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The presence of digital games are growing in the minds of young people. Since the 80´s the gaming industry has come to grow past both the music industry and the movie industry. In present time teachers face students who in at least some way are influenced by games. Therefore it’s vital to understand what potential games have for educational purposes. This study will therefore examine in what manners history is represented in Bethesda Software’s Fallout 4. Furthermore the purpose of the essay is to grasp the role history plays in Fallout 4 and in what manner history interplay with the historical counsciousness of the person playing it.   The fundamental question asked is: In what ways, if any, is history used in Fallout 4 and what are the implications for the historical counsciousness of the person playing? To answer the question I examined the representation of history within the game’s interactive dialogues, environment and story.   Following the analyze of the results the conclusion can be made that the players historical counsciousness is mobilized as an effect of primarily the clash between contrafactual history and factual history. The players critical thinking is triggered within the forementioned context and certain parts of the game can therefore be said to stimulate and assist the player in learning to think about history.

Vi ville undersöka några svenska gymnasielärare i historias attityder till att låta sina elever arbeta kontrafaktiskt. Vilka svårigheter de ser med arbetet, hur de arbetar eller kan tänka sig att arbeta med det och om de såg några specifika för- eller nackdelar jämfört med mer traditionell undervisning? För att ta reda på detta utförde vi kvalitativa intervjuer medyrkesverksamma lärare. Vi hörde inte av oss på förhand om huruvida de arbetat kontrafaktiskt tidigare och vi väntade oss en viss skepsis mot arbetssättet. Men vad vi fann var att även om inte alla medvetet arbetat med det så var alla insatta i, och positiva till, metoden. Och trots attde var eniga om att det innebär stora svårigheter att arbeta kontrafaktiskt så vittnade de samtidigt om stora fördelar, såsom effektivt utvecklande av historiemedvetande, främjande avhistorisk empati, samt motverkande av historisk determinism. / We wanted to investigate some Swedish high school history teachers' attitudes towards letting their pupils work counterfactually. Which difficulties they see with this kind of work, how they are working or can fancy themselves working with it and whether they see any specific pros or cons compared to more traditional education. To find these answers we conducted a series of qualitative interviews with working teachers. We did not inquire before hand as to whether they ever had been working counterfactually and we expected some degree of scepticism towards this way to work. But what we found was that even though not all of them had tried working this way, they were all well informed on the subject and favourable towards the method. And despite being unanimous about the difficulties of working counterfactually,they testified to the great advantages to doing so, such as benefiting the development of a historical consciousness, promoting historical empathy and countering historical determinism.