Samhällskunskapsämnet och en mångkulturell undervisning : Samhällskunskapslärares uppfattningar om arbete med mångkulturell undervisning inom ämnesområdet demokrati

Sammanfattning: Due to the constantly evolving globalization of our societies, it is highly relevant to investigate how the Swedish civics teaching works to educate students into becoming well-functioning democratic citizens, who are well adapted to their multicultural environment. Thereby this study aims to explore five upper secondary school civic teachers’ attitudes towards incorporating multicultural teaching in their mission to provide students with a fulfilling democratic education. This study will therefore be constructed with the use of semi-structured interviews in order to answer this complex, yet important field of civic didactics. Moreover, the previously mentioned civics teachers’ narratives are mainly examined and analysed in relation to J.A Bank’s theory for multicultural education, as well as S. Långström and A. Virtas’ theory: in- and about democracy teaching. As will be presented, the results of this study indicate that the relationship between multicultural teaching and democracy education is as most obvious in the curricular incorporation of democratic values in the civics-teaching classroom. Based on the results of this study, the students are given opportunities to develop several types of democratic abilities that are connected to achieving an active, well-functioning, democratic citizenship. In addition, the results imply that the teachers find the inclusion of multicultural issues to their teaching to be slightly challenging, yet prosperous for their students’ further democratic advancement.