“That’s where you put your foot down.” : A qualitative study interviewing teachers about their work withequality in vocational programs

This study concerns teachers' work with gender equality in vocational training programs, where gender equality according to previous research is considered to have problems. This takes expression in for example antisocial behavior and lack of results for boys. The study investigates which problems there are with gender equality, which obstacles stand in the way of working with these and how the teachers overcome them. The study is conducted through a semi-structured qualitative interview with individual teachers at secondary schools in Sweden. The interviews are then categorized based on four categories regarding active gender pedagogical areas from which to work with equality. These are: the content and material in the courses, language and language development, inclusion and the shaping and reproduction of norms and culture in the classroom. The results of the following study show that teachers actively work to highlight and teach active and language development by using the students' behaviors as lessons that can be linked to the subject as a whole. The study also shows that teachers adapt a large part of the course's content to the weaker students, who tend to be boys, in order for them to pass the course. Something that can be considered to harm their knowledge development in a longer perspective. Teachers also work actively to include and shed light on the students whose gender is in the minority in the classroom. In addition to the study's question, the study also shows that the problems and obstacles that teachers experience tend to be greatest in programs where boys are in the majorit