Läraren i diskursen : En kritisk diskursanalys av samhällskunskapslärares utsagor om sin undervisningspraktik

This thesis is an attempt to have a critical look at the very craft of teaching within the social sciences. The scope of my study is teachers own accounts of their teaching practices within the Swedish secondary education (gymnasieskolan). This is done through interviews which I have performed with two teachers, whose answers I have analyzed textually. My aim is to explore their motivations for their practices with the theory and method of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to discover how different discourses emerge, compete and work together. Among my results is that the teachers motivations express a variety of discourses covering topics as: preparations for university studies, civic responsibility, critical thinking, objectivity and secularism, among other things. This is then compared and discussed in relation to some of the Swedish curriculum studies