Handstilen bland elever som lever i ett digitaliserat samhälle : En studie om elevers och lärares inställning till att skriva för hand

Sammanfattning: In an age of increasing technology, it is a fact that typing on a keyboard are used in schools to replace handwriting, this raises questions about the future use of the skill handwriting still is necessary. The aim of this studys is to investigate students’ opinion about their handwriting, how motivation can influence handwriting and how teachers work with handwrithing. Through intevjues with 25 sixgraders and two of their teachers, this study tends to proclame a picture of the handwriting education in a Swedish school. The results of this study shows that the students’ attitude towards handwriting and choice of writingtool has some connection to the motivation but is not restricted to it. The interviewed teachers do not work frequent with their students’ handwriting because there is no time and teachers consider the handwritingskill depending on their students’ attitude and volition. This studie shows that it´s not common that students have poor handwriting skills.