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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-199). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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The purpose of the study has been to investigate the collaboration between the leisure center and the school library and what obstacles and opportunities there are. In my dissertation, I have interviewed a school librarian and a leisure educator to find out how they work with literature in school and what obstacles and opportunities they believe there are to increase collaboration between school and school library. I have also used previous research that shows the effects of reading for children at an early age and current studies that show the negative effects that come from the use of school libraries to an increasing extent in Sweden. The results of the study have shown that reading from an early age has a great impact on children's schooling and their opportunities to acquire information and knowledge throughout their lives. The school can make a big difference for the students by offering a large selection of literature and adapting the reading so that all students have the opportunity to read on their own terms. By having a school library with trained staff, students get the best conditions for qualitative and rewarding reading.

Diante de um crescente desprestígio da literatura, sobretudo entre os alunos do Ensino Médio, quando a disciplina se oficializa, muitos estudos têm focalizado as condições da leitura, do trabalho do professor, da influência do vestibular, de produção e distribuição de livros e bibliotecas, bem como outros aspectos que vêm se configurando pertinentes à discussão. Considerando-os como ponto de partida, este estudo procura verificar de que modo e quais dessas variáveis se articulam no imaginário de professores e alunos. Nossa hipótese fundamental é a de que a literatura não está em sala de aula porque o texto literário anda distante dela. Mais especificamente, entendemos que a experiência literária ou estética não têm ocorrido porque sua matéria pulsante, o texto, não a tem desencadeado. Que é desse tônus? Latente, cremos que esteja vivíssimo nos livros e nas pessoas, apesar das aparências de menoscabo. Por isso propusemo-nos à investigação dos anseios e frustrações daqueles envolvidos num processo de ensino de literatura. Criamos um instrumento específico para a coleta de dados, baseado nos pressupostos teóricos que delinearam um conceito de literatura, relacionando-o a um conceito de sala de aula. Nascidos ambos de trilhas teóricas que fazem parte do repertório de muitos dos professores hoje em exercício, esses dois conceitos nortearam a concepção dos instrumentos utilizados na pesquisa de campo. Esta se organizou em três etapas, com amostragem composta por escolas paulistanas públicas e privadas, de diferentes abordagens. À discussão de tais instrumentos, segue-se uma análise das recorrências e de alguns contrapontos observáveis nos resultados. / Given literatures ever growing disrepute, especially among high school students, when this subject becomes official, many studies have focused the reading conditions, the teachers role, the influence of the entrance exams upon schools, the production and distribution of books and libraries, as well as other aspects that relate to this subject-matter. By considering these aspects as starting points, this study examines how and which of these variables articulate within teachers and students imaginaries. Our main hypothesis is that literature is apart from the classroom because the literary text is also apart from it. Or, being more specific, we understand that the literary or aesthetic experience hasnt occurred because its living matter, the text, hasnt called it forth. What has been made of this vibrating resource? We find it existing, alive in peoples minds and in the books, despite the appearance of contempt. For this reason, we decided to investigate the wishes and frustrations of those people involved in a literature teaching process. We have created a specific tool for the collection of data, based on the theoretical premises that have outlined a concept with, relating it to another concept of the classroom. Having both aroused from the theoretical trends that have formed the presently working teachers, these two concepts oriented the conception of the tools that were used in the field research. This research was organized in three different stages, at schools with different approaches all of them located in São Paulo. An analysis of the recurrences and a few controversies which can be observed in the results, follows the discussion of the tools.

