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/ Stockholm Institute of Education Department of Social and Cultural Studies in Education / SYLLABUS
S1118F
Confirmed: 2006-06-14 Version: 1
The syllabus is valid from fall 2006

MULTICULTURALISM AND MINORITIES IN SWEDEN AND EUROPE, 5 Credit Points/7,5 ECTS

Syllabus Code: S1118F

1. DECISIONS AND GUIDELINES

The course is asingle subject course in Pedagogics at the level of 1-20 credit points. This syllabus was approved by the Board of the Department of Social and Cultural Studies in Education on 2006-06-14. It is offered by the Department of Social and Cultural Studies in Education.

2. ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS

Students have met all requirements to study at the university level.

3. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

● problematize and discuss the implications of cultural and ethnic diversity on Sweden´s educational, cultural and political system from local, European and global perspectives

● be able to use a multicultural approach when examining social issues

● argue for different research methods and analyses relevant for multicultural issues.

4. CONTENTS AND ORGANIZATION

The course focuses on issues related to current social and cultural changes in Sweden and the EU. The following themes will be addressed in the seminars and will form the basis for the participants’ final essays:

-Sweden and the European Union: social systems, public policies, values and traditions

-National minorities and immigration in Swedenand Europe

-Multiculturalism: citizenship and democracy, intercultural leadership

-Globalisation, learning and educational policies

-Youngsters with immigrant backgrounds: Identification and recognition of multiculturality

Aspects of human rights and gender are integrated throughout the course.

Possibilities for different teaching formats will be negotiated with the students in the first meeting, such as lectures, group work, computer use, field studies and excursions, andoral reports.

5. EVALUATION ASSESSMENT

The examination is based on attendance, active participation in group discussions, contribution to group assignments and the submissionof a final essay that deals with one of themes studied in the course. This essay is to be submitted no later than one month after the course’s final seminar. The essay shall be both a reflection on and an analysis of course literature. Students select a topic for the essay in consultation with the course director.

The grades ”pass”, ”pass with distinction” and ”fail” are given in this course.

Students who have passed the course shall upon demand receive a course diploma.

6. COURSE LITERATURE

Banno Gomes, Nadia et al, Eds., (2002). Reflections on Diversity and Change in

Modern Society. Botkyrka: Mångkulturellt Centrum. (343 pages, of which ca. 100 will

be selected)

Commission of the European Communities (2000). Memorandum on lifelong learning.

http://www.education.gov.mt/edu/edu_division/life_long_learning/Index.htm (36 pages)

Elenius, Lars (2002). A Place in the Memory of Nation. Minority policy towards

the Finnish speakers in Sweden and Norway, in Acta Borealia. A Nordic Journal of

Circumpolar Societies, 2, pp. 103-123 (21 pages)

Lindgren, Mats, Lüthi, Bernhard; Fürth, Thomas (2005). The me we generation. What

business and politics must know about the next generation.Stockholm: Bookhouse

Publishing. (177 pages)

Roth, Hans-Ingvar (1999). The multicultural park. A study of common values at school

and in society.Stockholm: Statens skolverk, Liber distribution. (148 pages)

Sullivan, Kirk P.H. (2000). Creating gender equality at professorial level: a review ofthe swedish government’s approach. ECompare, 30, 1. pdf-available (14 pages)

Telhaug Oftedal, Alfred, Mediås, Odd Asbjørn, & Aasen, Petter (2004). From Collectivism to Individualism? Education as NationBuilding in a Scandinavian Perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2, 140–158. pdf available (19 pages)

Åhlberg, Mauri, Äänismaa, Pirjo, & Dillon, Patrick (2005). Education for sustainable

living: integrating theory, practice, design, and development.Scandinavian Journal of

Educational Research, 49, 167–186. pdf-available (19 pages)

Additional literature of ca 200 pages willbe selected in consultation with the course director.