Gender awareness is considered of absolute importance to Swedish school?s and preschool?s main mission ? equal opportunities for all children. Gender portrayal in childrens literature is now one subject of vast study, since literature often carry underlying messages of the perception of male and female. With this in mind, the purpose of this thesis was to analyse, mainly through Maria Nikolajeva?s scheme of gender ideal types, how the Swedish writer Per Gustavsson portrayed girls in four of his so called Prince- and princess Books.

This paper aims to examine what reading Books convey as normal for first grade children. The question at hand is to find out what children's reading Books convey as normal within the context of intersectionality with a focus on sex, class, culture and "race". Text analysis of two reading Books has been conducted, using discourse analysis with an intersectional perspective. In analysing the texts, selected sections from the Books have been examined using the method of close reading. Within the context of intersectionality, classifications have been made and selected according to the categories sex, culture, class and "race".

In this essay I have studied how the kid?s school start are described in picture Books. The studied questions are: How the school is described in these selected picture Books; what feeling does the main character have into the school start; how the teachers are described in this selected picture Books and how are the power relationship described in these selected picture Books?The method I have chosen for this essay is a discourse analysis of seven selected picture Books with the meaning of starting school. All Books studied are written during the 1990 and forward.

The aim with this masters thesis is to investigate how gender is presented in Swedish picture Books, in order to give librarians and other actors in the field knowledge about what kind of Books they supply impressionable children with. I investigate if and how the changes concerning gender-equality in the Swedish society during the last 25 years are reflected in childrens literature, and compare how men and women are portrayed in four Books from the early 1980s with four Books from the 2000s. My study is delimited to three aspects of character formation, introduced by Maria Nikolajeva: description of psychology, actions and relations to other characters. It is carried through by consultation of Yvonne Hirdmans theory of how men and women are held apart and that the man in this relation constitutes the norm as well as Nikolajevas list of typical male and female characteristics. By reading and interpreting the chosen Books, I analyse both text and pictures.

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to see how technology is presented in different fictional picture Books that are available in preschool. Six fictional picture Books that have connection to technology in picture and text have been analysed. In order to show how technology can be made visible in fictional picture Books, the relation between picture and text has been analysed through a technology perspective. Furthermore, the pictures and the texts have been analysed separately in order to show what they show respectively in terms of technology. The fictional picture book has a potential to be a basis for making technology visible in preschool, which is a step in a new direction.

In this essay there will be four text Books from grade 1 studied, the first one are from the year 1976 and it will be going forward to the year 2012. The aim of this study is to see how the genders are depicted and represented, as well as what roles the genders are given. I do also want to see if there is a notable change in this over time. I will be doing a study based on the quantity of the contents, and I will also be doing a critical discourse analysis.The result of the study showed that there were more gender-based constructions that referred to women in all of the four Books, which indicates that women are represented more often in these reading Books. It is most common to portray the genders in their stereotypical roles, which again are present in society, but sometimes these roles are depart from what?s present in society.

The aim of this master thesis is to investigate the development on the Swedish book market for the beginning of the 21st century. During the 21st century a lot of things have happened on the Swedish market for library Books. Twenty years ago in reality only one company existed that could deliver Books with the demanded equipment to the libraries, but in year 2010 there are four companies offering the same service. Other news during this time is Bookshops on internet. We found this development interesting and therefore decided to contact the four companies as well as six libraries to find out what they thought of the new situation.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate peoples experience when listening at audio Books. During recent years the use of audio Books has increased significantly. With that knowledge and the fact that this is an almost unexplored area within Library- and Information science our interest grew even stronger. The thesis is based on two different theories. To be able to place audio Books in a context we have applied a media- consumption perspective by asking questions like when, where and how the media-consumption takes place.

In primary school reading-Books in Swedish language is something that students come across early in school and have done ever since the 1800s. After World War II there have been major changes in society. 1962 there was a school reform where the school turned into a nine-year system of compulsory education. That is why it is interesting to see what reading Books contain with regard to notions of children, family and class and how the developments have been from the 1950s until the present time. This study aims to analyze and compare the different aspects of how notions of children, family and class are produced in the reading Books for primary school for pupils in third grade, between 1950 and 2009.The research questions were:What are the notions of children, family and class in the reading-Books?What differences/similarities exist in the reading Books from the 1950s to the  recent decades?What could be the reason?I have chosen to apply qualitative text analysis originating in idea analysis.

In this essay there will be four text Books from grade 1 studied, the first one are from the year 1976 and it will be going forward to the year 2012. The aim of this study is to see how the genders are depicted and represented, as well as what roles the genders are given. I do also want to see if there is a notable change in this over time. I will be doing a study based on the quantity of the contents, and I will also be doing a critical discourse analysis.The result of the study showed that there were more gender-based constructions that referred to women in all of the four Books, which indicates that women are represented more often in these reading Books. It is most common to portray the genders in their stereotypical roles, which again are present in society, but sometimes these roles are depart from what?s present in society.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how childrens librarians at public libraries motivate their selection and their purchases of fiction for children and youth. The aim is also to find out what is felt like a problem at the selection process and what is not. Six childrens librarians have been interviewed in this qualitative study. On a basis of a theory of literature pedagogic perspectives the librarians were asked how they look upon purchase of fairy-tales, classics, pulpliterature and literature that contributes to the debate about man and society. They were also asked about their opinions of Bibliotekstjänst, of criticism of childrens Books and how they reason about their purchases in general.

This paper is a study of some of the mathematics textBooks that were used in Swedish public schools from 1842 to the present. During this period several revisions of the curriculum took place and led to a change of contents in the various Books. The first part is a description of the Books chosen and highlights from each are given and compared with the corresponding curriculum. Also social and political change and the role of men and women can be studied in the examples presented. A comparison between similar topics and how they were accounted for in the older versus the newer Books follows suite.

This thesis deals with the question of how and to what degree Swedish history Books for schools changed between the early 20th century and the 1960s. The theoretical foundation for this study is a perspective which treats historical accounts as narratives, bringing meaning and orientation to the present. According to this perspective, historical accounts may be divided into four different types of narratives, traditional, exemplary, critical and genetical. The basis for this division is how the narratives use the past to make the present understandable.The following conclusions are reached:That Swedish history Books for schools have changed less, and in a moore gradual way than those dealing with general history. There is a growing use of genetical narratives at the expense of mainly exemplary ones.

This study is about quantum physics and the role it can play in a religious perspective. I intend to examine how moderna physics may be related and understood as New age and Myths. My material consists of two Books in the new age genre: "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra and "The Quantum Self" by Danah Zohar. My first two question to these Books are which 1) religious and 2) scientific content they have. My other questions are too 3) investigate and demonstrate how these Books are new age and 4) to exanine how the Books can function as myths and adopt mythical features.

The purpose of this thesis is to study how children's librarians in public libraries use non-fiction Books in their work to promote reading. My research questions are: What methods do children's librarians use för promoting non-fiction Books? Are there children who can gain more from non-fiction Books than other children do? Are there any differences in working with fiction and non-fiction Books? To answer these questions I have interwieved five children's librarians about their methods, attitudes and thoughts on non-fiction Books.The result shows that all of the librarians use non-fiction when it comes to promotion reading but not to the same extent. Some hardly use it at all, mainly because the schools that they are serving demands fiction Books when practicing reading skills. while others use it but in less extent than fiction, as a way of separating the library reading from school work either because they want to keep the experience of reading in the library apart from school work or because they find it more efficient to do so.