Denna studie är ett examensarbete i kursen självständigt arbete i förskollärarutbildningen. Problemområdet som studien utgår ifrån är problematiken som kan uppstå i arbetet för att skapa likvärdig utbildning för barn med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar (NPF). Studiens syfte var att bidra med kunskap om förskolepedagoger anser att de har tillräckligt med kunskap och personalresurser för att kunna skapa likvärdiga utbildning för dessa barn i förskolan. Studien utgick ifrån en kvantitativ forskningsmetod där enkätfrågor skickades ut via mejl till förskolepedagoger i Skåne och Småland. Resultatet visade att förskolepedagogerna inte ansåg sig ha tillräckligt med kunskaper för att kunna möta barn med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar, detta trots att majoriteten av respondenterna angav att de både hade erfarenhetsbaserad och teoretisk kunskap inom området. Mer än hälften angav även att de har fått kompetensutveckling om neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar. Resultatet visade även att förskolepedagogerna ansåg att det fanns brist på personal i förskolans verksamhet i arbetet barn med neuropsykiatriska funktionsnedsättningar. Styrdokument och andra riktlinjer, som till exempel värdegrunden, utgår från en relationell ansats, inte minst när det kommer till alla barn i förskolans rätt till en likvärdig utbildning. Då förskolepedagogernas kunskaper visade sig vara bristfälliga, samt att det inte fanns tillräckligt med personalresurser i förskolorna för att möta alla barn, innebär det att risken för att förskolepedagogerna tvingas inta ett mer kategoriskt förhållande till barn i behov av särskilt stöd ökar. / This study is a degree project in the course independent work in preschool teacher education. The problem area on which the study is based is the problems that may arise in the work to create equivalent education for children with neuropsychiatric disabilities (NPF). The purpose of the study was to contribute with knowledge about preschool educators believe that they have sufficient knowledge and staff resources to be able to create equivalent education for these children in preschool. The study was based on a quantitative research method where questionnaires were sent out via email to preschool educators in Skåne and Småland. The results showed that the preschool educators did not consider themselves to have sufficient knowledge to be able to meet children with neuropsychiatric disabilities, despite the fact that the majority of the respondents stated that they had both experience-based and theoretical knowledge in the field. More than half also stated that they have received competence development on neuropsychiatric disabilities. The results also showed that the preschool educators considered that there was a shortage of staff in the preschool's activities at work children with neuropsychiatric disabilities. Governing documents and other guidelines, such as the values, are based on a relational approach, not least when it comes to all children in preschool's right to an equal education. As the preschool teachers' knowledge proved to be deficient, and the fact that there were not enough staff resources in the preschools to meet all children, this means that the risk of the preschool teachers being forced to take a more categorical relationship with children in need of special support increases.

Children have the by law regulated right to an equal education and they also have the right to equivalence in their education. Furthermore, it is also important that their education should lead to equity. Equal, equivalence and equity are different words used in the same context. They stand for somewhat different meanings, but they are used as an important objective of the educational system. Equivalence is a word with a wide meaning and how you define the word might impact your educational practice of equivalence somewhat differently. Although the meaning of equivalence as a concept have differed during the past decades, it is an important part of the school policies in Sweden. This means that although the School law and the Curriculum regulating the Early Childhood Education and Care regards equivalence as an important part of our children’s education, the people implementing the concept might actualize equivalence differently. The purpose of our study is to explore how four principals' and four assistant principals' reasons about their implementation of the equivalent education in preschools from eight different catchment areas. We also wish to study if there are any significant variation in the implementation strategies between the two municipalities (equable in their population) regarding an equal education for the youngest children in the educational system. In our study we used qualitative interviews with prepared questions as a method for gathering our empiric material. After transcribing the interviews, we used specific keywords to search through the material as a preparation for a content analysis of the transcribed interviews. Our theoretical basis used in our results is selected models of implementation strategies, including the aspects that may influence the process of implementation. Our result points to both similarities and variations in our respondents reasoning. We also found that different strategies are used in separate stages of the implementation process. These different strategies also use variations in the distribution of accountability within the chain of implementation participants.