The purpose of this study was to examine how five preschool managers are looking at theirleadership and what difficulties they see in their leading. To live up to my purpose I askedthe following research questions: Which parts in their mission do the five preschoolmanagers see as problematic in relation to the curriculum for preschool and the schoolsinspectorate quality investigation? How do the preschool managers describe their leader styleand leader ideals, and is their any difference between the two of them? The method of this study was qualitative interviews with five preschool managers. Theresults that I found was that the most of the preschool managers see their leadership as coproduced(like in Ludvigssons research 2009) with the teachers and that the preschoolmanagers often find other difficulties in their mission compare to the quality investigation(School inspectorate 2012). I also found that three of the five preschool managers thoughtthat they weren’t present enough in the preschools because of their many tasks. When I tried to classify the preschool managers leader style I found that they vary betweendemocratic and authoritarian leader style in decision-making like in Tennenbaum andSchmidt’s (1973, p. 4) model Continuum of Leader Behavior. My conclusion from that isthat in their complex mission the preschool managers needs to vary their leader style. Theleader style and ideal the most preschool managers seemed to describe were a democraticleader that listen to the preschool teachers and involve them in the decision making, which isa leadership style that Kurt Lewin and his colleague Ronald Lippitt (1938, see Maltén 2000,p. 63) found in their research.

Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur förskolechefer upplever att de ger förskoleverksamheten möjlighet till kollegialt lärande och hur detta upplevs genereras i verksamheten. Författaren till studien beskriver hur de olika kategorierna framkommit i resultatet tillsammans med teoretiska perspektiven: socialt lärande, reflektion i grupp och kompetens. Kategorierna i resultatet benämns i studien som motivation, professionellt lärande och vägledande chef. Dessa tre kategorier diskuteras sedan av författaren och det belyses att gemensamma diskussioner är något som förskolecheferna ger pedagogerna möjlighet till som ett led i det kollegiala lärandet. Att utöka varje pedagogs kompetens via kollegialt lärande i arbetet för att gynna förskolans verksamhet anses viktigt, sett ur ett vetenskapligt perspektiv menar förskolecheferna. Slutsatsen är att förskolecheferna egentligen inte berättar vad de menar när de säger kollegialt lärande. De använder gärna begreppet kollegialt lärande tillsammans med systematiskt kvalitetsarbete. Dock tolkar jag att förskolecheferna ser kollegialt arbete som något positivt i förskolans verksamhet, men hur de vet att kollegialt lärande sker säger de inte rakt ut. Förskolan kan i sitt kollegiala lärande använda sig av de kompetenser som redan finns. I detta arbete framkommer det att nyckelpersoner är av viktig del för utveckling av förskoleverksamheten. Dessa nyckelpersoner kan också utveckla och/eller handleda förskollärare i det kollegiala lärandet för en utvecklande och kvalitetsmässig förskola i ständig utveckling. / The purpose of the study is to investigate how preschool leaders perceive that they give preschool organisations the opportunity for collegial learning and how this is experienced in the organisation. Together with the theoretical perspectives: social learning, group reflection and competence the study describes how the categories emerged in the result. The categories are in the study referred to motivation, professional learning and guidance manager. These three categories are then discussed and it is highlighted that a part in the collegial learning is shared discussions that the preschool managers' gives the preschool teachers opportunity for. The preschool managers' also mean that it is important from a scientific perspective to extending skills of each preschool teacher through collegial learning. The conclusion is that preschool managers do not really tell what they mean when they say collegial learning. They are using the concept of collegial learning together with systematic quality work. However, I understand that preschool managers see collegial work as something positive in preschool organisations, but how they know that collegial learning is happening they do not say. In the preschool the teachers can use the already existing competences in their collegial learning. In this study it is also found that keypersons are an important part of the development of preschool organisations. These keypersons can also develop and/or supervise preschool teachers in collegial learning for develop a preschool in constant development.

Syftet med studien var att lyfta förskolechefers syn på och arbete kring likvärdig undervisning i förskolan. I studien har kvalitativa intervjuer använts som datainsamlingsmetod, med en intervjuguide där följdfrågorna baserades på respondenternas svar. I undersökningen har fem förskolechefer intervjuats för att få en bredd på förskolechefens syn på likvärdig undervisning. Analyseringsarbetet har skett genom tematisk analys. Resultatet visar att alla deltagande förskolechefer ansåg att likvärdig undervisning är ett viktigt begrepp för att lyfta fram förskolans kvalitet och betydelse. De lyfte även vikten av att ha kunnig och professionell personal ute på förskolorna, då de ansåg att det hade stor betydelse för hur de som chefer kunde fullfölja sitt uppdrag. Resultatet är kopplat till den ekologiska systemteorin. / The purpose of this study is to raise the point of view and the work around equivalent education in preschool. In the study, qualitative interviews has been used as data collection method according to a guide, but follow up questions have been based on the responders answers. Five different preschool managers has been interviewed to get a wide range of their look on equivalent education. The responder’s answers has been analyzed according to the thematic analysis. The result shows that all the different head of preschools felt that equivalent education is an important matter to raise the quality and the meaning of the preschool. They also felt that it’s important to have knowledgeable and professional staff at the preschools, because it has a big meaning of how the head of preschools can complete their assignments. The result is connectedto the ecological system theory.