The aim of this Master’s thesis is to investigate the meaning the reading group of the public library has to a number of users. To fulfill the aim the following three questions have been formulated: 1) What do a number of users expect from the reading group of the public library? 2) Which approach/attitude or approaches/attitudes do a number of users have to reading and to talking about reading? 3) How do a number of users experience the ongoing reading group?The research is founded on qualitative interviews with five users that take part in three different reading groups in public libraries. The theories that are used is the theory of three so called strategies - the pragmatic, the traditionalistic, the emancipatory – and the theory of flow. The theories have been used to analyze the results and as a way to describe the meaning of the reading group to a number of users. In the review of the literature existing studies of reading groups and relevant literature about reading and reading promotion activities have been examined.Several meanings of the reading group of the public library to a number of users have been discovered and described. The part of the emancipatory strategy that concern personal development is an important meaning. The reading group also turned out to have, outside the theories, a clear social meaning. The meaning can also be described with flow and with the pragmatic strategy. The traditionalistic meaning is limited. / Program: Bibliotekarie

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

Litteraturstudiens syfte är att undersöka lärares undervisningsstrategier och förhållningssätt samt hur det påverkar elevers lärande i arbetet med litteratursamtal. Frågeställningarna som studien har avser att undersöka tidigare forskning, dess resultat samt hur det påverkar lärandet hos elever i åldrarna tre till elva år. Metoden som används för att besvara syftet är att samla in befintlig forskning genom att använda artiklar som material. De tio artiklarna är hittade i databaserna ERIC, Google Scholar och OneSearch. Majoriteten av artiklarna är publicerade i USA och är analyserade genom en tematisk analysmetod. De två undervisningsstrategierna som studien fokuserar på är litteraturcirklar och högläsning med samtal. Resultaten av forskningen tyder på en samstämmighet där undervisningsstrategierna och förhållningssätten liknar varandra. Lärare arbetar exempelvis ofta med olika typer av frågor och stöttning till elever under litteratursamtalen. Detta kan påverka bland annat elevers lärande genom att deras ordförråd utvecklas. Slutsatsen av resultaten tyder på att det är viktigt att lärare gör medvetna val när det gäller bland annat frågor, hur elever påverkas av bokinnehållet och hur de stöttas i undervisningen under litteratursamtalen.