Sex education in Sweden is viewed as a subject that can be incorporated into many different school subjects in Swedish upper secondary school. Teachers in Swedish, however, are rarely educated in sex education, it is up to themselves to make sure that they have the knowledge and means to incorporate sex education into their lessons in Swedish. In this study seven textbooks for the courses Swedish 1 and 2 were analyzed to investigate whether they provide teachers and students with content connected to sex education. The study also focuses on what sort of sex educational content is present or absent, in the textbooks. The results are then compared to a previous study that analyzed textbooks in Swedish during the previous curriculum. The results show that in Swedish 1 2.5 % of all the content is related to sex education, compared to 6.5 % in the corresponding course during the previous curriculum, Swedish A. Moreover, 10.2 % of the texts in the textbooks for Swedish 2 are related to sex educational content, compared to 8.7 % in the corresponding course during the previous curriculum, Swedish B. The most common sex educational contents in the textbooks are "Love" and "Relationships". The least common sex educational contents in the textbooks were "Masturbation", "Reproduction, biology, the body" and "Pornography".
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-135797 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Skog, Linnéa |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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