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.

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.

Purpose/Aim: The aim with my study is to reveal changes in the construction of gender in weekly press over time. To do so I study the Picture of the woman on front pages of the Swedish magazine Veckorevyn.Material/Method: Qualitative research method, semiotic Picture analysis.Main results: There have been a lot of changes in the Picture of the woman in Veckorevyn over the years and the results points to a more objectifying Picture. The woman has gone from doing something and actually having a role, to simply being there to be looked at, all passive..

The aim of my thesis was to examine if educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how Picture books depict gender and if the books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think Picture books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what educators think about gender equality through Picture books. The study is based on analysis of five Picture books and interview with five educators.The results of analyzes showed that Picture books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.

Storytelling is a complex action that requires many linguistic and other cognitive abilities, like memory and attention. Resent research has shown a correlation between oral story retelling and Picture arrangement among children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The present study analyzes if this correlation exists among a convenience sample of children from the general population. 77 children between 3:11 and 9:0 years old accomplished Bus Story Test and a Picture arrangement task from WISC III. Significant correlations was found between Picture arrangement and Bus Story Test?s subscores sentence length, subordinate clauses and information.

The aim of my thesis was to examine if educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how Picture books depict gender and if the books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think Picture books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what educators think about gender equality through Picture books. The study is based on analysis of five Picture books and interview with five educators.The results of analyzes showed that Picture books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.

The Picture book - text and image in interaction. A study of Tove Jansson's Picturebook: The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little MyThis study examines Tove Jansson's Picture book The Book About Moomin, Mymbleand Little My, to show relationships between text and image in the narration of thestory. This is done through an analysis based on Ulla Rhedins dissertation The Picturebook - towards a theory where the conclusion is that the Picture book as book mediumcan be divided in three different Picture concepts. The various concepts are; the epicPicture book, the expanding text as well as the genuine Picture book. This study hasperformed a text and image analysis showing that the image colors, the differentspreads, landscape scenes and characters' placement, et cetera play a role in placingthe Picture book in its concept.Tove Jansson used more than text and image to work out the story of theMoomintroll, Mymble and Little My, there are holes in the Picture book that have animportant role, which the analysis will show.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to investigate how gender stereotypes appear in Swedish Picture books. The investigation consists of literature studies and the method used is a text ?and Picture analysis. By using this method, it allows us to interpret both text and Pictures in the books. It is carried through by consultation of Yvonne Hirdmans theory of how men and women are two different things and that man in this relation constitutes the norm.

The aim of this masters thesis is to examine the Picture book canonization process in pre-schools. To succeed in this I have examined what pre-school staff believe to be the criteria of a good Picture book. Together with an observation of the pre-schools current collection, other factors which can influence the collection of the Picture book are included. This constitutes the foundation for a description of the pre-school Picture book canon. To pursue this goal, I have used the methodology of focus group interviews with staff from two pre-schools in a middle-sized town.

The purpose of this study is to analyze Picture books from a gender perspective. The books are found in a book box that the libraries send out to preschools. This study is based on the following questions:How are boys and girls portrayed in Picture books?Do the Picture books encourage or discourage the principles of equality found in the Curriculum for the Pre-School and the equality work conducted in the preschools?I performed a qualitative text and Picture analysis of 12 Picture books. I used Maria Nikolajeva and Kajsa Wahlströms schedule of typical masculine and feminine qualities and activities when analysing the Picture books.

The general purpose of this dissertation is to study Picture communication in Picture books and it addresses the following questions:What is the illustrator?s role in the process of making a Picture book? What communicative qualities do Pictures have in Picture books and how do Pictures interact with texts? What methods do illustrators use to visualize the meaning of stories in Picture books?A genre analysis, a literature study and an interview of a professional illustrator has been conducted to answer the questions. I found that all objects that make up Pictures, the arrangement, colours and shapes contribute to the meaning in diverse ways. Pictures also communicate in a different way than texts. An important difference between Pictures and texts in the context of Picture books is that Pictures are more open for interpretation.

The Picture book - text and image in interaction. A study of Tove Jansson's Picturebook: The Book About Moomin, Mymble and Little MyThis study examines Tove Jansson's Picture book The Book About Moomin, Mymbleand Little My, to show relationships between text and image in the narration of thestory. This is done through an analysis based on Ulla Rhedins dissertation The Picturebook - towards a theory where the conclusion is that the Picture book as book mediumcan be divided in three different Picture concepts. The various concepts are; the epicPicture book, the expanding text as well as the genuine Picture book. This study hasperformed a text and image analysis showing that the image colors, the differentspreads, landscape scenes and characters' placement, et cetera play a role in placingthe Picture book in its concept.Tove Jansson used more than text and image to work out the story of theMoomintroll, Mymble and Little My, there are holes in the Picture book that have animportant role, which the analysis will show.

We have studied how power is portrayed in Swedish journals by analyzing eight portraits of Swedish persons with economic or political power. We have studied how they and their power are described by the journalist in text and Picture. We wanted to see which Picture the journalist shows of people with power, what properties they are given by the journalist and how this Picture is shown by the texts and the Pictures. We have also looked if there are any differences between people with political power and people with economic power. We have under our studies noticed that the persons with power are described as very successful and special and this Picture are shown in a very clear and unproblematic way..

The purpose of this study is to analyze Picture books from a gender perspective. The books are found in a book box that the libraries send out to preschools. This study is based on the following questions:How are boys and girls portrayed in Picture books?Do the Picture books encourage or discourage the principles of equality found in the Curriculum for the Pre-School and the equality work conducted in the preschools?I performed a qualitative text and Picture analysis of 12 Picture books. I used Maria Nikolajeva and Kajsa Wahlströms schedule of typical masculine and feminine qualities and activities when analysing the Picture books.

The aim of the study is to show how children and adults are described in three Picture books, examining how children and adults are portrayed in text-and-Picture narrative and how this has changed over time. We have analysed how the characters in the books are presented and how the representation of children and adults has changed in our own times.The material for the study consists of three Picture books from different periods, with the focus on how children and adults are described as the common point of departure. The analysed Picture books are: Tomtebobarnen (Beskow 1919), Aja baja, Alfons Åberg! (Bergström 1972) and Snäll (Dahle 2008).We have arrived at the conclusion that a text-and-Picture narrative is in very large measure a reflection of the outlook on children, childhood and child rearing at the time when the book was published. The result shows that the greatest change that has happened is that parents? and adults? dominance in the books has declined over the years, and that children have been given a more prominent role.