El propósito de este estudio es conocer qué papel tiene la literatura en el aula de español como lengua extranjera (ELE) en Suecia desde la perspectiva de los profesores, y qué fines didácticos tiene el uso de la ficción. También se quiere identificar qué diferentes tipos de literatura utilizan los profesores en el aula ELE. Las preguntas centrales son: ¿Por qué se utiliza la literatura en el aula de ELE?, ¿Qué tipo de ficción se utiliza? y ¿Cuáles son los beneficios didácticos del uso de la literatura para los profesores de ELE? Nuestra hipótesis es que la razón por la que los profesores utilizan la ficción es para enseñar sobre las culturas española e hispana, y  el tipo de textos literarios más utilizados son las letras de canciones, lo cual podría  mejorar la capacidad de escritura. Para averiguar esto se utilizó una encuesta que los profesores debían responder. El resultado fue que 49 profesores optaron por utilizar la literatura por muchos propósitos diferentes, pero principalmente para enseñar sobre la cultura, y el tipo de ficción que se utilizó más fue los libros para niños y las letras de las canciones.  Además, existe la opinión por parte de los profesores de que una de las ventajas de la ficción es que funciona para enseñar sobre diferentes culturas españolas e hispanoamericanas. Para analizar el resultado hemos utilizado un modelo de Paran (2008: 7). La conclusión fue que la mayoría de los docentes utilizan la ficción para enseñar sobre las culturas, y la literatura que más se utiliza son las letras de canciones y la literatura infantil. El mayor beneficio didáctico que los maestros vieron con el uso de la ficción fue que era una excelente manera de aprender sobre diferentes culturas. / The purpose of this study is to find out what role fiction has in the Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) classroom in Sweden from the teachers' perspective, and what didactic purposes there are for using fiction in SFL. The questions that are central are the following : Why use fiction  in the SFL classroom? What type of fiction is used? and What are the didactic benefits of using fiction for SFL teachers? Our hypothesis are that the reason for why teachers use fiction is to teach the pupils about Spanish and Hispanic cultures and the fiction mostly used is song lyrics and that it could improve the writing skills. In order to find this out, a questionnaire was used which the teachers had to answer. The result was that 49 teachers chose to use fiction for many different purposes, but mainly to teach the pupils about culture, and the type of fiction that was used most was children's books and lyrics. Furthermore, there is a opinion of the teachers that one of the advantages of fiction is that it works to teach about different Spanish and Hispanic American cultures. To analyze the result we have used a model of Paran (2008: 7). The conclusion was that most teachers used fiction to teach about cultures, and the literature that was mostly used were song lyrics and children's literature. The biggest didactic benefit that the teachers saw with using fiction was that it was a great way of learning about different cultures.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the Nordic Councils’ language policy as norm and practice in Sweden and Iceland. The study covers how the policy is represented in governing documents, how teachers  relate to the policy in attitudes and in teaching, and what differences and similarities can be seen in both countries. The study consists of qualitative interviews with Icelandic and Swedish teachers. The material was analysed by a theoretical framework set up by earlier studies done in the relevant field of research. The findings show that the aims of the Nordic language policy are not entirely met for various reasons.  There are discrepancies between teachers’ praxis and school curriculums in Iceland. Nordic languages are peripheral and vague subjects in the Swedish teacher’s praxis. Both countries have similar attitudes towards Nordic languages and the purpose of teaching coincide between the countries and the Nordic Council.

This is a study of two English textbooks for the courses English 5 and English 6 for the Swedish Upper Secondary School. The main aim of this study was to determine whether men or women are over-represented in textbooks and whether or not the men and women in the textbooks convey harmful or otherwise negative stereotypes in breach of the curriculum’s standards. The results show that men are over-represented in both textbooks. The results also show that men are featured more frequently than women in both text and in pictures and that men are more frequently portrayed in a stereotypical way in pictures than in text. However, the study has also found that women, while given less room in the textbooks, are not portrayed stereotypically neither in text nor in pictures.

