Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with increased tensions between East and West as a result, has, after a period of relative calm, led to a situation reminiscent of the days of the Cold War. A situation where Europe is once again torn between two power poles under threat of nuclear war in a way reminiscent of the time leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Although development can be said to require the absence of history repeating itself , it is undeniably easy to think of this event and its consequences. The purpose of the study is to investigate how the case of the Berlin Wall is presented in ten textbooks for upper secondary school published 1992–2019, if the presentation has changed over time and if so, how. To investigate this, a qualitative text analysis has been made of the source material. Two theories have been used. The first is the use of history, where Karlsson's typology has been used to analyze this. The second is history awareness to analyze how the view of the fall of the Berlin Wall has become history and how this affects the view of the present and future in the textbooks. The results show that it is possible to distinguish two themes in the textbooks. The first is an emphasis on economic perspectives between 1992–2001 and the second is an emphasis on democracy in the textbooks written 2007-2019. Furthermore, the result shows that the use of scientific history occurs in all history textbooks, the political-pedagogical occurs in half. The ideological use of history appears only in two textbooks in the first part of the study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-199332 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Norberg, Jonas |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier |
| 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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