"It's something the pastor don't preach, It's something the teacher can't teach" : Relationen mellan religion och vetenskap i religionskunskapsundervisning

The aim of the study was to investigate how teachers conduct their teaching of the subject matter religion and science within Swedish religious studies in upper secondary school. The study was a qualitative interview study. Seven teachers were interviewed to examine how they work with the subject matter and what kind of materials they use to reach the aim, as it is written in the curriculum. How teachers handle their own neutrality within the subject matter was also of interest. The curriculum states that how religion and science relate to each other, and more specifically, different ways they can relate to each other, is to be included. Therefore, Barbours theory of how religion and science relate to each other was used to determinate which different relations teachers claim to include in their teaching. The results show that teachers work with the subject matter in various ways and include a variation of ways to relate religion and science. The teachers stated that most of their students had a view of religion and science being in conflict, due to this, teachers aimed at broadening their views and showing that other relations are possible. The results show that this aim is not achieved as the teachers fail to problematize the different ways of relating science and religion consistently. The teachers’ own views on how religion and science relate to each other influence the teaching and learning