As concepções de infância e criança, assim como o lugar social ofertado a elas, vem sendo modificadas ao longo dos anos. Entre o momento em que a infância nem era nomeada ao momento em que se torna objeto de políticas específicas, este estudo busca estabelecer um diálogo e ampliar o debate a respeito da participação e escuta das crianças em contextos educativos, procurando problematizar o que é possível esperar da participação das crianças nestes contextos. Dessa forma, recupera e analisa relatos de experiências em dois projetos educativos diversos, um na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil, em uma instituição embasada na educação democrática, e outro na cidade italiana de Reggio Emilia, que tem como base conceitual a pedagogia da escuta. Observou-se que apesar de já existirem alguns contextos educativos que concebem as crianças como sujeitos competentes e capazes e buscam garantir sua participação e escuta, a existência destes contextos ainda é vista como um desafio, tanto prático como teórico. / The conceptions of childhood and child, as well as the social place offered to them, have been modified over the years. Between the time when childhood was not named until the moment when it becomes the object of specific policies, this study seeks to establish a dialogue and broaden the debate about participation and listening to children in educational contexts, trying to problematize what can be expected by children\'s participation in these contexts. In this way, it retrieves and analyzes reports of experiences in two different educational projects, one in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, at an institution based on democratic education, and another in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, whose conceptual basis is listening pedagogy. It was observed that although there are already some educational contexts that conceive children as competent and capable subjects and seek to guarantee their participation and listening, the existence of these contexts is still seen as a challenge, both practical and theoretical.

Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka hur socialsekreterare beaktar barnperspektivet i umgängesärenden och vad som är avgörande när socialsekreteraren skall bedöma barnets åsikt. Barnperspektivet inriktades på barns delaktighet. Utgångspunkten för studien var fyra teorier, barndomssociologi, Harts delaktighetsstege, makt och ålderskategorisering samt blivande och varande. Studien genomfördes genom att använda en kvalitativ metod där fyra yrkesverksamma socialsekreterare inom familjerätt intervjuades. Resultatet visade att socialsekreterarna som deltog beaktade ett barnperspektiv på så sätt att de arbetar för och reflekterar aktivt kring att barn ska göras delaktiga i umgängesärenden. De ansåg även att det är viktigt att barnen får möjligheten till delaktighet. Det framkom även att det finns många faktorer som socialsekreterarna anser påverkar barns möjlighet till delaktighet i dessa ärenden och att det är ett komplext ämne. De faktorer som framkommer av resultatet var ålder, mognad, lojalitetskonflikter, föräldrarnas samtycke, relationen mellan socialsekreterare och barn samt riskområden. Slutligen framkom flera förslag på förbättring som kan göras för att barn ska bli ännu mer delaktiga än vad de är idag och att mycket av ansvaret ligger på de vuxna att detta händer. / The purpose of this study was to investigate how social workers consider the child´s perspective in contact orders and what is crucial when social workers was to assess children’s opinions. The child´s perspective focused on children's participation. The starting point for the study was based on four theories: childhood sociology, Hart's participation ladder, power and age categorization and being or becoming. The study was carried out using a qualitative method where four professional social workers in family law were interviewed. The results showed that the social workers who participated considered the child's perspective in that they work for and actively reflect on the involvement of children in contact orders. They believe that it is important that the children get the opportunity to participate. Social workers believe that there are many factors affecting children’s ability to participate in contact orders, therefore making the subject complex/a complex matter. The factors that emerged from the result were age, maturity, loyalty conflicts, parental consent, the relationship between social workers and children and risk areas. Finally, several suggestions for improvement were discovered that could be utilized to make children even more involved in contact orders than they are today, and that much of that responsibility should lie with the adults.

