The purpose of this essay is to examine and thusly gain greater understanding of the impactnarrative abbreviatures may have on pupils metahistorical reasoning. Narrative abbreviaturesis a somewhat unexplored topic in Swedish history didactics and thus few studies have beenpublished that focuses specifically on these and even less so by empirical means. The studyalso aims to give suggestions on further theoretical understanding on narrative abbreviaturesand introduces new concepts in the discussion of these. The study finds that narrativeabbreviatures may have a purpose to serve as a bridge between the abstract and the concreteand between the historical and metahistorical. The pupil’s answers varied in this regard, witha little over half of the respondents arguing in metahistorical terms, whilst others did not. Themethodology to distinguish if answers were metahistorical were inspired by Hayden Whiteand focused on whether the responses argued with a focus on the subject interacting withhistory or the object in terms of the history itself. From these analyses it could be deduced thatstudents metahistorical reasoning varied, including historiographic arguments, moraljudgements and reflections on the narrative abbreviatures themselves. In this the pupilsdisplayed how their narrative competencies were useful in the metahistorical argumentsputting forth and thusly displaying the role that narrative abbreviatures might well play in aneducation interested in pupils metahistorical reasoning capabilities. The study may serve asinspiration for more rigorous studies that further explores causality, rather than correlationand may also serve as inspiration for teachers in search of methods for improving pupil’smetahistorical reasoning.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-85531 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Sjösten, Andreas |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013) |
| 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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