The Sami people are a national minority in Sweden, but are also considered as native citizens of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. The world has however a very limited knowledge about the Sami’s and their cultural background. The aim of this proposal is to examine six different history schoolbooks which depict the Sami people in Sweden. In addition, one of the key elements of this proposal is to understand how the selected literature represents the Sami people. Lastly, the proposal also seeks to review if the literature in the schoolbooks represents the elementary curriculum goals (Lpo94). The selected method was to do a text analysis of the literature and to illustrate that is presented in the reviewed schoolbooks. The text analysis is completed with an analysis of the illustrations and pictures that are presented in the selected schoolbooks. The key findings were that the review in majority of schoolbooks has stereotypical descriptions of the Sami people. The Sami people are generally depicted with the hut and the reindeer management in majority of the reviewed schoolbooks. The research about the Sami people is inappreciable in majority of the reviewed literature. In addition, the Sami people are often presented in connection with “other” history, such as the silver ore in the mines or the territory dispute with settlers from the south of Sweden.   As a conclusion from the literature review, the Sami people are depicted as people with not much cultural history, static and none evolving.

Sweden’s role during the Second World War has been a matter that has been under much debate since the war’s end in 1945. The debate has however ebbed and flowed and established a discourse that Sweden was forced to give in to German demands and did so to avoid conflict that would have severely damaged Sweden. However, in 1991 a Swedish journalist Maria-Pia Boëthius published a book known as Heder och Samvete in which she explained that the Swedish concessions to Germany during the war were made out of profit rather than giving in to German demands. This sparked a debate that ended with the establishment that Sweden compromised and even broke its neutrality in favor to gain profit from the war. This project investigates how Swedish schoolbooks have chosen to depict this piece of history and whether Maria-Pia Boëthius’s book has influenced them or not.

This diploma thesis examines whether and how does the Czech educational system respond to the growing cultural diversity of the Czech society. At the theoretical level, it defines the role of Education in a Multicultural society and within the implementation of Multicultural policy. The main part of the work consists of analysis of schoolbooks for the subjects History, Civics and Literature. Insitutional pespective, analysis of school curriculum and a case study focusing on faculties of Pedagogy are also considered. The thesis concludes that the concept of the Czech Educational system is monocultural and thus not responsive to the change of social reality. A few strategic and concrete steps deriving from the outcomes of the analysis and a comparative approach are presented. These steps should help to switch from a monocultural educational system to a multicultural one. The author argues that key changes need to be realized in the field of future teacher traning as well as in the area of schoolbooks, that are currently largely reproducing cultural stereotypes and that don't reflect culturally plural composition of the society.

<p>This thesis deals with the question of how and to what degree Swedish history books for schools changed between the early 20^th century and the 1960s. The theoretical foundation for this study is a perspective which treats historical accounts as narratives, bringing meaning and orientation to the present. According to this perspective, historical accounts may be divided into four different types of narratives, <em>traditional, exemplary, critical </em>and<em> genetical.</em> The basis for this division is how the narratives use the past to make the present understandable.</p><p>The following conclusions are reached:</p><ol><li>That Swedish history books for schools have changed less, and in a moore gradual way than those dealing with general history. </li><li>There is a growing use of genetical narratives at the expense of mainly exemplary ones. Also over time there is a tendency towards variance in narrative form. </li><li>The most significant dimension of change is in regards to the presentation of specific historical epochs within the books, not of the books as a whole. </li></ol>

