13 years with social studies : A case study in what kind of democracy view that final year students in Swedish high school show.

This degree project purpose was through a text analyze to see what democracy views the senior year students in a Swedish high school showed in an essay assignment in social studies. The theoretical starting point was Agneta Bronäs (2000) democratic modells: democracy as a decision method, liberty democracy and collective democracy. Throughout these modells the result was analyzed and categorized after the students democracy views. The questions that the studie emanated from was : Which democracy view is prominent in the students essays? Does the students democracy views correspond with the result in previous research of textbooks and teaching? What can social issues in social studies tell us about their democracy views? The result showed that most of the students, contrarily the previous research, had either a liberty democratic- or a collective democratic view. This result could be explained seeing the Swedish school seems to be giving the students an education because the Swedish society is a solid phenomenon. I relied on a collective participants throughout my elections and a solidarity when it comes to resource allocation. The result that was unexpected was the high number of students that showed a liberty democracy value in their essays, in these essays the liberty democracy was mostly shown through their view on individualism towards the society. The result could be used to evaluate the social studies curriculum - and in this degree project it is shown that the senior students in Swedish high school have obtained a critical and individual view on democracy and society.