Det svenska samhället digitaliseras i snabb takt och läroplanen för gymnasieskolan har reviderats flera gånger på kort tid för att följa utvecklingen. Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka hur väl några läromedel för kursen Matematik 2b förhåller sig till läroplanensskrivningar om digitala verktyg. Om digitala verktyg används på rätt sätt har de visat sig främja elevernas matematiska förståelse. Den digitala kompetensen stärks också genom att använda olika digitala verktyg. Hur läromedel från fyra av Sveriges läromedelsförlag förhåller sig till kursplanens centrala innehåll och hur de främjar användandet av digitala verktyg, har undersökts genom en läromedelsanalys. Läromedlens skrivningar har analyserats och kategoriserats med utgångspunkt i det centrala innehållet och vilken typ av kunskap de förväntas främja.Resultatet visar att samtliga läromedel släppta före 2021 täcker det centrala innehållet gällande digitala verktyg för kategorin samband och förändring. Hur de digitala verktygen framställs i de övriga kategorierna, taluppfattning, aritmetik och algebra, sannolikhet och statistik och problemlösning, samt hur frekvent läromedlet uppmanar till användning av dem,skiljer mellan läromedlen. Utifrån resultatet diskuteras att läromedlen till stor del är upplagda på ett sätt som möjliggör utveckling av den digitala kompetensen och den matematiska förståelsen, men att inget läromedel är heltäckande. Ett stort ansvar vilar alltjämt på lärarenför att digitala verktyg ska användas i den utsträckning som kursplanen föreskriver. / Swedish society is being digitized at a rapid pace and the curriculum for upper secondary school has been revised repeatedly in a short time to follow the developments. The purpose of this study is to investigate how well some textbooks for the course Mathematics 2b relate to the curriculum's writings on digital tools. If digital tools are used correctly, they have been shown to promote students' mathematical understanding. Digital competence is also strengthened by using various digital tools. How textbooks from four of Sweden's textbook publishers relate to the central content of the syllabus and how they promote the use of digital tools have been investigated through a textbook analysis. The writings of the textbooks have been analyzed and categorized on the basis of the central content and the type of knowledge they are expected to promote.The results show that all textbooks released before 2021 cover the central content regarding digital tools for the category relationships and change. How the digital tools are presented in the other categories, understanding of numbers, arithmetic and algebra, probability and statistics and problem solving, and how often the textbook calls for their use, differ between the textbooks. Based on the results, it is discussed that the textbooks are largely laid out in a way that enables the development of digital competence and mathematical understanding, but that no textbook is comprehensive. A great responsibility still rests on the teacher for digital tools to be used to the extent prescribed by the syllabus.

The subject area of this study is English Teachers’ usage and attitudes towards textbooks when teaching. From personal work and practice experiences, teachers base their English teaching solely on textbooks. For many years, the use of textbooks in different subjects has been criticized. Despite this, the textbook is still a teaching aid that is widely used today. This study examines how the teachers use the textbook in their English teaching and how much room it gets. This case study begins with a presentation of different findings together with a literature review where it will display the nature of textbooks and teachers’ attitudes towards the use of textbooks. Furthermore, this case study will present the textbooks, and how they relate to the English subject in the Swedish curriculum. This, and how to accommodate the learners when teaching ESL will be displayed. This case study is based on two observations, one in grade 3, and one in grade 4. The observations are done in the same school, which will be referred to as the second school in this study. The contrast between the use of textbooks in the different grades will be analyzed through a review of content. This study will further present what other teaching materials are used. The observations will be analyzed and compared to interviews with six different teachers. Three teachers at one school, two of them in grade 3 and one of them in grade 4, and one teacher in grade 3 and two teachers in grade 4 at the second school. The results of this case study concluded that the use of textbooks differs depending on what school the teacher works in, what view the school has when using teaching aids, and if it is the decision of the teachers or the schools on what teaching aid should be used. The problem where the textbooks are not compatible with the curriculum can be considered as the most frequently appearing mistake that affects the development of young ESL learners. Moreover, any benefits of using textbooks will further be presented.

Quantitative analysis of historiographic textbooks in term of Christianity The theme of this thesis is the quantitative analysis of contents of selected integral series of historiographic atlases for elementary schools, in term of frequency of occurrence of Christian coherence. The resolution proceeds in following steps: 1) Searching for outputs of multilayer relations between culture and Christianity in motion of history. Questions on meaning of processes. 2) Meaning of teaching of history in light of curricular documents. 3) Studying of process of textbook creation. 4) Textbook as an educational medium. 5) Historiographic textbook conception. 6) Quantitative analysis theory. Its phases. 7) Practical methodology of quantitative analysis of atlases. 8) Quantitative analysis. Work with atlases. The aim of this thesis is to find out the meaning of the Christianity in contemporary teaching of history, based on the quantitative perspective. Concretely on the frequency of occurrence of Christian connotations in contents of historiographic atlases. Individual atlases and final percentual measuring outputs: Prehistory and Antiquity (1,2 %), Modern Period II. (3,5 %), History of 20th Century (3,9 %), Modern Period (13,5 %), Middle Ages (18,2 %). Total average value of the measuring (8,3 %.) is the...

