Denna essä undersöker hur skillnader mellan pedagogers och föräldrars uppfattning av förskolans verksamhet kan påverka synen på vad som är en intressant och meningsfull vardag för barnen, samt hur barns kompetens och deras rätt till medbestämmande tas till vara. Essän utgår från två verkliga och egenupplevda berättelser som ligger som grund för vårt reflekterande och vidare lärprocess. Syftet med essän har inte varit att hitta ett rätt sätt utan snarare om att synliggöra hur vi, genom gemensam reflektion, undersökt olika perspektiv och hur dessa kan mötas och samverka. Vi reflekterar över hur de olika roller vi intar, medvetet eller omedvetet, i vår yrkespraktik påverkar vårt handlande i olika situationer. Vi reflekterar även över på vilket sätt vi använder oss av vår praktiska kunskap. Syftet är att undersöka vad vi, som två blivande förskollärare, genom skrivandets gång kommit att anse är viktigt att fokus ligger på i förskolans verksamhet kring demokrati och medbestämmande och varför vi anser det. Genom att undersöka våra ställningstaganden samt reflektera över hur vi skulle kunna handlat annorlunda går det att finna nya, och eventuellt mer, konstruktiva sätt att samarbeta, kvalitetssäkra och utveckla verksamheten i förskolan. / This essay explores how differences in opinion between preschools pedagogues and parents regarding a preschool’s activities can affect what is seen as an interesting and meaningful everyday experience for the children or how the children's skills and their right to participate in the decision making process can be of use. The essay is based on two real and self-experienced stories that form the basis of our reflections and following learning process. The essays purpose has not been to find one correct approach but rather to, through reflections, highlight different perspectives and how they can meet and interact. We reflect on how the different roles we assume, consciously or unconsciously, in our professional practices can affect our actions in different situations. We also reflect on how we use our practical knowledge. The aim of the essay is to examine what we, as two future preschool teachers, through writhing this text has come to believe to be important to focus on in preschools when it comes to democracy and participation, and why we believe that. By examining our own positions in the question at hand and by reflecting on how we could have done things differently, it is possible to find new, and possibly more, constructive ways to collaborate, assure quality and develop the daily running of preschools.

Essän handlar om samlingen i förskolan där jag har utgått från ett dilemma där ett barn blir utskickad från samlingen för att hen inte kan sitta still och behålla fokus. Då jag betraktar denna situation utifrån börjar jag reflektera kring om det är rätt av oss pedagoger att utesluta barn från samlingen. Jag börjar ifrågasätta om samlingen är meningsfull för alla barn och varför vi har samling. Jag blir nyfiken på hur synen på samlingen utvecklat sig i den svenska förskolan från 1830-talet och fram till nu och om barn ska delta mot sin vilja? Mitt syfte med min essä är att ta reda på om jag anser att samlingen är viktig. Samlingen som rutin i vår verksamhet diskuteras och jag vill granska dess betydelse och vilken roll pedagogen har i samlingen. Är det viktigt att alla barn deltar? Jag reflekterar kring om vi kan plocka ut samlingens innehåll och implementera det i andra aktiviteter under dagen. Analysen har tre delar. Samlingens historia, pedagogens roll utifrån Foucaults maktteoretiska tankar och pedagogens praktiska kunskap. Jag lyfter genom mitt arbete upp ett obekvämt ämne då jag skriver om pedagogens makt över barnen. Detta är dock ett ämne som behöver lyftas. I mitt arbete använder jag skrivandet som metod för att reflektera och en hermeneutisk tolkning av min personliga berättelse för att kunna reflektera över förskollärarens roll. Det jag har kommit fram till genom mitt arbete är att pedagogen har makt över barnen men att även rutinerna har makt över verksamheten. Pedagogernas makt över barnen kan vara mer eller mindre medveten. Jag kan också se att pedagogens praktiska klokhet har betydelse för hur samlingens utfall blir.

