The overall aim of this study was to examine the difficulties that students diagnosed with autism come up against when studying history at upper secondary school. The combination of upper secondary school history and autism is not something that have been studied and this research aimed to fill up that void. The questions that aimed to be answered in this study was what kind of difficulties students with autism come across when studying history in upper secondary school, what kind of strategies that have shown to be successful to help these students overcome these obstacles, what tools are available today to teachers to help these students, and what teachers today would want today to help in their work. To attempt to answer these questions five teachers from a school that specializes in helping students with Neuropsychiatric disabilities were interviewed. The result of this study shows that teachers with many years of experience educating students with autism are pointing out two certain areas in which students with autism has difficulties when studying history at upper secondary school. First area is the Theory of mind. People with autism have problems putting themselves in situations they have not been in and imagine other people’s perspectives, which is a major part of studying history. The other area in which the teachers’ point out is the students special interests. People diagnosed with autism tend to have certain areas of interest in which they put a lot of their time into. That results in students having very little interest in learning, and if students have any interests in history, the interests are very concentrated to certain areas. The results show that the major strategy to help students diagnosed with autism overcome these obstacles is to break down the information for the students to easier understand and grasp the material.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-199411 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Norén, Nils |
| 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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