Exkursioner och fjärrundervisning. En studie av lärares uppfattningar om förändrade förutsättningar att genomföra exkursioner under covid- 19-pandemin

Abstract

The covid-19-pandemic was a strain on people’s entire existence. None the least it affected school. Practical and laborative aspects of teaching were suspected to be extra afflicted. Excursions have, within the teaching of biology, been shown to have positive effects on students’ attitudes and learning. The aim of this study is to research if and how teachers experienced a change in the conditions under which excursions are conducted. The studied period is from the second term of 2020 up until the summer break of 2021. The study was made by semi-structured interviews and thematic inductive analysis. The subject-teachers’ experiences were that they had everything between good all the way to almost nonexistent prerequisites to conduct excursions. What was shows is that the Swedish National Education Agency (Skolverket) and the Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten) set the stage with their recommendations. When teaching was done in the schools with students present there were no hindrances to excursions and when teaching was done remotely almost nobody was doing excursions. Therefore, fewer excursions than normal were made. How this affected the education of students can, in this study, only be implied.