This essay is a discourse analysis of preschool teachers' speeches about children's influence in connection with planned teaching opportunities. We chose to focus on the form of teaching that educators call ”project work” because we see that teaching is largely conducted through this form. To investigate the overall theme, we have also chosen to focus on the influence of younger children in relation to teaching with a project work form. The purpose of this study is to examine how preschool teachers talk about the importance of the balance between teaching and children's influence at a younger age. This study is based on structured interviews with preschool teachers. We have chosen to use discourse analysis that also adheres to the French philosopher, Foucault's theory of power and control, which we believe the preschool teacher can have towards children in planned teaching sessions. The result shows that preschool teachers believe that children's influence is an important aspect of teaching. According to them, you can get children's influence in project work by planning project work based on children's interest, but that it is a challenge as not all children share the same interest. It was also found in the study that the younger children cannot have the same influence because they lack the verbal language and one must therefore be able to interpret their body language. It was also revealed in our study that stronger individuals often take over project work, which may also be due to, among other things, the verbal language. To get all the children to the teaching opportunities, the preschool teachers use the method of attracting to create an interest in the children in project work. Based on a discourse analysis, we have been able to see in this study the concepts and discursive structures that express and motivate how children's influence is limited. In other words, we see the motivations and ways of talking about the attraction and lack of verbal language of the youngest that the preschool teachers use, which in practice characterize how their exercise of power is expressed. Even in children's environment, we have been able to see that it is the preschool teachers who possess the power and decide which material should be present and when.

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As políticas da diversidade/diferença ocuparam um lugar de destaque na gestão do governo Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), influenciando as políticas educacionais desse período. Na educação especial, propriamente, o discurso do direito à diferença norteou uma série de documentos de orientação técnica da Seesp/MEC e serviu como subsídio para que os sistemas de ensino organizassem estratégias de consolidação do processo de inclusão escolar de alunos com deficiência, transtornos globais do desenvolvimento e altas habilidades/superdotação. Nesse período, um exemplo de ação de governo pautada pelo princípio do direito à diferença foi a implantação do PNBE/ESP 2008 pela Seesp/MEC, em que foram indicados livros de literatura infantojuvenil para compor as bibliotecas das escolas públicas de todo o país, considerando as especificidades da população a ser contemplada pelos serviços da educação especial, no que tange à acessibilidade da leitura em diversas modalidades, entre elas: Libras, Braille, caracteres ampliados, áudio e tinta. Nesse cenário, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar os discursos sobre as diferenças, presentes nos textos narrativos infantis dos livros sugeridos pelo PNBE/ESP 2008, especialmente naqueles em que se propõe abordar a temática da pessoa com deficiência, em tempos de ebulição das discussões acerca da inclusão escolar. Como parte deste estudo foram também consideradas as concepções de diferenças presentes nos documentos oficiais de educação especial no período de 2003 a 2010, na tentativa de discutir as interfaces entre o discurso oficial sobre as diferenças e as (im)possíveis formas de materialização desses discursos nas enunciações dos livros indicados pelo programa citado. O referencial de análise das diferenças foi balizado por autores da corrente dos chamados Estudos culturais, dentre eles Bhabha (2007) e Silva (2007). Foram apropriados, ainda, os conceitos de dialogismo e polifonia, na perspectiva de autores situados no Círculo de Bakhtin, como forma de estabelecer um olhar mais atento aos discursos dos livros analisados, considerando os efeitos de sentido provocados no leitor de literatura infantil. Os resultados nos levaram a concluir que as obras estudadas podem constituir-se numa espécie de lobo em pele de cordeiro, quando, em nome do forçoso apelo do respeito às diferenças, colaboram para o processo de mercantilização da própria diferença, escancarando as contradições da política educacional vigente. / The politics of diversity/difference occupied a prominent place in Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas government management (2003-2010), influencing educational policies of this period. In special education, specifically, the discourse of the right to difference has guided a series of technical guidance documents of SEESP/MEC and served as a subsidy for school systems to organize strategies to consolidate the process of school inclusion of students with disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders and high ability/gifted students. During this period, an example of government action guided by the principle of the difference was the implementation of PNBE/ESP 2008 by SEESP/MEC, wherein children\'s and youth literature books were appointed to be further acquired by the public school libraries across the country considering the specifics of the population to be covered by the special education services, in terms of accessibility of reading in various ways, including: LIBRAS (Brazilian Language of Signs), Braille, extended characters, audio and ink. In this scenario, the present study aimed to analyze the discourses on the differences present in children\'s narrative texts from the books suggested by PNBE/ESP 2008, especially those in which is approached the issue of disabled people in times of boiling discussions about school inclusion. As part of this study were also considered the views of these differences in the official documents of special education in the period of 2003 to 2010 in an attempt to discuss the interfaces between the official discourse on the differences and the (im)possible forms of materialization of these discourses in the program appointed book utterances. The so-called \"cultural studies\" school, including Bhabha (2007) and Silva (2007) supported the differences analysis. The concepts of dialogism and polyphony of Bakhtin Circle were applied in order to set a closer look at the discourses of the analyzed books, considering the meaning effects caused in the reader of children\'s literature. The results led us to conclude that the works can be studied in a kind of \"wolf in sheep\'s clothing\" when, compelled to appeal on behalf of the respect for differences, collaborate to the commodification of difference itself, exposing the contradictions of education policy in force.