Diante de um crescente desprestígio da literatura, sobretudo entre os alunos do Ensino Médio, quando a disciplina se oficializa, muitos estudos têm focalizado as condições da leitura, do trabalho do professor, da influência do vestibular, de produção e distribuição de livros e bibliotecas, bem como outros aspectos que vêm se configurando pertinentes à discussão. Considerando-os como ponto de partida, este estudo procura verificar de que modo e quais dessas variáveis se articulam no imaginário de professores e alunos. Nossa hipótese fundamental é a de que a literatura não está em sala de aula porque o texto literário anda distante dela. Mais especificamente, entendemos que a experiência literária ou estética não têm ocorrido porque sua matéria pulsante, o texto, não a tem desencadeado. Que é desse tônus? Latente, cremos que esteja vivíssimo nos livros e nas pessoas, apesar das aparências de menoscabo. Por isso propusemo-nos à investigação dos anseios e frustrações daqueles envolvidos num processo de ensino de literatura. Criamos um instrumento específico para a coleta de dados, baseado nos pressupostos teóricos que delinearam um conceito de literatura, relacionando-o a um conceito de sala de aula. Nascidos ambos de trilhas teóricas que fazem parte do repertório de muitos dos professores hoje em exercício, esses dois conceitos nortearam a concepção dos instrumentos utilizados na pesquisa de campo. Esta se organizou em três etapas, com amostragem composta por escolas paulistanas públicas e privadas, de diferentes abordagens. À discussão de tais instrumentos, segue-se uma análise das recorrências e de alguns contrapontos observáveis nos resultados. / Given literatures ever growing disrepute, especially among high school students, when this subject becomes official, many studies have focused the reading conditions, the teachers role, the influence of the entrance exams upon schools, the production and distribution of books and libraries, as well as other aspects that relate to this subject-matter. By considering these aspects as starting points, this study examines how and which of these variables articulate within teachers and students imaginaries. Our main hypothesis is that literature is apart from the classroom because the literary text is also apart from it. Or, being more specific, we understand that the literary or aesthetic experience hasnt occurred because its living matter, the text, hasnt called it forth. What has been made of this vibrating resource? We find it existing, alive in peoples minds and in the books, despite the appearance of contempt. For this reason, we decided to investigate the wishes and frustrations of those people involved in a literature teaching process. We have created a specific tool for the collection of data, based on the theoretical premises that have outlined a concept with, relating it to another concept of the classroom. Having both aroused from the theoretical trends that have formed the presently working teachers, these two concepts oriented the conception of the tools that were used in the field research. This research was organized in three different stages, at schools with different approaches all of them located in São Paulo. An analysis of the recurrences and a few controversies which can be observed in the results, follows the discussion of the tools.

The purpose of this research was to examine the effect on students' mathematics achievement and attitudes when children's literature was integrated into the mathematics curriculum. A major goal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM, 1999; 2000) is for students to increase the amount and quality of their mathematical communication skills. This study researched how children's literature when integrated into mathematics might enrich the fourth grade curriculum and provide meaningful experiences for students to communicate their ideas and reasoning, thereby improving achievement. Through my research, I examined if infusing quality children's literature can improve student achievement and motivation in mathematics with three different treatment groups of fourth grade students. The children's literature treatment group received a mathematics lesson integrating children's literature, the textbook treatment group received a textbook-based lesson, and the control treatment group received no instruction. The results indicated that the students who received a lesson had an increase in student achievement and the children's literature treatment group had the highest student achievement in problem solving. Attitudes across all groups did not improve from the one lesson; thus, further research will need to be conducted to see if multiple lessons can change students' attitudes positively.

Detta är en studie om vilken litteratur gymnasielärare i svenska använder i sin undervisning, och de bakomliggande motiveringarna och faktorerna till detta urval. Syftet är att besvara följande frågeställningar: Finns det en outtalad kanon inom gymnasiets undervisning i svenska, och vilken litteratur be- står den i så fall av? Mot vilken bakgrund och förkunskap väljer lärare i svenska på gymnasiet den litteratur de be- gagnar i sin undervisning?För att besvara frågeställningarna har en kvalitativ enkätstudie genomförts med 14 gymnasielä- rare i svenska. Resultatet visar på tendenser i lärarnas litteratururval som ligger nära en kanon. Det finns större likheter mellan vilka författare lärarna använder sig av i undervisningen än de verk som används av samma författare. Litteratururvalet som lärarna gör kan sägas spegla ett manligt, vitt och västerländskt perspektiv.De mest förekommande motiveringarna till att enskilda verk är viktiga att använda i undervis- ningen är att de tillhör kulturhistorien, har betydelse för kulturarvet och att de tillhör allmän- bildningen. Faktorer som påverkar urvalet är framförallt saker som finns i lärarens vardag såsom kollegor, utbud på skolan, elever, styrdokument och till mindre del eget intresse. Kanon, läromedel och utbildning har historiskt haft stor betydelse för litteratururvalet i skolan. Lärarna anser inte att de påverkas av detta i hög utsträckning idag. / This is a study on the literature selection that Swedish upper secondary school teachers use when teaching Swedish, and the underlying motives and factors contributing to the selection of certain literature. Two questions form the basis for the study:Is there an implicit canon in the teaching of Swedish in upper secondary school, and if so what literature does it consist of? Against what background and knowledge do teachers select the literature they use in their teaching? To answer the two questions, a qualitative questionnaire study answered by 14 upper secondary school teachers of Swedish has been performed. The results show that the selections of litera- ture teachers make have connections to a literary canon. The similarities are greater between the authors teachers use than between the works they use by these same authors. The literature that is taught in school can be said to reflect a male, white and western perspective.The most common reason why a certain work has been selected is that the work is part of the cultural history and heritage and also part of the basic general knowledge. When teachers make their selection they are affected by things in their near surroundings like colleagues, the book selection of the school, students, curricula and to a lesser extent their own interests. A literary canon, textbooks and education have had a great impact historically on the literature taught in school, but nowadays teachers believe themselves less influenced by these things.

