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En undersökning av lärarstudenters utbildning i informationssökning och skolbibliotek
The purpose of this Master's thesis was to examine how and what trainee teachers are being taught about information seeking and school libraries related to problem-based teaching method in compulsory school. The questions at issue were: How have trainee teachers learned about information seeking? How have trainee teachers learned about using school libraries? We also wanted to know which education they have got in information seeking and school libraries. We examined this through both literature and empirical studies. We used a qualitative method in order to answer the questions at issue. We have interviewed eight trainee teachers, the director of studies, the teacher in the Swedish language and the teacher in social studies at one department of education. As a theoretical framework we have used Roger Säljö's theory about learning, Carol Collier Kuhlthau's theory about the process of information seeking and her model of the Information Search Process from the user's perspective and Louise Limberg's study about the interaction between information seeking and learning. We found that the trainee teachers would like to learn more about information seeking. We also noticed that there was a confusion of ideas about the concept of information seeking. There seemed to be a difference between the two of us, librarian students and teacher students, but also between the teacher students and their teachers. We came to the conclusion that it is because we belong to different activity systems according to Roger Säljö's thoughts.