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Historieundervisning och interkulturell kompetens
Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences Didactics. Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education. (FLHS)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5501-9794
2012 (Swedish)Licentiate thesis, monograph (Other academic)Alternative title
History teaching and intercultural competence (English)
Abstract [en]

Abstract

Title: History teaching and intercultural competence

This study takes as its starting point the relationship between the multicultural and globalised society and history as a school subject, and explores it theoretically as well as empirically. 

Intercultural historical competence, which is the main theoretical and analytical concept of the study, is developed from theories of narrative competence and theories of intercultural competence, and is positioned in the intersection between the two. Narrative competence describes historical consciousness as being characterised by three distinct sub-competencies, the competence of experience, the competence of interpretation and the competence of orientation. Historical learning is seen as the qualification of these competencies to be able to tell meaningful stories about our lives. 

The empirical case study explores how intercultural historical competence as a learning objective is interpreted and enacted in one history classroom. The enacted object of learning is regarded as a co-construction between the teacher, the pupils and historical narratives. This study explores how experiences and interpretations of the past are made and used in the work in the classroom. The question of what constitutes each narrative sub-competence is addressed and discussed in three empirical chapters respectively. The source material mainly consists of observations from a sequel of 25 history lessons in an upper secondary school

The empirical results show how different dimensions of each sub-competence contribute to what is possible to learn in relation to intercultural historical competence. One important dimension of the competence of experience is the employment of strategies of pluralism, deconstruction and counter-narratives to open up closed narratives. The competence of interpretation is strengthened by the use of second-order concepts as tools to qualify historical thinking. Furthermore, it is demonstrated how it is possible to practise the competence of orientation by giving pupils the opportunity to use historical narratives and historical tools to make sense of the present and to think about the future. One additional conclusion is that the planning process, when the learning objective is interpreted and framed into lessons and exercises, is decisive for what is possible for pupils to learn. Finally, it is stated that history as a school subject has the capacity to develop knowledge, skills and attitudes that are relevant in a multicultural and globalised society.

Key words: history teaching, historical learning, history education, intercultural competence, intercultural education, historical consciousness, upper secondary school, class room study, object of learning, learning objective, historical narrative.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2012. , p. 258
Series
Studier i de samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik ; 19Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2012:14
Keywords [en]
History teaching, historical learning, history education, intercultural competence, intercultural education, upper secondary school, object of learning, historical narrative
Keywords [sv]
historieundervisning, interkulturell kompetens, historiskt lärande, interkulturell utbildning, historiemedvetande, gymnasiet, klassrumsstudie, lärandeobjekt, lärandemål, historisk berättelse, narrativ
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Didactics
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-11932ISBN: 978-91-7063-418-5 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-11932DiVA, id: diva2:511235
Presentation
2012-05-04, Globala gymnasiet, Hornsgatan 93, Stockholm, 15:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2012-04-18 Created: 2012-02-29 Last updated: 2026-02-11Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Interkulturalitet och historia: Historieundervisningens teori och praktik i en mångkulturell värld
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Interkulturalitet och historia: Historieundervisningens teori och praktik i en mångkulturell värld
2023 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[en]
Interculturality and History : The Theory and Practice of History Teaching in a Multicultural World
Abstract [en]

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate interculturality in history as an idea and practice. Two overarching research questions are raised, each concerning the theoretical and practical levels: How can history, as a field of knowledge and teaching, be related to intercultural learning as a normative practice? What obstacles and opportunities for teaching and learning emerge when intercultural historical learning is the goal? 

This thesis comprises four published studies. Through a hermeneutic process, the aspects of interculturality and history are investigated as interplays between theory and empirics and between generic outcomes and specific cases. Cases from three Swedish upper secondary history classrooms provide data. They are analysed narratively, using both analytical tools based on the theories of historical consciousness and historical thinking, as well as the framework of threshold concepts. 

Utilising the theory of powerful knowledge, interculturality, as a normative and extrinsic goal, is brought together with history as a dynamic body of knowledge. In the thesis, I argue that interculturality in history teaching is best understood as a shift in perspectives, adopting a specific gaze on historical narratives. The identified obstacles relate to the normativity of interculturality, the methodological nationalism of history and the pedagogical risk of fragmentation and deconstruction. A major result is the potential to construct complex, multidirectional narratives centred on cultural encounters and migration processes, which combine temporal and spatial layers to open the past for intercultural connections. There also seem to be specifically productive learning situations and liminal spaces in which students acquire new subject understandings. Finally, in a systematic approach, a didactic model of intercultural historical learning is presented, constituting the final, but still provisional, hermeneutic loop of the research project.

Abstract [sv]

Elever i dagens skola lever i en tid präglad av kulturell mångfald och rörelser av människor, vilket ställer samhället inför utmaningar. Denna avhandling menar att historia som skolämne har något värdefullt att tillföra för att rusta elever att förstå och orientera sig i en mångkulturell värld. Samtidigt finns inneboende spänningar i historieämnets möte med det mångkulturella samhället som blockerar denna potential. Tidigare berättelser om vad det innebär att leva i samhället tycks inte längre spegla den verklighet vi lever i. I avhandlingen undersöks vad interkulturalitet i historia kan vara som idé och praktik genom fyra studier. Studierna följer på varandra i en hermeneutisk process där teoriutveckling samspelar med praktiknära fallstudier från historieundervisningens klassrum.

Avhandlingen argumenterar för att interkulturalitet i historieundervisning bäst förstås som en perspektivförskjutning, ett erövrande av en specifik blick där interkulturalitet och historia ger varandra färg och olika tidsliga och rumsliga lager möts och kan öppna det förflutna för interkulturella kopplingar. Hur detta kan möjliggöras, liksom vilka svårigheter som kan uppstå, diskuteras i bokens kapitel. Slutligen föreslås för läraren en praktisk didaktisk modell för interkulturell historieundervisning.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstads universitet, 2023. p. 260
Series
Studier i de samhällsvetenskapliga ämnenas didaktik ; 43Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2023:25
Keywords
history education, intercultural competence, multicultural education, historical consciousness, classroom studies, case study, historial inquiry, didactic model, historieundervisning, interkulturell kompetens, mångkulturalitet, historiemedvetande, klassrumsstudier, fallstudie, frågedriven undervisning, didaktisk modell
National Category
History Didactics Educational Sciences
Research subject
History
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-96520 (URN)978-91-7867-394-0 (ISBN)978-91-7867-395-7 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-10-13, 9C 203, Karlstad, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Funder
Swedish Research Council, 721-2009-6095Swedish National Heritage Board, 3.2.2-6367-2016
Available from: 2023-09-22 Created: 2023-08-29 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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