Att presentera islam: Hur gymnasielärare i religion resonerar kring sin islamundervisning.

Abstract

This study discusses how Swedish high school teachers in religious education reason about their teaching on Islam. This study is based on interviews with six teachers about what material they use, what they mean is pivotal to understanding Islam and what their students think about Islam. The answers were analyzed using Stuart Hall´s theory of representation. The result was that those teachers that had few, if any, students with Muslim background met a lot of prejudices in the classroom and challenging them became the teachers´ main focus. Those teachers who had a lot of students with Muslim background did not experience prejudices in the same way. Fighting prejudices such as all Muslims are extremists, led the teachers to talk about Islam in a dichotomized manner where Muslims are either extremists or secular