This study compares Erik Goos’s memories of World War I to what two Swedish school books in history, Historia 1b and Möt historien 1b, write about the war. Erik was born in Germany in the year of 1900 but moved with his family to Sweden as a young boy. At the age of 15, Erik got an apprenticeship at a German clothesdealer in Rödding. 1918 was the year Erik got summoned to the military service which meant he never really got out to war until the war was over. What he did experience was the November Revolution in Germany towards the end of the war. The text books used in Swedish high school describe the events of the war chronologically in a way that is easy to survey. Because of the limited space in the school books there is less focus on the individual person and more of an overview of the whole war and its consequenses. Möt historien 1b is slightly more nuanced in its contents than Historia 1b. Möt historien 1b includes material from several different sources, for example letters from individuals who fought in the war. A story as the one told by Erik is a great example of a source that the Swedish curriculum would do well to integrate into their history lessons.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-100995 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Goos, Sara |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) |
| 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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