This thesis examined the relationship between children’s visual art and hospital contexts. It specifically focused on children’s art in the Tile Project within the Mater Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. This ethnographic study consisted of interviews with the creators of the Tile Project as well as interviews and a survey with parents, staff, and children within the Mater Children’s Hospital. The interviews were informed by a review of literature in the areas of art in health settings. The study made observations of the community interacting with the tiles and collected images of the tiles used in the hospital and employed the framework of Bourdieu’s (1993) fields of cultural production and Abbs’s (1987) aesthetic field and dimensions, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of Beardsley (1982), Eisner (1985), and Csikszentmihalyi (1990). The study investigated the aesthetic characteristics of the tiles and their health outcomes in relation to the hospital community. This study is significant because the Mater Children’s Hospital Tile Project was a project that reflected art in healthcare settings involving Community Arts, art in design, and art in public buildings. The research identified the unique nature of the Tile Project which saw the hospital as a children’s space with artworks for children by children. The study reflected on the value of the tiles in having a healing and distracting quality for parents and children alike and that engagement with the tiles through touch, imagination, and playful games improved the atmosphere of the hospital.

<p>In this study I look into children’s thought about health and exercise. To full fill my purpose I</p><p>made qualitative interviews with seven six year old kids. Two boys and five girls. I wanted to</p><p>now what they thought about health and movement. Do they think that it is important or is it</p><p>just the adult who thinks that?</p><p>The result shows that the kids know much about our health and why we should be exercise</p><p>more. It shows that they know why it’s important that we exercise so our body feels good. My</p><p>results also shows that they didn’t now what the conception of health mean. Fore them it</p><p>means that you said hello to someone. That was something that surprised me. It was only one</p><p>child that could say that it had something to do whit exercise and how we move us.</p> / <p>I denna studie undersöks barns i sexårsåldern ankar om hälsa och rörelse. Kvalitativaintervjuer genomfördes med totalt sju barn. Två pojkar och fem flickor.Resultatet av undersökningen visar att eleverna i förskoleklassen har stor koll på hälsa ochrörelse. De vet att det är viktigt att röra på sig för att kroppen ska må bra. Mitt resultat visadeockså att de inte visste vad själv begreppet hälsa betydde, utan för dem var det att manhälsade och sa hej till någon. Detta blev jag något förvånad över. Det var bara en som tillslutkom fram till att det kunde ha att göra med att vi rör på oss.</p>

Street children are the most vulnerable group in any society. It is estimated that 150 millions children lives on the street in the world. Most of these children lack all basic needs. This study is been done in Babati district, Tanzania. Focus of this study is to examine the possibilities to Education and Healthcare of street children in Babati. This is a qualitative study based on semi structured interviews with street children, authorities responsible for Education and Healthcare of these children and other actors involve in this subject. The result of this study is that the government of Tanzania has developed a guideline (focus on HIV/AIDS related problems causing orphans) to assist these children with shelter, food, education, healthcare etc. There are 656 identified street children in Babati is receiving assistance from the authority but the interviewed street children are receiving any assistance are none. NGOs in Babati working with street children follow the same guideline assisting street children. Children not falling under this guideline do not have many chances to receive any assistance from the authorities and other actors in Babati. The authorities and actors need to expand their focus on reaching all street children in Babati.

In this study I look into children’s thought about health and exercise. To full fill my purpose I made qualitative interviews with seven six year old kids. Two boys and five girls. I wanted to now what they thought about health and movement. Do they think that it is important or is it just the adult who thinks that? The result shows that the kids know much about our health and why we should be exercise more. It shows that they know why it’s important that we exercise so our body feels good. My results also shows that they didn’t now what the conception of health mean. Fore them it means that you said hello to someone. That was something that surprised me. It was only one child that could say that it had something to do whit exercise and how we move us. / I denna studie undersöks barns i sexårsåldern ankar om hälsa och rörelse. Kvalitativaintervjuer genomfördes med totalt sju barn. Två pojkar och fem flickor.Resultatet av undersökningen visar att eleverna i förskoleklassen har stor koll på hälsa ochrörelse. De vet att det är viktigt att röra på sig för att kroppen ska må bra. Mitt resultat visadeockså att de inte visste vad själv begreppet hälsa betydde, utan för dem var det att manhälsade och sa hej till någon. Detta blev jag något förvånad över. Det var bara en som tillslutkom fram till att det kunde ha att göra med att vi rör på oss.

