Högläsning i förskoleklass – mer än bara nöje? : Om förändring och förståelse bland lärare apropå revideringen av läroplanen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to understand teachers' view of what function the reading-aloud of fiction serves in preschool. A recent event motivating such a focus is the Government's stated aim of promoting reading in preschools and a general emphasis on reading as a teaching tool, which has been clarified in the 2018 revision of the preschool curriculum.  The result of my survey shows that more than half of the 368 participants are aware of or have heard about the Government's approach to reading, while just over a quarter of the participants do not know about it. However, most of them are positive about the school's clarification of reading as a teaching tool, regardless of whether they know about the initiative or not.  According to the result, reading aloud is prioritized by the teachers themselves and just under half of the teachers make their choices based on the students' wishes. In those cases, it is most common that the teacher selects books recommended by teacher colleagues or other teachers on social media.  The results also reveal that the stated purpose of reading aloud is to awaken the reading desire and gain a common language experience as well as to make the students interested in books. Here, the Swedish National Agency for Education emphasizes primarily the teachers' fourth option, namely reading as a pedagogical tool. Teachers also point out that the daily fruit session is well suited for taking time to read.