The study aims to investigate what didactic strategies teachers use to prevent and counteract anti-Semitism in the classroom. The study aims to use a qualitative method to investigate the experiences, strategies, and how they perceive the concept of anti-Semitism. We used semi-structured interviews with four history teachers at three different schools in Southern Sweden. The interviews were analyzed based on their conceptual definition of anti-Semitism; stories important in history teaching linked to history culture. The study contains theoretical definitions of the concepts of anti-Semitism, historical consciousness, history culture, and narrative. The empirical material showed that teachers largely shared views of the concept of anti-Semitism as negative and expressions described as Jew-hatred. The history teachers also had similar views on which didactic choices and strategies they considered beneficial in the work to combat anti-Semitism. Further, the empirical material also showed that study trips were considered good strategies in countering anti-Semitism, especially in the future perspective, when students in recent years understood the purpose of the trips. The results also showed that economic conditions mainly govern the possibility of travel, but that everyone considered it a good thing. The results of the survey are not representative of history teachers throughout Sweden, their understanding and didactic choices cannot be generalized. However, this study can help shed light on how to work to counter anti-Semitism and strategies for dealing with Holocaust education.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka om läroböckernas berättelser levde upp till den normativa demokratisyn som formuleras i LPO 94 och om berättelsen om det moderna Sveriges framväxt kan tillskrivas ett värde för alla elever. Undersökningen bygger på en kvalitativ läromedelsanalys av tre vanligt förekommande läroböcker i historia för grundskolans senare del. Vi har i läroböckerna fokuserat på berättelser om det moderna Sveriges framväxt som kan kopplas till begrepp som demokrati, rättigheter, solidaritet och jämställdhet. Utifrån läroböckerna, LPO 94 och aktuell forskning har vi diskuterat huruvida den historiska framställningen av det moderna Sveriges framväxt kan tillskrivas ett allmängiltigt värde. Undersökningens resultat visade att läroböckerna förmedlade en historia som tydligt gick att härleda till läroplanen. Aktuell forskning visade samtidigt att begreppet demokrati är åsidosatt inom skolan och att det på sin höjd sammankopplas med en instrumentell förståelse av begreppet. Vi menar att en grundläggande historisk förståelse av närkontexten är nödvändig för att kunna utveckla och fördjupa ett historiemedvetande. / The purpose of this thesis was to investigate how textbook narratives were compatible to the normative view formulated in the curriculum of 1994 and if narratives concerning Sweden’s modernization ascribe a value to all pupils. The investigation is based on a qualitative textbook analysis of three commonly used history textbooks within upper level compulsory school. In the textbooks we have focused on narratives concerning Sweden’s modern development connected to notions as democracy, civil rights, solidarity and equality. On the basis of textbooks, curriculum and current research we discuss whether the historical account of Sweden’s development ascribe a value that is generally applicable. The result of the investigation showed that the textbooks mediated a history with close connection to the aim of the curriculum. Simultaneously current research points out how the notion of democracy is neglected within the educational system and at its best is connected with a one dimensional understanding of the idea. We conclude that pupils need a basic understanding of the nearby historical context to be able to develop their historical awareness.

