Förintelsen i grundskolans läroböcker

Sammanfattning: The aim with this research is to investigate how Primary school textbooks present and describe the Holocaust. The purpose of looking at how the Holocaust is portrayed in Swedish school textbooks gives us a perspective and knowledge that can be useful in our own profession as teachers. The method we have used is a text analysis created by Niklas Ammerts, called the four representations models. These are ascertaining, explainable, analytic/reflective, and normative. We analyzed six textbooks from three different publishers, spanning from the year 2003 to 2021, to see if any changes had happened in the portrayal of the Holocaust in Swedish schoolbooks.   The textbooks we analyzed were mainly based on just explaining basic facts with little to no explanation to why things happened. The newer books have more explanation in them than the older ones, however just barely.