As políticas da diversidade/diferença ocuparam um lugar de destaque na gestão do governo Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), influenciando as políticas educacionais desse período. Na educação especial, propriamente, o discurso do direito à diferença norteou uma série de documentos de orientação técnica da Seesp/MEC e serviu como subsídio para que os sistemas de ensino organizassem estratégias de consolidação do processo de inclusão escolar de alunos com deficiência, transtornos globais do desenvolvimento e altas habilidades/superdotação. Nesse período, um exemplo de ação de governo pautada pelo princípio do direito à diferença foi a implantação do PNBE/ESP 2008 pela Seesp/MEC, em que foram indicados livros de literatura infantojuvenil para compor as bibliotecas das escolas públicas de todo o país, considerando as especificidades da população a ser contemplada pelos serviços da educação especial, no que tange à acessibilidade da leitura em diversas modalidades, entre elas: Libras, Braille, caracteres ampliados, áudio e tinta. Nesse cenário, a presente pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar os discursos sobre as diferenças, presentes nos textos narrativos infantis dos livros sugeridos pelo PNBE/ESP 2008, especialmente naqueles em que se propõe abordar a temática da pessoa com deficiência, em tempos de ebulição das discussões acerca da inclusão escolar. Como parte deste estudo foram também consideradas as concepções de diferenças presentes nos documentos oficiais de educação especial no período de 2003 a 2010, na tentativa de discutir as interfaces entre o discurso oficial sobre as diferenças e as (im)possíveis formas de materialização desses discursos nas enunciações dos livros indicados pelo programa citado. O referencial de análise das diferenças foi balizado por autores da corrente dos chamados Estudos culturais, dentre eles Bhabha (2007) e Silva (2007). Foram apropriados, ainda, os conceitos de dialogismo e polifonia, na perspectiva de autores situados no Círculo de Bakhtin, como forma de estabelecer um olhar mais atento aos discursos dos livros analisados, considerando os efeitos de sentido provocados no leitor de literatura infantil. Os resultados nos levaram a concluir que as obras estudadas podem constituir-se numa espécie de lobo em pele de cordeiro, quando, em nome do forçoso apelo do respeito às diferenças, colaboram para o processo de mercantilização da própria diferença, escancarando as contradições da política educacional vigente. / The politics of diversity/difference occupied a prominent place in Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas government management (2003-2010), influencing educational policies of this period. In special education, specifically, the discourse of the right to difference has guided a series of technical guidance documents of SEESP/MEC and served as a subsidy for school systems to organize strategies to consolidate the process of school inclusion of students with disabilities, pervasive developmental disorders and high ability/gifted students. During this period, an example of government action guided by the principle of the difference was the implementation of PNBE/ESP 2008 by SEESP/MEC, wherein children\'s and youth literature books were appointed to be further acquired by the public school libraries across the country considering the specifics of the population to be covered by the special education services, in terms of accessibility of reading in various ways, including: LIBRAS (Brazilian Language of Signs), Braille, extended characters, audio and ink. In this scenario, the present study aimed to analyze the discourses on the differences present in children\'s narrative texts from the books suggested by PNBE/ESP 2008, especially those in which is approached the issue of disabled people in times of boiling discussions about school inclusion. As part of this study were also considered the views of these differences in the official documents of special education in the period of 2003 to 2010 in an attempt to discuss the interfaces between the official discourse on the differences and the (im)possible forms of materialization of these discourses in the program appointed book utterances. The so-called \"cultural studies\" school, including Bhabha (2007) and Silva (2007) supported the differences analysis. The concepts of dialogism and polyphony of Bakhtin Circle were applied in order to set a closer look at the discourses of the analyzed books, considering the meaning effects caused in the reader of children\'s literature. The results led us to conclude that the works can be studied in a kind of \"wolf in sheep\'s clothing\" when, compelled to appeal on behalf of the respect for differences, collaborate to the commodification of difference itself, exposing the contradictions of education policy in force.

