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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-49713 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Månsson, Hugo, Terek, Attila |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för samhälle, kultur och identitet (SKI) |
| 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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