The purpose of this study is to analyze a children’s book to examine if it is a useful tool for teachers to use while working with the set values that the Swedish curriculum deems central to education. In order to create such a tool, a survey was made to ascertain what books are currently popular among Swedish children in the age range of 6-9, and ...
Le Musée d’histoire naturelle de Lille a conçu et présenté pendant une année une exposition inspirée de l’album de jeunesse De la petite taupe qui voulait savoir qui lui avait fait sur la tête, pour un public d’élèves de maternelle et d’enfants de moins de six ans. A partir de notre ancrage en didactique des sciences nous avons étudié l’itinérance ...
Syftet med föreliggande studie är att utföra en bilderboksanalys av hur mångkulturalitet representeras i sex nutida barnböcker utgivna år 2019–2021 för att uppmärksamma och i förlängningen motverka den vithetsnorm som till stor del präglar vår kultur. Den teoretiker som främst legat till grund för studien är Robin DiAngelo som skrive...
The objective of this study is to reveal the potential of Children’s Literature in thedevelopment of critical thinking skills, as well as to promote an intercultural dialogue. Today,as multicultural populations grow in schools, it is vital to reflect on this topic and find platformsof understanding and cooperation. Are schools prepared for this cha...
Fairy tales are stories that have lived on in our culture. In the beginning, they used to be anonymous, and passed on orally, and they offered adults and children knowledge of their world and social values. Along the 20th Century and into our times, the traditional stories have been rewritten and reversioned in multiple genres and formats. The chil...
The purpose of this study is to explore how norms and values are described in children´s literature and compare these descriptions with the democratic norms and values in the curriculum. The theory is inspired by Dewey’s theory about the democratic society. We use, concepts that we have identified in the preschool curriculum that define democratic...
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 tu...
The aim of this essay is to examine several categories of violence in Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction, with the background of fairy tale theory. Roald Dahl’s children’s fiction has raised criticism, and the grounds of it are reconsidered in this essay. Violence is a declining feature of children’s literature, and the sometimes-excessive use of it i...
The present work studies the Cuentos y leyendas escritas para los niños, a nineteenth-century translation of several stories by Mme d’Aulnoy and Charles Perrault conducted by Francisco Alejandro Fernel. It is a manuscript composed in 1857, when the testimonies of the two French authors in Spanish were still scarce, which makes it possible to find n...
The current study deals with the translation of foul languagein the French and Swedish translations of Maria Parr’s Norwegian novel Keeperen og havet (Lena, the Sea, and Me, 2017). Previous research shows that children’s literature is translated differently in France and in Scandinavia. It is also well-known that parents often have an opinion on wh...
