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En kvalitativ studie om sex pedagogers tolkning av individanpassad undervisning
According to Swedish school policy documents, every teacher?s assignment is to individually adapt the education to meet every student?s needs. There are no exact guidelines about how to make these adaptations. The purpose of this study is to investigate how six teachers interpret the policy documents and how they, according to themselves, work to achieve this. This study is built on six interviews with teachers who work with children in the ages from seven to ten. The theoretical perspectives of this study are based on John Dewey?s thoughts regarding every human being having different needs and the importance of meeting those needs. The other perspective is Lev Vygotskij?s zone of proximal development which means that learning is done by being helped by someone who has greater knowledge.The conclusions of this study are that the teachers all think that it is important to adapt the education to every individual. Some of the teachers give their students the same assignments, but give them different amounts of time to finish them. Other teachers expect different results depending on the student?s prerequisites. All of the teachers find it difficult to adapt the education to every student since there are no guidelines about how to do it.