The diploma thesis A Gender Analysis of Reading-Books for Pupils of 1st and 2nd Years of Primary Schools focuses on the topic of gender in education. Specifically, it examines the ways in which female and male characters are represented in the texts and illustrations in textbooks and considers whether these are stereotypical views of gender and whether these are gender-sensitive views. The research consists of a quantitative content analysis of three reading-books and of qualitative interpretation of their gender correctness and sensitivity. It is set in a framework of theoretical foundations of psychology, sociology, feminist theory and gender studies. The work is based on the premise that the school as an institution plays an important role in gender socialization of children and the thesis therefore aims to find out whether and eventually how these reading- books promote gender equality. Key words: gender, gender stereotypes, gender system, socialization, school, textbooks

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Between 1920 and 1940, South Carolina saw major changes in its education system both in response to low literacy rates in the state and as part of a national trend in education reform. The period also saw the emergence of one history textbook as the dominant history text for middle school students across the state. William Gilmore Simms and his granddaughter, Mary C. Simms Oliphant, the authors of this history text, had influence over middle school-aged children’s history education for over a century with their books being used in South Carolina schools in some capacity from around 1840 until 1985. These books exhibit strong influence from the Lost Cause Movement, as well as reconciliationist and white supremacist ideology, to present a more pro-southern point of view of the Civil War. Through heroification—the remaking of historical figures into heroes despite their flaws—revision/omission, and both implicit and explicit racism, Simms and Simms-Oliphant weaved narratives that twisted the facts of the Civil War era. These narratives implanted in the seventh and eighth grade students’ minds who typically read the textbooks’ false ideas about the events and people involved in the war. While research on history textbooks generally is widespread, there have been no in-depth studies of the influence of Simms and Simms-Oliphant on South Carolina’s education system. In the 1920s and 1930s, when students across the country on average completed eight to nine years of school, Simms’ and Simms-Oliphant’s books would have been the last history book many of those students would have read before ending their schooling. This gave these two authors immense power to influence public opinion in South Carolina. Ultimately, it appears that education is the primary tool through which South Carolina, and other southern states, have institutionalized Lost Cause, reconciliationist, and white supremacist narratives of the Civil War era that continue to influence public opinion in South Carolina and across the South.

Culture and language are intrinsically linked, and the question of how to approach teaching culture whilst teaching a language is always going to be one teachers have to ask themselves. A textbook is a tool which is meant to aid teachers and remove some of the burden of decision-making from their shoulders. A good textbook should thus give a teacher all of the tools needed to teach a language, including answers to the aforementioned question. This study was a content analysis of four English Language textbooks used in Swedish high schools. The main focus was on how these textbooks present different cultures. This was then contextualized by comparisons with previous research, with cultural theories, and by a comparison with the guidelines which are presented in the Swedish curriculum. The study found that the textbooks contain little representation of cultures which are not natively English-speaking or which exist outside of the so-called Inner circle of English language, and that even when non-Inner circle cultures are represented, they are either viewed through and Inner circle lens or as a minority culture in an Inner circle context. Furthermore, the literature which is included in the books adheres strictly to the English literary canon as it is generally defined. The textbooks thus do not encourage the teaching of English as an international language, and they therefore go against the guidelines of the Swedish curriculum. They are also representative of a global issue of conservatism in ELT which has been highlighted previously by other authors—and to the existence of which they provide further and current proof.

Bibliography: pages 105-109. / This study develops a conceptual framework for policy analysis and uses it as the basis for an analytical framework to describe the Western Cape's textbook procurement policy (WCTPP). The study starts by defining policy as a purposeful intervention with key attributes, these being: intention; action; practice; status; resources and capacity; and power. The conceptual framework attempts to answer the question, "Are there features which consistently characterise the policy-making process and do the factors which gave shape to policy consistently fall into particular categories?" The framework suggests factors which shape, locate and give rise to policy can be described in terms of contexts and frames which denote arenas within which policy can be constrained or enabled, politically and practically. The key contexts necessary for policy analysis are spatial and historical and the key frames are the frame of discourses of state, the resources/ capacity frame and the legislative/ regulatory frame. The key features characterising policy are that policy-making is characterised by fluidity and that policy is the expression of a balance or a compromise of interests. The framework is then used to develop an analytic framework for the WCTPP. The analysis attempts to answer the question, "What are the key features of this policy and what factors have shaped its emergence?" The analysis suggests that as the WCTPP was conceived, developed and translated into practice within the province, it has a coherence not always possible within an education system characterised by national/ provincial policy fragmentation. As a policy, it is shaped by the relatively well-resourced province from which it emerges. The analysis shows that resources and capacity are a factor at all the sites (department private sector suppliers and schools) involved in the state-private sector partnership that is exemplified in this policy. This policy is given form by the selective recruitment of divergent discourse of the state with two key discourses being manifest, these being that of a democratic, developmental state which sets parameters to and regulates the private sector, and a neo-liberal state, which supports free market forces. Through the legislative/regulatory frame the analysis also shows the inter-dependence of the WCTPP and other policies. The key features which characterise policy-making are portrayed as its on-going nature, and the fact that this policy represents a fragile balancing of competing interests. Educational interests harness commercial interests for educational ends. The analysis allows for a description of the policy that expresses both its functionality and its fragility. The study concludes that the framework developed provides for a dynamic iteration thus illustrating that policy analysis requires an understanding of how policy develops out of the interplay between the contexts, frames and features identified.

