The purpose of this study is to examine how teachers and pupils experience the use of fictional literature as a tool for language development in the teaching of English as a foreign language. Through surveys and interviews and with Vygotsky?s theory on development in a social environment as a theoretical base, I examine which methods are used to promote language development and also which functions pupils and teachers consider fictional literature to have in the teaching of English. Results show that teachers consider fiction to be among the top methods to get pupils to learn English. Teachers and pupils both favour the use of fun and stimulating reading activities as well as group activities where learning is social to go along with the reading of fiction.

The present study deals with the importance of play for children's learning in preschool. The purpose is to investigate the importance of play for children's learning in preschool from a pedagogue?s perspective. The study is based on two issues: How does the pedagogue´s who were interviewed reason about the impact the play has on children's development? How does the pedagogue´s approach to make play a learning situation? The empirical data is based on semi-structured interviews with four preschool pedagogue´s.

Study aimed to see if the language has bearing on mathematics learning. The study used qualitative interviews of three first grade teachers and one special education teacher.The questions asked was:Do the teachers and specialist teacher, at the selected schools, think there is a connection between language difficulties and difficulties in mathematics and in case how is this connection.How does the teachers / specialist teacher make it easier for students to learn mathematics and swedish.The study was based on Vygotsky and Piaget teories. In previous research, it is primarily Malmer, Hoines, Lowing and Kilborn who´s been treated. Within the governing documents, it is mainly the compulsory school curriculum Lpo-94, and the curriculum for mathematics treated.I hope that the study has conclude that there is a connection between language and mathematics learning.I tried to emerged this through interviews with tree teachers and one special teatcher but i couldn´t. The teatchers couldn`t fint that it was the only reason to why the pupils hade difficulties in mathematics.But in the literature I found the relation between language- and mathematicdificulties..

The purpose of this study is to find out how four preschool teachers view children?s free playing and its impact on their learning. My main questions are:How do the teachers view the children?s free playing?In what ways does the children?s free playing affect their learning, according to the teachers?This essay is based on a qualitative study in which I have interviewed four female preschool teachers of different ages. I highlight various theories of children?s playing and learning in preschool, by theorists such as Vygotsky, Lillemyr, Knutsdotter Olofsson, Lindqvist, among others.

The present study deals with the importance of play for children's learning in preschool. The purpose is to investigate the importance of play for children's learning in preschool from a pedagogue?s perspective. The study is based on two issues: How does the pedagogue´s who were interviewed reason about the impact the play has on children's development? How does the pedagogue´s approach to make play a learning situation? The empirical data is based on semi-structured interviews with four preschool pedagogue´s.

Första intrycket av en skola får man när man går över skolgården. Jag vill i detta arbete visa på att skolgårdens utformning är viktig för barnen, leken och behovet av att röra på sig. Leken är viktig för banens utveckling, enligt Vygotsky. Jag har i arbetet velat få fram hur skolgården skall vara utformad för leken och även för undervisning. Jag har valt att intervjua två personer som har erfarenhet av att utveckla skolgårdar.

In this essay i present a study on political learning of a minority ethnicity whose political history in the institutional form began in 1993. The ethnicity in question is the Sami?s and in 1993 the Sami Parliament was established. The establishment of the Sami parliament radically changed the preconditions for political work. Sami politics came to be pursued in an organized manner in the form of a public authority and democratically elected units.

För att utveckla barns språk är det viktigt att förskolläraren har en nära kontakt med barnen och får dem att känna sig sedda och förstådda. Barn utvecklar sitt språk genom att vara tillsammans med engagerade vuxna och andra barn som lyssnar och samtalar med dem. Vi ville se om barns etniska bakgrund kan vara av betydelse för pedagogernas olika sätt att arbeta med språkutveckling genom att intervjua och observera pedagogerna. Vi lyfter speciellt Säljös tolkning av Vygotsky. Genom att barn känner meningsfullhet för de nya erfarenheterna blir kunskapen verklig och en del av dem själv.

In the preschool curriculum there is not much described when it comes to the subject of music. What is written about the aesthetic subjects is related to the overall learning moments, rather than separated into objectives for each subject. The learning includes, among other things, that the children will be offered a variety of cultural experiences. However, there is no explanation to what should be included in the use of music. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the function of preschool song circles, based on three preschool teachers' stories.

Vi utgår från teorier av Vygotsky och Lundberg. Dessa teorier handlar om språk och lek somär av betydelse för undersökningen. Vi tar upp olika perspektiv på språk och lekteorier sompassar barn i 6-årsålder. Detta kopplas till syftet som är: att undersöka hur lärare tänker ochförverkligar sin didaktik kring språkstimulering och lek.Fyra lärare från två förskoleklasser har ingått i undersökningen. Dessa lärare har vi intervjuatoch observerat i förskoleklasserna.

The purpose of this study is to highlight play and learning in the lower school ages in organized and non-organized break actives. The premise is that the break is a part of the schoolday and that the school has responsibility to live up to the goals and guidelines of the curriculum even in recess. Leisuretime-pedagogy and the professional competence the pedagogs possess about games and the social relations of children are also in focus in this study. The study is a qualitative study where the empirical material consists of observations in a schoolyard environment during one week and interviews with children. The material has then been interpreted and analyzed using Lev S.

The purpose of this thesis was to examine teachers? perception of communication in the Mathematics lesson. I wanted to find out how teachers look at communication as a didactic manner and how they view their role in encouraging communication and discussion during the Mathematics lesson and what communication can contribute to students? learning in Mathematics, according to their beliefs. I have chosen a qualitative approach; I have interviewed six Mathematics teachers working in three different schools.

The school inspectorate surveys illustrates problems and difficulties for teachers to suit individualized instruction. Therefore, the purpose of the study to investigate whether and in what ways some pedagogues experiences and practice offers the individualized instruction that the governing documents require. The study is based on a qualitative method in the form of semi-structured interviews and observations with four experienced pedagogues. I have been using Piaget's theory of the concrete material's importance for learning and also Vygotsky's theory of the proximal development zone. The results showed that pedagogues understand the importance of individualized instruction.

Syftet med undersökningen har varit att undersöka om eleverna i förskoleklassen och skolår tre har en medvetenhet kring samhället som kunskapskälla för läsutvecklingen. Detta då skolan och samhället är delar av en helhet, den gemensamma verkligheten. Genom intervju som metod har undersökningen genomförts med totalt sexton elever. Utifrån intervjuerna har det framkommit att eleverna i dessa skolår har en kännedom om samhället som kunskapskälla. Denna förståelse är dock mer utvecklad hos eleverna i skolår tre.

Studien har sin grund i mitt intresse för musik, rörelse och sång. Sångsamling är den situation då dessa olika element möts. Detta arbete skapades också utifrån min nyfikenhet för att veta hur pedagoger uttrycker att de arbetar med sångsamlingar, vad de ser för positiva och negativa egenskaper samt hur pedagogerna anser att barnen påverkas. För att få reda på detta valde jag att åka ut till förskolor och intervjua pedagoger om hur de ser på deras sångsamlingar. Sedan mejlade jag ett par förskoleklasser intervjufrågorna och fick svar på dessa via mejl.