It is said that we live in a society of communication, or a society of media, even. If that is true, that everyday live is affected by media, then the children of our society are also affected, and so is school. The purpose of this study was to see how four different teachers use media in their history education to spread knowledge about history to their pupils and to make them more historically aware. In doing so I was hoping that I, and others, can make use of their methods and experience of using media in the education. The results of this study shows that teachers seem to find pictures the best and most important media for pupils to understand history better. The teachers also all seem to think media in the history education can have a greatly positive impact on the pupils’ understanding of history.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T20:31:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Smyl.pdf: 1712168 bytes, checksum: 60c6b5d42bc754c881611ff8b174afec (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-17 / This research examined how the relations between fashion and historical awareness are signified and established in times of cyberculture. Fashion is understood as an important social phenomenon especially on the experiences of young students, once they are in a stage of identity (re)definition. The appropriation of fashion by the students was a fruitful theme for the collection of data that allows meaningful reflections on historical awareness and social identity, among other aspects. It is stated that fashion establishes practices and behaviors, allowing the study of different types of functions and intentions, positions and historical understandings through the clothing archetype; it is, therefore, an empirical demonstration of historical awareness. In this research The Sims game and the creation of avatars were used, with the purpose of understanding the mobilization of historical awareness in the construction and perception of the aesthetic of young students’ clothes. The theoretical-methodological framework of this work is based on the concept of ultrashort history (or narrative), which integrates the concept of historical awareness supported by Jörn Rüsen. The concepts of fashion of Pierre Bourdieu, of cyberculture of Pierre Levy, of identity of Zygmunt Bauman and Stuart Hall, were also used in the analyzes developed in this research.Thus, in this research indications that express the way in which the young people dress reflect upon their identities and mobilize their historical consciences were found, elaborating narratives based on clothes as a summary of goals, causes and unexpected, established in a temporal connection.The drafting of avatars by youngsters showed forms of domination (social, physical and symbolic), beyond being a locus of manifestation of social belonging, and consequently of the exercise of symbolic violence, prejudice, stereotypes, and acceptance. The youngsters are guided by aesthetic frameworks, with massive significance of social behaviors and rules. / Esta investigação analisou como são significadas e estabelecidas as relações entre a moda e a consciência histórica em tempos da cibercultura. A moda é entendida como um fenômeno social especialmente importante nas vivências dos jovens estudantes, dado que estão numa fase de (re)definição identitária. A apropriação da moda pelos estudantes foi um tema profícuo para o levantamento de dados que permite significativas reflexões sobre consciência histórica e identidade social, entre outros aspectos. Defende-se que a moda estabelece comportamentos e práticas, permitindo através do arquétipo das roupas o estudo de diferentes tipos de funções e intenções, posicionamentos e compreensões históricas; constitui, portanto, uma manifestação empírica da consciência histórica. Nesta pesquisa foi empregado, como laboratório o jogo The Sims e a elaboração de avatares, com a finalidade de compreender a mobilização da consciência histórica na construção e na percepção estética das roupas dos jovens estudantes. A fundamentação teórico-metodológica deste trabalho está baseada na noção de história (ou narrativa) ultracurta, que integra o conceito de consciência histórica sustentado por Jörn Rüsen. Os conceitos de moda de Pierre Bourdieu, de cibercultura de Pierre Lévy, de identidade de Zygmunt Bauman e de Stuart Hall, também foram empregados nas análises desenvolvidas nesta pesquisa. Sendo assim, nesta pesquisa foram encontrados indicativos que expressam a maneira pela qual os jovens se vestem refletem suas identidades e mobilizam suas consciências históricas, elaborando narrativas fundadas nas roupas como uma síntese de objetivos, causas e imprevistos, estabelecida em uma conexão temporal. A elaboração dos avatares pelos jovens reproduziu formas de dominação (social, física e simbólica), além de ser um lócus de manifestação de pertencimento social, e consequentemente de exercício da violência simbólica, de preconceitos, estereótipos e de aceitação. Os jovens são guiados por referenciais estéticos, com massiva significância de condutas e normas sociais.

Daß im hermeneutischen Denken nicht Konstruktion der geschichtlichen Welt aus präsentischer Selbstgewißhelt, vielmehr Nachkonstruktion aus Notwendigkeit zur Selbstkonstitution Aufgabe wird, verweist auf eine gewandelte Bestimmung von Subjektivität, für die aus Kants Transzendentalphilosophie die Einbildungskraft zum Prinzip genommen wird, das als \"Phantasie\" (Reden über Religion) oder, in Schellings Worten, als Vermögen der \"Passivität aus Selbsttätigkeit\" gilt. Indem so aus Schleiermachers Schriften radikaler als aus der idealistischen Geschichtsphilosophie der Bruch mit der aufklärerisch-rationalistischen Geschichtsauffassung gelesen werden kann, läßt sich das Pathos der spätromantischen Verklärung des historischen Bewußtseins revidieren und in eins damit begründen.

Denna uppsats syfte är att se hur dagens historiesyn kommer till uttryck i läromedel för gymnasiets kurs Historia A. Min utgångspunkt är att historiebegreppet idag har breddats till att innefatta fler perspektiv, som till exempel social-, miljö- och genushistoria. Jag undersökte fyra läroböcker som alla används i undervisning på gymnasiet och tillsammans representerar tre olika förlag. Utöver att titta övergripande på innehållet så fokuserade jag på tre perspektiv. Dessa var genus, etnicitet och historiemedvetande. Efter undersökningen var min slutsats att trots att det fanns fler perspektiv representerade så innehöll böckerna i stort en traditionell politisk historia. Historieämnet kämpar med stoffträngsel och detta speglar naturligtvis läroböckernas innehåll, det är inte möjligt att få med allt utan prioriteringar måste göras. En viktig slutsats för egen del var insikten om att läroboken måste kompletteras med fler källor för att eleverna ska tillgodogöra sig fler perspektiv och nå insikter om historiens komplexitet.

