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Description of aims for the Swedish languagePupilsNational targetSchoolKursplanens mål i svenskaEleverMålstyrningSkola
The purpose with this essay is to find out which demands the syllabus for the Swedish language make on the pupils in compulsory school compared to some active teachers? point of view. The method I have used to find out is a qualitative interview, where I have interviewed four Swedish teachers of various professional experiences.After the change of government in 1991, the new curriculum committee had a mission where the goal was to develop the best school in Europe. A national target was introduced and the goals were proposed to be of two kinds; goals to strive for and goals to achieve. A problem in this is that the knowledge that pupils in ninth grade will acquire, is formulated in such a manner so that not even experts in each subject would live up to the demands placed on the students. It is in many cases the teachers' task to break down these goals and present them in a simplified way so that the students can achieve the objectives that are set on them and nowhere in the goalsetting takes no account of the fact that many students go through a major change in their lives, namely puberty.