This thesis deals with the question of how and to what degree Swedish history books for schools changed between the early 20th century and the 1960s. The theoretical foundation for this study is a perspective which treats historical accounts as narratives, bringing meaning and orientation to the present. According to this perspective, historical accounts may be divided into four different types of narratives, traditional, exemplary, critical and genetical. The basis for this division is how the narratives use the past to make the present understandable. The following conclusions are reached: That Swedish history books for schools have changed less, and in a moore gradual way than those dealing with general history. There is a growing use of genetical narratives at the expense of mainly exemplary ones. Also over time there is a tendency towards variance in narrative form. The most significant dimension of change is in regards to the presentation of specific historical epochs within the books, not of the books as a whole.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-03-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:13:08Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 almeida_fc_me_bauru.pdf: 2833020 bytes, checksum: c01e3aadb9839f2cd43b28c57967821f (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os Livros Didáticos de Matemática para o Ensino Fundamental, 3º e 4° ciclos, em relação à abordagem dos Temas Transversais/Político-Sociais, como e quanto abordam estes temas, através da análise e estudo dos conteúdos referentes ao bloco de Grandezas e Medidas. Para a realização desta pesquisa utilizou-se da técnica de Documentação Indireta e da Análise Direta, em uma amostra de cinco coleções de livros didáticos de Matemática para o 3º e 4º ciclos, coleções essas avaliadas e recomendadas pelo MEC. A pesquisa foi fundamentada na Pedagogia Histórico-Crítica, em estudos sobre o Livro Didático, especificamente o de Matemática e na teoria sobre Temas Transversais/Político-Sociais. A análise possibilitou perceber que há uma preocupação com a formação para a cidadania descrita nos documentos oficiais e que esses documentos, além de discutirem sobre os temas transversais, ainda que de forma restrita, sugerem maneiras de trabalhar os conteúdos transversais nas diversas disciplinas para o alcance da formação para cidadania. A análise possibilitou perceber também que, embora os Livros Didáticos proponham o trabalho com os temas transversais, esse trabalho não ocorre como é proposto pelos PCN - Temas Transversais, tampouco como sugere a teoria sobre temas político-sociais estudada nesta pesquisa, o que ocorre é uma contextualização simplista do conteúdo matemático através de problemas vinculados a uma abordagem prático-utilitária, não propiciando aos estudantes uma formação cidadã que almeje uma sociedade justa e emancipatória para todos. / The present work aims to analyse the Mathematics Schoolbooks for Elementary Education, concerning third and fourth cicles, in relation to the Transversal Themes/ Social-Political approach - how and how much the schoolbooks approach these themes – through the analysis and study of Quantities and Measurement contents. To accomplish this research the techniques of Indirect Documentation and Direct Analysis were applied to a sample of five collections of Mathematics Schoolbooks for third and fourth cicles, which were evaluated and recommended by MEC. The research was based on the Historical-Critical Pedagogy, studies about schoolbooks, especially the Mathematics ones, and the theory about Transversal Themes/ Social- Political Themes. The analysis demonstrated that there is a concern about the education for citizenship that is described on the official documents; besides they discuss the Transversal Themes in a limited form, they also suggest ways to work the transversal contents in several subjects, to achieve the education for citizenship. The analysis also demonstrated that, although the schoolbooks recommend the work with the transversal themes, it does not occur in the way the document PCN – Transversal Themes proposes, neither how the theory of social-political themes suggests; what occurs is a simplist contextualization of the mathematics contents through problems entailed by a practical utilitarian approach, what does not provide to the students the education for citizenship that aspires an equitable and emancipatoty society for everybody.

This thesis examines constructions of English Canadian national identity in school readers approved for use in Grades Four to Six in Ontario Public Schools from 1909 to 1970, schoolbooks used throughout English‐speaking Canada during the mid‐twentieth century. While the lavishly illustrated readers comprise collections of prose, poetry and exposition designed to improve reading comprehension, the accompanying Teachers’ Guides reveal the editors’ intentions to reinforce Canadian identity through the creation of a common cultural heritage and values based upon a British settler past. The emerging metanarratives of wilderness and multiculturalism mark the shift from a concertedly British colonial identity in the early twentieth century to a distinctly Canadian identity after World War II. Wilderness is constituted as the site for the construction of this uniquely Canadian identity, not only through brave pioneer ancestors creating homes but also as the location for contemporary adventures and encounters with Aboriginal Others. The readers were children’s first official introduction to Canada, effectively children’s handbooks for Canadian citizenship, modelling their duties and responsibilities as ‘young Canadians.’ Children imagined their nation, not only by taking part in the communal ritual of reading in the classroom but also through virtual tours of Canada, visiting other children ‘from sea to sea’. The thesis establishes school readers as a valuable but neglected resource in discussions of the development of Canadian national identity, revealing largely unresolved tensions between traditional antimodern values and occupations and the realities of twentieth‐century Canada urban industrial society.

