Eget ansvar i skolans utbildning : En kvalitativ undersökning av elevers och lärares uppfattningar av elevens eget ansvar i skolans utbildning

A subject that is being discussed often these days is the question about the pupils own responsibility for and influence over his or hers education. Therefore, we wanted to study what taking responsibility for ones education is, according to teachers and pupils. We interviewed pupils between the ages of nine and fifteen, and asked them what taking responsibility for their own education meant to them. We also interviewed their teachers and asked them how they perceived that the pupils own responsibility-taking worked. We used informants from two different schools, a big school in a city and a small school located in the countryside. What we found out was that even though our informants worked in different manners, they perceived what taking responsibility meant in similar ways. The key words that we found that the informants used when describing responsibility-taking were time, autonomy and participation