Högstadieungdomar skriver historia på bloggen : undervisning, literacy och historiemedvetande i ett nytt medielandskap

The purpose of this thesis is to study the literacy formed when a class blog is used as a tool for students studying history and explore how this particular literacy is used to generate historical knowledge. The study was conducted during the course of a project in which ninth-grade students contributed entries to a common blog in the form of a diary written by individuals who experienced the Second World War. Its three major objectives were to study the students' perception of the blog in relation to their gender and level of historical knowledge; how they and their teacher esta-blished and used the formed literacy; and how the students related to this in the production of historical knowledge. In analyzing the results, a concept of literacy was used based on seven writing practices all linked to the new medium and history education. The study was based on a questionnaire, interviews and various student texts. In order to perform a content analysis on the study results a theoretical frame­work for historical conscious-ness was included. The results show that in using the writing practices a literacy character­ized by colla-borative authorship was formed. The study concludes that this affects both what and how the students learn. Together they show each other that history is comprised of many small stories, not necessarily strictly co­herent with the general history as told by their textbooks. Examining the students’ blog entries made a new learning process visible that enabled the enhancement of their historical consciousness.  

Film i historieundervisning : En litteraturstudie om filmens didaktiska betydelse för elever i historieundervisning i grundskolan

Syftet med denna studie har varit att, utifrån aktuell forskning, urskilja vilken didaktisk betydelse film kan ha i undervisning i ämnet historia i grundskolan. För att besvara studiens frågeställningar har en systematisk litteraturstudie genomförts i vilken vetenskaplig forskning inom området har sökts, granskats och analyserats. Resultaten visar att filmens betydelse som pedagogiskt verktyg i historie-undervisning kan delas in i tre kategorier; film som betydelse för elevers motivation, film som betydelse för elevers ökade förståelse för ämnet, samt film som betydelse för elevers kritiska tänkande. Vidare har möjligheter och svårigheter med film som pedagogiskt verktyg utifrån de tre kategorierna urskilts. Resultatet visar på olika aspekter av möjligheter och svårigheter med film, där fokus ligger på förförståelse och elevers meningsskapande.