Dagens samhällsplanering står inför utmaningen med att behöva göra avvägningar, det finns flera olika intressen, såsom ekonomin som kommuner väljer att prioritera i högre utsträckning. Således tenderar barnfrågor att prioriteras lägre. Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka och skapa förståelse för barns perspektiv i samhällsplanering. Studien undersöker hur barns perspektiv tas hänsyn till och hur det kan inkluderas på olika samhällsnivåer. Uppsatsen belyser varför barns åsikter är viktiga i planeringen ochhur barnen kan göras mer delaktiga. Vidare betonar vi att barn besitter viktig kunskap och erfarenheter som inte kan ersättas av vuxna, planerare. Henri Lefebvres rätten till staden teori (1996) används för att diskutera barns rätt till att ha inflytande i staden. Roger Harts delaktighetsstege (1992) fungerar som ett analysverktyg för att undersöka hur barnen görs delaktiga i respektive fallstudie. Kommunikativ planering används som ett förhållningssätt kring hur planerare ska tala och inkludera barnen i dialogprocesser. Studien har utgått från kvalitativ fallstudieforskning, där två fall studeras - den fördjupade översiktsplanen för Veberöd och IOP-projektet Guldängen. Fallstudierna har använts för attundersöka hur barns perspektiv implementeras utifrån top-down- och bottom-up tillvägagångssätt.I vår studie utmärker ett top-down tillvägagångssätt att det finns ett belutsfattade organ som styr och organiserar projekt eller planer. Ett bottom-up tillvägagångssätt präglas av information från medborgare, i detta fall barnen. I uppsatsen har vi intervjuat samtliga respondenter som har kunnat komplettera kunskapsluckor kring fenomenet. Studien visar på att planeringen styrs av ett starkt ekonomiskt intresse, vilket bidrar till att barnfrågor förminskas. Vi menar att politiken har ett ansvar att validera barnfrågor som ett viktigt intresse för att åstadkomma barnvänliga städer. Genom att se på samhällsplanering utifrån ett rätten till staden perspektiv kan det gynna barns inflytande. Det empiriska intervjumaterialet har varit givande för studien, eftersom det skapat en förståelse för hur dagens planeringen ser på barns perspektiv. Vi har kommit fram till att det behövs en kombination mellan top-down- och bottom-up tillvägagångssätt i planeringen. Därmed är det viktigt med ett gränsöverskridande samarbete på olika nivåer. Både internt inom kommunen och mellan lokala aktörer. En ytterligare slutsats är att planeringen bör ha en förändrad inställning till hur de implementerar barns perspektiv i samhällsplanering. Det finns metoder, men att barns perspektiv ofta inte tas vidare in i planeringen. / Today’s urban planning faces the challenge of having to make trade-offs, there are several different interests, such as the economy, which municipalities choose to prioritize to a greater extent. Thus, children’s issues tend to be given lower priority. The thesis aims to investigate and create an understanding of children’s perspectives in urban planning. The study examines how children’s perspectives are taken into account and how it can be included at different levels of society. The essay highlights why children’s opinions are important in planning and how children can be made more involved. Furthermore, we emphasize that children possess important knowledge and experiencesthat can not be replaced by adults, planners. Henri Lefebvre the right to the city theory (1996) is used to discuss children’s right to have influence in the city. Roger Hart’s participation ladder (1992) is used as an analysis tool to investigate how children are involved in each case study. Communicative planning is used as an approach to how to plan to speak and include the children in dialogue processes. The study has been based on qualitative case study research, where two case studies are studied - The detailed comprehensive plan of Veberöd and the IOP-project Guldängen. The case studies have been used to examine how children’s perspectives are implemented based on top-down and bottom-up approaches. In our study, a top-down approach characterizes that there is a committed body that manages and organi- zes projects or plans. A bottom-up approach is characterized by information from citizens, in this case the children. In the essay, we interviewed all respondents who were able to supplementknowledge gaps around the phenomenon. The study shows that planning is driven by a strong financial interest, which contributes to reducing child issues. We believe that politics has a responsibility to validate child issues as an important interest in achieving child-friendly cities. By looking at urban planning from a right to the city perspective, it can benefit children’s influence. The empirical interview material has been rewarding for the study, as it has created an understanding of how today’s planning views children’s perspectives. We have come to the conclusion that a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches is needed in the planning. Thus, it is important to have cross-border cooperationat different levels. Both internally within the municipality and between local actors. A further conclusion is that planning should have a changed attitude to how they implement children’s perspectives in urban planning. There are methods, but that children’s perspectives are often not taken further into the planning.

