Lust och lärande i läsfrämjandet - Pedagogiska perspektiv på bibliotekarierollen och metoderna bokprat, boksamtal och Sommarboken
The problem presented in this masters thesis is: How can pedagogical theory be used to illuminate and analyse attitudes of librarians in reading promotion activities for children and young people? The aim is to investigate librarians pedagogical role and attitudes in reading promotion activities for children and young people. The following questions are asked: · How can the pedagogical role of librarians be understood on the basis of different pedagogical perspectives? · How do librarians describe their pedagogical role in reading promotion activities for children and young people? · Is there a relation between pedagogical perspectives and the ways in which reading promotion methods are developed by librarians? Reading promotion methods investigated are booktalk, discussions on reading and summer reading challenges for children and young people. The methods used in the study are literature studies, qualitative interviews and observations. The result is analysed from several pedagogical perspectives; individual constructionist, social constructionist, a traditional perspective and folk pedagogy. The result reveals that the librarians were not aware of their pedagogical role in reading promotion activities. More than one pedagogical perspective could be seen in reading promotion activities that were observed. Also the same reading promotion activity can be seen from different pedagogic perspectives, depending on how the librarians choose to do the teaching. Further the result shows that not all reading promotion activities give positive effects. Therefore it is important for librarians to become aware that the ways in which reading promotion activities are designed, will affect their result.