This study focuses on if and how new governmental guidelines about media and information literacy is implemented at school libraries at elementary schools in Sweden as represented in governing documents. Through the lens of Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis eight governing documents from school libraries is closely examined in the quest for answering questions concerning cooperation between school librarians and teaching staff in matters of media an information literacy, the intertextual correlation between governing documents on different levels and how these documents might affect the way the MIL-education is designed. The study concludes that the school library discourse order consists of two oppositional discourses, a library discourse, and an educational discourse. The educational discourse is shown to be the dominant discourse when it comes to activities design around MIL-education. This is linked to which governingdocuments certain paragraphs of the text refers to. MIL as a concept is not uniformly understood between the different discourses which creates different understanding on educational design and where to put the focus. The study further concludes that a close collaboration between school librarians and teaching staff creates a favorable environment for developing a common view of MIL-educationthat bridges the differences in understanding of the MIL-concept as in shown in a case where the governing document is a joint collaboration between a schoollibrarian, a principal and an assistant principal. How the education and activitiessurrounding MIL-education actually is designed at the elementary schools in this study is impossible to answer within this study. This study only concerns the representation in the document. Further studies conducted through interviews and observation could answer questions outside the possibility for this study.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-125898 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Stigsdotter, Linda |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV) |
| 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 |
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