Perspektiv på barn och barns inflytande
- Några pedagogers berättelser om sitt arbete med barn i en förskola i Indien
Children?s rightsImages of childrenInfluenceIndiaInterviewsParticipationPedagogue?s perspectivesPerspective on childrenPreschoolBarns rättigheterBarnsynBilder av barnFörskolaIndienInflytandeInterjuverPedagogers perspektiv
The aim with this study is to study how young children?s influence expresses itself in some educators? stories about their work with children. The study also looks at the relations between pedagogues? approaches to children and aims at identifying the educator?s perspectives of children. To get to know more about this I have interviewed five pedagogues who work with children in the ages of 3-6 years in different fields at a preschool area in India.The result shows that childrens? influence and participation for the educators involves children selecting activities. A consequence of this is that the teacher is the one who decides when and what kind of influence the child can practice. Furthermore the teachers express different views on the child which sometimes are contradictory but still coexist. A conclusion of the study is that the images of children that the pedagogues are expressing have to be looked upon in relation to the context of the activity. The context of the activity becomes therefore also central for how the children?s influence expresses itself.