Religionens plats inom sfi

• Main Author: Johansson, Annika
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia 2010
• Subjects: SFI; case study; focus group; discourse; discourse analysis; context; social constructivism; religion; religiosity; plausibilitetsstruktur; power structure
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3668

This study aims at using discourse analysis to analyze SFI students attitudes to religion and religiosity in an SFI-context. The questions are: How is the discourse constructed and maintained by religion and religiosity of SFI students in an SFI context? How do SFI participants experience that their religion has affected their time at SFI? Using a case study approach, interviews were conducted with a group of SFI students. The results show that the religious discourse in SFI is influenced by the SFI-context and affected based on the current education discourse that exists there. Furthermore, the discourse is designed and maintained by the participants private religious beliefs and the religion of the majority of the group, One canhere speak of a strong social unit forming a plausibility structure The power structure that emerges is that the majority has the power to define the significance of religion and place within the SFI context.  In the SFI-context the participants view is that religion is something private that should not be expressed in the school environment. They express that they do not want to talk about religion among a collection of people from other cultures since one would not want to risk creating conflict.