Förintelsen och kommunistiska regimers brott mot mänskligheten i svensk undervisning : En innehållsanalys av svenska läroböcker ämnade för gymnasieskolans historiekurser

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study The Holocaust and Crimes Against Humanity by Communist Regimes in Swedish Education: A Content Analysis of Swedish Textbooks Intended for High School History Courses is to investigate how the changes in the swedish curriculum regarding genocide have affected the content of history textbooks aimed at highschool. The essay therefore investigates how and why the textbooks have remained the same or changed. Both a qualitative and quantitative method is used to answer the study’s purpose. The quantitative method aims to count the amount of words and characters, to gain a broad picture of which crimes against humanity the textbooks focuses on. The qualitative method has two parts, a content analysis on six textbooks and a connection of the textbooks and the study’s theory, Hayden Whites theory Metahistory. The study's analysis showed that the publisher of the textbooks was a large factor in what influenced which crimes against humanity would be given the most space. Regarding White's categories, the presentation of the crimes against humanity was similar, consisting mostly of tragedy and formism. The Holocaust had a larger space in most of the books that were examined than the communist crimes against humanity.