<p>Teching aid in form of schoolbooks plays an importent role. The teacher uses schoolbooks as a tool in its tutoring. I have examined how and whether the pictures in the schoolbooks are presenting people and ethnic minorities biased and stereotypical. The material I have examined consisted of a series of schoolbooks (So-direkt 1-3, samhällskunskap av Bonnier 2003).</p><p>To find out if that is the case I have used a theory by Stuart Hall, his theory is about people and how they are represented in different types of media, like pictures and text. I studied it by using the method of image analysis where I investigated and interpreted the denotation and konnontation of the pictures. Through image analysis I have looked at, examined and interpreted pictures that shows people in rich or poor contexts. From that I discoverd that people does not depict stereotypicaly in the pictures, but i did find myself seeing that people are positivly and/or negatively depicted depending on who are shown in the picture. Ethnic minorities are underrepresented in this series of books. Pictures which are depicting ethnic minorities are only shown in a total of nine pictures. In the way that these books are presenting Swedes they are only showing one typ of Swede. That Swede is nearly always light-skinned and has either blond or brown hair. The diversity that exist in reality is not representet in these schoolbooks. These schoolbooks tend to present certain people more positively then others through the pictures they depict. When it comes to show the environment and people it is done by showing the swedish population living in wealth. Swedish people are seen consuming and producing commodities, you can also see a variety of technological machines as tv:s, cellphones, phones, cars, computers, airplanes and trains surrounding them. Other people who are dark-skinned tend to be presented in a poor enviroment and in a negativ way in pictures.</p>

<p>The intention of this essay is to critically analyze which perspective on gender that is conveyed in schoolbooks on religion in contemporary Sweden. The main question is: what gender perspective is conveyed in schoolbooks on religion? The sub questions are: what does the writer emphasize and what has the writer excluded from the text? Are the historical and discursive aspects of gender presented in the schoolbooks? What remains to be developed regarding the gender perspective in the schoolbooks?Earlier research has shown that men are overrepresented in the schoolbooks and that women and men are shown in stereotypical ways. This study highlights whether two books, written for the A-course in the upper secondary school and printed in 2007 and 2008, have been influenced by the recent requirements on equality in teaching material.The method used is a text analysis built on critical theory and Yvonne Hirdman’s theory of the gender system. The analysis is based on gender theory.The result shows that gender issues mainly are not regarded as important for religion in schoolbooks, when women are visible it is mostly their social role within religions that is represented and explained. The gender system of the religions is excluded from the text. The main conclusion from this study is that the schoolbooks need a more profound gender perspective, where masculinity and femininity are dealt with as human-created concepts.</p>

Teching aid in form of schoolbooks plays an importent role. The teacher uses schoolbooks as a tool in its tutoring. I have examined how and whether the pictures in the schoolbooks are presenting people and ethnic minorities biased and stereotypical. The material I have examined consisted of a series of schoolbooks (So-direkt 1-3, samhällskunskap av Bonnier 2003). To find out if that is the case I have used a theory by Stuart Hall, his theory is about people and how they are represented in different types of media, like pictures and text. I studied it by using the method of image analysis where I investigated and interpreted the denotation and konnontation of the pictures. Through image analysis I have looked at, examined and interpreted pictures that shows people in rich or poor contexts. From that I discoverd that people does not depict stereotypicaly in the pictures, but i did find myself seeing that people are positivly and/or negatively depicted depending on who are shown in the picture. Ethnic minorities are underrepresented in this series of books. Pictures which are depicting ethnic minorities are only shown in a total of nine pictures. In the way that these books are presenting Swedes they are only showing one typ of Swede. That Swede is nearly always light-skinned and has either blond or brown hair. The diversity that exist in reality is not representet in these schoolbooks. These schoolbooks tend to present certain people more positively then others through the pictures they depict. When it comes to show the environment and people it is done by showing the swedish population living in wealth. Swedish people are seen consuming and producing commodities, you can also see a variety of technological machines as tv:s, cellphones, phones, cars, computers, airplanes and trains surrounding them. Other people who are dark-skinned tend to be presented in a poor enviroment and in a negativ way in pictures.