En okänd svensk folkrörelse : Svenska Skolornas Fredsförenings fredsarbete 1922-1929

Den här undersökningen ämnar kartlägga Svenska Skolornas Fredsförenings (SSF) fredarbete under 1920-talet, en ansats som inte tidigare gjorts på detta sätt. Medlemmarna i denna före­ning arbetade outtröttligt för en fredligare värld, där fredsfostran av unga sågs som den bästa metoden för att få till stånd en internationell varaktig fred. Syftet med undersökningen är att, genom en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av delar av SSFs bevarade tryckta skrifter, beskriva SSFs principer och pedagogiska metoder samt utröna varför de ansåg fredsfostran riktad mot skolan som viktig. Resultaten visar att SSF hade ambitionen att genom internationellt samarbete på­verka barnen i en sådan riktning att de aldrig skulle kunna ta till vapen för att lösa konflikter. Istället skulle barn lära sig att tänka kritiskt, vara självständiga och få en förståelse för andra folks kulturer. Genom att respektera och leva efter kristna, jämlika och demokratiska ideal, menade SSF att krig skulle gå att förhindra.  

Nationella minoriteter i historieundervisningen : bilder av romer i Utbildningsradions program under perioden 1975-2013

In 2000 when Sweden signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities the Roma minority became one of the acknowledged national minorities in the country. It meant that the rights of the Roma mi-nority would be safeguarded and the knowledge of its history and culture would be spread. In that context, the Swedish school, with its founded as-signment of democracy, was given an important role. The education was to communicate the multicultural values of the society and to make visible the history and culture of the Roma minority. The school books used in teaching today do not meet these demands. The view of the Roma minority given in school books is often inadequate and simplified. The present study will therefore examine a different type of edu-cational material used in schools and teaching, The Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company‟s programs of history and social studies regarding the Roma minority. Starting in postcolonial theory as well as critical dis-course analysis the study examines how the picture of the Roma cultural and ethnic identity in the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company‟s material has been displayed and possibly changed during the period of 1975 to 2013. The results show a picture of Roma which, both in form and content, con-sists of some clearly demarcated discursive categories. The obvious continui-ty of the categories gives a picture of static and invariable Roma identity. At the same time this unambiguous picture is broken both by giving the existing discourses new meaning and also adding new discourses. The complexity and nuances become more prominent and the Roma identity is integrated in common Swedish history telling. The changes in the view of Roma, given by the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, can mainly be explained by the change of the Swedish immigration and minority policy and, as a conse-quence of this, the change of the school‟s mission regarding knowledge communication of Sweden as a multicultural country.