The question of what religion is could very well be asked of religious studies teachers by their students. It is, however, a difficult question to answer since there is a lack of consensus regarding the meaning of the term religion in the scientific field. An overview of research on the topic shows a lack of studies regarding religious studies teachers in Sweden and their view on the term religion in different teaching contexts. The aim of this study is to highlight religion studies teachers´ view on the term religion in relation to their teaching, as well as whether textbooks and/or the Swedish curriculum affects how teachers view and use the term religion in their classrooms. This, in turn, might highlight didactic problems that could arise from the lack of a clear definition of religion in the subject of religious studies. The study is conducted by interviewing four teachers at the upper secondary education level in Sweden. The transcripts from the interviews are then analysed using essentialist perspectives on religion as well as the secularist discourse present in Swedish classrooms as the essay’s theoretical perspectives.  The results show that while there is some overlap between how the interviewed teachers view the term religion, they each have a slightly different view of what religion is and how they use the term in their classrooms. Some of the teachers´ views on religion showed signs of essentialism while others tended to see religion as a more open category or that the term should be problematised in classroom exercises. All the interviewed teachers took a non-secularist stance towards religion in their teaching. Textbooks seem to play an important role to a lesser or higher degree depending on which teacher is asked. Textbooks can guide teachers in a certain direction, especially those who recently got their teacher degrees, but the interviewed teachers showed that they were able to use textbooks to their advantage in the classroom while also being aware of problematic content in certain older textbooks. These problematic textbooks tend to take a secularist stance towards religion while newer ones take a more nuanced non-secularist stance. All the interviewed teachers agreed that the Swedish curriculum could be improved regarding how teachers should handle religion as a term, though the exact way in which the curriculum documents should be rewritten varied from teacher to teacher. The curriculum described religion as an open category while also taking a non-secularist stance towards religion. The teachers also discussed whether the subject should even be called religion studies as well as the subject not having enough classroom hours during the school year.

The overall purpose of this study is to make a comparative analysis between how peer assessment is presented and expressed in textbooks intended for the Swedish subject in grades 7–9 and in textbooks for upper secondary school. A sub-purpose is to set the content of the textbooks against what is stipulated in the two Swedish school curricula with regard to how peer assessment should be practiced by Swedish teachers. A second sub-purpose is to compare the content of the textbooks with what Skolverket (National Agency for Education) states in its support material. A qualitative method was used. The results show a certain development between the textbooks intended for compulsory school and the ones that pertain to upper secondary school. Textually, it is more developed in the latter: feedback and response are described in more detail, especially in one of the books. Also in terms of content, these textbooks include more material that is in line with the method of peer assessment. But looking at all the material that has been examined, the analysis shows that the wording is relatively undeveloped, that instructions for students and teachers are often in point form, and that the authors omit descriptions of the purpose and usefulness of peer reviews. The analysis of the two curricula shows a willingness for teachers to work with peer assessment. However, the relationship between the content of the textbooks and the texts from Skolverket reveals differences in how the scientific basis is expressed. In the textbooks, references to research are usually omitted and the usefulness of peer assessment is not clarified to any great extent. The results of the study are discussed from different theoretical perspectives and previous research.

Abstract This thesis examines how art teachers work with teaching materials in their teaching and if they experience a need for a textbook for each grade 7, 8 och 9, as there is in mathematics and English. If a textbook could raise the status of the school subject art and how a textbook could be structured, contain. To find out this, qualitative semistructured interviews were conducted with 5 art teachers around Sweden which is transcribed and analyzed qualitative using content analysis and hermeneutic scientific orientation. For previous research and literature review academic journals and articles have been studied. The study has concluded that four out of five art teachers do not use any teaching material in their teaching but draw inspiration from books and on various Internet sites. Four out of five art teachers see a need for a textbook in the school subject art. Out of those of the art teacher who do not see a need for a textbook in the subject of art believe that it would counteract the school subject art and it would stifle creativity and enthusiasm. All art teachers in the study believe that the status of the subject could be raised with an textbook in the school subject art. How the textbook should be structured and what it should contain are the following: the basics, basic knowledge from simple to advanced level, facts, color theory, shapes, brushwork, classic tasks such as paraphrase of famous paintings, grid enlargement and paint monochrome images in newer versions, art history in chronological order, instructional videos, image concepts, creative open tasks and task about ethnicity, gender roles and power relations.