The main aim of this thesis is to study how and in which way the library personnel works with reading groups and their view of reading groups. I also want to study which role the governing- and policy documents have in the library personnel’s work. The following questions were asked.Which similarities and differences between the different library personals outlooks and acting can be interpreted from the following aspects:• Promoting reading, book selections and the leader's role?• To talk about personal subjects and to create possibilities for personal growth and increased empathy?• To promote language development and reading comprehension?The methods used in the study are a combination of interviews and observations. Aidan Chamber's “three ingredients in a talk" and “the teachers' four main tasks” during reading groups; recommendations of the promotion of reading and its obstacles that originates from Eriksson Barajas' studies over reading groups in school is used as a theoretical framework.The conclusions showed that the library personnel thought that it was important to make it possible for all the children to talk and that there are limitations for how many goals you could have for a reading group. The personnel of the school libraries let the children choose more books for themselves than the childrens' librarians. All the library personnel related the text to our reality, which gave the children preconditions for self-insight. Several of the library personnel gave the children possibility’s to exercise reading between the lines ore to predict the synopses. If the informants who held in reading groups during the children’s school time had summarized, they would've had a clearer connection to the requirements of knowledge in Swedish. / Program: Bibliotekarie

För att kunna vidareutbilda sig, tillgodose sig samhällsnyttig information och delta i samhället fullt ut behövs en välutvecklad läsförmåga. Redan från tidig ålder är det viktigt att bygga denna grund. Syftet med denna studie är att bidra med kunskap om hur läsläxan i årskurserna F-3 kan utformas för att stärka samverkan mellan lärare och vårdnadshavare i arbetet med elevers läsutveckling. Vidare avser studien att synliggöra arbetssätt som kan stimulera elevernas läsintresse. En fallstudie genomfördes i en årskurs tre där eleverna läste ett kapitel ur utvalda skönlitterära böcker hemma varje vecka och därefter samtalade de på skolan om det lästa, i så kallade bokklubbar. För att få ett så omfattande resultat som möjligt undersöktes både lärarens, elevernas och vårdnadshavarnas uppfattning om bokklubbarna. Data insamlades genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med klassläraren samt nio elever. För att ta del av vårdnadshavarnas upplevelser distribuerades en digital enkät med öppna frågor till de vårdnadshavare som anmält intresse. Utöver detta genomfördes även en semistrukturerad observation av samtalen i bokklubbarna. Det sociokulturella perspektivet tillsammans med partnerskapsprincipen och isärhållandeprincipen var de teorier som låg till grunden för den tematiska analysen av det insamlade materialet. Resultatet visar att bokklubbarna som läsläxa bidrog till elevernas läsutveckling genom att de utvecklande sin språkliga förståelse i interaktion med varandra, läraren och vårdnadshavarna. Vidare uppskattade både elever och vårdnadshavare att diskussionsfrågor medföljde läsläxan. Resultatet pekar även på att elevernas läsintresse stimulerats av att de fått vara delaktiga i valet av böcker, medverkat i ett meningsfullt sammanhang och samtalat om det de läst. Sammanfattningsvis visar denna studie att bokklubbarna som arbetssätt engagerar både läraren, eleverna och vårdnadshavarna. Vidare gynnar den sociala kontexten elevernas språkliga förståelse och samtalen som förekommer har potential att bidra till utökat läsintresse. / To be able to get further education, understand the information provided, and fully participate in society, you need a well-developed reading ability. It is import to build this foundation already from young age. The purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge about how reading homework in grades F-3 can be designed to strengthen collaboration between teachers and guardians in the work with students' reading development. Furthermore, the study intends to present working methods that can stimulate students' interest in reading. A case study was carried out in a third grade, where the students read a chapter from selected fiction books at home every week and then talked at school about what they had read, in so-called book clubs. To get as extensive results as possible, both the teacher's, the students', and the guardians' perceptions of the book clubs were investigated. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with the class teacher and nine students. To take part in guardians' experiences, a digital survey with open questions was distributed to guardians who expressed interest. In addition to this, a semi-structured observation of the conversations in the book clubs was also carried out. The socio-cultural perspective together with the partnership principle and the separation principle were the theories that formed the basis for the thematic analysis of the collected material. The result shows that book clubs as reading homework contributed to the students' reading development by developing their language awarness in interaction with each other, the teacher, and the guardians. Furthermore, both students and guardians appreciated that discussion questions accompanied the reading homework. The results also indicate that the students' interest in reading was stimulated by the fact that they were allowed to participate in the selection of books, in a meaningful context and that they talked about what they read. In summary, this study shows that book clubs as a way of working involve both the teacher, the students, and the guardians.  Furthermore, the social context favours the students' linguistic understanding, and the conversations that occur have the potential to contribute to increased interest in reading.

<p>In recent years there has been an upsurge in products and activities designed for infants, what is known as baby culture. The essay is a discourse analysis covering the part of baby culture which is concerned with infants and books. The essay studies texts from libraries and children’s bookclubs in order to understand what it is they communicate, to whom and the conceivable consequences of the communicated message. One of the main purposes of the study is to determine what view of infants as social and cultural beings it  is that arises from the texts. The essay also focuses on the different discourse types used in the discourse on infants and books and to what extent the libraries’ and the bookclubs’ way of reasoning on the subject is differing. The theoretical basis of the study is inspired by Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and concentrates on the communicative event. The method used is detailed textual analysis rooted in Fairclough’s three- dimensional model of discursive practice, text and social practice. The empirical material consists of texts from information folders, websites etc. The result of the analysis shows that the discourse on infants and books is very similar in the two domains and derives from a wider market- oriented discourse. The discourse constitutes infants as primarily early learners with the inherent potential of becoming a baby genius. The discourse also constitutes a good reading parent who invests in his/her child’s future by stimulating their brain development from a very early age. An examination of the baby market discourse shows that it is a hybrid discourse consisting of various discourse types from diverse (knowledge) domains such as medicine, psychology and pedagogy. The analysis shows how market discourses have infiltrated the discourses of public institutions such as the library and how it affects the way subject entities are constructed.</p>

In recent years there has been an upsurge in products and activities designed for infants, what is known as baby culture. The essay is a discourse analysis covering the part of baby culture which is concerned with infants and books. The essay studies texts from libraries and children’s bookclubs in order to understand what it is they communicate, to whom and the conceivable consequences of the communicated message. One of the main purposes of the study is to determine what view of infants as social and cultural beings it  is that arises from the texts. The essay also focuses on the different discourse types used in the discourse on infants and books and to what extent the libraries’ and the bookclubs’ way of reasoning on the subject is differing. The theoretical basis of the study is inspired by Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis and concentrates on the communicative event. The method used is detailed textual analysis rooted in Fairclough’s three- dimensional model of discursive practice, text and social practice. The empirical material consists of texts from information folders, websites etc. The result of the analysis shows that the discourse on infants and books is very similar in the two domains and derives from a wider market- oriented discourse. The discourse constitutes infants as primarily early learners with the inherent potential of becoming a baby genius. The discourse also constitutes a good reading parent who invests in his/her child’s future by stimulating their brain development from a very early age. An examination of the baby market discourse shows that it is a hybrid discourse consisting of various discourse types from diverse (knowledge) domains such as medicine, psychology and pedagogy. The analysis shows how market discourses have infiltrated the discourses of public institutions such as the library and how it affects the way subject entities are constructed.