The purpose of this master thesis is to examine if booktalk is a good method for stimulating reading based on interviews and observations with two classes of pupils in the intermediate level of the Swedish nine-year compulsory school. Our aim is also to study the reading environment regarding of Aidan Chambers' factors about what is indispensable for a good environment for the children. The factors are: Time for reading, time for reading aloud, the stock of books and conversations about books. The study is based on interviews with 38 pupils, two booktalkers and two teachers in two different cities. It also contains two observations of booktalk.

Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka hur skolbibliotekarier samarbetar med pedagoger och specialpedagoger i arbetet med att motivera och inspirera svaga läsare i år 1-5. Arbetet ger en översikt av hur skolbibliotekarier, pedagoger och specialpedagoger tar tillvara varandras kompetenser för att utforma en god läsmiljö. Med hjälp av kvalitativa halvstrukturerade intervjuer ville vi beskriva läsfrämjande metoder samt undersöka hur de samarbetade. Sammanfattningsvis visar resultaten att samarbetsformerna skiljer sig beroende på yttre förutsättningar som delaktighet i arbetslag, skolbibliotekets öppettider och skolbibliotekets placering. Vi kan konstatera att högläsning, boksamtal och Bokprat anses som viktiga läsfrämjande metoder. Nyckelord: svaga läsare, läs- och skrivsvårigheter, läslust, läsfrämjande metoder, god läsmiljö, boksamtal, Bokprat, högläsning, samarbete.

The topic of this bachelor thesis is the art of book talk. Book talk is when a librarian orally presents a book in front of a group of people, in this thesis, a group of children. The first part of the thesis treats book talk as a method and its development. It will also go through which role book talk plays in the daily work of a children's librarian today, and if they got any education in book talk during their librarian education. The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare Lev Vygotskij's pedagogical theories on fantasy and creativity to book talk performed by children's librarians.

My thesis is a study of how the perception of booktalk aimed at kids and youngsters in the Swedish educational system has changed between 1932 and 2007. A discursive reading of articles in the magazine Biblioteksbladet provides the basis for my investigation. The thesis argues that an older "authoritaritan" and "traditional" discourse has given way for a more modern, "anti-authoritaritan" and "lust"-directed discourse. The older discourse was designed to make sure that young people were provided with a certain well-defined quantity of "approved" literature. The new discourse stresses the importance of fostering kids and youngsters with a positive and enthusiastic attitude towards reading in general.

The purpose of this Bachelor thesis is to examine how children describe their experiences of their own reading, with focus on different aspects of reading: Choice of reading, reading environment, response to reading and book talk. Our aim is also to examine which approaches to reading their stories illustrate. The research is founded on semi-structured interviews with six children aged 10, in connection with book talks. For analysis we used Åse Hedemark?s study Barn berättar : En studie av 10-årningars syn på läsning och bibliotek as well as Aidan Chambers? theories concerning reading and reading environment.

Children's library's primary task is to encourage children to read. Promoted readingleads to increased reading skills. A common method for this purpose is booktalk. This studyaims to examine how children?s librarians work with booktalk aimed towards children andhow it can be developed as a working method to support the library's reading promotionactivities.

Enligt kritisk rasteori är rasism en struktur som genomsyrar hela samhället och upprätthålls av vardagsrasism. Föreliggande studie syftar därför till att undersöka vita barns uppfattningar om "ras" i homogent vita förskolor i Sverige samt hur dessa kan påverkas genom bilderböcker. "Ras" ses här som en förändringsbar social struktur som kategoriserar in (rasifierar) folk utifrån fysiska attribut och föreställningar om agerande och egenskaper utifrån dessa. Utifrån fenomenografiskt förhållningssätt görs studien på 10 barn uppdelade på två grupper genom att läsa sex bilderböcker med rasifierade huvudroller under fyra veckor. De tekniker som används är fokusgrupp, i form av Bokprat, och experimentorienterad bildspråksteknik.

In this study the book talk is examined as a communicative act with a purpose to convince according to an under-lying intention to promote reading. I follow the book talk?s way from an idea of the book talker (and the library) to the reception of the audience, with the aim to understand how to talk about books in an engaging manner. More specifically, the rhetorical situation and the purpose of a book talk, the performance and the means to arouse and retain interest in the book talk as a speech and in the books themselves are examined and the impact of the book talk on the audience.The empirical material consists of observations of two different book talks (both directed to children) and interviews with the two different book talking librarians and a few of the children from the audiences to both book talks. The theoretical framework consists of rhetorical theories from both antique and modern times and I perform a rhetorical analysis of both book talks.

