In this study we analyse children's play and what access rules children use when they enter an ongoing play. The study also shows, through observations, how children can exclude each other from being part of the play. We have analysed how educators work with and how they relate to children's play and exclusion, also what their previous experience in the subject is. The study has its theoretical basis in Honneths moral theory and the development of educational perspective that Pramling Samuelsson & Asplund Carlsson describes. The study adopted a qualitative approach. Our analysis is based on observations where children are not allowed to enter the ongoing play due to different factors. The play is seen as a central and important part of the children's every day activity at preschool and contains several furtherance dimensions in their development. The educators approach and thoughts are presented and analysed with the interview that has been done. The study results show that children master many access strategies, and use them frequently. Children's exclusions are often related to the ongoing play and its content where children protect their interaction space in the fear that their play will be ruined. In our interview responses, it appears that educators have the tools to promote and work with children's relationship creation, but that it is complex and often contextual. It appears that the work on the friendship culture at preschool contains many challenges and that it is something that has to be constantly worked with.

Syftet med min studie var att synliggöra hur pedagogerna formar en god läromiljö i stora barngrupper. Jag ville få en klarhet i hur pedagogerna förhåller sig till, och upplever arbetet med att tillgodose barns utveckling och lärande. Jag genomförde fem kvalitativa intervjuer med förskollärare i en liten kommun, där jag riktade mig mot förskolor som hade en barngrupp med mer än 15 barn. Resultatet av min studie visade att informanternas svårigheter var att hinna med arbetet både mot läroplansmålen men också att hinna tillgodose varje barns behov i stora barngrupper och att barn påverkas olika; behoven skiljer sig från barn till barn. Informanternas arbetssätt utgår från barngruppens sammansättning, och barns olika behov. Samtliga informanter som var med i studien var eniga om att barngrupperna är för stora idag. Deras önskan var att ha max 15 barn i gruppen. För att på ett bra sett tillgodose alla barns behov och att barnen skall bli sedda, var informanternas strategi att dela in barnen i små grupper när möjligheten fanns. Samtliga informanter tryckte på att tryggheten var viktig att jobba med i deras verksamhet. Svårigheten var att hinna se alla barnen, då fokus hamnade på själva gruppen och att få ihop dagen med alla vardagliga rutiner som skall göras. / The aim of my study was to find out how pedagogical views affect their work in large children groups. Furthermore, I wanted to know how the pedagogues organize a good learning environment to provide for children´s development and learning. I conducted five qualitative interviews with preschool teachers in a small municipality, where I aimed for preschools that had a children group with more than 15 children. The results of my study showed that the difficulties of informants were to work with both the learning objectives, and also to meet the needs of every child in large children's groups and that children are affected differently; the needs differ from child to child. The informants' approaches are based on the composition of the children's group, and the different needs of children. All informants who participated in the study agreed that the children's groups are too big today. Their wish was to have a maximum of 15 children in the group. In order to properly accommodate the needs of all children and the children to be seen, the informants' strategy was to divide the children into small groups when the opportunity was available. All informants stressed that safety was important to work in their business. The difficulty was to see every child, as the focus was on the group itself and getting the day together with all the everyday routines needing to be done.