Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight three preschool teachers and three child nurses’ views on the educational work tool pedagogical documentation and Reggio Emilia educational philosophy, often associated with pedagogical documentation. Preschool teachers and child nurses’ are all employees under the same pre-school director, and works on three preschools located in the same area. The purpose of the selection of respondents is based on highlighting how far the staff describes the concept of educational documentation, and pedagogy of Reggio Emilia, and how far their statements are consistent with each other or not. Questions: The thesis is based on three questions; How does preschool teachers and child nurses’ describe pedagogical documentation? How does preschool teachers and child nurses’ describe the Reggio Emilia pedagogical philosophy? If there are differences between the preschool teachers and child nurses’, what could these mean for the pedagogical documentation in preschool? Method: The study is based on empirical data collected through qualitative interviews. The empirical material is based on six qualitative interviews with three preschool teachers and three child nurses’, who are in an organization which is inspired by Reggio Emilia. Main theoretical approach: The essay consists of three main theories, Piaget, Dewey and Vygotsky. The theories are the basis of the analysis, together with previous research and the six qualitative interviews that are conducted in the context of the essay. Result: The study's results and answers to the questions are presented in the final discussion. Our results demonstrate the difference between preschool teachers and child nurses' perception of what pedagogical documentation means for business, children and staff, and the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy.

The aim of the study is to investigate how “listening” takes placein apreschool in Reggio Emilia, a city in northern Italy. This is a phenomenological study that investigates “listening” as a phenomenon based on children ́sand pedagogues ́ experiences. Three pedagogues and eleven children was interviewed in order to get knowledge about three main aspects: how “listening” is interpreted by pedagogues and children and put in practice in a Reggio Emilia pedagogy-also known as “the pedagogy of listening”; if children experience that they are being listened to and whether they have an influence in the preschool ́s activities; and whether the Reggio Emilia pedagogy affects the relationship between pedagogues and children. The findings show that “listening” is a complex concept that includes a variety of meanings that result in many different interpretations on how to put it in to practice. As described in other studies there is a risk of making children objects of adult research, thus affecting a genuine relationship between pedagogues and children. In these studies, the Reggio Emilia pedagogy is described as a method with fixed and rigid techniques of listening. According to the results in this study this seems to be avoidable by considering the Reggio Emilia pedagogy as an approach that is adaptable to different children groups, as well asactively involving children in their own documentation process. The results also demonstrate that children donot feel that they area part of the decision making when it comes to the preschool ́s activities. This is due to the fact that children’s interests are subject to interpretation by the pedagogues, who then often redirect them towards more desirable contents according to their own intentions. Also, the preschool environment is seen as a “third pedagogue” as it communicates to the children which activities and interactions are considered possible in a certain space.

Children’s literature is written by adults, who have assumed a child’s perspective to understand their world. In other words, adults have a great impact with their subjective views and perspectives about what childhood is, in their presentation of literature. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to identify what children’s literature mediates and how the concept of the competent child presents itself within relevant books. This term is well sought after in the Swedish preschool curriculum and heavily discussed between preschool teachers. With this thesis, our goal has been to examine the Swedish curriculum referencing the competent child, utilizing current children’s literature from preschools. With the help of the Reggio Emilia pedagogy we have acquired results that indicate factors such as age and the physical size of a child, amongst others, provide a negative obstacle that hinders a child to appear sufficiently competent from the perspective of adults. Therefore, we deem it important to analyze children’s literature and determine if it portrays a modern childhood and an accurate concept of the competent child, or if it fails to do so.

Tidigare forskning indikerar att förskolans undervisning i naturvetenskap ofta beskrivs som utmanande, samt att kvaliteten påverkas av de olika förskole pedagogernas intresse och kunskap. Detta är något som den här studien avser att utmana. Inom Reggio Emilia pedagogiken är projekterande arbetssättet och idén om barns 100 språkighet centrala i all undervisning, men frågan jag därför ställt mig är vad detta kan innebära i praktiken. Denna studie syftar därför till att ge ett exempel på hur ett projekterande arbetssätt i förskolan kan bidra tillbiologiundervisningen. Projektet som studerats handlar om farliga vattenlevande djur. Fem förskole pedagoger intervjuades om sitt pågående projekt. I studien har jag valt ett teoretiskt ramverk baserat dels på Reggio Emilia-pedagogik dels en modell som möjliggör analys av didaktiska intentioner.Resultatet pekar på att det projekterande arbetssättet möjliggör undervisning som fördjupar barnens kunskaper i biologi oberoende av pedagogernas förkunskaper. En nyckelaspekt i undervisning i naturvetenskap är begreppsliggörande och hur fakta verifieras, vilket resultatet pekar på att denna metod möjliggör. Resultat visar vidare att barnen ges möjlighet att utveckla, bekräfta och kommunicera det de lär sig genom att använda en mängd olika uttryckssätt. / Previous research indicates that preschool teaching in science often is described as challenging, and that the quality is affected by the preschool pedagogues’ interest and knowledge about the subject. This is something this study can challenge. Within Reggio Emilia pedagogy, projecting methods and the idea of children’s 100 languages are central in all teaching, but a question therefore put forward is what this means in practice. This study therefore aims to provide an example on a projecting working method in preschool that focus on biology as a subject, more precisely about dangerous water living animals.Five preschool pedagogues were interviewed about their ongoing project. In the study I have a theoretical framework based on Reggio Emilia pedagogy and a model that enable an analysis of didactic intentions.The result implies that the use of projecting working method opens for teaching that deepen the children’s knowledge in biology independently the pedagogues own prior knowledge. A key aspect in science education is to conceptualizeand verify facts, which this working method enable. The result further show that the children are given the opportunity to elaborate, confirm and communicate what they learn with a multitude of ways to express themselves