Syftet med denna undersökning har varit att genom ett fältarbete i två sjundeklasser få kunskap om undervisning med skönlitteratur har gett elever i den ena klassen andra förutsättningar att skriva en essä än i den andra klassen. Essäuppgiftens uppgift var att fungera som avslutning på arbetsområdet ”Egypten för 5000 år” sedan för eleverna. Jag har valt att genom en enkät undersöka skillnaderna i elevernas upplevelse av arbete med skönlitteratur i historieundervisningen. När det gäller enkäten och essäuppgiften i de båda klasserna skilde sig resultatet av dessa inte nämnvärt från varandra vilket jag hade förväntat mig. Anledningen till att det inte förekom några skillnader anser jag ligger i att för att eleverna ska kunna genomföra den dubbla tankeoperation, i vilken de genetiska och genealogiska perspektiven kommer fram i elevernas historiemedvetande, krävs det aktiva samtal. Dessa ger eleverna möjlighet att analysera och reflektera i klassrummet med andra elever och lärare omkring texter som eleverna läser. Detta stämmer överens med Mary Ingemanssons studie av yngre barn. Dessa samtal ingick inte i min undervisning. En viktig iakttagelse som däremot gjordes i min undersökning var att med skönlitteratur i historieundervisningen tenderar eleverna till att framföra tidlösa fantasiberättelser eller faktalistor. / I have in this study worked whit two seventh grade classes. The purpose of this study has been to examine if teaching with the complement of fiction novel has given the pupils in one of the classes better conditions to write an essay than in the other class. The assignment ended the course “Egypt -5000 years ago”. I’ve also created a survey to find out if there were any differences between the classes that worked with creative writing, and the class that didn’t do it. The conclusion of my work is that the differences between the two classes did not come out as big as I expected. The reason to the small difference in skills between the classes may lay in the dual thinking operation, in which the genetic such as the genealogic perspective comes through the pupils in forming a dependent historical perception. This kind of thinking creates an active conversation where the pupils obtain the prospective to analyse and reflect with other pupils and teachers about the text that they had been reading. This kind of thinking agrees with the views of Mary Ingemanssons study on younger children. Conversations of this kind did not occur in my lessons. Another important observation which I noticed in my study was that when using fiction in history teaching, the pupils tended to present timeless fantasy stories or list of facts.

