This study aims at investigating what Litteracy events and texts children encounter during a day at preschool. The aim of the study is also to get an understanding of the underlying thoughts with the texts presented in the environment and by the pedagogues. Through observation in two departments as well as interview with a teacher from each department, the questions are examined. The results show that several of the Litteracy events are part of the daily work routine at the preschool in all the investigated departments. The result also shows that children encounter text and Literacy events in large numbers and variations throughout the day, with the exception of the outdoor activities. The study also shows that the teachers in the departments have underlying thoughts to the vast majority of the texts presented. The result also shows the importance of qualitative pedagogues. The more they can inspire and engage, the greater opportunities the children will be able to meet in the areas of text and script in a amusing way, which the vast majority of children today participate in and also as the first part of our education system that deals with the lifelong learning.

Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur skriftanvändningen ser ut inom äldreomsorgen år 2017, med fokus på i vilka situationer, i vilka funktioner och hur skrift används. Undersökningen har bestått av två observationer med kompletterande intervjuer. En anställd inom hemtjänsten och en anställd på ett permanent äldreboende har följts under två separata dagar. Resultatet visade att skriftbruket huvudsakligen fyller dokumenterande och orienterande/planerande funktioner, vilket stämmer överens med tidigare forskning, men att man idag använder sig av tekniska hjälpmedel i en större utsträckning. Slutsatserna man kan dra från denna undersökning är att det är de huvudsakliga arbetsuppgifterna, omvårdnaden av brukare, samt organisationen av arbetet som styr hur och till vad man använder skrift. Samtidigt begränsas och kontrolleras skriftens utformning av regler och riktlinjer från högre instanser inom verksamheten.

This thesis explores the literacy practices in literacy history, in everyday life and in Swedish tuition for immigrants (sfi) of five Kurdish adults. The study analyses connections and dividing lines between literacy practices of the sociotextual domains of everyday life and literacy practices of the sociotextual domain of sfi. It also explores the interaction between literacy history and present literacy practices. Further, there is a focus on the connections between identification, learning and literacy practices. The methodological approach is inspired by ethnography, employing individual semi-structured interviews and classroom observation. Video documentation, audio recordings and field notes are used for documentation. Theoretically the study is influenced by the research field New Literacy Studies where literacies are conceived of assets of socially and culturally grounded practices. The interviews are analysed from two perspectives: focusing on content and on linguistic discursive practices. In the analysis of interviews and observations, a number of interacting aspects of literacy events and literacy practices are also researched, such as purpose, time, place, participants, verbal language and artefacts. A lack of connection between the participants’ notions of who they are and the identities offered to them in sfi impairs the conditions of their active participation in the literacy practices, and consequently also impairs their learning. Identities connected to literacy history are of importance in this process. To exemplify this, the professional career they had in Kurdistan is still of central importance for two of the participants of the study. This complicates their identification as sfi-students and their engaging in the literacy practices of the sfi-education. If sfi teachers know which identities from everyday life are important to their sfi students and try to find connections between the sfi teaching and these identities, the chances improve of the students accepting the identities which they are offered in the literacy events. Then it will also be more probable that the students’ participation in the literacy events in sfi will lead to deep learning. In the sfi classrooms, the participants take part in literacy events of everyday life. There are three types of overlap between the literacy practices of sfi and of everyday life. (1) Literacy events from other sociotextual domains take place in the sfi-classrooms, but without recontextualization into sfi. (2) Literacy events based in sociotextual domains of everyday life are recontextualized into sfi. (3) Literacy events belong to more than one sociotextual domain. In spite of these three types of overlap there are complications when it comes to students starting out from literacy practices of everyday life when they take part in the literacy practices of sfi. It is not possible to transmit literacy practices in their totality, from one sociotextual domain to another. The literacy practices are situated in a specific sociotextual domain and will undergo a transformation as they are based in a different sociotextual domain. On the other hand, it is possible for sfi students to make use of everyday micro practices (e.g. cooperation and non-linear reading) when they take part in the literacy practices of sfi.

The aim of this dissertation is to describe and critically discuss the literacies apprentice-students in the Health and Social Care Programme in the upper secondary school in Sweden are given access to during the workplace-based learning part of the education. The study draws on sociocultural understandings of learning and knowing, and on perspectives developed in the field of new literacy studies of literacies as situated social practices. Ethnographically inspired methods consisting of participant observation, interviews and study of textual artefacts in both the work and school domain are used to generate data. Literacy events and literacy practices students are given the opportunity to participate in are explored as a part of tasks in the work or school domain. Additionally, the literacies students do not gain access in these workplaces but are crucial in health care and social work are explored.  The results indicate that literacies in the work domain are to a large degree embedded in other work tasks. This contributes to making a large part of the reading and writing invisible for the students and their supervisors. Access to literacies at the workplace is not discussed between teachers and supervisors. A major finding is that students’ access to digital literacies in the work domain depends on the local culture of each workplace and on individual supervisor’s decisions, bringing questions of equality in the apprentice-education to the forefront. The digital literacies support central activities in the workplaces; not getting access to these practices raises questions about what kind of working life the apprentice-students are being prepared for. Thus the meaning given to the term employability, which is central in policy-documents for the apprentice education, seems to be enacted as preparing the students for a job in one position, rather than offering broad competences for advancement or changes in working life. School tasks can function in a compensatory way by introducing central texts in Health and Social care work for students, but writing these kinds of texts in the school domain are part of different literacy practices than when writing them in the work domain. Furthermore the schools have no possibilities to offer students access to the kinds of digital systems that are used in the work domain.