| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to analyze the use of history in Swedish history schoolbooks for
upper secondary school. It also tries to see if either of the books where the ultimate
schoolbook. The object for the research were the industrial revolution. It was analyzed in how
the authors presented the industrial revolution, how it differed, how much text where used and
how the industrial revolution in Sweden where presented. It also research how well the books
where adapted to LGY 11.
The material used are four different schoolbooks for upper secondary school in Sweden
for the course Historia 1b. The method used were the qualitative text analysis, with the use of
Magnus Hermansson Adler´s theory of the good schoolbook in history.
The study shows the likeness in the different books but also the differences between
them. There were some differences in how much text the different books choose to use in
their presentation there were a large difference between two of the books, but also that one of
the book lacked the presentation of the industrial revolution in Sweden. One of the books also
chose a different path and presented the political systems from the time in depth. The study
also finds that the books are well adapted to LGY 11 in different ways. It also describes how
the books fit in to the good schoolbook, where none of the books by themselves fit. | sv |