Denna uppsats har gjorts i hopp om att kunna bidra med kunskap om vad elever förväntas och vilka kunskaper de kan tillgodogöra sig genom undervisningen i svenskämnets språkhistoria. Studien har gjorts genom en dokumentstudie av tre samtida läroböcker för kursen svenska 3 för gymnasiet. Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka i vilket utsträckning läroböcker möjliggör språkhistorisk medvetenhet. För att besvara detta har huvudfokus legat på att ta reda på hur väl läroböckerna tillämpar begreppet och hur de motiverar nyttan i språkhistoria. Uppsatsens teoretiska ingång baseras på Jonathan Petterssons tankar om att undervisningen i språkhistoria kan bidra till att eleverna utvecklar en språkhistorisk medvetenhet. Det innebär att eleven kan sätta språkhistorien i relation till aktuella frågor i sin samtid och framtid, för att bygga upp ett förhållningssätt till sig själv och sin omgivning som språkvarelser. Undersökningen har visat att läroböckerna lyckas tillämpa begreppet i hög grad, genom att uppnå olika förutsättningar för att utveckla ett språkhistoriskt medvetande. Vad som är nyttan i det språkhistoriska ämnet är däremot inte något som tydligt motiveras i läroböckerna, vilket bekräftar tidigare forsknings tankar om att det råder oklarheter frågan. Avsaknaden av motiveringen speglar också nuvarande styrdokument som endast formulerar att de ska utveckla kunskaper i det svenska språkets ursprung. Sammanfattningsvis pekar därför studien på att läroböckerna i svenskämnet möjliggör utvecklandet av språkhistorisk medvetenhet. I ett större perspektiv antyder därför studien på att det finns goda möjligheter för begreppet språkhistorisk medvetenhet att ingå i svenskämnets språkhistoria, men att det fortfarande krävs att större forskning börjar intressera sig för frågan för att sätta större ljus på forskningsproblemet. Detta är också en nödvändighet för att möjliggöra en eventuell ändring i styrdokumenten i framtiden. / This essay have been written with hope in contributing with knowledge about what students are expected and what they can absorb through the teaching of the Swedish language history. The study has been done through a document study of three modern textbooks for the Swedish course 3 intended for high school. The purpose of the study has been to investigate the extent to which textbooks enable language-historical awareness. To answer this, the main focus has been on finding out how well the textbooks apply the concept and how they justify the usefulness in language history.  The theoretical approach is based on Jonathan Pettersson's thoughts of that the teaching of language history can contribute to the students developing a language-historical awareness. This means that the student can put the language history in relation to current issues in his or her contemporary and future, in order to build up an approach to themselves and their surroundings as language creatures.  The study has shown that the textbooks succeed in applying the concept of language-historical consciousness to a great extent, by achieving different conditions for developing a language-historical consciousness. What is useful in the language-historical subject on the other hand is not something that is clearly justified in the textbooks, which confirms the earlier research's thoughts that there are uncertainties within this question. The lack of justification also reflects the current curricula of Swedish that only states that they should develop knowledge in the origin of the Swedish language. To sum up, the study therefore indicates that the textbooks enable the development of language-historical awareness. In a larger perspective, the study therefore suggests that there are good opportunities for the concept of language-historical awareness to be included in the Swedish history language, but that it is still necessary for major research to start to take an interest in the issue in order to shed more light on the research problem. This is also necessary in order to enable a possible change in the curricula in the future.

O principal objetivo desta pesquisa foi demonstrar a importância da música para a construção do conhecimento histórico de alunos e professores. A consciência histórica mediada pela linguagem musical revela uma forte carga afetiva, pois faz parte de uma memória pessoal e modelo de referência para a apreensão e assimilação das novas audições, similares ou não as anteriores, revelando assim o que podemos chamar de consciência musical dos sujeitos envolvidos. A importância da música em sala de aula encontra-se principalmente relacionada à própria natureza da linguagem musical, pois só pode ser percebida única e exclusivamente em e mediante o tempo, alimentando-se de uma memória afetiva que se transforma em uma consciência musical no presente, facilitando as narrativas, reflexões, práticas ou interpretações históricas dos alunos e da professora. / The main objective of this research was to demonstrate the importance of music to building historical knowledge in students and teachers. The historical awareness mediated by musical language reveals a strong affective load, because it is part of a personal memory and a reference to the apprehension and assimilation of new listening, similar or not to the ones mentioned before, revealing what we can call musical awareness of the involved subjects. The importance of music in class is mainly related to the nature of the musical language itself, as this can only be noticed in and through time, feeding itself from an affective memory that transforms itself in a musical awareness in the present, facilitating the narratives, reflexions, practices or historical interpretations of the students and the teacher.

O principal objetivo desta pesquisa foi demonstrar a importância da música para a construção do conhecimento histórico de alunos e professores. A consciência histórica mediada pela linguagem musical revela uma forte carga afetiva, pois faz parte de uma memória pessoal e modelo de referência para a apreensão e assimilação das novas audições, similares ou não as anteriores, revelando assim o que podemos chamar de consciência musical dos sujeitos envolvidos. A importância da música em sala de aula encontra-se principalmente relacionada à própria natureza da linguagem musical, pois só pode ser percebida única e exclusivamente em e mediante o tempo, alimentando-se de uma memória afetiva que se transforma em uma consciência musical no presente, facilitando as narrativas, reflexões, práticas ou interpretações históricas dos alunos e da professora. / The main objective of this research was to demonstrate the importance of music to building historical knowledge in students and teachers. The historical awareness mediated by musical language reveals a strong affective load, because it is part of a personal memory and a reference to the apprehension and assimilation of new listening, similar or not to the ones mentioned before, revealing what we can call musical awareness of the involved subjects. The importance of music in class is mainly related to the nature of the musical language itself, as this can only be noticed in and through time, feeding itself from an affective memory that transforms itself in a musical awareness in the present, facilitating the narratives, reflexions, practices or historical interpretations of the students and the teacher.