The aim of this Master?s thesis is to examine and understand how teachers of younger children view the concept of critical evaluation of information and how their interpretations of the concept relate to their teaching. The need for the development of children?s ability to critically evaluate has been emphasized through research as well as the need for collaboration between teachers and librarians in order to help pupil?s process information into knowledgeThe study has a socio-cultural perspective and the material was collected through observations and qualitative interviews with teachers. The results of the study indicate that many teachers experience uncertainty when it comes to the area of critical evaluation and that they do not teach the subject to any substantial extent.

The aim of this paper is to study if implementation of a school library management system called FreeLib has created favourable conditions for the school librarians to cooperate with other professions and become a more forward working place. I have studied relevant literature about school libraries, organisation, digital libraries and documents that regulate school and library activities today as well in the past. In order to fulfil my purpose I have done a qualitative survey with six school librarians from Swedish primary schools with pupils at the age of 6 -16 years old. To identify strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities I found in the material I used a method called SWOT analysis. According to this study the use of the digital FreeLib system has developed a better teamwork between school librarians at different schools.

The purpose of this bachelor?s thesis is to examine what attitudes the administrators of the selected elementary schools have towards school library media centers in general but also towards their own respective library media centers. Furthermore, it is to examine the administrators? views on their school librarian?s role in the library media center as well as an integrated part of the school activities. A branch in this purpose is to examine if there is any differences in staffing the library media centers with a library media specialist or a teacher-librarian.

Sammanfattning Syftet med mitt arbete har varit att undersöka vad barn i den s.k. slukaråldern läser, vad som påverkar deras val av böcker och vilken betydelse fritidsläsningen har för hur de förhåller sig till läsningen i skolan. Dessa tre frågeställningar kan hjälpa oss förstå hur vi lärare kan uppmuntra och stimulera elever till läsning. Detta examensarbete anknyter till tidigare forskning och beaktar kursplanen i svenska. Vidare bygger det på mina egna empiriska undersökningar: en enkätundersökning bland 71 elever på två olika skolor samt på intervjuer med sex barn och en Skolbibliotekarie. Sammanfattningsvis visar mitt resultat att barn föredrar att läsa fantasy och spännande böcker och att de i hög grad påverkas av hemmets utbud av böcker. Majoriteten av mina informanter ägnar mycket tid till läsning både i skolan och på fritiden.

The purpose with this study is to examine school-leaders?, school-librarians? and teachers? expectations and aims for their school-libraries at two different schools in the city of Växjö. The study is based on these five questions:· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers think about learning?· What function does the school-library have?· What roles do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers have in the school-library?· How do school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers experience the co-operation in the school-library?· How would school-leaders, school-librarians and teachers wish that the co-operation should be?To be able to answer these questions I have done thirteen qualitative interviews and studied literature relevant to the subject. Three different theories are used as a theoretical framework; the traditional perspective, individual constructivism and social constructivism.

The aim of this study is to examine how teachers and school librarians view the concept of information literacy in relation to their students, and to find factors that affect their undertakings to make their students information literate. In order to accomplish this, qualitative interviews have been carried out with teachers and school librarians at four Swedish junior high schools. The theoretical framework of this study is the seven faces of information literacy developed by Christine Bruce. The empirical material has been analysed firstly by finding themes that are of importance for the work with information literacy, and secondly by placing the interviewees? commentaries on information literacy in Bruce´s seven faces of information literacy.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate if and how the school library in Linnéskolan in Älmhult is working towards the learning goals that can be find in the different school documents that are represented by the municipality of Älmhult. This includes goals for the school, for the school library and for the subject of social studies in the ninth grade. We also want to investigate if the school library helps the students to reach the learning goals and if there are any factors that can be improved in the school library. We have used an evidence based approach to define factors in the school library that can be improved. In the chapter that describes our theoretical approach, we have also discussed three different pedagogical theories; teacher-centered teaching, individual constructivism and social constructivism.

The purpose of this Master?s thesis studies is to examine how information seeking is taught from a pedagogical and didactic perspective. The questions at issue are:? What is the content in information seeking education?? What aims are focused in information seeking education?? What methods are used in information seeking education? The methods being used are empirical studies and studies of literature, within the subject area. The study is inspired by phenomenographical learning theories.

