This thesis investigates the strategies junior high school teachers in religious education in southern Sweden use to counteract ethnocentrism in the classroom. It is accomplished by analysing semi-structured interviews with five teachers, using the didactic theory and threshold concept theory to delineate the strategies employed by the teachers. The empirical data allows me to establish that the teachers encounter ethnocentrism and see it as their mission to counteract it. I analyse these findings through the lens of didactic theory, more specifically aspects from the threshold concept theory. In conclusion, this study suggests that ethnocentrism is a problem in the classroom, and teachers work actively to counteract ethnocentrism as they consider it their mission because the students must learn to respect and understand other people. Additionally, teachers' strategies can be compared to the threshold concept theory, and therefore, one can argue that this concept can applied by teachers to educate students about ethnocentrism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-128193 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Ottosson, Oskar |
| 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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