Vad vill du lära dig? : Om hur elever utvecklar och visar kunskap i att redogöra för och kommentera innehåll i läromaterial för tyska

• Main Author: Forsström, Adam
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Luleå tekniska universitet, Pedagogik, språk och Ämnesdidaktik 2020
• Subjects: Pedagogy; Pedagogik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-78117

The curriculum for modern languages provides the teacher with a range of opportunities to create educational content for the pupils in the Swedish upper-secondary school. How these possibilities are utilized by authors of educational material in German, with respect to the pupils’ perspective, is the focal point of this essay. The curriculum urges the teacher to take note of the pupils’ own experiences, interests and everyday life. How this can be viewed through a historical perspective, with representatives as John Dewey, and how this request is reflected in the material for teaching, and reflected upon by the pupils themselves, is examined in this essay. I created a serie of lectures with the aim to examine to what extent the pupils were able to comment and reflect upon the material content being taught. I examined the pupils through semi-structured interviews. In order to analyse this collected data, I used critical discourse analysis. The results showed that the pupils’ passed the examination in varying degree; they were in varying degree interested in the themes, they hardly recognize themselves in the themes and the content hardly mirror their own personal life. In the conclusion possible outlooks for further studies are accounted for.