A National Hero or a Wily Politician? Students' Ideas about the Origins of the Nation in Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Samuelsson, Johan; Wendell, Joakim
Titel	A National Hero or a Wily Politician? Students' Ideas about the Origins of the Nation in Sweden
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 45 (2017) 4, S.477-489 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2015.1130077
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Elementary School Students; Student Attitudes; European History; Knowledge Level; History Instruction; Nationalism; Misconceptions; Historical Interpretation; Assignments; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Wissensbasis; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Nationalismus; Missverständnis; Historische Interpretation; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Schweden
Abstract	The topic of this article is how primary school students express ideas about the "origins of the nation." The study is based on texts written by Swedish students aged 12-13 about a historical event well embedded in Swedish national mythology, the rise to power of Swedish "founding father" Gustav Vasa. The analysis is inspired by James V. Wertsch's concept of schematic narrative templates. The main finding of the study is that the students mainly structure their answers along one of two different narrative templates; either a kind of historical master narrative with strong foundations in traditional Swedish history culture, or a more generic story about the founding father as a ruthless or corrupt politician, which is arguably influenced by presentism. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01