The purpose with this essay is to get a deeper insight into why there is a lack of male Educators in Swedish preschools. I also want to know which role the male Educators have in comparison to the female Educators. This essay builds on four questions, which covers:The cause of the lack of males in Swedish preschoolsIf there are any gender bound expectations on male Educators in the Swedish preschoolsWhat the woman Educators perceive about the roles of the male Educators in the Swedish preschoolsHow the male educator experience his own work in a workplace dominated by womenThe method I have used is a qualitative interview study in which I have interviewed four male Educators and two woman Educators from three different preschools. The result of this study shows that male Educators gave different reasons to why there is a lack of male Educators in Swedish childcare. According to the male Educators the reason for this situation is that there is a worry to be seen as a feminine person, get singled out as a pedophile and that the childcare sector has low status.

The aim of this study is to increase the knowledge regarding the selection process of picture books by pre-school Educators. My intention is to find out which criteria Educators use to select the books. I have restricted the study to pre-school Educators, because I wish to find out how they work with the selection process and which criteria and considerations are included. I also want to know if the children have influence in the book selection and how the books get to the pre-school.The study is based on qualitative interviews with Educators at a pre-schools in my area as well as relevant publications. The questions the Educators were given were semi-structured.

The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge and clarify how active Educators regard ICT- tools as aids, both the Educators currently using the ICT- tools to improve writing skills and Educators who have not yet embraced it. The study is based on four interviews with Educators working within the age groups grade 1- 3. The findings of this study show a strong commitment among all Educators, in terms of students' writing skills and their different approaches to working with writing skills, which is important as one method should not preclude another. In the findings a considerable curiosity can be seen for ICT- tools for writing instruction by the Educators who have not embraced it. The interest and commitment of the Educators who have embraced ICT- tools in their teaching is great..

The purpose of this study was to find out what the Educators view on the working method Matte på burk in preschool looked like. I also wanted to find out what the Educators thought about the working method. My questions are:How does the Educators in preschool experience the method Matte på burk?What do the Educators in preschool believe that Matte på burk can give the children?The study was carried out through a qualitative interview study with six Educators. During the interviews with the Educators it became apparent that the method not only focused on mathematical exercises.

The purpose of my study was to explore how preschool Educators in Kenya look at children's influence on teaching. Researchers have argued that the formal educational system in Kenya today is a remnant of its days as a colony when people were expected to blindly follow rules without questioning them. I have used qualitative interviews as a method in order get the most concrete understanding of Educators? views on the influence from children. The Educators I interviewed were based at a school I visited in Kenya.

Preschool is a place that is continually undergoing change at a rapid pace and developing the skills of our Educators is essential for their ability to keep up with these changes. Guidance conversations can be used as a vital tool for the Educators competence development.The purpose of this essay is to investigate how Educators, special Educators and preschool principals think and reason about the use of guidance conversations in preschool.A qualitative method has been used in the shape of interviews with Educators, special Educators and preschool principals working within different districts of a medium sized city in the south of Sweden.These interviews revealed that the use of guidance conversations is often controlled by specific needs and is used when a problem arises amongst the children. There are many expectations on the special Educators role in these conversations, one of which is the role of conversation leader with the purpose of guiding the conversation amongst involved parties and give them the tools they need to resolve problems by themselves instead of delivering packaged solutions..

The purpose of my study was to explore how preschool Educators in Kenya look at children's influence on teaching. Researchers have argued that the formal educational system in Kenya today is a remnant of its days as a colony when people were expected to blindly follow rules without questioning them. I have used qualitative interviews as a method in order get the most concrete understanding of Educators? views on the influence from children. The Educators I interviewed were based at a school I visited in Kenya.

