Din, min och vår föreställningsvärld : En studie om demokrati- och värdegrundsarbete i skönlitteraturundervisningen i svenskämnet

Sammanfattning

This study examines whether and how the Swedish school's democratic mission and core values are integrated into the teaching of fiction in the subject of Swedish at upper secondary school. The starting point for the study is partly a formulation about the purpose of the Swedish subject which states that fiction should be used as a source of both self-insight and understanding of other people, and partly that an anti-oppressive approach is required for the school's democratic mission to be implemented. The study has a student perspective as well as a teacher perspective where the students' and teachers' reasoning about the teaching of fiction is examined. The material has been collected through two different surveys, one aimed at the students and one at the teachers. The results show that less than half of the students perceive that they have gained self-insight or a greater understanding of others through the teaching of fiction. Meanwhile, a majority of the teachers consider themselves to have good awareness of norms and oppressive structures, and state that they include this perspective in the teaching of fiction.