The subject of this thesis is the position of the story or activity rooms at the main libraries in Skåne, a province in the south of Sweden. The questions that are asked and answered are: Which of the main libraries has a story room? What do the rooms look like? How are the rooms used? Which is the relation between the form and the function of the rooms? and, finally, How do the libraries themselves present and describe their story rooms?.

This masters thesis examines the reading environment during "booktalk", with special reference to a reading project in compulsory comprehensive and upper secondary schools in Stockholm. The main question is: What does the reading environment look like during booktalk? Three questions are asked: Which factors affect the reading environment? Which are the conditions concerning book selection and book availability? How do the librarians perform as enabling adults? Different groups of pupils, together with their teachers and the librarian, are studied during booktalks in five schools. The study uses a qualitative approach, which takes the form of open observations during 15 booktalks and one interview with the two librarians involved in the project and studies of literature. The theoretical framework is Aidan Chambers theory relating to reading environment and its effects upon the reading process.

SammanfattningSyftet med vår studie var att öka kunskapen om hur några verksamma lärare använder skönlitteratur i undervisning i år 1-3. Vi ville ta reda på lärarnas uppfattningar om skönlitteraturens betydelse för barnens utveckling. Vårt syfte var även att undersöka hur lärare skapar en god läsmiljö, hur han/hon väcker läslust hos sina elever samt hur lärare och elever samtalar om böcker som de har läst.I vår studie använde vi oss av sociokulturell teori. Stödet för det hämtade vi hos flera kända forskare med Vygotskij i spetsen. En central tanke i sociokulturell teori är att barnet utvecklas och lär sig i samspel med andra och framför allt med vuxnas hjälp.

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att belysa både pedagogers och elevers tal kring högläsningen i undervisningen i en årskurs 2. Detta gör vi genom att undersöka pedagogiska metoder kring högläsning i undervisningen och pedagogernas uppfattning om högläsningens effekter. Arbetet grundar sig på ett sociokulturellt perspektiv och genomsyras av psykologen Vygotskijs tankar om lärande. Våra frågeställningar är: Vilka metoder kan användas kring högläsning i undervisningen?, Vilka effekter anser pedagogerna att högläsningen kan ha? samt Hur upplever eleverna högläsningen och arbetet kring denna? Undersökningen baseras på intervjuer med en klasslärare och en fritidspedagog i den aktuella klassen för att kunna belysa hur deras tal om effekterna av de metoder som används under arbetet med högläsningen.

Syftet med arbetet var att undersöka om vi genom ett läsprojekt kan stiumlerar barns läsvanor. Projektet omfattade både enkätundersökning samt boksamtal enligt Aidan Chambers metod. Studien omfattade 19 barn i en skola i Luleå. Projektet gick ut på att barnen delades in i läsgrupper som en gång i veckan fick diskutera innehållet i den lästa boken. Resultatet gav oss en bild av barnens läsvanor samt att projektet påverkat deras läsvanor på ett positivt sätt..

The aim of this masters thesis is to explore a mediators practical procedure during booktalks. The main question is: Why do librarians have booktalks and what does it mean to have booktalks for children? In order to answer our main question, we have used these three questions: - Why do our interviewed librarians have booktalks? - How do our informants prepare their booktalks and what do their presentations look like? - Do our informants have any follow-ups of their booktalks and if so, how do they do that? To limit the thesis, we have concentrated our study to Swedish public libraries and to children in the elementary school. We have conducted qualitative interviews with three librarians who do booktalks for children as a part of their job. The thesis theoretical basis is Aidan Chambers theory about the Reading Circle and especially the parts enabling adult and selection.

The purpose of this Master's thesis is to study how children's and youth librarians mediate non-fiction books in public libraries. Our overarching research question is as follows: to which extent, how, and for what reasons do children's and youth librarians mediate non-fiction? We have chosen to limit our study to the practice of booktalking.In order to answer questions on extent we conducted a quantitative survey of booktalking children's and youth librarians in Skåne. To answer our other questions on behaviour and attitudes we conducted observations and interviews with six librarians who include non-fiction in booktalks for children in primary school. As a way to study behaviour we examined librarians' selection criteria and methods.