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Direct linkElmersjö, Henrik Åström – History of Education, 2021
This article explores representations of problems regarding citizenship in changes to the syllabi of social studies and history in Swedish secondary schools between 1970 and 2017. Previous research has shown that the general educational discourse changed from an emphasis on the societal needs of committed citizens to an emphasis on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Studies, History Instruction, Course Descriptions
Stolare, Martin – Education 3-13, 2017
The topic of this article is history education in upper primary school. Traditionally, the history subject has had a narrative orientation at this school level in Sweden, but it is also pattern that is discernible internationally. The recent Swedish upper primary school syllabus places more emphasis on the procedural aspects of the subject. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Content, Elementary School Students
Samuelsson, Johan; Wendell, Joakim – Curriculum Journal, 2016
The increased interest in basing teaching on disciplinary thinking has had a profound impact on the syllabus for history in Sweden. Within this context, we examine how students demonstrate one aspect of disciplinary thinking in history, namely reasoning about historical sources. The material used is written answers to an assignment about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Course Descriptions, Thinking Skills
Aström Elmersjö, Henrik – Education Inquiry, 2011
This article explores the different meanings of "Europe" in Swedish history textbooks over the course of the 20th century. Utilising the concept of myth, this textbook analysis looks at how the older history of Europe, and Sweden in relation to Europe, had changed by the end of the century. In particular, it examines the way in which…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Educational History, Textbooks, Content Analysis
Nygren, Thomas – Education Inquiry, 2011
In this study, international recommendations for history education issued by UNESCO and the Council of Europe are compared with the construing of history in national guidelines, teachers' perceptions and the results of students' work in history in Sweden. The study shows how history education from the 1960s onwards could be critical and oriented…
Descriptors: History, International Organizations, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
Download full textHusen, Torsten – 1971
This annotated bibliography lists reports made in connection with a Swedish project concerning independent studies in history in the upper secondary school. A list of study materials for that course is included here, as are resumes of reports on the following topics: the learning environment at that grade level, the general framework of didactic…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Course Descriptions, History Instruction
