The purpose of this paper is to examine how four teachers treats and teaches aboutxenophobia and right-wing extremism. A further aim of this study is to investigate whetherthere are any differences in how a teacher at a vocational high school treat and teachabout xenophobia and right-wing extremism against the teacher at a preparatory school, theydo. To achieve my purpose I have used qualitative interviews of semi-structuredform.These interviews were done with two social studies teacher at a vocational high schooland two social studies teacher at a preparatory school.My results show that teachers all too often respond to xenophobic views directly into theclassroom by reasoning and discussions with students. In my resault is also evident thatthere is a big difference between the teachers at the schools how much time you devoteto xenophobia and right-wing extremism in teaching.The conclusions show that these differences largely depend on which group of students thatteachers have.The conclusions will also be that there are great similarities between the way teachers reasonabout how to deal with xenophobia and the means to do, they also are relatively similar.

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the motivations and justificationsof teachers of Swedish concerning the teaching of fiction and other longer texts inSwedish 1 at vocational and college preparatory schools. The study aims to answer thefollowing questions: (1) What are the motivations Swedish teachers have concerning theteaching of fiction, and (2) How do teachers of Swedish justify their selection ofmaterials used to teach fiction and other longer texts in vocational and collegepreparatory upper secondary schools? To investigate what motivates teachers ofSwedish concerning the teaching of fiction and other longer texts, and to investigate howteachers justify their selection of materials for such teachings, semi-structured in-depthinterviews were conducted. In the analysis of the empirical material of this study,Malmgren’s theory about three different constructions of Swedish as a subject in Swedishschools, in conjunction with Gunilla Molloy’s fourth addition were used. As a complementto this theory, Witte and Sâmihãian’s paradigm theory was also utilized. Six licensedteachers were interviewed and the results show that the teachers at both vocational andcollege preparatory schools justified the inclusion of reading fiction in the teaching of theSwedish language in different ways based on Malmgren’s theory of three differentconstructions of Swedish as a subject in Swedish schools.