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. We also have different perceptions of the norms and values enshrined in our childhood. What we're from, our various social, cultural and an ethnic background also plays a role in the understanding and the interpretations we make in various situations. I discuss the teacher as a profession and the importance of education, that it is not enough only with experience, it needs to be supplemented with educational and theoretical knowledge to assess, identify, weigh and deliberate well to act as needed in the present moment. Teacher is about to be. Being a good teacher in practice, have practical knowledge. I also discuss the importance of self-reflection. Without the mirror it is only a mirror image without a reflective approach. The good teacher, the more I think, the more I realize that there is no simple answer.

I vår vetenskapliga essä har vi valt att skriva om planeringstiden på förskolan. Anledningen till att vi har undersökt skillnaderna kring disponerandet av planeringstiden är den att vi sett sådana skillnader trots att vi arbetar i samma kommun. Att skriva i par har gett oss möjlighet att på ett mer objektivt sätt belysa våra frågeställningar genom både dialog och reflektion. Med våra enskilda berättelser som utgångspunkt har vi reflekterat över begrepp och teorier som berör hur planeringstiden används i praktiken. Vi har reflekterat över hur vi som blivande förskollärare ska räcka till för barngruppen samt kunna leva upp till läroplanens strävansmål, med den pedagogiska dokumentationen och reflektionen som det innebär. Begrepp som vi fördjupar oss i är praktiskt kunskap, systemteori, kommunikation och samarbete i arbetslagen. / In our scientific essay, we have chosen to write about the disposition of planning time at preschool. The reason we have investigated the differences regarding disposition of the planning time is that we have seen such differences, even though we work in the same municipality. Writing together in pair has given us the ability to provide a more objective or at least multi-perspectival way to highlight our issues through both dialogue and reflection. With our individual stories as a starting point, we have reflected on different concepts and theories that affect how planning time is used in practice. We have reflected on how we as prospective pre-school teachers should be sufficient for the children's group and be able to live up to the curriculum strut goals, with the pedagogical documentation and reflection that it brings. Concepts that we immerse ourselves in is practical knowledge, systems theory, communication and collaboration in teams.

The present study belongs in the tradition of working-life research. In this tradition, the point of departure lies in working people’s experience in their occupation. Through reflection on this experience and studies in the occupational field the researcher seeks to elucidate and develop occupational knowledge and skills. As a teacher I have long been preoccupied with how teachers may develop their occupational skills. Teachers wish to promote others’ learning, but how do they themselves learn to be good teachers? In the present work I wish to elucidate how teachers can develop their occupational skills through discourse. Equally, I wish to gain a better understanding of my own professional experience as a teacher and supervisor. These two goals are interconnected. I hope to develop an insight that not only shows my dilemma in a supervision situation but also illustrates the teacher’s challenge when he or she is to develop professional skill as a supervisor. On the one hand the supervisor needs to listen with an open mind to the person being supervised; but on the other, given knowledge places so many constraints upon listening that openness becomes impossible. Can the teacher experience his or her situation in such a way that this dilemma may be avoided? To deepen and modify my answer to this question I carried out fieldwork in my own occupational field. I have studied such teachers’ accounts of their meetings with children as have emerged from two discourse situations: child conferences and group supervisions. The teachers’ discourse shows that the issue is to understand what one has experienced – understanding is the starting point for the development of occupational skill. An attitude of open listening, to oneself and in interaction with others, is a precondition for occupational skills to grow. In other words, a space for reflection is needed if understanding is to be achieved through the medium of discourse.

