Deconstructing the nuclear family in Norwegian textbooks

  • Knudsen S
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In this article the author presents how Norwegian textbooks in the 1990s and later make the nuclear family the norm of living together. The textbooks are for the secondary school in the curricula subjects of natural Science and environmental studies, social studies and home economics. The nuclear family in the chosen textbooks consists of the biological two-sex model and the cultural and social two-gender model. Some texts show the eagerness to present more than the heterosexual family life, and opens up to homosexuality both as sexual and social behavior. Single living is given little space in the textbookNeste artigo a autora demonstra como os livros didáticos noruegueses, nos anos de 1990 e posteriores, fazem da família nuclear a norma de vida em comum. Os livros didáticos são dirigidos para o ensino médio, nos conteúdos curriculares de Ciências Naturais e Estudos Ambientais, Estudos Sociais e Economia Doméstica. A família nuclear, nesses livros didáticos, consiste no modelo biológico dos dois sexos e no modelo cultural e social de dois gêneros. Alguns textos demonstram uma vontade de apresentar algo além da vida familiar heterossexual, mostrando a homossexualidade como modelo sexual e social. Ao modelo monoparental é dado pouco espaço nos livros didáticos.

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Knudsen, S. V. (2014). Deconstructing the nuclear family in Norwegian textbooks. Educar Em Revista, (spe-1), 17–34. https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-4060.36466

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