Svenska som andraspråk i grundskolans styrdokument

The over all aim of this study was to analyse curricula and syllabuses concerning Swedish as a Second Language in compulsory basic school. Texts have been interpreted and analysed through a frame of conceptions in one monoculture and one multiculture prism. These prisms have been useful in creating different pictures of the subject. The analysis shows changes, breaks and double tracks with contradictory ideals. The result shows a subject growing from a need to keep prevailing order and to foster future citizens. Despite efforts towards multicultural ideals contemporary curricula is principally monocultural. A subject with dual educational ideals appears