the academy and therefore leave the university to a greater extent than their male colleagues do. I present some mentor projects within my own faculty, that I have coordinated together with a colleague, and discuss with reference to the gender equality plans of the university what possibilities there are for keeping women within academia. There are no simple solutions to this problem, but the first step must be an open discussion within the academy.

If the aim of the first sex education in Sweden was to implant a certain behaviour and a certain moral in the youth, then one of the main aims today can be said to be to shatter prejudice. This article discusses the topic of homosexuality in sex education. Sex education is often seen as a desirable meeting between an enlightened and broad-minded ideal of equality and a collection of prejudiced positions. The method the studied teacher uses is to bring up widespread notions in order to then discuss and puncture them. One could say the aim of the educations is to reduce the distance between heterosexuals and homosexuals in order to increase tolerance. However, it is not quite as simple as going from being prejudiced to becoming tolerant — young people are often both at the same time. The adolescents seldom set a heterosexual norm or normality against a homosexual deviation when they discuss homosexuality in the classroom or in the interviews, but rather their understanding of homosexuality and homosexuals is much more structured by reflections on biological sex. The images of the homosexual man and the homosexual woman are constructed with the help of notions about differences and similarities between male and female. The sexual categories also contribute to homosexuality not being interpreted as a shared phenomenon. Instead a very clear division is made between male and female homosexuality. In the same way that antipathies are evoked and strengthened according to how the homosexual individual is either sexualized or de-sexualized, the significance the young people place in the sex of the individual is shown in that the gay male is almost always more negatively regarded than the lesbian woman. The male cross-over provokes more than the female one at the same time as the sexual activity is reserved for the gay male and does not seem to apply to the lesbian.