Svenska Dagbladet is the first to report that the National Agency for Education proposes that the teaching of antiquity should be cut from primary school - the reason is that there are not enough teaching hours to accommodate everything that will be included in the history subject.
The reactions of those interested in history do not wait. Dick Harrison, professor of history, tells Swedish Radio that he is "extremely angry", the School of Business Administration's Lars Strannegård writes in Dagens Nyheter that Sweden's competitiveness will deteriorate and the Teachers' Federation's chairman sees the proposal as problematic.
September 27The day after the proposal became public, the Swedish National Agency for Education says.
- The criticism was expected. We were not in any way surprised. But we have a totally overloaded history topic. There is a great deal to be accomplished in just 75 hours throughout the high school, says Anna Westerholm, head of the curriculum department at the National Agency for Education.
October 3Next Thursday comes the next proposal: The National Agency for Education wants to drop the teaching on minorities from high school.
"History teachers place teaching on the Holocaust to grade nine because it is only then that students are ready for it, and this is a similar issue," Thomas Nygren, a researcher at Uppsala University, told the Culture News.
October 4thOn Friday, the National Agency for Education reverses the proposal for cutting antiquity:
"The National Agency for Education can confirm that there is no support for our proposal and therefore we can already, before the expiry of the referral period, state that antiquity will remain in the primary school's syllabus in history," the National Agency for Education writes in a press release.