This essay investigates the possibility of a postcolonial canon of literature for upper-secondary schools in multicultural Sweden. It uses an in depth course book analysis as a basis for looking at didactic questions regarding the teaching of postcolonial literature. The main argument is that since no real guidelines exist neither in course plans or course books as to what literature to use in education at the upper-secondary level in the English subject, a postcolonial canon of literature is both an interesting and effective way of fulfilling both the English curriculum, and the overall larger goals of the Swedish schools. Teaching postcolonial literature is introduced as a method of bridging cultural gaps and promoting tolerance in a practical way in the form of multicultural education. This is of growing interest in a multicultural Sweden that faces challenges with immigration, especially since education is one of the best methods of social integration into society. Questions asked by the essay are: 1. Does a canon of literature exist in Sweden for the English subject at upper-secondary level? If not, are there general guidelines to be found on how to select literature in the curriculum? 2. To what extent do English 6 course books include/promote a canon of literature (if at all)? If postcolonial texts are featured, are they relegated to their separate area (i.e. treated as Edward Said’s “the other”) or do the course books include postcolonial novels in said canon? and 3. What arguments can be made for teaching a postcolonial canon of literature overall and in what ways does this argument fit with the GY 2011 course plan for English, and to a larger extent, some specific goals (mentioned in the introduction) of the overall upper-secondary curriculum? The essay finds that while this is certainly not an all encompassing solution to the challenges facing Sweden, the argument of including a postcolonial canon in the teaching of literature for the English subject is a small, but important, and viable way of fulfilling both the criteria of the English subject and the general criteria of the upper-secondary schools.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka sju vetenskapliga artiklars framställningar av en lämplig respektive olämplig förskollärare. Studien utgår ifrån ett kritiskt teori- och forskningsperspektiv med en relativistiskt orienterad ontologi och epistemologi. Som metod för evaluering av den textuella empirin tillämpas Norman Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys. Resultaten visar att ideala förskollärare är välvilliga, sociabla, osjälviska och psykiskt stabila. De förväntas vara flexibla, vaksamma, kommunikativa, ledande och omsorgsfulla. Resultaten visar också att deras kompetenser konstitueras i interaktionen mellan ideologier, kunskaper och värden. Inom studiens diskussioner ifrågasätts den ideale förskollärarens existens. Olika brister med lämplighetsbedömningar av denne framlyfts likaså. Studien konkluderar att lämplighet inom förskollärarprofessionen är en påtaglig angelägenhet för många olika individer inom olika kulturer. Tillsammans med sociala och diskursiva praktiker utmynnar de vetenskapliga texterna i en lämplighetshegemoni i relation till förskolläraryrket. För att utmana denna hegemoni argumenterar studien för ett bejakande av olikheter beträffande förskolläraraspiranter och redan verksamma förskollärare.

This study examines the representation of different forms of realizations of attraction as an expression of sexual orientation and attitudes in connection to these in two textbooks for the upper secondary school. A constructionistic view and critical discourse analysis create the theoretical basis for the study coupled with quantitative and qualitative methods to answer the research questions. The result shows that realizations of heterosexual expressions are the most common and realizations of other forms of attraction are scarce. However, the attitudes presented in connection to certain heterosexual relationships are not homogenous or entirely unproblematic. The main conclusion that can be drawn from this study is the importance of an active effort to include people of different sexual orientations in textbooks as a part of the Swedish National Agency for Education’s equality goals.

The study examines how teachers motivate pupils to read literature and how teachers utilize fiction literature and the narrative of other media to motivate pupils. The study’s method is qualitative interviews of four teachers and the result is formed by a thematic analysis and grounded theory. To motivate pupils to read literature, the result shows that all the respondents conducts a democratic education where the pupils in some way have influence on their education. Despite what is mentioned above, the respondents’ methods and strategies differ. The foremost providential implications are to schedule reading, highlight its benefits and cooperate with the school library. All the respondents utilize fiction literature and the narrative of other media to motivate pupils in some way, inter alia by digital technology on the basis of the new curriculums. Two respondents are more conservative, and the others are more innovative in terms of using the technology to make stops in the text and process the reading in an aesthetic and efferent approach.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate how depictions of transgenders in fiction can be used to discuss gender identity. The essay examines how transgenders is portrayed in three novels and how these novels can be used in Swedish schools. Transgenders in literature has historically only been used to normalize cisgender. The Swedish school is an arena dominated by norms and the cisgender-norm controls the students, furthermore it penetrates the school curriculum. At the same time, there is room for teachers to criticize norms and to choose the literature that best suits their purpose. The characters that appear in literature are supposed to be able to say something about real people, and the analysis of the novels is made from a queer feminist perspective. The novels Skarven and Jag, En have some norms to debate and stereotypes to problematize, therefore they are useful when transgender is to be elucidated through fiction. Pojkarna, on the other hand, have a disrespectful portrayal of the transgendered character which instead risks confirming the view of cisgender as the normal and transgender as the abnormal.

<p>Denna studie har genomförts i år 4, 6, 7 och 9. Målet för undersökningen har varit att ta reda på vilka attityder elever i dessa årskurser har gentemot matematiken samt hur dessa attityder uppkommer och om de går att påverka/förändra. För att ta reda på vilka attityder som finns hos elever, har jag låtit jämföra min studie med vad annan litteratur säger om elevers attityder till matematik. Min studie bygger på en enkätundersökning genomförd i de tidigare nämnda skolåren. Jag har sedan ställt enkäterna mot varandra och försökt se skillnader och likheter i de olika skolåren. Som komplement till min studie och till litteraturen har jag även genomfört en lärarintervju. Den har jag i huvudsak använt för att försöka ta reda om klassläraren arbetar aktivt med att påverka sina elevers attityder till matematiken.</p><p>Resultatet visar i huvudsak att eleverna i år 4 anser matematiken vara ett av de roligaste ämnena i skolan. I år 6 är matematiken viktig snarare än rolig. Eleverna kan tidigt förstå vikten av att lära sig räkna för att klara sig bra genom livet. Matematiken anses av eleverna vara "kul när man fattar och tråkig när man inte förstår" – det vill säga, ett ämne där förståelsen är av vikt för uppkomsten av attityden.</p>