This essay aims to study upper secondary school students' perspectives on controversial public issues (CPI). The chosen CPI for this study was criminality and integration. The purpose is broad and aims to shed light on students' interpretations, feelings and thougts about CPI as a basis for teaching. In order to create a teaching situation to support the wide purpose, a case study in the form of a teaching sequence was staged. The sequence was performed by me, the author of this essay. It was planned and executed using Victoria Williamssons CPI-model. In order to collect data to analyze the students' perspectives, a survey was handed out to the class. This essay needed to adress multiple ethical questions as I, the author, participated as both a researcher and a teacher at the same time. This is perhaps best illustrated by the decision to gather data through a survey, instead of performing interviews. Even though a qualitative interview-method could have captured the complexity of the students' perspectives, a survey allowed me to distance myself from my own students. On order to sort and analyze the survey questions, the didactical triangle (subject, student, teacher) was implemented to better understand the results. The results show that the students' understanding of the controversy varies, and that the teacher's management of group discussions is seen as important. Furthermore the students express that they appreciate practicing critical discussion wit their classmates. Three of the students admit to having xenophobic views prior to the teaching sequence and that the sequence helped them gain a more nuanced perception of Swedens's multicultural dempographic.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-95340 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Smajlovic, Eldin |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013) |
| 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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