The purpose of this paper is to investigate and analyze how swedish history teachers teach about genocide and to find out if the introduction of the new curricula in 2011 has caused any changes in the planning and implementation of their teaching methods. The essay, which consists of two sub-studies, have been inspired Niklas Ammerts study Om vad och hur ’må’ ni berätta? The theoretical starting points have been the didactic triangle and the use of history. Our research questions thus basically follows the didactic questions What? How? and Why? Both studies are qualitative and based on semistructured interviews. In each study, four teachers are interviewed from different schools around southern and central Sweden.Based on our studies, we can show that the teachers tend to treat the subject area through a variety of approaches. While the middle and junior high school teachers are more tied to the central content, where the Holocaust and Gulag play a central role, the teachers at the high school level have a more liberal interpretation for which genocide they choose to approach. What becomes clear is that while the teachers at the lower levels focus on creating a foundation for the students before they reach high school, which leads to more abstract and simplified teaching, the high school teachers aim is to try and deepen their work so that the students can become critical thinking democratic social citizens. However, it is also clear that depending on which program students choose to attend at the high school level today, they tend to get very different teaching, which in turn increases the risk that their knowledge progression may become very different.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-58755 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Hellström, Albin, Ek, Joacim |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| 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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