<p>This project is a comparative study of three elementary schools in India and two elementary schools in Sweden. The purpose of this project is to study if Indian and Swedish students have the possibility to have influence on their English lessons. The research involves values conveyed in the socialisation and their consequences for student influence, democracy and society in the two countries.</p><p>National and international research and literature concerning socialisation, language didactics, democracy and student influence were used as a foundation of this study. Furthermore, the study investigates the Swedish and the Indian curricula, and makes use of observations of English lessons, questionnaires and interviews with teachers in both countries. The method for this research is qualitative with some features of quantitative research and based in the method of Grounded theory.</p><p>The results of this project is that the teachers in both countries controlled the students in different ways during the lessons and practiced student influence only when letting the students choose between preselected materials. Exclusion, inclusion and the hidden curriculum were aspects that appeared, which are likely to teach the students about their individual values in society. The lack of student influence consequently leads to the students being discouraged to be partaking citizens. Instead, the students will learn to follow the rules of society, be loyal to authorities and to carry established values with them and thus reproduce the society in each country and make it remain the same.</p>

This project is a comparative study of three elementary schools in India and two elementary schools in Sweden. The purpose of this project is to study if Indian and Swedish students have the possibility to have influence on their English lessons. The research involves values conveyed in the socialisation and their consequences for student influence, democracy and society in the two countries. National and international research and literature concerning socialisation, language didactics, democracy and student influence were used as a foundation of this study. Furthermore, the study investigates the Swedish and the Indian curricula, and makes use of observations of English lessons, questionnaires and interviews with teachers in both countries. The method for this research is qualitative with some features of quantitative research and based in the method of Grounded theory. The results of this project is that the teachers in both countries controlled the students in different ways during the lessons and practiced student influence only when letting the students choose between preselected materials. Exclusion, inclusion and the hidden curriculum were aspects that appeared, which are likely to teach the students about their individual values in society. The lack of student influence consequently leads to the students being discouraged to be partaking citizens. Instead, the students will learn to follow the rules of society, be loyal to authorities and to carry established values with them and thus reproduce the society in each country and make it remain the same.

Under det senaste decenniet har barns och ungas tillgång till olika digitala medier ökat. De flesta elever möter det engelska språket varje dag på något sätt och de är inte bara konsumenter av språket utan de producerar också engelska i olika aktiviteter på fritiden. Syftet med studien är att undersöka vilket utrymme elevernas extramurala engelska får inom ramen för skolans engelskundervisning och i vilken utsträckning eleverna har användning av engelskan de lär sig i skolans undervisning i sina fritidsaktiviteter. Extramural engelska är ett begrepp som innefattar all den engelska som eleverna kommer i kontakt med utanför skolan. Studien omfattar tre lärare och nio elever i årskurs 4-6 från tre olika kommuner i Jönköpings län. Studien har en fenomenografiskt inspirerad ansats och materialinsamlingen har gjorts genom semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet visar att lärarna arbetat mer eller mindre med en inkludering av elevernas extramurala engelska i engelskundervisningen. Något som var gemensamt för samtliga intervjuade lärare var att de såg en signifikant skillnad i språkliga förmågor mellan de elever som spelade mycket onlinespel och de elever som inte gjorde det. Flertalet av de intervjuade eleverna ansåg sig på ett eller annat sätt ha användning av den engelska de lär sig i skolan på sin fritid. En slutsats som dras är att det är viktigt att undervisande lärare sätter sig in i var, i vilken form och på vilket sätt eleverna möter engelska i sin fritid för att kunna inkludera det i undervisningen i engelska. / Over the past decade, children and adolescents have had an increased access to digital media. Most students get exposed to the English language in some way every day and they are not just consumers, they are also producers of English when they are engaged in different activities in their spare time. The aim of the study is to look into how extramural English is included in English school curriculum and to what extent students have use for the English they learn at school in their spare time activities. Extramural English includes all the English that students come into contact with outside of school. Three teachers and nine students, all from Jönköping county, are included in this study. The students are in grades 4-6. The study has a fenomenographically inspired approach and semi-structured intervjuews have been used to collect the data. The result reveals that the teachers have been working more or less with including the students’ extramural English in school. All teachers that participated in the interviews mentioned that they saw a significant difference in the students’ linguistic abilities between the ones who played a great number of online games and the students who did not. Most of the interviewed students felt in one way or another that they had use for the English they learn at school in their spare time. A conclusion drawn from the results of this study is that it is important for teachers to determine where, in what form and in what way students come into contact with English in their spare time in order to include it in the English school curriculum.

