| Summary: | Research on school textbooks, presented by Masoud Kamali and Mia Mikander, shows that othering is a reoccurring matter. Without a national authority to examine the textbooks used in Swedish schools, in relation to teachers not having the time to examine their textbooks of choice, one wonders how this affects the education taking place in Swedish schools. Since the National Agency for Education states that the education should be factual and versatile. By using the critical discourse analysis, the aim of this study is to analyze if and how history textbooks for pupils in grades 4 - 6 articulates othering. To fulfill the aim of the study the following questions were formulated to enable the analysis of the textbooks: Where does the subjective modalities occur in the chosen textbooks? Which subjective modalities occurs in the chosen textbooks? Who are included alternatively excluded in the textbooks use of “us”? How could it be? The method used for the study is Faircloughs three-dimensional model with the text analysis as the main focus of the study. The critical analysis is used to analyze how discourses of power are reproduced through the language. The results show that the analyzed textbooks articulate othering by including or excluding groups of people based on the use of pronouns like us, our and ours. This may lead to a reproduction of the hegemony that saturates the society to take place in the Swedish classrooms as well.
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