The purpose of this study is to examine a preschool's work to counteract traditional gender roles, which strategies are used and how norms about gender roles are produced and treated. The study also examines whether the preschool has an intersectional perspective in it's gender work, which analyzes how they relate to other categories such as ethnicity, race, class, age and sexuality in their work. I have been observing and conducting four interviews with teachers at a preschool with a gender profile. In my analysis I have used Foucault's theories about discourse and power. The results show that the informants had a high awareness of gender and that the main strategies used were: an individual perspective, seeing the individual and not the sex, and a gender-neutral strategy, removing everything that is gendered, for example, in language and environment.

Examensarbetets syfte är att undersöka hur pedagogisk dokumentation används av sju pedagoger på Reggio Emilia-inspirerade förskolor, samt vilket förhållande de har till detta verktyg. Undersökningen utgår från följande frågeställningar: Vad ser pedagogerna för syfte med den pedagogiska dokumentationen? Hur strukturerar pedagogerna dokumentationsarbetet? Hur väljer pedagogerna ut vad som skall dokumenteras? Hur använder sig pedagogerna av reflektion och återkoppling? Den metod som har använts för att besvara frågeställningarna är kvalitativa intervjuer. Svaren i dessa har sedan tolkats med hjälp av tidigare forskning på området och Vygotskijs teori om en utvecklingsfrämjande pedagogik. Resultatet påvisar att syftet med de pedagogiska dokumentationerna främst är att synliggöra barnens lärande.

My essay begins with two stories showing two different perspectives when looking at learning in preschool. These two different learning styles I have chosen to call, the measurable and the difficult to measure learning. As a pedagogue I am involved in both events. In these events I describe how different we pedagogues interpret our governing documents on children's learning. By describing how the educational activities are designed differently in the two events, I try to highlight the pedagogues views on learning in preschool.

My goal in this study was to research how teachers with education in pedagogical drama think about drama and how to use it as an educational tool. The method I used to acquire the results was by interviews. In total I interviewed six different teachers which had some kind of education in pedagogical drama. This study revealed that all the teachers in some way used educational drama in preschool. The purpose with educational drama is to improve the children's fantasy, creativity, empathy, self-awareness and also their ability to co-operate with other children.

The purpose of this study was to gain greater knowledge of how preschool teachers and children using an experimental- and activity box in biology. To find this out, I have used the participant observation method and semi-structured interviews since my study is qualitative. The result of the work led to a greater understanding of the biologybox. It was shown that preschool teachers' involvement is very important for children and that the biologybox contained good and inspiring materials. Although educators desired that there was more material to choose from as well as the usage time of the biologybox should be longer than 3 weeks..

Förskolan är i en förändringsprocess vad gäller den pedagogiska rollen och innehållet på verksamheten med fokus på estetiska processer och arbeten. I denna uppsats undersökte jag hur den estetiska verksamheten återfinns inom förskolan samt hur det geografiska avståndet mellan aktörer påverkas av detta eller om helt andra faktorer spelar in för den estetiska verksamheten i förskolan. Syftet var att utforska utformningen av estetisk verksamhet och kunskapen runt fenomenet estetik i förskolan samt hitta de tänkbara faktorer som kan påverka detta. Centrala frågor var: Hur kan den estetiska verksamheten i förskolan förklaras? Skiljer sig synen på den estetiska verksamheten i inlandet och i en större kuststad? Vilka faktorer påverkar möjligheterna att förändra förskolan med fokusering på estetiska processer? Jag gjorde en kvalitativ, jämförande studie mellan en inlandskommun och en kuststadskommun i norrlandsregionen.

AbstractMy purpose with this essey is to study how they work in preschool whir language- stimulation. I will try a way to work with this trough intervjus whit teacher at preschool. My main questions are: Way dose teachers use language- stimulation? How dose teachers use language- stimulation when it comes to there way of working and methods? Do the teachers think that language- stimulation help the childrens development?To answer these questions I interviewed 6 teachers I central Sweden and used this as data. I have written about language, language- development in a biologik and theoretical aspect, teachers plan, language- stimulation, playing by language sounds and TRAS (early registration of language development) in my literary review.My result shows that working whit language- stimulation helps children in there language- development, it also develops there self-image and identity.

