This essay aims at examine the existing research on textbook analysis of Islamic studies in Swedish religious education (Religionskunskap) and the consequences this may have on education about Islam. The research questions this essay intends to answer are; How is Islam presented in different teaching materials according to previous research?, How are women in Islam portrayed in teaching materials according to previous research? and, What are the consequences of this portrayal of Islam according to previous research?. Through various similar essays and research databases, such as Libsearch, ProQuest and EBSCOhost, we found analyses of textbooks and teaching material and other research that elaborate on the research questions in this essay. Swedish school authorities have through investigations and reports found that teaching about Islam reproduces stereotypes. The supplementary research presented in this essay reach the same conclusions. This finding is a result of i.a. the Lutheran tradition in the Swedish school system, the Western context in which Islam is seen from an orientalist’s perspective and the Western media's coverage of Muslim countries' conflicts, all of which influence the Swedish education about Islam. In conclusion, the textbook analysis shows that the information on Islam in Swedish education is either wrong, angled, lack information or describe Islam as a religion with an agency. This causes an undesirable reproduction of stereotypes of Islam. Instead of counteracting stereotypes in the curriculum of the Swedish religious education, this essay shows that the outcome is rather the opposite.

This study aims to analyse how sex and sexuality are presented in the Buddhism and Hinduism chapters of religious studies textbooks for upper secondary school. The chosen textbooks are all linked to the new curriculum Lgr 11 which was implemented in the Swedish school system in the spring of 2012. The textbooks were analysed by using two methods; content analysis and discourse analysis. Content analysis was used to examine with which frequency sexes and sexualities appear in the textbooks, while discourse analysis was used to find what discourses surround the two concepts. The discourse analysis used two theories in order to contextualize the several discourses about sex and sexuality. The two theories were social dominance theory and norm critical theory.   The study shows that men are more frequently mentioned in the textbooks than women, with two exceptions. In the chapter describing Buddhism in one of the textbooks, women are more frequently portrayed in pictures. Women are also more frequently mentioned in the chapter describing Hinduism in another textbook.   In the chapters about Buddhism, men are often described as leaders and are mentioned in connection to education. When women are mentioned, it is often in the role of nuns, who are always described as subordinate to monks. In the chapters about Hinduism, men are often mentioned in connection to education, and are often described as in power and as practitioners of the religion. Women are described as dependent on men and are mentioned in connection to marriage and their husbands. Sexuality is a subject which only one textbook brings up. It defines homosexuality as unacceptable in the Hindu society, but does however point out that it is not illegal. Other than that, the textbooks display a lack of interest in discussing sexualities in patriarchal religions in which heterosexuality is considered a norm. Every example and description the textbooks give about religious life and the different stages humans go through are based on a heteronormativity. The authors always base their examples on heterosexual relationships and heterosexual people. The findings of this study are troubling, particularly as the Nation Agency for Education (Skolverket) has stated that the Swedish upper secondary school must study religion from different perspectives, for example sex and sexuality.

Este artículo identifica las obras que se usaban con mayor frecuencia en las escuelas primarias de la ciudad de Lima durante el siglo XIX y explica los motivos por los cuales gozaron de la preferencia de los maestros e, indirectamente, de los padres de familia. En este texto se examinan en detalle los objetivos asignados a la educación primaria por el gobierno central, las autoridades locales y los intelectuales de la época. Luego se analizan las motivaciones culturales y prácticas que los maestros tuvieron para adoptar determinados textos.---This article identifies the textbooks which were most frequently used in primary schools in Lima during the XIX century and analyzes the motives which explain why they were preferred by teachers and, indirectly, parents. The article examines in detail the objectives of primary education as determined by the central government, local authorities, and intellectuals during this period. Finally, it will analyze the cultural motivations and practices which led the teachers to adopt certain texts.

Diplomová práce zkoumá žákovské porozumění iracionálním čísl·m. Cílem bylo zmapovat a zhodnotit porozumění žák· ze druhého a třetího ročníku na gymnáziu. Vyhodnocení probíhalo na základě dotazníkového šetření od 69 respondent· a polostrukturovaného rozhovoru od 12 z nich. Výsledky ukázaly, že pro velkou část těchto žák· jsou všechna čísla s neukončeným desetinným rozvojem považována za čísla iracionální a s ukončeným desetinným rozvojem za čísla racionální. V závěru práce uvádím dva přístupy, které by mohly zmírnit tuto chybnou představu. 1