Barnkonventionen reglerar barns rättigheter och ansvaret för att den tillämpas i fysiskplanering faller på kommunerna. Rätten till lek kan planeras resurseffektivt genom rationellplanering men för att barns rätt att uttrycka sig i frågor som rör dem krävs kommunikativplanering. Det ställer krav på att kommuner själva aktivt samlar in åsikter genom oprövademetoder och icke traditionella sätt att arbeta. Synen på konst inom stadsplanering harbreddats och offentlig konst har en självklar plats i våra städer idag. Det finns en traditionellroll av en konstnär där denne bidrar med ett verk i slutet av en planprocess men allt oftarebidrar konstnärer utifrån en roll som konsult eller inspiratör i planprocessen, både vidmedborgardialog och gestaltning. Syftet med studien är att se över hur konstnärlig kompetens kan verka för barn deltagande iplaneringen av våra städer. Metoden utgörs av en fallstudie över Kristinebergs Slottspark därbarn varit närvarande genom historien och även planerades fortsatt verka för barn i framtiden.Studien tar hänsyn till hur planeringsprocessen, planeringsdiskurs och fysisk utformningutförts med barns deltagande i åtanke. Intervjuer med projektets konstnärlig ledare PäviErnkvist samt konstnär Elisabeth Westerlund har utförts för att se över konstnärens roll.Slutsatsen är att konstnärlig inblandning och kompetens kan verka bidragande för barnsdeltagande men det ställer krav på kommunikativ planering, medborgardialog och tydligmålsättning från planerarnas håll samt en kunskap och bredare syn på konstnärens roll. Allt fler barn växer upp inne i storstäder och synen på vad de kan bidra med har till viss delförändrats. Idag anses barn vid tillfällen vara experter på sin egen miljö och bidragande tillnya sätt att se på planeringen av våra offentliga miljöer. Deltagande är viktigt ur ettdemokratiskt perspektiv och värdefullt för människors livskvalitet. Synen på konstens värdeför stadsplanering har emellertid vunnit större acceptans genom ett mätbart ekonomiskt värdevilket omvandlar en del av varje byggbudget till konst. Konst främjar dialog och resulterardessutom ofta i fysiska verk i vår stad. Kan barn då vara med och skapa staden genom konst? / Communicative planning is considered to create participation for many social groups andcontribute to new perspectives on urban planning of public spaces as more levels ofknowledge are added. Through communicative planning, children's right to be consulted onmatters concerning them as stated in the Convention of Childrens Rights, can be taken in toaccount. But in order for children to be heard municipalities are required to actively collectchildren's views, and that in itself demands unproven methods and non-traditional ways ofworking. The view of art in urban planning has broadened. The traditional role of an artist iscontribution with a piece at the end of the planning process, but an artist's work can alsocontribute artistic competence or act as an inspiration. These roles, compared to thetraditional role, have not been fully accepted by officials and planners. The purpose of this study was to examine how artistic work can promote greater participationof children. An extensive literature study has been conducted based on scientific papers,legislation, reports from concerned authorities, reports, statistics, interviews and facts to get abroad understanding of children's participation and the role of art in the planning discourse,the planning process and the design of our public spaces. To interviews were held withartistic leader Pävi Ernkvist and artist Elisabeth Westerlund. The conclusions drawn were thatartistic involvement and expertise can enhance the communication with children, whichcreates a higher level of participation. Art can serve as a prototype for possible changes andwithin it the reflections may eventually create spaces based on the children's terms, whichcan give them a higher level of participation, primarily in smaller projects.

