Skolan har i uppdrag att aktivt arbeta med frågor som rör kön, jämställdhet, rättigheter och möjligheter. Vidare ska skolan ge elever verktyg till att kritiskt kunna granska könsmönster samt ge elever en förståelse för hur dessa könsmönster kan begränsa människors livsvillkor (Skolverket, 2019). I skolan möter elever skönlitteratur, vilken i sin tur bidrar till att normer på ett eller annat sätt framställs. Genom didaktiska insatser i form av critical literacy-inspirerade arbetssätt kan skönlitteraturen användas som ett underlag för värdegrundsarbetet. Det är då av relevans hur barn uppfattar de normer eller normbrytande aspekter som framställs i skönlitteraturen. Studiens syfte är därför att bidra med kunskap om elevers olika sätt att resonera och relatera till en normbrytande saga genom ett Critical literacy-inspirerat didaktiskt perspektiv. Till grund för studien ligger en modern bearbetning av sagan om Askungen (Jansson & Jensfelt, 2018) vars syfte är att bryta normer. De frågeställningar som studien ämnar besvara är: ·       Vilka normbrytande aspekter återger elever i ett samtal om en normbrytande saga? ·       Vilka aspekter i en normbrytande saga kan elever relatera till sin egen verklighet? ·       Hur påverkas elevers resonemang om en normbrytande saga efter ett boksamtal? Studien är kvalitativ och utgörs av semistrukturerade intervjuer med 12 elever i årskurs 2 samt 3. Resultatet av studien visar vilka normbrytande aspekter elever resonerar kring. Vidare visar resultatet att gemensamt boksamtal till synes kan påverka elevers enskilda resonemang. Empirin är analyserad utifrån genusteorin samt Alkestrands (2017) definition av didaktisk potential. / Swedish school is obliged to actively work with questions concerning gender, equality, rights and opportunities. Furthermore, school shall give the students tools to critically review gender patterns and understand how gender patterns can constrain people’s living conditions (Skolverket, 2019). In school the students read fiction, which in turn contributes to how norms are produced in different ways. Through didactic efforts through critical literacy inspired working processes fiction can be used as a foundation for work with values. It is of thus of relevance how children perceive the norms or norm-breaking aspects as they are produced in fiction. The purpose of the study is therefore to contribute knowledge about students’ different ways of reasoning and relating to a norm-breaking story through a Critical literacy-inspired didactic perspective. As a basis for the study is the norm-breaking fairytale about Cinderella (Jansson & Jensfelt, 2018). The study aims to address the following questions: ·       Which norm-breaking aspects do the students retell in a dialogue about the norm-breaking fairytale? ·       Which aspects of a norm-breaking fairytale can the students relate to from their own reality? ·       How are the students’ reasoning affected by the norm-breaking fairytale after a literacy talk?  The study is qualitative and is built on semi-structured interviews with 12 students in year 2 and 3. The result of the study shows which norm-breaking aspects the students’ reason about. Furthermore, the results show that a literacy talk seems to have an impact on the students’ reasoning. The empirical material is analyzed through gender theory together with Alkestrand’s (2017) definition of didactic potential.

The purpose of this study was to increase knowledge about how socio-economic conditions in different groups of students can affect students' perceptions of the subject of social studies. This was done by accounting for, analysing and discussing differences and similarities in perceptions of the subject of social studies between students in vocational and in tertiary preparatory programsin upper secondary school in Sweden. The data for this qualitative study was collected through focus group interviews and was thereafter thematically analysed. The results show that all students, regardless of program, find social studies important both for themselves and for the society as a whole. However, preferences regarding teaching methods vary between programs. Vocational programs tend to prefer shorter individual writing assignments while tertiary preparatory programs like to work both individually and in groups as well as both orally and in writing. There are also differences in how the programs view their use for social studies in the future. The vocational programs consider themself to have the most use for knowledge regarding economy while the tertiary preparatory programs believe they will have most use forwhat they have learned concerning the subject of individuals and identity. These differences can be explained by the student´s different capacities and different access to cultural and language capital as well as the real functions of the school system and cultural reproductionwhich are all due to socio-economic differences that exist between the students in vocationalprograms and the students in tertiary preparatory programs.