Denna uppsats handlar om inomhusmiljön och hur den kan användas för att stimulera barns delaktighet och inflytande. Jag kände att jag hade ett stort intresse för detta ämne genom min praktikplats där de arbetar mycket med utformningen av miljön och hur de anpassar den utefter barnen och deras behov. Vidare ville jag se om det gick att använda inomhusmiljön för att kunna gynna barns delaktighet och inflytande. Jag kom fram till att hur pedagogerna ser på barnen och hur de utformar inomhusmiljön på ett visst sätt leder till att barnen utmanas, både genom miljön men också genom pedagogerna. Detta leder det till att pedagogerna försöker se inomhusmiljön som en tredje pedagog som ska underlätta dagen på förskolan både för barn och vuxna och inspirera barnen till lek och utforskande. När pedagogerna ser på barnen som kompetenta och med en inneboende kraft att vilja utforska saker leder det till att deras förhållningssätt till barnen och varandra förändras och de försöker utforma verksamheten utefter barnens behov. För inomhusmiljön leder det till att förskollärarna kan utforma den i takt med barnens behov och genom att ha en föränderlig miljö leder det till att barnen hela tiden är i en miljö som utmanar dem och som gör att de hela tiden har inflytande över hur miljön ändras.

When the introduction starts for the child and their parents it holds many emotions. There are many emotions involved in the first meeting between preschool and home for both the children and their parents. So my purpose with this study is to focus on two introduction models educators at my selected preschool works by. The purpose of my study is to focus on the two introduction models that are used by educators at my selected preschool. I ´m going to view this two models by examining how the educators prepare before the introduction starts and look at their point of view.

AbstractBackground The importance of establishing well-functioning parent-teacher relationships are clear objectives in the Swedish National Curriculum for Preschools, (Lpfö 98, Lpo 94 & Lgr 11 chapter 1-2). Parental involvement in preschool activities is seen as important for several reasons. Facilitating healthy child development, learning and socialisation are some of these reasons. During the past twenty years Sweden has become a multicultural society. Today, people from more than 170 countries live in Sweden, and about 18% of the population are first or second generation immigrants.

The aim of this study is to obtain a deep knowledge about identity creation of preschool child-ren at the age of four to sex with creative pictures and its aesthetic learning processes with childrens perspective as a starting-point. The issues that I have used in this study are how childrens identity creation relates to the aesthetic learning processes in the preschool enviro-ment, how children experience the figuration of their own identity related to other individuals and the enviroment by taking different positions in aesthetic learning processes and how childrens identity creation becomes visible in preschool.In order to explore preschool childrens identity creation in aesthetic learning processes the qualitative research-oriented approach has been implemented with unstructured observations and the informal interview as the methods for data acquiring.This studys theoretical points are sociocultural perspective and symbolic interactionism. Both these theoretical perspectives emphasize the significance of communication, taking different perspectives and learning in an interaction between an individual and enviroment within given sociocultural frames of referens which results in an individuals identity development.Results from the study show that childrens painting is more than an occupation with a picture as a product. Childrens painting is rather a playfull aesthetic expression form and a relation-oriented, dynamic learning process which is related to the enriching of individual self, the consciousness and the creation of meaning within preschools frames of reference.My expectation is that my study will contribute to didactic discussions about childrens iden-tity creation while using aesthetic expression forms..

Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur pedagoger på förskolan hjälper barn med koncentrationssvårigheter och vilken kunskap som finns hos pedagogerna. Vi undersöker även miljöns inverkan på barn med koncentrationssvårigheter. Det framgår i studien att motorisk träning av grundrörelser har en avgörande betydelse för att barn ska kunna koncentrera sig, motorik och inlärning hör ihop. Det som också lyfts fram är att det är viktigt att skapa lugn och ro samt stöd från vuxen för att ge goda förutsättningar att fokusera och koncentrera sig. Tidigare forskning har visat att extra motorisk träning i förskolan har gett positiva effekter för barns grovmotorik, finmotorik, perception och förmåga att minnas detaljer.

In my story there are daily conflicts that occur around the boy Peter. I focus on the role of the educator and the preschool, on the grey area children, on the interaction with parents and on "fighter relation". I have during my work tried to see this dilemma from differentperspectives. I question my role as a teacher and recently become a preschool teacher. Peter has no diagnosis, but I have decided to proceed from emotional disorders and language difficulties..

This study was designed to describe and understand how children perceive and explain mathematical situations. During our work based training we have met several students who have been insecure in the subject of mathematics and therefore come to think that it's difficult and boring. The questions we have asked ourselves are why and how this insecurity occurs. In preschools around the country teachers actively worked to create opportunities for children to meet and discover mathematics. The question is whether the teachers are aware of how children perceive mathematics and how children think in mathematical situations. We chose to conduct a qualitative study using different methods of data collecting in order to approach the children's world.

In this essay I reflect on what makes a good preschool teacher today. I discuss the importance of education, the importance of experience and practical knowledge, but also the importance of capacity for self-reflection and listening. I bring up examples from my workplace, where some think more about their limitations than on what and how much they actually can. Others are more satisfied by what they can and see less of their limits. Some are also lack of the will to see differently and to do changes.