How do special Educators work to include children with special needs in preschool? That was the question that our thesis proceeded from, and the purpose was to get an insight in the methods used by the special Educators to achieve inclusion. Our questions were: ? Is Swedish preschool a place for inclusion? ? How are special Educators work organized and focused? ? Which experiences do special Educators have working with children with special needs in preschool, and what role do they mean that inclusion plays in this work? Our procedure in this enquiry was to perform semi-structured interviews with 5 different special Educators in two different cities. Interpretation and analyis proceeded from three different theories: Urie Bronfenbrenner?s ecological systems theory, John Bowlby?s theory of attachment and Karsten Hundeide?s sociocultural theory. The result showed support for the idea of the Swedish preeschool as a place with many opportunities for inclusion. We have also seen how both money and political decisions has an impact on which possibilities the preschools receive to work with inclusion. In addition it became apparent that the methods used by special Educators differed depending on both cities and districts.

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.

The aim of my thesis was to examine if Educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how picture books depict gender and if the books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think picture books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what Educators think about gender equality through picture books. The study is based on analysis of five picture books and interview with five Educators.The results of analyzes showed that picture books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.

This work is about leisure Educators' views on educational quality in large groups of children. School centers will contribute to children's development and learning through meaningful leisure and leisure Educators' contribution with a high educational quality. There are a lot of discussions and writings about growing groups of children. How are the leisure education and its quality affected by increasing children's groups? It sparked my interest and therefore I wanted to examine this more closely how it might look in the leisure activities.The aim of this work was to examine leisure Educators' perspective on how the educational quality is affected by large groups of children and what is considered of leisure Educators' as a high educational quality.To answer my purpose five interviews was made with leisure Educators' in different parts of Sweden and also by studying the theoretical foundations and literature for school centers and leisure education.The results of the interviews reveal, among other things, that leisure Educators' feel that the large groups of children affects the quality of teaching at many levels.

The subject of this study is gender norms in the preschool and children who oppose those norms. The aim is to investigate how the discourses are linked with the way in which preschool teachers and teaching assistants talk about children?s gender identity. This study is founded in feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, which was a basis for the interpretation of the results. My research questions are:? How do Educators express themselves concerning gender norms?? What do Educators need to work with a gender critical agenda?? How do the Educators describe their work concerning gender, gender norms and children who oppose those norms?? For Educators who have experience with children who do not identify with the gender they was given at birth, how do Educators describe their own treatment of said children, and how would they describe the treatment from the other members of the teaching team?The study consists of qualitative interviews with five Educators who were asked questions relevant to: norms, gender, gender criticism and how they work with those topics.I found both positive and negative aspects of gender work in preschool.

AbstractThe purpose of my essay is to describe how some Educators perceive the cooperation that takes place every day in the team to wich they belong. To do this, I have implemented six qualitative interviews with Educators at two diffrent workteams. I based my questions on three scientific questions:- How does the cooperation in the team work?- How has the cooperation between the various kind of Educators developedsince the pre-school class and the leisure-time centres was integrated with the school?- Which conditions exist for a good cooperation?The result showed that there were both similarities and differences between the teams, but common to both teams was that the Educators felt that there have been some major positive changes to the cooperation in the teams in the last few years and that they were fairly satisfied with how the cooperation of their teams function now. Mostly they cooperates during school hours with various school projects, but questions concerning the pupils wellbeing is also an important area of cooperation.Since the integration was implemented, the cooperation has become more equal and the various Educators have found their respective roles.

 This essay is about how the Educators can use the play as a tool to develop childrens social skills with eachother. The work is based on a qualitative study using a survey, where the Educators can tell how they work within the play. I chose to use five different participants in my essay. All of them work in the same preschool, south of Stockholm.In this essay I have two questions. These two are:What do the Educators tell about the importance of play for children's interaction?How do the Educators tell how they work with the play to develop the children?s social interaction?Previous research shows that play gives the children opportunity to develop socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically.

The aim of my thesis was to examine if Educators need to be critical of what they read to the children from a gender perspective. I examined how picture books depict gender and if the books enhances or breaks perception of gender roles. I also examined educator?s perception of gender and if they think picture books can affect children?s perceptions of gender, but also what Educators think about gender equality through picture books. The study is based on analysis of five picture books and interview with five Educators.The results of analyzes showed that picture books are stereotyped and enhances perceptions of gender roles.