"Det är vårt ursprungsfolk men inget vi underivisar ordentligt om" : Representationen av samer och samiska som minoritetsspråk i läromedel för högstadiet och lärares tankar om den

This essay aims to understand in which degree the Sami people as a minority andtheir language are represented in textbooks aimed towards secondary school andteachers’ thoughts about said representation. The methods used in this study aretextbook analysis and a questionnaire survey. The result of t...

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Main Author: Ahlroos, Hanna
Format: Bachelor Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier 2024
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-224294
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Summary:This essay aims to understand in which degree the Sami people as a minority andtheir language are represented in textbooks aimed towards secondary school andteachers’ thoughts about said representation. The methods used in this study aretextbook analysis and a questionnaire survey. The result of the textbook analysisshowed that the older textbooks gave the Sami people and their language lesserspace than the newer textbook did, and that the contents of the newer books weremore detailed than the older books. The answers to the questionnaire surveyshowed that many teachers found the content regarding the Sami people and theirlanguage in the textbooks they use to be lacking and many of them felt the need touse additional teaching material to cover the subject properly.Â