Detta arbete undersöker hur homosexuella killar skildras i ungdomslitteraturen. Syftet problematiserar dikotomin maskulint/feminint och män/kvinnor. Målet är att införa ett icke heteronormativt perspektiv i ungdomslitteraturforskningen kring genus och queer. Detta görs utifrån teorier av Judith Butler, Tiina Rosenberg och R. W.

The aim of the study was to investigate how teachers work with reading aloud. The aim also included examining their ideas about and motives for reading aloud. The study consisted of interviews with three teachers at the lower level of compulsory school along with observation of one of these teachers during a reading aloud session. The interviewed teachers work at three different schools in the same geographical area.The analytical tools chosen for the study were the theories of Rosenblatt. The three basic skills that Damber et al.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine similarities and differences in qualitative experiences between formal and informal reading groups from the participants? point of view. The empirical data was acquired from interviews with nine reading group participants, of whom four of them participated in formal reading groups and five in informal reading groups. To analyze the empirical data, Louise M. Rosenblatt?s theory concerning reading and a method concerning reading groups by Immi Lundin were used.

The purpose of this Masters Thesis is to explore the impact of spare time reading fiction on the identity of teenage boys, and what it really means to them. To investigate this, we have focused our investigation on how teenage boys relate to and what they search for in their reading. The data collection is based on 8 interviews with boys in the age between 14 and 15 and on literature on the subject. The theoretical framework focuses on the reading theories of Joseph A. Appleyard, the transactional theory of Louise M.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to study how public librarians? view mediation of fiction: the knowledge needed, the thoughts expressed about their own and other adults reading of fiction and how the informants define their roles as mediators of fiction. The method used was qualitative interviews with six librarians at main libraries in Swedish cities of different sizes. The theoretical starting points are Louise M. Rosenblatt?s reader-response theory, Michail Bachtin?s theory of speech genres and Åse Tveit?s and Jofrid Karner Smidt?s theories about mediation of fiction.

Uppsatsen syfte är att problematisera dikotomin maskulint/feminint och subjekten män/kvinnor, samt att införa ett icke-heterosexuellt perspektiv in i genusforskningen kring ungdomslitteratur. Detta görs utifrån teoretiker som Judith Butler, R.W. Connell och Judith Halberstam. Som utgångspunkt för den hermeneutiskt textinterna analysen används ungdomsromanen Spelar roll av Hans Olsson. Uppsatsen har också ett didaktiskt syfte där det efterfrågas en större medvetenhet kring ämnet sexuell läggning i skolan och utgår från litteraturdidaktikerna Louise M.

The aim with the study is to get an understanding of why pupils read literature in upper secondary school from four Swedish teachers´ thoughts and attitudes towards fiction in upper secondary school. Some of the theoretical starting points that lay as a foundation to the study are Lpf 94, the curriculum for Swedish and different literature oriented researchers as Lars-Göran Malmgren´s subject construction, Louise M. Rosenblatt´s transaction theory, Jan Nilsson´s view on fiction as a source of pleasure and a source of knowledge and Gunilla Molloy´s dialectal questions. To reach the aim in question qualitative interviews with four Swedish teachers in upper secondary school were carried through. The result shows that the teachers see the literature?s part in school as meaningful and claims that it deserves to have an even higher value in all subjects, not only in the subject Swedish.

The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine the reading support activities performed by the school libraries of five Swedish upper secondary schools. It focuses upon fiction reading. Two main research questions are asked: the first one in order to find out what kind of ideas of fiction, fiction reading and young people that are held by the librarians of the five libraries, the second one in order to find out what the motives behind the reading support activities are. One additional research question is asked to examine how the librarians estimate the results of the reading support activities, and furthermore how the students seem to respond to them.

Reading and analyzing literature has a long tradition of being an essential part of the teaching of English in Sweden. As the offers of entertainment have increased in popular culture with the introduction of computer games, internet and other media, interest in reading novels has decreased. Literature is still a compulsory part of English teaching and the question is how teachers of today use literature and what kind of literary instruction they use.The aim of this study is to explore and discuss the literary instruction discourse in pedagogical texts, lessons, created by and for English teachers of Swedish Upper Secondary Schools. The lessons have been collected from the site lektion.se, where teachers are able to share knowledge and lessons. The study uses an analytical method based on Norman Fairclough´s Critical Discourse Analysis in order to analyze the lessons.

The aim of this two years master?s thesis in library and information science is to study how children and librarians recommend books through the website Barnens bibliotek. In the scope of this aim it also tries to answer the following questions: What qualities in books do children and librarians respectively emphasize when they write book recommendations? How do they formulate the recommendations? And finally, how do their respective recommendations differ?To examine these aspects a total of 50 book recommendations were chosen and analysed through an hermeneutic approach. Out of these 50, 30 were written by children and 20 were written by librarians.

This Master?s thesis provides insights into adult women?s fictional reading within the conceptual phrase ?a good book?. Eight qualitative and semi-structured interviews were performed in order to examine the nature of response and perceived benefits. The collected data were analyzed by Louise M. Rosenblatt?s reception-oriented transactional theory of reading and the cognitive psychology-based model of reading developed within the joint Nordic project SKRIN.

I gymnasieskolans styrdokument betonas skönlitteraturens sammanlänkande funktion, både över tid och i rummet. Skönlitteraturläsning ska få eleverna att reflektera över sin och andras situation i olika tider och kulturer. Litteraturteoretikern Louise M Rosenblatt talar om två slags läsning: efferent, en analyserande, litteratur-vetenskaplig läsning och estetisk vilket innebär en upplevelseläsning som i transaktion mellan text och läsare kan förändra läsaren i demokratisk riktning. Den efferenta läsningen är relativt lätt att åstadkomma och är därför vanlig i skolan, men hur kan man främja en estetisk läsning av skönlitteratur i gymnasieskolan? För att ta reda på detta, samt hur lärarens attityd till eleverna och läsningen påverkar hur skolläsningen och reflektionen gestaltar sig, har jag följt tre klassers boksamtal.

I gymnasieskolans styrdokument betonas skönlitteraturens sammanlänkande funktion, både över tid och i rummet. Skönlitteraturläsning ska få eleverna att reflektera över sin och andras situation i olika tider och kulturer. Litteraturteoretikern Louise M Rosenblatt talar om två slags läsning: efferent, en analyserande, litteratur-vetenskaplig läsning och estetisk vilket innebär en upplevelseläsning som i transaktion mellan text och läsare kan förändra läsaren i demokratisk riktning. Den efferenta läsningen är relativt lätt att åstadkomma och är därför vanlig i skolan, men hur kan man främja en estetisk läsning av skönlitteratur i gymnasieskolan? För att ta reda på detta, samt hur lärarens attityd till eleverna och läsningen påverkar hur skolläsningen och reflektionen gestaltar sig, har jag följt tre klassers boksamtal. Dessutom har jag fått ta del av två av klassernas läsloggar. Den danske litteraturvetaren Johan Fjord Jensen menar att i det postmoderna, fritidsinriktade samhället krävs en ny allmänhumanistisk kompetens.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis is to examine similarities and differences in qualitative experiences between formal and informal reading groups from the participants? point of view. The empirical data was acquired from interviews with nine reading group participants, of whom four of them participated in formal reading groups and five in informal reading groups. To analyze the empirical data, Louise M. Rosenblatt?s theory concerning reading and a method concerning reading groups by Immi Lundin were used.