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This essay is about the meeting of the pedagogic mission and the reality of the conditions in preschools. It is about the frustrations that I, as a pedagogue, experience when I cannot fulfill this mission. An example of this is working when understaffed. My purpose is the acknowledgment of two main areas of the curriculum: caring and learning. This essay demonstrates the diversity of the occupation and it ’s constant need of positioning. It also emphasizes the different “cross-pressures" that exists within this profession. The starting point of the essay is taken from the publication Tillsammans är vi starkare (Together we are stronger) from Pysslingen. Several situations or examples are used together to create a scenario. This investigation raises the question whether it is possible to have an uncompromised focus on what is best for children and at the same being exposed to different “cross-pressures”. Is it reasonable to claim that the culture of the preschool should be educational, safe and pleasurable for all children, every day? Finally what responsibilities do I as a pedagogue and preschool’s principal have to make it so? My method, during this writing process, has been to use reflections. I have allowed my own thoughts, meet the thoughts of others as well as theoretical perspectives. I have been inspired by Ylva Ellneby and Christina Wallskog amongst others about their thoughts and ideas about the work in preschool. Theoretical references have been made within the areas of ethics, leadership and group dynamics. Because of the nature of this profession, that conditions change rapidly, it is difficult to find a solution to what works in every situation. However I have learnt that my practical knowledge and experience is important in combination with clear leadership.

The recent rapid increase in the number of Korean children who return to Korea after time spent abroad studying English raises concerns about their follow-up education and their readjustment into the Korean education system. The number of returnee children also raises concerns about how Korean teachers teach these children. This study was grounded in my realization that my experiential knowledge of learning English influenced my teaching of returnee children. Through this study, I came to understand the ways teachers’ personal practical knowledge of English is shaped through many different experiences in many different contexts in which they are, and were, situated. Teachers’ personal practical knowledge is expressed in their classroom practices. Knowledge and context are linked by the narrative concept of stories to live by (Connelly & Clandinin, 1999). The research was a narrative inquiry into three Korean teachers’ personal practical knowledge as it was expressed in their teaching practices, as it shaped their stories to live by and as it was shifted on their professional knowledge landscapes when they taught returnee children. As a result of the study, four key considerations emerged. One, each teacher’s personal practical knowledge as expressed in teaching returnee children was shaped by his experiences of learning English. Two, shifting teachers’ ‘stories to live by’ depended on their professional knowledge landscapes. Three, teachers held different understandings about curriculum making. Four, teachers held different views about returnees’ readjustment into the Korean schools. Drawing upon a concept of ‘curriculum of lives’ (Clandinin & Connelly, 1992), the key considerations from the study give important implications about in-service teacher education in terms of curriculum making for returnee children. The study suggests the importance of providing in-service teachers with an opportunity to think about a narrative perspective about curriculum making in order to suggest new possibilities for teachers, returnee children, and their parents.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze teachers approach to multilingual children's behavior in certain situations. I will also explore the educator’s attitude and approach toward the situation where children who are excluded by other peers, because of the peers use of divergent language. I choose qualitative interview as method, interviewing seven teachers working at pre-schools, with chosen choice I expect to gain insight into the teacher's reasoning behind their approach and strategy towards situations where children use other language than Swedish. The results shed light on several interesting factors that determined how the educator responded to the forth mentioned situation. The general perception at pre-schools is that multilingual children should be given space to use their native tongue, as this flourishes their language developments. We can also find basis for this when reading the official pre-school steering documents, the Swedish curriculum, Läroplanen. What this document lack though is presenting solutions how the educators can work constructively with the children. It's rather encouraged for each school to discuss their own methods and approaches as a team. My conclusion is that there is no blue print to follow for solving these situations, the educator's conduct and strategy is based on individual experience and situational. But a common thread that emerged in my research is that all educators expressed the importance to acknowledge all children and involve them in the activities regardless of language, it is the teacher’s duty to support and to be present as the children will need pedagogical support in this matter. Not to forget though, that teachers are frequently faced with situations where they have to decide whose rights to prioritize; the single child who ends up alone outside the peers group and lose his/her entitlement based on the norm "everyone should be involved" or the playing children who is doing nothing but employing their rights to speak in their mother language?

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