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"Etiken genomsyrar hela skoldagen": En kvalitativ studie om hur lärare upplever sin etikundervisning.
Jönköping University, School of Education and Communication.
2020 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesisAlternative title
” Ethics permeate the entire school day” : A qualitative study of how teachers experience their ethics teaching. (English)
Abstract [sv]

Syftet med studien är att synliggöra hur lärare undervisar i etik inom religionskunskap samt att undersöka vilka utmaningar de upplever med etikundervisning. För att besvara studiens syfte har individuella intervjuer genomförts med fyra olika lärare som undervisar i årskurs 4 – 6 och som har behörighet att undervisa i religionskunskap. I studien har en kvalitativ metod använts och en sociokulturell teori har använts när resultatet har diskuterats. 

Resultatet visar att lärare huvudsakligen använder fyra metoder när de undervisar i etik inom religionskunskap. Lärarna använder sig av fallbeskrivningar, fyra hörn-övningar, fiktiva land och etiska begrepp när de undervisar i etik inom religionskunskap. Det framkommer dock att lärarna i studien upplever att etiken mestadels behandlas i samband med värdegrundsfrågor. Lärarna menar att etik är något som genomsyrar hela skoldagen och att etiska samtal sker kontinuerligt i samband med exempelvis konflikter i klassen eller vid samtal om vad som händer i samhället. Resultatet visar även på de utmaningar som lärare upplever när de undervisar i etik. Lärarna upplever brist på tid, svårigheter med att bedöma eleverna i etik samt en osäkerhet när elever har etiska åsikter som strider mot skolans värdegrund. 

Abstract [en]

The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers choose to teach pupils about ethics in religion education and to examine what challenges they experience in their ethics teaching. Individual interviews on four different teachers who teach in primary schoolyears 4 – 6 and who has competence to teach in religious education were conducted to answer the purpose of the study. The study is qualitative, and the sociocultural theory has been used when discussing the result. 

The result show that teachers mainly use four different strategies when they teach ethics in religious education. The teachers are using ethical cases, exercises with four corners, fictitious countries and ethical concepts when they are teaching about ethics. The result shows that the teachers in the study experience that ethics mostly is taught together with the core values. The teachers consider ethics to be something that permeate the entire school day and that conversations about ethics take place continuously when there for example are conflicts in the classroom or when talking about news in society. The result also shows the challenges teachers experience when teaching in ethics. They experience a lack of time, difficulties with assessment in ethics and an insecurity when pupils have ethical opinions that contradict the fundamental values in the Swedish curriculum. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 35
Keywords [en]
ethics, values, religious education, teacher
Keywords [sv]
etik, värdegrund, religionskunskap, lärare
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Educational Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-49603ISRN: JU-HLK-JU-2-20201003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-49603DiVA, id: diva2:1444895
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HLK, Religious Studies
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Available from: 2020-06-25 Created: 2020-06-22 Last updated: 2025-10-13Bibliographically approved

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