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Föräldrarnas strid om barnet – En kvalitativ studie av tingsrättens bedömning i vårdnadstvister
No full textAbstract Author: Josefin Almkvist and Ellenor Yngvesson Title: The battle for children – A qualitative study of the district court's assessment in custody disputes (translated title) Supervisor: Maria Bangura Arvidsson Assessor: Hans-Edvard Roos The purpose of this study was to analyze verdicts of custody disputes and thereby study how the court motivates their decisions in custody issues. The study also aims to examine how the parent’s gender influences the custody’s decision. More specifically we looked at how the district court's assessment looks like in sole and joint custody and whether there is any difference between cases where the court rules for the mother or father. This was done by studying 30 district court verdicts from Malmö Tingsrätt between 2007 and 2011 in which parents did not agree on custody. The studied verdicts were analyzed through a coding procedure to obtain a result. The analysis draws from theories on family and gender which are applied to our findings in an attempt to further put light on the issue of how the court decides in custody disputes. The study showed that there are many factors in custody disputes that are important and affects the district court's assessment of the custody issue. Each individual dispute has its own unique context and it is therefore difficult to make any generalization of what is required to enable the district court judge for sole or joint custody. Even though no single factor was found to be particularly crucial in the dispute, we have found some patterns in how the district court reasons. Factors that often have a decisive importance are parental suitability, parents' ability to cooperate and the child's right to both parents
Making amusement the vehicle of instruction: Key Developments in the Nursery Reading Market 1783-1900
No full textDuring the course of the nineteenth century children’s early reading experience was radically transformed; late eighteenth-century children were expected to cut their teeth on morally improving texts, while Victorian children learned to read more playfully through colourful picturebooks. This thesis explores the reasons for this paradigm change through a study of the key developments in children’s publishing from 1783 to 1900. Successively examining an amateur author, a commercial publisher, an innovative editor, and a brilliant illustrator with a strong interest in progressive theories of education, the thesis is alive to the multiplicity of influences on children’s reading over the century. Chapter One outlines the scope of the study. Chapter Two focuses on Ellenor Fenn’s graded dialogues, Cobwebs to catch flies (1783), initially marketed as part of a reading scheme, which remained in print for more than 120 years. Fenn’s highly original method of teaching reading through real stories, with its emphasis on simple words, large type, and high-quality pictures, laid the foundations for modern nursery books. Chapter Three examines John Harris, who issued a ground-breaking series of colour-illustrated rhyming stories and educational books in the 1810s, marketed as ‘Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction’. Chapter Four demonstrates the effect in the 1840s of ‘Felix Summerly’s Home Treasury of books and toys’, through which Henry Cole set new standards for the design and illustration of children’s books and established fairy tales and nursery rhymes as essential early reading. Chapter Five discusses the radical improvement in mass-market children’s books from the mid-1860s, achieved through Walter Crane’s experimental designs for cheap colour toy-books and quality baby-books, which popularised picturebook reading and took it into the classroom. Chapter Six offers a detailed study of the publishing history of Cobwebs to show how interest in this moral reader was sustained throughout the nineteenth century
