Det kontroversiella i samhällskunskapen : En kvalitativ studie av gymnasieelevers erfarenheter inom kontroversiella frågor i samhällskunskapsundervisning

Sammanfattning: In this study, I will explore upper secondary school pupils' experiences of education in controversial issues within civics and social sciences. In the study, I employ a qualitative interview method to produce a material relating to the study's central theories, which is founded in Stradling's research on controversial issues where both understandings of the concept as well as teaching strategies are collected. Stradling's theory on controversial issues is given context and is supplemented with contributions from Hand and Levinson as well as Hess. In this study, I also utilize Aspelins interpretation and addition to Biestas typology of purposes with education. Lastly, Tryggvason's understanding of agonism and didactics has an important role in the theoretic frame of the study. The study is structured with four different didactic themes illustrating the relations between research questions, theory, and method.