Recordings
To improve systems and tools we need to share information on how it is worked on at different levels, what is reported or experienced as effective to solve or reduce the problem, how we can learn from each other, where we are now, and where are we going. The aim of the conference is to raise awareness on school absenteeism from different perspectives, and to promote prevention and hope for the future.
The majority of the presentations will be published on the website after the conference, where the presenters have given their permission. Recording usually takes approximately 2 weeks, as our policy is to provide text subtitles for all our published materials.
23rd of May 2022
Maria Sandhaug
PhD, Senior Adviser, Project Manager, Department of Research and Development, Statped, Norway
Presenter/Compère, for the 3rd Nordic Conference on School Absenteeism.
A summary of a Nordic partnership on improving existing systems and recommending initiatives targeted at students with problematic school absenteeism. Download presentation (pdf).
Maria Sandhaug
PhD, Senior Adviser, Project Manager, Department of Research and Development, Statped, Norway
Presenter/Compère, for the 3rd Nordic Conference on School Absenteeism.
Many students with ADHD, Tourette and/or autism are at risk of developing school non-attendance. The reasons are often many and complicated. In this film we will hear the stories of four students - told by themselves in their own words. Hedda and Maren will put this in context through the background of the film, and their experiences of finding the students voices.
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Hedda Gjesti Tjäder
Senior Adviser, Dept. of Complex Learning Disabilities, Statped, Norway
Maren-Johanne Nordby
Senior Adviser, Dept. of Complex Learning Disabilities, Statped, Norway
How can we know how many pupils have problematic school absenteeism? What about the amount of learning difficulties or how many pupils’ are struggling with their wellbeing?
In order to reach high quality education we need a deep overall view of pupils’ wellbeing in schools. We need to have accurate and up to date information about school engagement, pupils’ wellbeing and learning on all levels from individuals, schools and municipalities. We think that information is the key to be able to support pupils and schools as early on as possible.
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Juha-Pekka Lehmus
Head of sevices for children and young people, Municipality of Lohja, Finland
Niina-Kaisa Perälä
Project Manager, Project KouluKunnossa, Municipality of Lohja, Finland
Despite low unemployment rates and a high level of participation in further education, many young adults are still not in work or activity. Norway steps up the investigation to find out who they are, the reasons for being excluded from the labour market and what we believe must be a good way forward – both short term and long term.
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Ulf Andersen
Head of Statistics, The Norwegian Labour, and Welfare Administration (NAV), Norway
National data about the presence of school absenteeism is not regularly collected in Sweden. While previous surveys have looked at the presence of unauthorised school abseenteeism, this talk will present the results of our recent survey mapping authorised and unauthorised absenteeism in Swedish schools. It will also discuss some of the methodological challenges collecting and comparing this kind of data at a national level.
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Linda Ahlgren
Linda is a researcher at the National Agency of Education, Sweden
Promoting school engagement and preventing school attendance problems are the priorities in the Engaging School Community Work (SKY) -program which has been launched by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland. The essential goal of the program is to produce a national model for tackling SAP. The model will be prepared on the basis of local pilots and enhancement-led evaluation by the end of 2023.
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Johanna Sergejeff
Ministerial advisor, Ministry of Education in Finland
In this presentation, the results from a qualitative study focusing on the communicative relations between parents to children with excessive school absence and school staff (teachers, educational and school leaders, pedagogues and educational psychologists) will be outlined. The results show when trying to cooperate in remedying school absence, the context for the parents and the school staff is very different and this has consequences for the qualitive of the communicative relations.
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Klaus Nielsen
Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark
School attendance problems has been a challenge for many years now. We need to increase the knowledge on what promotes attendance and the need to focus on all different reasons for absenteeism as well as evaluating the given support. The use of attendance data offers a rich opportunity for schools, school leaders and politicians to find ways for changing the agenda and the future for all kids.
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Malin Gren-Landell
Med dr, psychologist, psychotherapist, Sweden
Linda Ahlgren
Linda is a researcher at the National Agency of Education, Sweden
Ulf Andersen
Head of Statistics, The Norwegian Labour, and Welfare Administration (NAV), Norway
Johanna Sergejeff
Ministerial advisor, Ministry of Education in Finland
Klaus Nielsen
Professor, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Juha-Pekka Lehmus
Head of sevices for children and young people, Municipality of Lohja, Finland
Niina-Kaisa Perälä
Project Manager, Project KouluKunnossa, Municipality of Lohja, Finland
Malin Gren-Landell
Med dr, psychologist, psychotherapist, Sweden
Hedda Gjesti Tjäder
Senior Adviser, Dept. of Complex Learning Disabilities, Statped, Norway
Maria Sandhaug
PhD, Senior Adviser, Project Manager, Department of Research and Development, Statped, Norway
Presenter/Compère, for the 3rd Nordic Conference on School Absenteeism.