This study examines how children have been portrayed in Swedish textbooks written for the subject of history in high school between the year 1905 and 2011. The contents of nine textbooks have been qualitatively analysed according to an inductive method where information in the books relating to children are studied to reveal how their history is depicted. The result concludes that information about education, parenting and family life are the most frequent examples of how children lived their lives through history contained in the material. There are very few instances of primary accounts written by persons under the age of twenty years old. Most of the individual children represented can be seen on photographs. These photos often show children in a vulnerable situation, for example as victims in war. Textbooks written after the school reforms of 1994 have more extensive information about children in society than earlier books, with an emphasis on how teens in the twentieth century created a youth culture with new types of clothes, music, and politics. This culture was sometimes meet by critique from the older generations, especially concerning the more liberal view on sexuality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hj-55093 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Tellström, Alexsander |
| Publisher | Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation |
| 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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