Handling challenge and becoming a teacher: an analysis of teachers’ narration about life competence education

The Paradoxes of Socio-Emotional Programmes in School : Young people’s perspectives and public health discourses

“…In an interview study with teachers who were in charge of implementing SET and a similar programme called 'Våga vara' (Dare to be), Aldenmyr (2013) shed light on the challenges brought on by these interventions due to how they are carried out in a school context. Aldenmyr focused on how the teachers talked about their experiences of practising these programmes and how they were faced with different challenges related to aspects of teacher identity, competence, and the nature of teachers' duties.…”

“…Another challenge concerns the fact that practising these programmes involves exposing the personal lives of both teachers and students. These challenges show that practising these programmes involves critical questions of privacy, integrity, and teacher-student relations, which needs to be reflected on (Aldenmyr, 2013;cf. Kaspersson, 2011).…”