The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to gain an insight into whatgirls and boys choose to read in their spare time. Thetheoretical perspective with which the subject matter isviewed is that of gender and genre. I would like to see ifthere are differences or similarities in their choice of genre.The material stems from a promotional reading projectconducted in the summer of 2012 aimed at children in theage group 6-16. The number of participation children were146 an 730 books were read. They were divided into agegroups and genres respectively.The analytical method is a quantitative and qualitativecontent analysis. The findings of the children’s free choice ofgenre when selecting books are presented in diagrams.The result of the analysis is in accordance with previousresearch regarding children’s reading habits with fewexceptions. Girls read more than boys and also read moreacross the genres. Boys read books up to age 12 and thentheir interest declines. Both genders prefer to read authors oftheir own respective gender and detective stories are popularwith both boys and girls. More effort needs to be invested inpromotional reading projects in order to keep up the interestin reading for both boys and girls. / Program: Bibliotekarie
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hb-17045 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Persson, Anita |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, University of Borås/Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Kandidatuppsats, ; 2012:87 |
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