Este trabalho pretende comparar o ensino da produção textual em livros didáticos do português (LDP) e em apostilas escolares (AE), as quais hoje apontam para uma opção mercadológica de mercantilização do conhecimento escolar brasileiro. Como metodologia da pesquisa, optamos por um levantamento diacrônico sobre o ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil, apresentando um histórico do LD como suporte de ensino e de aprendizagem da disciplina, para analisarmos os impactos das teorias linguísticas modernas, sobretudo, no que diz respeito aos gêneros discursivos (cf. Bakhtin, 2003), e dos PCN/PCNEM no ensino da produção de textos em sala de aula. Em virtude das modificações recentemente propostas pelo Exame Nacional de Ensino Médio (ENEM) e dos seus impactos na abordagem escolar da Produção Textual (PT), delimitamos nossa análise ao gênero dissertação escolar (DE), conhecido genericamente como redação escolar (RE), o mais cobrado em concursos e vestibulares brasileiros, traçando um recorte desde o período pós-Ditadura até as recentes propostas semióticas de abordagem do gênero (BARTHES, 1975; SANTAELLA, 2009; SIMÕES, 2009). Nossa perspectiva é, à guisa das mudanças ideológicas envolvidas na mudança de abordagem do ensino de RE para PT, apontar como LDP, tradicionalmente adotados em escolas públicas, e AE, contemporaneamente preferidas por dirigentes de escolas particulares, comportam-se frente a quatro eixos fundamentais para a prática docente do ensino da dissertação escolar: concepções teóricas adotadas, metodologia do ensino de DE, fundamentação teórico-metodológica dos professores e propostas de avaliação. Feita a análise contrastiva, o trabalho apontará aspectos divergentes e convergentes desse ensino, contextualizando o papel docente como mediador diante dos conflitos pedagógicos surgidos no decorrer da educação básica / This paper aims to investigate how the teaching of textual production has been conducted in Portuguese textbooks (LDP) and in school textbooks (AE), which now point to an option commodification of marketing knowledge Brazilian school. As a research methodology, we chose a diachronic survey on the teaching of Portuguese in Brazil, presenting a history of LD to support teaching and learning the discipline to analyze the impacts of modern linguistic theories, especially with regard to genres (cf. Bakhtin, 2003), and NCP / PCNEM in teaching the production of texts in the classroom. Because of the changes recently proposed by the National Teaching Exam (ENEM) and its impact on school approach Textual Production (PT), delimit our analysis gender school dissertation (DE), known generically as writing school (RE), the charged more contests and vestibular Brazilians, tracing a snip from the post-dictatorship until the recent proposals semiotic approach to the genre (Barthes, 1975; SANTAELLA, 2009; SIMÕES, 2009). Our perspective is, by way of ideological changes involved in changing the approach to the teaching of RE PT, pointing as LDP traditionally adopted in public schools, and AE, contemporaneously preferred by managers of private schools behave against four cornerstones for teaching practice of teaching school dissertation: theoretical concepts adopted, methodology of teaching DE, theoretical-methodological and teacher evaluation proposals. Made contrastive analysis, the work will point divergent and convergent aspects of this teaching, contextualizing the teaching role as mediator before decorres conflicts arising in teaching basic education

I den här uppsatsen analyseras tre vanligt förekommande läroböcker i religionskunskap utifrån ett postkolonialt perspektiv i jakt på koloniala maktdiskurser. Passager där hinduism och hinduer målas upp som ”våran” motsats belyses och analyseras. Även delar innehållande etnocentrism i allmänhet och eurocentrism i synnerhet samt exotiserande beskrivningar lyfts upp i ljuset och diskuteras. I ett försök att koppla samman det teoretiska med det praktiska utfördes intervjuer med aktivt undervisande lärare. Det huvudsakliga målet med denna intervjustudie var att se hur stor risken är när ”förorenade” läroböcker används. Intervjustudien syftade således till att få en bild av i hur stor utsträckning läroböcker används i klassrumsmiljön och i planeringsprocessen av lektioner och hur ofta nya läroböcker köps in. Studiernas resultat är milt positiva. Även om ”gamla” koloniala tankar hittades i läroböckerna så verkar det som om den koloniala diskursen är försvagad i lärobokssammanhang, då de nyare läroböckerna hade färre koloniala spår än den äldsta som innehöll många. En annan del av studiernas resultat som kan ses som positivt är att lärares attityder kring läroboksanvändning verkar ha ändrats. Detta betyder att även om en lärobok innehåller koloniala diskurser så betyder det nödvändigtvis inte att de följer med in i elevens kunskaper. Detta är på grund av att läroboken numer ses som en informationskälla i mängden jämfört med dess tidigare roll som ”sanningsförmedlaren med stort S”. / In this paper three commonly used school textbooks for religion studies are analyzed using post-colonial theory in search for colonial power discourses. Passages where Hindu religion is described as “our” opposite are highlighted. Also occurrences of ethnocentrism in general and eurocentrism in particular as well as exoticism are brought to the light and discussed. In an effort to connect the theoretical with the practical an interview study is made with active teachers. The main goal is to see how big the risk, with using “tainted” textbooks, is. In the interview study questions about how large role textbooks plays in their classrooms and lesson planning and how often they bought new textbooks were asked. The results of the studies are mildly positive. Even though traces of old colonial thoughts were found in the school textbooks it seems as though the colonial discourse within the the textbooks sphere is weakened, since the newest of the textbooks analyzed did not have many colonial traces compared to the oldest one which had plenty. Another positive result of the studies is that teachers' attitudes towards textbook usage seems to have changed. This means that even though your textbook might have a colonial discourse there is no guarantee that it will stick on your students. Since textbooks now is seen as merely another source of information compared to its earlier status as The Source of Information.

Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση των γλωσσικών χαρακτηριστικών στα κειμενικά είδη που εμφανίζονται στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια της Ιστορίας και της Βιολογίας του γυμνασίου, με βάση το θεωρητικό πλαίσιο και τη μεθοδολογία της Συστημικής Λειτουργικής Γλωσσολογίας (ΣΛΓ). Συγκεκριμένα, αναλύονται οι λεξικoγραμματικοί πόροι και τα σημασιολογικά χαρακτηριστικά σε είκοσι τέσσερα συνολικά κείμενα από τα σχολικά εγχειρίδια. Η έρευνα εστιάζει στις διαδικασίες και τους μετέχοντες (σύστημα μεταβιβαστικότητας), στη λεξική πυκνότητα, στην τροπικότητα, στη γραμματική μεταφορά (ιδίως στην ονοματοποίηση), στην χρονικότητα και την αιτιότητα και στις συνδετικές σχέσεις. Οι διαφοροποιήσεις του λόγου των ανθρωπιστικών και φυσικών επιστημών, η αφαίρεση και η τεχνικότητα, και τα σύνδρομα χαρακτηριστικών που χαρακτηρίζουν τα κειμενικά είδη, εξετάζονται σε συσχέτιση και με τα ευρήματα συναφών ερευνών που έχουν γίνει τόσο στην Ελλάδα όσο και διεθνώς (κυρίως στην Αυστραλία). Όπως προκύπτει από την ανάλυση των αποτελεσμάτων, τα χαρακτηριστικά αυξάνονται από τη μία τάξη στην άλλη και εντοπίζονται διαφορές στα δύο αντικείμενα. Η ανασυγκρότηση της γνώσης απαιτεί από τα παιδιά του γυμνασίου εξοικείωση με τις γραμματικές μορφές της γραπτής γλώσσας και του τρόπου που αναπτύσσονται στα κειμενικά είδη στα διάφορα μαθήματα. Επιπλέον, προτείνεται η συστηματικότερη ανάλυση και προσαρμογή των εργαλείων της ΣΛΓ στην ελληνική γλώσσα, δεδομένου ότι έχει εφαρμοστεί κατά κύριο λόγο στην αγγλική, και, τέλος, γίνονται κάποιες προεκτάσεις στην εκπαίδευση και τον γραμματισμό με γνώμονα μια ισονομιστική και χειραφετητική γνώση. / The purpose of this study is to investigate the language of genres in History and Biology school textbooks in early secondary school (gymnasio), within the frame of systemic functional linguistics (SFL). More specifically, our aim is to analyze the lexicogrammar and semantics of twenty four texts from school textbooks. The study focuses on processes and participants (system of transitivity), lexical density, modality, grammatical metaphor (especially nominalization), temporality, causality and conjunctive relations. Differences in discourse of humanities and natural sciences, technicality and abstraction, and the co-occurrence (syndromes) of characteristics in different genres are considered in relation with the findings of relevant Greek and international researches. According to data analysis, there is an increasing tension from lower to higher grade and some differences between the two subject areas. The reconstruction of knowledge demands from early secondary pupils familiarization with grammatical forms of written language and with the way that they are deployed in school genres. Furthermore, it is suggested more specific analysis and adaptation of SFL tools in Greek language, given that they have implemented basically in English, and, finally, our remarks are extended to education and literacy under the rule of equal opportunities and emancipative knowledge.

