Gymnasiereformen 2007 : En studie om förändringarna inom biologiundervisningen och hur en öppen process bemöts av aktörer i skolans vardag

Sammanfattning: Next year, Swedish upper secondary school will be the arena for a new comprehensive reform according to an extensive government bill. The reform will probably have major impact on every-day educational practices. The aim of this paper is to describe the consequences for biology teaching when the reform is implemented, and to analyse in what way the biology teachers, and other participants, take part in digitised discussion forums during the implementation of the reform. The research design consists of a quantitative approach and two different methods are used, i.e. descriptive content analysis and quantitative content analysis. The content and meaning of the government bill is analysed and the statements from the participants at the discussion forums are equally important in order to fulfil the aim of this inquiry. The results show the reform will have a profound impact on the subject biology, e.g. the amount of courses will decrease, course grades will be replaced by subject grades, new syllabi will be introduced, and biological subject matters will be integrated in compulsory core subjects. According to the analysis of the digitised discussions the biology teachers do take part. However, their statements seldom lead to dialogues, as the participants seem to be unwilling to give any feed back.