Marlen Eskander is the founder and director of operations at Läslandet in Södertälje, which also has branches in Järva in northwest Stockholm.
– We are not at all surprised by the poor results in the report. We have had residential segregation, residential segregation and school segregation. Now we also have a pedagogical segregation. Schools lack staff with adequate training. This means that school children do not meet staff who read themselves, says Marlen Eskander.
– Our goal is to create reading habits among non-reading target groups through social practices. You come here as a group and enter a collective, a community.
The method that Läslandet uses is called 4D reading aloud and is a form of dramatized reading aloud.
– We use the book, the narrator’s voice, improvisational theater and the children’s co-creation. The children should be able to enter the story, add to the story, reflect themselves in the story.
Watch the video to hear about how Läslandet has managed to reverse the negative reading trend.