The digital technology has in the last years gotten a more prolific standing in our society and the same can be said in the school’s world. Therefore, is it essential to apply same kind of analysis on the digital teaching aid as regular textbooks have gone through. With the uprising of the digital world in mind is this paper’s focus on how Islam, Christianity and Judaism are represented in Utbildningsradion’s (UR) digital teaching tools. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how in UR’s these three religions is represented in terms of insider/outsider, gender and history/present. The research questions that this paper uses are how is the division between history and present time represented in UR’s digital teaching material? How is gender represented in UR’s digital teaching material? According to an insider/outsider perspective: how are the Abrahamian religions represented in UR’s digital teaching materials? This paper is applying a qualitative content analysis on UR’s digital teaching material. Robert Jackson’s theory the interpretive approach is applied on the material to investigate how the religions are represented; the focus point of the theory used to analyze is Jackson’s concept representation. The results that have been reached is that UR’s digital teaching material reach a wide definition of representation on all the religions and the themes investigated. Islam was found to have the most representation of strong female role models and Christianity was found to have a clearer division between their orientations, Protestantism, orthodox and Catholicism.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-483702 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Niklasson, Christoffer |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen |
| 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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