Forskning visar att svenska barns läsförmåga sjunkit ordentligt i internationella jämförelser. Vilken roll kan samverkan mellan läraren och Skolbibliotekarien spela i det pedagogiska skolarbetet? En intressant fråga som är väldigt aktuell i dagens debatt om skolbibliotekets vara eller inte vara. Kanske kan vår studie ge en inblick i vikten av att bemannade skolbibliotek är en nödvändighet för elevernas läsutveckling i dagens skolor.Syftet med denna uppsats har varit att undersöka skolbibliotekets betydelse i undervisningen hos en grupp lärare i svenska som undervisar på grundskolan. Våra frågeställningar behandlar hur läraren uppfattar sin samverkan med Skolbibliotekarien och skolbibliotekets roll i svenskundervisningen.Resultatet av denna studie är baserad på 8 intervjuer som gjorts med lärare i svenska i två grundskolor där vi haft det sociokulturella perspektivet på lärande som vår teoretiska utgångspunkt.Sammanfattningsvis visar resultaten att de deltagande lärarna menar att skolbiblioteket och Skolbibliotekarien spelar en viktig roll för elevernas inspiration och läslust, att det saknas tillgång till datorer och internetsökning på skolbiblioteken samt lärarens önskan om en mer utvecklad samverkan med Skolbibliotekarien.

Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes towards the labour movement?s strategies, goals and organisational issues in Swedish Miners? Union?s (Gruvindustriarbetareförbundet, hereafter Gruv) paper, Gruvarbetaren 1917-1925.The theoretical starting point is Engels? view on the class state. This perspective turns the question of socialism and the way to get there into an issue of working class power over the state. Another theoretical perspective is the partition of the labour movement into a trade-unionistic branch, seeing unions as financial organisations of interest, and a pro-state one, considering unions as political organisations.During the period investigated Gruvarbetaren was quite radical and advocated a firm class struggle strategy towards employers. Since these were considered unreliable, class struggle was seen as the only way to better the conditions for the working class.

Sammanfattning Syftet med min undersökning är att ta reda på vad barn i förskoleklass och årskurs ett läser hemma och vad föräldrarna tror kan öka deras läslust såväl i hemmet som i skolan. Min frågeställning är: Vad läser barn hemma? Vad gör föräldrarna för att öka deras barns läslust? Hur utnyttjar man det i skolan för att väcka och öka barns läslust? Undersökningen är gjord i form av enkätundersökningar samt en intervju i en höginkomsttagarkommun. Undersökningen är gjord i en kombinerad förskoleklass och förstaklass. Eleverna är i åldrarna 6-8år. I undersökningen har sexton föräldrarana obsververat sina barns läsvanor i hemmet.

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the importance of the school library in a selected junior high school. My investigation is based on both theoretical and empirical studies. The aim of the theoretical part is to create a platform and refer to thoughts, roles and laws concerning the activity of the school library. The empirical investigation consists of two parts: questionnaires among students and teachers, plus interviews with students, teachers, headmaster, school librarian and the management of education. Everybody shows a positive attitude towards the school library and considers it important for the students exams.

This two year masters thesis is written in the scientific field of library- and information science. The purpose of the study is to investigate the collaboration between teachers and librarians in different types of school library organisations. Two school libraries with only the school as a target group, two integrated public- and school libraries, one school library division and one public library that provides the school with school library services has been studied. The study takes place in Uppland.The theoretical framework used is based on Montiel-Overall and her four models of collaboration: coordina-tion, cooperation, integrated instruction and integrated curriculum. The first research question focuses on the col-laboration between teachers and librarians based on each of the TLC-models.

The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the work of school librarians with pupils with dyslexia. In addition, the study investigates the cooperation between school librarians and pedagogues concerning the pupils with dyslexia. The two theoretical points of departure are: theory of profession and a model of cooperation built upon Louise Limberg?s and Lena Folkesson?s three categories of librarians? experiences of cooperation with teachers. Qualitative semi- structured interviews with eight qualified librarians constitute the empirical material.

The purpose of this study is to examine the view of Swedish language teachers on the role of fiction and of school libraries within the compulsory school?s teaching of Swedish of form 6-9. The questions to be answered are:? What part do Swedish language teachers (hereafter called teachers) think fiction is playing regarding the pupils inclination to read and reading promotion?? What is the attitude of teachers regarding the function of fiction in the Swedish subject?? What do teachers consider being the role of the school library in education, and can this be related to the local school library resources?To answer the questions a questionnaire was sent out to thirty-five teachers. Four qualitative interviews were also carried out among the fourteen teachers that answered the questionnaire.