This study was done with the aim of seeing what space local history gets in the teaching of some selected middle school teachers in Ronneby municipality and what didactic considerations the teachers make in this work. Local history opens for collaboration with other institutions in society such as museums and associations, does the interviewed teachers have any experience with that and what are their thoughts on these collaborations? For the study, a qualitative interview study was chosen with five teachers working in fourth-sixth grade in Ronneby municipality. The interviews were of a semi-structured nature to allow the teachers' own thoughts and reflections to emerge. Five teachers from four schools participated in the study, where the two teachers from the same school wished to participate together as both had taught the subject in different periods. The distribution between rural and urban schools is even. All the teachers in the study had worked with local history in their teaching in different ways and to varying degrees. Having various kinds of walks in the vicinity of the school was something everyone had done. Also, stories about the massacre in Ronneby 1564 was something that all teachers included in their lessons. Time, finances, and lack of knowledge were factors that the teachers saw as difficulties in working with local history. The teachers highlighted aspects such as increased interest in the students when the teaching comes close to the students; the possibility of concretization with the help of the local; as well as advantages of more practical teaching where several senses are activated. The rural schools had been involved and are still involved in projects with museums and local associations, while the urban schools were more dependent on the knowledge and initiative of the individual teacher. All the teachers were positive about collaborations and would have liked more external initiatives to contact the teachers, as it becomes easy to deprioritize if the teachers themselves must manage the contact.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118733 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Hjortskull, Hanna |
| 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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