This project suggests that the exclusion of children from social discourse has been naturalized, and remains largely unchallenged in the West (Salisbury and Styles, 2012, p. 113). While some didactic picturebooks and pedagogies construct and perpetuate this exclusion, I will explore the potential of critical picturebooks and critical pedagogy to counter it. Critical picturebooks and critical pedagogy, I propose, can help to build and support the critical consciousness of readers, transforming their social relations. Specifically, this project is concerned with the exclusion of children from discourse on colonialism in Canada, and it highlights the need for critical consciousness in this area. I suggest that critical picturebooks can play a role in unsettling settler relations, or shifting Canada-Aboriginal relations towards more ethical ones. I therefore offer an anti-colonial pedagogy for picturebooks to facilitate these aims. This pedagogy is generated through putting theory on picturebooks, critical pedagogy, Indigenous methods, as well as local pedagogy in Alert Bay into an interdisciplinary conversation. I begin by asking ‘how can picturebooks function as transformative texts?’ Drawing on picturebook theory, I present five elements of critical picturebooks that make them conducive to transformative social discourse: 1) flexibility of the form (enabling complex, cross-genre narratives); 2) accessibility of composite texts (allowing for multiliteracies); 3) textual gaps in composite texts; 4) their dialogical nature (often being read and analyzed aloud); and, 5) their ability to address content silenced in many educational settings. I hold that “the plasticity of mind” which Margaret Mackey suggests is engendered by the picturebook’s flexible form (explicated by these five elements) also fosters a plasticity of mind in terms of the reader navigating social issues or complex problems presented in its content (as cited in Salisbury and Styles, 2012, p. 91). This dual plasticity positions the picturebook as a valuable and empowering discursive or dialogical tool. If, as Paulo Freire asserts, “it is in speaking their word that people, by naming the world, transform it, dialogue imposes itself as the way by which they achieve significance as human beings”, then it is crucial that children are included in social dialogue that has been typically reserved for adults (Freire, 2000, p. 69). I then discuss the ways in which my participatory action research (PAR) in the community of Alert Bay, British Columbia, illustrates the transformative potentials of picturebooks, and helped to form an anti-colonial pedagogy for picturebooks. Workshops with local children, young adults and adults examined the unique form and content of picturebook narratives. In following with Freire, the aim was not only to explore the pedagogical promise of existing texts, but also to co-develop tools with which participants generate their own self-representations. We focused on developing narratives on food, an important generative theme that connects many facets of life including experiences of colonialism. Through additional conversations and embodied learning activities, I was introduced to local anti-colonial pedagogical methods. I put these experiences into conversation with theories of critical pedagogy put forth by Freire, Ivan Illich, bell hooks and Henry Giroux and a discussion of Indigenous research and pedagogical methods offered by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Sandy Grande, Leanne Simpson, Lynn Gehl, and curricular resources. This research culminated in making Grease, a picturebook on the importance of oolichan oil to Alert Bay, told from a visitor’s perspective. In creating Grease, I have aimed to practically apply my proposed pedagogy, and make my work available to both Alert Bay and (in the future) to readers farther afield. This is an effort to address the dearth of anti-colonial literature and education available to children in Canada and elsewhere. The final chapter of my thesis serves as an annotative guide to be read alongside Grease. The pedagogy and picturebook combined present tenable ways in which picturebooks can engage children in critical discussions of colonialism and function as transformative texts.

This study aims to examine how preschool teachers believe that they are working on democracy and children’s rights at mealtimes in preschool. This study aims to find out if preschool teachers could see obstacle to implementing these meals in a democratic manner. Interviews with preschool teachers are used as method as preschool teachers can share their thoughts and ideas about how they work. The results of the study show that preschool teachers tend to focus on the children to be satisfied and have a quiet moment together instead of working with democracy and children’s rights at meals. Preschool teachers mention the available options and obstacles to create democratic meals. The large number of children at the dinner table was one of the obstacles they mentioned. / Sammanfattning Den här studiens syfte är att undersöka hur förskollärare anser att de arbetar med demokrati och barns rättigheter vid måltiderna på förskolan. I undersökningen tar jag även att ta reda på om förskollärarna kunde se några hinder för att kunna genomföra dessa måltider på ett demokratiskt sätt. Metoden som studien utgår från är intervjuer med förskollärare, för att de då får möjlighet att dela med sig av sina tankar och idéer kring hur de arbetar. Resultatet i studien visar att förskollärarna inte har fokus på att arbeta med demokrati och barns rättigheter vid måltiderna, fokus ligger istället på att barnen ska bli mätta och ha en lugn stund tillsammans. Förskollärarna tar även upp de möjligheter och hinder som de kan stöta på för att skapa demokratiska måltider. Det stora barnantalet vid matbordet var ett av de hinder som de såg.