A Lei 10.639/2003 institui a obrigatoriedade da temática \"História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira\" no currículo escolar, abrangendo os estabelecimentos de Ensino Fundamental e Médio das redes oficiais e particulares. Segundo esta lei, esses conteúdos devem ser ministrados no âmbito de todo o currículo escolar, incluindo, assim, o componente disciplinar inglês. O objetivo desta pesquisa consiste justamente em investigar as possibilidades de sensibilização para a temática étnico-racial, junto a um grupo de alunos de Ensino Fundamental da Escola de Aplicação da FEUSP, por meio da aplicação da lei nas aulas de inglês. A metodologia empregada está voltada para a criação e aplicação de materiais didáticos, bem como para a análise desse processo. O trabalho está embasado na teoria sócio-histórico-cultural de Lev Semenovich Vigotski, seus colaboradores e seguidores, principalmente no conceito de ZDP e de desenvolvimento humano por meio de ações mediadas, sejam por instrumentos como material didático ou por outros seres humanos o professor-pesquisador. Os resultados indicam a adequação da disciplina para a aplicação da lei, especialmente no sentido de promover engajamento e participação dos alunos, no uso da língua como meio de acesso a bens culturais e de promoção de reflexão, ao invés do estudo apenas de seu léxico e de suas estruturas gramaticais. As conclusões apontam para a necessidade de frequência das ações, bem como para a diversificação das estratégias didáticas. Também se evidenciou a relevância da lei como um esforço para a conscientização acerca das contribuições dos afrodescendentes na história e na formação da identidade e da cultura brasileiras como um todo. / The law 10.639/2003 establishes the obligation of \"history and Afro-Brazilian Culture\" themes in the school curriculum, comprehending the primary, secondary, public and private schools of the official educational system. According to the law, its contents must be taught in all curriculum subjects, thus, including English. The aim of this research is to investigate the possibilities of raising awareness about ethnic and racial themes with a group of secondary pupils at Escola de Aplicação da FEUSP, through the law implementation in the English lessons. The methodology involves the elaboration and use of teaching materials and the analysis of its process. The research is based on the historical sociocultural theory of Lev Semenovich Vigotski, his co-researchers and followers, mainly in the concepts of ZPD and human development through mediated action, either by tools or other human beings, seen here as the teaching material and the teacher-researcher respectively. Results show the English subject adequacy to implement the law, especially in terms of students\' engagement and participation, using the language as a means of access to cultural assets and reflection upon them, instead of lexicon and grammar practice only. Conclusions point to the need of frequency and diversification of didactical strategies, as well as to the relevance of the law as an effort to raise awareness about the afro-descendants importance in the history and in the formation of the Brazilian identity and culture as a whole.

A Lei 10.639/2003 institui a obrigatoriedade da temática \"História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira\" no currículo escolar, abrangendo os estabelecimentos de Ensino Fundamental e Médio das redes oficiais e particulares. Segundo esta lei, esses conteúdos devem ser ministrados no âmbito de todo o currículo escolar, incluindo, assim, o componente disciplinar inglês. O objetivo desta pesquisa consiste justamente em investigar as possibilidades de sensibilização para a temática étnico-racial, junto a um grupo de alunos de Ensino Fundamental da Escola de Aplicação da FEUSP, por meio da aplicação da lei nas aulas de inglês. A metodologia empregada está voltada para a criação e aplicação de materiais didáticos, bem como para a análise desse processo. O trabalho está embasado na teoria sócio-histórico-cultural de Lev Semenovich Vigotski, seus colaboradores e seguidores, principalmente no conceito de ZDP e de desenvolvimento humano por meio de ações mediadas, sejam por instrumentos como material didático ou por outros seres humanos o professor-pesquisador. Os resultados indicam a adequação da disciplina para a aplicação da lei, especialmente no sentido de promover engajamento e participação dos alunos, no uso da língua como meio de acesso a bens culturais e de promoção de reflexão, ao invés do estudo apenas de seu léxico e de suas estruturas gramaticais. As conclusões apontam para a necessidade de frequência das ações, bem como para a diversificação das estratégias didáticas. Também se evidenciou a relevância da lei como um esforço para a conscientização acerca das contribuições dos afrodescendentes na história e na formação da identidade e da cultura brasileiras como um todo. / The law 10.639/2003 establishes the obligation of \"history and Afro-Brazilian Culture\" themes in the school curriculum, comprehending the primary, secondary, public and private schools of the official educational system. According to the law, its contents must be taught in all curriculum subjects, thus, including English. The aim of this research is to investigate the possibilities of raising awareness about ethnic and racial themes with a group of secondary pupils at Escola de Aplicação da FEUSP, through the law implementation in the English lessons. The methodology involves the elaboration and use of teaching materials and the analysis of its process. The research is based on the historical sociocultural theory of Lev Semenovich Vigotski, his co-researchers and followers, mainly in the concepts of ZPD and human development through mediated action, either by tools or other human beings, seen here as the teaching material and the teacher-researcher respectively. Results show the English subject adequacy to implement the law, especially in terms of students\' engagement and participation, using the language as a means of access to cultural assets and reflection upon them, instead of lexicon and grammar practice only. Conclusions point to the need of frequency and diversification of didactical strategies, as well as to the relevance of the law as an effort to raise awareness about the afro-descendants importance in the history and in the formation of the Brazilian identity and culture as a whole.