Problem statement: Nowadays, women have a greater place in literature, both as a writer but also the role of the book and that is why I have chosen to examine how educators reason about their use of literature in preschool to combat the stereotype of gender roles. Motivation: An earlier survey shows that women now have a greater place in the recently released children's literature and, therefore, it is interesting to see how educators see their work on countering gender patterns using picture books. It is also interesting to examine whether the female roles in the books are consistent with the research I've used. Approach: I chose to use qualitative interviews with teachers in two preschools and also examined the recently released children’s books they worked with. Results: The results of my survey shows that teachers thoughts about their work on combating gender pattern occurs on an individual plan and depend on how the teacher interprets the guidelines. My survey also shows that the gender roles in the newly released picture books are consistent with earlier research I’ve used. Conclusion: It is therefore important that educators are aware of how easily gender patterns are induced, it happens on a daily basis through words and expectations that educators have on children.

The purpose of this thesis has been to; based on interviews with four teachers in Stockholm city, get at picture of preschool teacher’s viewpoint on children’s influence in preschool. Research questions: How is the children`s influence looked upon by the teachers in preschool?, In what ways do children’s influence affect their learning, In what ways are the interviewed preschool teachers working with democracy in preschool? To carry out this thesis, I used the qualitative method. In the qualitative method, use is made of the interview method to collect empirical data with interviews. I interviewed four preschool teachers from three different preschools. This thesis is built upon John Dewey’s philosophical thinking as a theoretical base. The result of this thesis shows that all preschool teachers felt that the application of children’s influence in the daily activities, although complicated, is essential in their work. At the same time the opinion of the teachers varied a lot concerning to what extent the children shall take responsibility on deciding upon their activities. One teacher claimed that it is not possible to plan activities based on 19 children’s wishes and the other that she had to limit the influence of the children because it is the teacher’s obligation to lead the children to discover new activities, not just to continue with the old ones. By using children’s influence, considered another preschool teacher, the children expand their frames of reference which allow the kids to discover new areas to work with. All the teacher´s also agreed about the importance of letting the activities being built upon the children`s different interests.  Preschool teachers use children’s councils, planning with children or voting on what activities they should have in the pursuit of the children to take part of what democracy means.

This analysis of children’s literature attempts to understand the relationship between social reproduction and ideology. This thesis argues that children’s literature written by Lynne Cheney is a cultural artifact that constitutes an ideological history. In addition, it argues that her books can be used by ideological institutions to strengthen socially accepted practices through the theory of social reproduction. Since there is a lack of theory regarding cultural artifacts in literary studies, an adoption from the field of pedagogy called the theory of hidden curriculum is used to explain social reproduction. The process of social reproduction reinforces socioeconomic structures put in place in order to reinforce social norms.

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This two years master’s thesis takes interest in the concept of marketing related to the Children’s Library. The purposes have been to investigate the perception of marketing among a few librarians working at the Children’s Library in the Swedish region of Halland and further to analyse their perception of marketing in the daily work at the library. Eventually to analyse the consequences of these librarians approach to marketing related to their perception of the library’s mission. The Regional aspect of the survey is due to the 2011 celebrated report about marketing the library. The theoretical framework is twofold, the marketing mix is used to understand what at the library could be used in marketing. The work of the Danish scholars Henrik Jochumsen och Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen are used to understand the different functions of the library. Their theory present the library’s four different func-tions illustrated as "spaces". The spaces are the inspiration space, the learning space, the meeting space and the performative space. By those means the librarians perception of marketing in their everyday work have been analysed. The method used is qualitative, semi-structured interviews. Results show that the majority of the librarians preferred the vague word "visibility" to marketing. The con-cept of marketing was more seen as something communicated to users by posters and leaflets. When asked about interpersonal relations, accessibility and communication the librarians saw these concepts as important thought not obviously related to marketing. The spaces of inspiration and performance were more strongly connected to marketing than the learning space and meeting space. There is an urgent need to discuss the concept of market-ing in relation to the role of the library. This is a two years master’s thesis in Library and Information Studies.