Ett vidgat textbegrepp i praktiken
Fem lärare om undervisning utifrån ett vidgat textbegrepp
AbstractThis study deals with Swedish upper secondary school teachers' approaches to an expanded text concept. Attitudes mediated through media as well as ?the new languages? that media give rise to, imply new conditions for the activities in school. As a necessary adaptation to the new conditions given by the media forces, the Swedish upper secondary school 1994 incorporated ?an expanded text concept? in the syllabus for the Swedish language.The focus of the study is how Swedish upper secondary school teachers' work to meet and challenge the students' in an expanded text concept. The study is founded on interviews with five teachers, who to a greater extent integrate an expanded text concept in their teaching. In addition information about literary instruction is collected and analysed. The theoretical framework consists of theories that approach the Swedish schools discussion founded on a social and cultural context, in relation to media's effects on school.Findings indicate that the teachers based their teaching on a social and cultural context, where they promote dialogical teaching and made students' understandings the central focus. Teaching Swedish should, according to the teachers interviewed, be based on central human topics. Findings also indicate that the teachers own media habits settle the ways they integrate new media in their teaching. The teachers notice good possibilities to motivate and engage pupils by teaching on the basis of an expanded text concept. They also find that an expanded text concept works irrespective of course, age and gender. Further the teachers consider that traditional text hierarchies maintained by the school and the society are on the way to disappear.