”Det bara är så…” Normer i bilderböcker och bokstunder i förskolan

Our thesis deals with norms in picturebooks and reading sessions in preschool. Based onour previous experience of practice and work in preschool, we have a perception thatchildren and adults have different awareness concerning picturebooks. The purpose of the study is therefore to find the norms which are passed through thepicturebooks, the norms which can be seen in reading sessions and what happens with themin the meeting between picturebooks and reading sessions. To visualize the norms we have in our analysis used theoretical tools, as a norm criticalperspective (reading sessions) and deconstruction (picturebooks). We have in our materialbeen looking for normmarkers, expectations that have been taken for granted and lookedfor identity of the categories: gender, sex, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, generation, age,function, and class. We have through a qualitative method, observation, obtained our material in fourdivisions, from two preschools in a major city in Sweden. In total we have attended fourreading sessions and analyzed five picturebooks that were read at these sessions. Our result show that the ruling norms, hetero- and whiteness norms, are reproduced bypicturebooks and reading sessions, while ideas about different and deviant sexuality,ethnicity, religion and functionality not were addressed therefore were taken for granted.Another phenomenon that we noticed was how the relationship between adults andchildren, during the reading sessions, was controlled by external conditions. Our conclusion is that awareness of norms in preschool during reading sessions andaround the picturebooks is not always so wide, which could lead to a reproduction of rulingand stereotypical norms