Esta dissertação apresenta os resultados de pesquisa que buscou analisar as implicações do fenômeno politicamente correto na produção atual de livros infantis no Brasil, avaliado em suas dimensões ética, estética e mercadológica. Tendo sido realizada na Faculdade de Educação e, sendo a escola a principal via de aproximação da criança brasileira com a leitura, tem como eixo orientador a interação entre literatura e educação. Tomando a leitura como prática social que contribui para a constituição da subjetividade da criança, e considerando o uso histórico da literatura infantil como ferramenta pedagógica de transmissão de valores e normas sociais, discutem-se: (i) conceito social de infância, seus aspectos particulares na contemporaneidade, formação moral e educação para valores (ARIÈS, 1978; PIAGET, 2003, 1994); (ii) literatura infantil e as transformações por que passa a partir dos anos 1970 (HUNT, 1992, 2006, 2010; NODELMAN, 2008; NIKOLAJEVA, 2005, 1996, 2010; PERROTTI, 1986, 1990); (iii) usos ideológicos da linguagem, funcionamento do campo literário e cultura de massas (BOSI, 1996,1977; ORWELL, 1946, 2009; BOURDIEU, 2006, 2003, 2004; ARENDT, 2016, 2013); (iv) percurso histórico e manifestações do fenômeno politicamente correto (HUGHES, 2010, WILSON 1995). Tendo como base esta conceituação teórica, são analisados livros de literatura infantil publicados no Brasil em anos recentes, com foco em questões de gênero e representação de personagens femininas em contos de fadas (COLOMER 1994, 2009; ZIPES, 1993, 2006, 2012; TATAR 2015, 1999, 1987; HAASE, 2004), buscando avaliar o impacto das exigências do politicamente correto no mercado editorial brasileiro e os efeitos da mediação de leitura na Educação Infantil e Ensino Fundamental I. A partir da distinção entre livros politicamente corretos e politicamente comprometidos, que tratam de temas sociais sem abrir mão da qualidade literária, defende-se a necessidade de conjugar ética e estética na literatura infantil contemporânea. / This dissertation is the result of a research conducted to investigate the implications of the political correctness on the current production of children \'s books in Brazil, considered in it\'s ethical, aesthetic and market dimensions. Considering that this study was developed at the Institute of Education and that Brazilian children\'s access to books and reading takes place mostly at school, the study focuses mainly on the relationship between children\'s literature and education. Seeing reading as a social practice that plays an important role in the construction of child\'s subjectivity, and children\'s literature as historically used to teach values and social behavior, we discuss: (i) childhood as social construction, characteristics of contemporary childhood, moral development and civic education (ARIÈS, 1978; PIAGET, 2003, 1994); (ii) children\'s literature and it\'s deep changes since the 1970s (HUNT, 1992, 2006, 2010; NODELMAN, 2008; NIKOLAJEVA, 2005, 1996, 2010; PERROTTI, 1986, 1990); (iii) ideological language, literary field, mass culture (BOSI, 1996,1977; ORWELL, 1946, 2009; BOURDIEU, 2006, 2003, 2004; ARENDT, 2016, 2013); (iv) historical origins, development and current agendas of political correctness (HUGHES, 2010, WILSON 1995). In the final chapter, we analyze children\'s books published in Brazil in recent years, with focus on gender issues and representation of female characters in fairy tales (COLOMER 1994, 2009; ZIPES, 1993, 2006, 2012; TATAR 2015, 1999, 1987; HAASE, 2004), effects of reading mediation in preschool and elementary school and the impact of politically correct demands on the Brazilian publishing market. From the standpoint of the difference between politically correct and politically committed books, that deal with social issues without giving up literary quality, we defend the need of combining political ethos and aesthetics in contemporary children\'s literature.