The aim of this study is to analyze teachers' perceptions of the changes made by the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) to the central content of the courses History 1a1 and 1b for Gy25. The focus has been directed towards the central content concerning the national minorities. The study is based on John I. Goodlad's curriculum theory, Curriculum Inquiry. Through qualitative interviews with five upper secondary school history teachers, empirical data has been collected. Subsequently, a variant of qualitative content analysis has been used to review the material and answer the study's research questions, which are: - How do teachers perceive the inclusion of the five national minorities in the subject curriculum's central content? - How do teachers connect these changes in the central content to the societal context? - How do teachers perceive that this will affect their course design? The results show that the interviewed teachers have different opinions of how big of a role the national minorities should have in the central content and in Swedish history education. Most teachers consider the Sami people to have a logical place in Swedish history education, while the other minorities are given varying and lesser roles. All teachers connect the central content to current events and political trends in today's society. Teachers show varying opinions on the extent to which the central content on national minorities will change their teaching. Some argue that it will occupy a significant portion of their respective course, while others argue that it will only change the examples they provide and the parallels they draw in their current teaching. Based on the teachers' reasoning, the study demonstrates how different interpretations can be made from the same curriculum based on the teachers' own experiences and circumstances.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-224046 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Wikander, August |
| 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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