Este trabalho pretende comparar o ensino da produção textual em livros didáticos do português (LDP) e em apostilas escolares (AE), as quais hoje apontam para uma opção mercadológica de mercantilização do conhecimento escolar brasileiro. Como metodologia da pesquisa, optamos por um levantamento diacrônico sobre o ensino de Língua Portuguesa no Brasil, apresentando um histórico do LD como suporte de ensino e de aprendizagem da disciplina, para analisarmos os impactos das teorias linguísticas modernas, sobretudo, no que diz respeito aos gêneros discursivos (cf. Bakhtin, 2003), e dos PCN/PCNEM no ensino da produção de textos em sala de aula. Em virtude das modificações recentemente propostas pelo Exame Nacional de Ensino Médio (ENEM) e dos seus impactos na abordagem escolar da Produção Textual (PT), delimitamos nossa análise ao gênero dissertação escolar (DE), conhecido genericamente como redação escolar (RE), o mais cobrado em concursos e vestibulares brasileiros, traçando um recorte desde o período pós-Ditadura até as recentes propostas semióticas de abordagem do gênero (BARTHES, 1975; SANTAELLA, 2009; SIMÕES, 2009). Nossa perspectiva é, à guisa das mudanças ideológicas envolvidas na mudança de abordagem do ensino de RE para PT, apontar como LDP, tradicionalmente adotados em escolas públicas, e AE, contemporaneamente preferidas por dirigentes de escolas particulares, comportam-se frente a quatro eixos fundamentais para a prática docente do ensino da dissertação escolar: concepções teóricas adotadas, metodologia do ensino de DE, fundamentação teórico-metodológica dos professores e propostas de avaliação. Feita a análise contrastiva, o trabalho apontará aspectos divergentes e convergentes desse ensino, contextualizando o papel docente como mediador diante dos conflitos pedagógicos surgidos no decorrer da educação básica / This paper aims to investigate how the teaching of textual production has been conducted in Portuguese textbooks (LDP) and in school textbooks (AE), which now point to an option commodification of marketing knowledge Brazilian school. As a research methodology, we chose a diachronic survey on the teaching of Portuguese in Brazil, presenting a history of LD to support teaching and learning the discipline to analyze the impacts of modern linguistic theories, especially with regard to genres (cf. Bakhtin, 2003), and NCP / PCNEM in teaching the production of texts in the classroom. Because of the changes recently proposed by the National Teaching Exam (ENEM) and its impact on school approach Textual Production (PT), delimit our analysis gender school dissertation (DE), known generically as writing school (RE), the charged more contests and vestibular Brazilians, tracing a snip from the post-dictatorship until the recent proposals semiotic approach to the genre (Barthes, 1975; SANTAELLA, 2009; SIMÕES, 2009). Our perspective is, by way of ideological changes involved in changing the approach to the teaching of RE PT, pointing as LDP traditionally adopted in public schools, and AE, contemporaneously preferred by managers of private schools behave against four cornerstones for teaching practice of teaching school dissertation: theoretical concepts adopted, methodology of teaching DE, theoretical-methodological and teacher evaluation proposals. Made contrastive analysis, the work will point divergent and convergent aspects of this teaching, contextualizing the teaching role as mediator before decorres conflicts arising in teaching basic education

The thesis examines the issue of gender in textbooks. The aim of the thesis is to analyse three sets of Czech language secondary school textbooks and ascertain, whether these textbooks contribute to the propagation of gender stereotypes in the society or whether they do not. The thesis is divided into a theoretical section and an empirical section. The theoretical section firstly explicates the fundamental concepts of gender, secondly focuses on the discrimination of women via language and on other topics from the field of gender linguistics. The last chapter of the theoretical section focuses on how gender stereotypes influence schooling. The empirical section encompasses the aforementioned analysis of the selected Czech language textbook sets. The analysis further investigates the manner in which men and women are represented in the curriculum, how men and women are portrayed in the illustrations, if the linguistic means are gender-balanced, and also whether the textbooks include any gender linguistics topics. The results of the analysis show that in all textbook sets, men are the dominant gender in illustrations, as well as among significant figures and authors of literary excerpts. In terms of roles, employment and character traits that are attached to individual characters, the sets of...

This thesis examines unicellular microorganism of the genus Acanthamoeba, as well as the disease it causes - acanthamoeba keratitis. It is an eye disease, which occurs mainly in people using contact lenses. Since acanthamoeba attacks visual apparatus, several parts of the thesis are dedicated to the anatomy of said apparatus, especially to the eye ball. The symptoms, diagnostics, treatment as well as prevention of the disease are included as well. The thesis furthemore mentions individual types of contact lenses, their proper hygiene and care and most of all, the danger, that comes with improper handling - acanthamoeba keratitis. A survey, that took place among elementary school and high school students, found out, that almost none of the elementary school students wear contact lenses, whereas contact lenses are worn by approximately 15% of students at high school. Among other issues, the survey concludes, that only a small part of elementary school students prefers contact lenses to glasses, though glasses are needed by a vast majority of them. At high school level, wearing contact lenses becomes more common, for aesthetics or other reasons. Ophtalmologist is regularly visited by 35 % of interviewed students. An analysis of six different natural science and biology textbooks for the 8th grade of...