The True Emotions of Literature education : - A Study on the Potential of Affecting Students Emotionally through Literature education

In the current curriculum Gy 11 the literature education is described as one of two major parts of the Swedish language subject, which means that the majority of Swedish school children come in contact with literature during their school years in one way or another. In the dissertation Between Dante and Big Brother, A study of secondary school student text encounters Christina Olin-Scheller highlights that emotions are important for texts to be understood, unfortunately, a rarely raised factor as a key component in education. The purpose of this study is by seven qualitative pupil interviews illuminate and problematize literature teaching in schools from a learner-centered emotional perspective. In order to investigate the students' feelings and the importance of those feelings has theoretical points been presented through literature didactic, neorupedagogic and general education research