Den livsviktiga läsningen : en uppsats om litteracitet och bibliotekariers läsfrämjande arbete
(2014) ABMM54 20141Division of ALM, Digital Cultures and Publishing Studies
- Abstract
- The importance of reading : a Master’s Thesis about literacy and librarians’ motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers.
The public literacy debate has exploded all over Swedish media since PISA published their report at the end of 2013 with the result that politicians, teachers and parents suddenly have shown a lot more interest in what and how young people read. The report has also led to a new public interest in the research on young people’s reading habits.
The idea for our master’s thesis came to us when we came across the Swedish debate about the PISA-report and how young people’s literacy is reported to steadily decrease. Our master’s thesis examines how school and public librarians work with motivational... (More) - The importance of reading : a Master’s Thesis about literacy and librarians’ motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers.
The public literacy debate has exploded all over Swedish media since PISA published their report at the end of 2013 with the result that politicians, teachers and parents suddenly have shown a lot more interest in what and how young people read. The report has also led to a new public interest in the research on young people’s reading habits.
The idea for our master’s thesis came to us when we came across the Swedish debate about the PISA-report and how young people’s literacy is reported to steadily decrease. Our master’s thesis examines how school and public librarians work with motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers. We believe that the work that the librarians do is the way to reach higher literacy. We have interviewed librarians to be able to understand their daily work.
Our main theoretical approaches are the sociocultural perspectiv, with theorists like Lev Vygotskij and Roger Säljö, and literacy, we have used a number of different theorists within that field.
We have concluded that both the school librarians and the public librarians are very qualified when it comes to the smaller children, but in the work towards teenagers we have noticed that they have difficulties to reach them, and that they work without clear strategies and methods for this target group. However, we do not look at these difficulties as a fault in the librarians’ daily work, we conclude that the problem comes from above, due to governmental regulations, strategies and funding. (Less)
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- Halin, Elin LU and Lampis Mörck, Michelle LU
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- alternative title
- The importance of reading : a Master’s Thesis about literacy and librarians’ motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers.
- course
- ABMM54 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- the sociocultural perspective, litteracitet, teenagers, children, det sociokulturella perspektivet, läsfrämjande arbete, bibliotekarier, barn., tonåringar, librarians, motivational reading strategies, literacy
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- Swedish
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- 4457936
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- 2014-09-16 09:15:36
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- 2014-09-16 09:15:36
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abstract = {{The importance of reading : a Master’s Thesis about literacy and librarians’ motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers.
The public literacy debate has exploded all over Swedish media since PISA published their report at the end of 2013 with the result that politicians, teachers and parents suddenly have shown a lot more interest in what and how young people read. The report has also led to a new public interest in the research on young people’s reading habits.
The idea for our master’s thesis came to us when we came across the Swedish debate about the PISA-report and how young people’s literacy is reported to steadily decrease. Our master’s thesis examines how school and public librarians work with motivational reading strategies towards children and teenagers. We believe that the work that the librarians do is the way to reach higher literacy. We have interviewed librarians to be able to understand their daily work.
Our main theoretical approaches are the sociocultural perspectiv, with theorists like Lev Vygotskij and Roger Säljö, and literacy, we have used a number of different theorists within that field.
We have concluded that both the school librarians and the public librarians are very qualified when it comes to the smaller children, but in the work towards teenagers we have noticed that they have difficulties to reach them, and that they work without clear strategies and methods for this target group. However, we do not look at these difficulties as a fault in the librarians’ daily work, we conclude that the problem comes from above, due to governmental regulations, strategies and funding.}},
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title = {{Den livsviktiga läsningen : en uppsats om litteracitet och bibliotekariers läsfrämjande arbete}},
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