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dc.contributor.authorKittelmann Flensner, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-19T09:17:02Z
dc.date.available2015-11-19T09:17:02Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-19
dc.identifier.isbn978-91-88348–68-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/41110
dc.description.abstractIn the mandatory, integrative and non-confessional school subject of Religious Education in Sweden, all students are taught together regardless of religious or secular affiliation. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse how Religious Education (RE) can be socially constructed in the upper secondary school classroom practice in the pluralistic context of contemporary Sweden. The result is based on findings from participant observations of 125 Religious Education lessons at three upper secondary schools in Sweden, both on vocational programs and on preparatory programs for higher education. Discourse analysis, curriculum theory, and didaktik of religion are used as theoretical and analytic approaches. The findings indicate that a secularist discourse was hegemonic in the classroom practice and implied norm of talking about religion, religions and worldviews as something outdated and belonging to history. A non-religious, atheistic position was articulated as neutral and unbiased in relation to the subject matter and was associated with being a rational, critically thinking person. However, there were also spiritual and swedishness discourses of religion that in some respects challenged the hegemonic discourse, but also enforced it. The programs at upper secondary schools were influenced by different educational discourses called a private discourse and an academic rational discourse, which affected the construction of the subject in these different contexts. Implications of the discourses are discussed in relation to the classroom practice and aims of Religious Education.sv
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDissertations defended at the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburgsv
dc.relation.ispartofseries44sv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThis doctoral thesis has been prepared within the framework of the graduate school in educational science at the Centre for Educational and Teacher Research, University of Gothenburg.sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries54sv
dc.subjectReligious Educationsv
dc.subjectsecularismsv
dc.subjectspiritualitysv
dc.subjectnationalismsv
dc.subjectSwedishnesssv
dc.subjecteducationsv
dc.subjectethnographysv
dc.subjectclassroom observationsv
dc.subjectdiscourse analysissv
dc.titleReligious Education in Contemporary Pluralistic Swedensv
dc.typeText
dc.type.svepDoctoral thesiseng
dc.gup.mailkarin.kittelmann.flensner@gu.sesv
dc.gup.mailkarin.kittelmann-flensner@hv.sesv
dc.type.degreeDoctor of Philosophysv
dc.gup.originGöteborgs universitet. Humanistiska fakultetenswe
dc.gup.originUniversity of Gothenburg. Faculty of Artseng
dc.gup.departmentDepartment of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion ; Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionsv
dc.gup.defenceplaceFriday December 11, 2015, 1:15 p.m., University of Gothenburg, Faculty of Arts, Gamla Hovrätten, Olof Vijksgatan 6, Room T302.sv
dc.gup.defencedate2015-12-11
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