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Att presentera islam: Hur gymnasielärare i religion resonerar kring sin islamundervisning.

Forsang, Malin LU (2014) ISLK02 20132
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Abstract
This study discusses how Swedish high school teachers in religious education reason about their teaching on Islam. This study is based on interviews with six teachers about what material they use, what they mean is pivotal to understanding Islam and what their students think about Islam. The answers were analyzed using Stuart Hall´s theory of representation. The result was that those
teachers that had few, if any, students with Muslim background met a lot of prejudices in the classroom and challenging them became the teachers´ main focus. Those teachers who had a lot of students with Muslim background did not experience prejudices in the same way. Fighting prejudices such as all Muslims are extremists, led the teachers to talk about Islam... (More)
This study discusses how Swedish high school teachers in religious education reason about their teaching on Islam. This study is based on interviews with six teachers about what material they use, what they mean is pivotal to understanding Islam and what their students think about Islam. The answers were analyzed using Stuart Hall´s theory of representation. The result was that those
teachers that had few, if any, students with Muslim background met a lot of prejudices in the classroom and challenging them became the teachers´ main focus. Those teachers who had a lot of students with Muslim background did not experience prejudices in the same way. Fighting prejudices such as all Muslims are extremists, led the teachers to talk about Islam in a dichotomized manner where Muslims are either extremists or secular. (Less)
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author
Forsang, Malin LU
supervisor
organization
course
ISLK02 20132
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Representation, islam, muslim, Religious Education, Religionskunskap, gymnasieskolan, gymnasielärare, Good Muslim/bad Muslim
language
Swedish
id
4253643
date added to LUP
2014-01-30 08:52:56
date last changed
2015-12-14 13:35:43
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  abstract     = {{This study discusses how Swedish high school teachers in religious education reason about their teaching on Islam. This study is based on interviews with six teachers about what material they use, what they mean is pivotal to understanding Islam and what their students think about Islam. The answers were analyzed using Stuart Hall´s theory of representation. The result was that those
teachers that had few, if any, students with Muslim background met a lot of prejudices in the classroom and challenging them became the teachers´ main focus. Those teachers who had a lot of students with Muslim background did not experience prejudices in the same way. Fighting prejudices such as all Muslims are extremists, led the teachers to talk about Islam in a dichotomized manner where Muslims are either extremists or secular.}},
  author       = {{Forsang, Malin}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Att presentera islam: Hur gymnasielärare i religion resonerar kring sin islamundervisning.}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}