”Ingenting man egentligen borde läsa till barnen på förskolan direkt!” : En diskursanalytisk studie av barnböcker utifrån det normkritiska- och genuspedagogiska perspektivet

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to study three different children books using two preschool perspectives; the norm-critical perspective and the gender pedagogical perspective. The research questions focus on how the characters in the books can be described from the two respective perspectives.  The theoretical standpoints in this study are theories about gender and its associated conceptions and by a power and colours perspective. The method approach for this study is discourse analysis with a text and picture analysis based model as method.  This study’s result shows that the norm-critical and gender pedagogical perspective view the literary characters from different viewpoints. In the norm-critical perspective, the characters are generally not blamed for how they are. Instead the perspective aims to question the negative perceptions that can be associated to gender. The gender pedagogical perspective on the other hand, values and appreciates characters that are seen to break norms. The perspective also contains a desire of change the characters that do not break the norms. The result of the study also shows that there are discourses about expectations on girls and boys based on norms for gender, power and colour in the children’s books. Specifically, the analysis shows discourses in how girls are expected to be. As a conclusion it shows that one could look at the children’s books from different viewpoints with help from the two perspectives.