Historiemedvetande och jämställdhetstankar hos svenska ungdomar

Abstract

Abstract: The students come to the history education with a cultural background that affects their perception of history, and this, in turn, affects how they understand and receive the history taught in the school. For some decades now, the students´ historical consciousness, should be the starting point to the history education in the compulsory school in Sweden. Their understanding of their own lives in a temporal perspective, that is. Thereby, we should be interested in how the students understand societal issues through time, because this influence how they will understand history. In this study, boys´ and girls´ understanding of gender equality in a temporal perspective is explored. The method is quantitative, and the results must therefore be interpreted with caution. Nonetheless, there are some interesting results that should be taken into account before teaching about gender equality in history. The girls understand the theme as mostly a conflict in the past while the boys worry about the future. The girls have easier to imagine perspectives where women are the victims, while the boys have easier to understand perspectives where men are the victims. These results call for a nuanced history teaching to reach both boys and girls.