The Social Studies Subjects and Interdisciplinarity

• This article examines the ways in which the term tvärvetenskaplig is conceptualized within the social studies subjects (geography, religious education, civics, and history) in Swedish upper secondary school. The term tvärvetenskaplig is generally translated as interdisciplinary. Through a comparative analysis of syllabi (ämnesplaner), subject didactic textbooks, and schoolbooks, existing descriptions of the term are identified. These descriptions are in turn analyzed using theoretical perspectives on interdisciplinarity. The article agrees with the viewpoint that interdisciplinarity is a form of progressive discourse. Moreover, the analysis employs Heinz Heckhausen’s typology of interdisciplinarity, which differentiates between indiscriminate, pseudo, auxiliary, composite, supplementary, and unifying interdisciplinarity. It is concluded that different subjects ascribe different understandings of interdisciplinarity to the concept of tvärvetenskaplighet.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Didaktik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Didactics (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Historia och arkeologi -- Idé- och lärdomshistoria (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- History and Archaeology -- History of Science and Ideas (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Interdisciplinarity

comparative subject didactics

social studies

upper secondary school

civics

geography

religious education

history

Heinz Heckhausen

Tvärvetenskaplighet

jämförande ämnesdidaktik

samhällsorienterande ämnen

gymnasieskolan

samhällskunskap

geografi

religionskunskap

historia

education

pedagogik

Subject-specific education

Publikations- och innehållstyp

ref (ämneskategori)

art (ämneskategori)