The purpose of this study is to shed light on how school-age educare teachers' reason about their work in order to include all students in after-school education based on students' different conditions and needs. Issues touched upon and discussed in this study are school-age educare teachers' views on inclusion, pedagogical strategies and methods, and challenges that school-age educare teachers identify with inclusion work. This is a qualitative study and we have used semi-structured interviews to collect our data material. We have visited two different schools and interviewed four trained educare teachers with greater responsibility within the operation. We analyzed the collected material through a relational perspective. The results were divided into three different themes that answer our questions. In the result it appeared that the school-age educare teachers agree that it is important to work for and find alternative approaches to include all students in the activities. They also agree on the importance of being a responsive and engaged adult in social contexts and of actively building relationships with the students. When it comes to challenges, the experiences differed, we saw obstacles such as poor cooperation, staff shortages, guardians' resistance to diagnoses and religious reasons, among other things.

Studiens syfte är att studera lärare i fritidshems undervisningshandlingar för att förstå deras undervisningskunskap. I analysen av lärare i fritidshems undervisningshandlingar studeras hur undervisningssituationer kan initieras och hur lärare transformerar ämneskunskap, pedagogisk kunskap och kontextuell kunskap till undervisningshandlingar. Genom analysen av undervisningshandlingarna kan undervisningskunskap förstås. För att kunna identifiera lärare i fritidshems undervisningshandlingar används det teoretiska ramverket och analysverktyget Pedagogical Content Knowledge i studien (Shulman, 1986; 1987). När lärare i fritidshems handlingar innehåller kunskapskategorierna ämneskunskap, pedagogisk kunskap och kontextuell kunskap, analyseras de som undervisningshandlingar. Analysen av undervisningshandlingarna visar lärares undervisningskunskap. Observationer har varit den huvudsakliga materialinsamlingsmetoden i studien, både observationer dokumenterade via fältanteckningar och video. Tre lärare i fritidshem från tre olika fritidshem och skolor har deltagit i observationerna. Analysen av resultaten visar att lärarna i fritidshem i de utvalda observerade sekvenserna använder undervisningshandlingarna talhandlingar, praktiska och utforskande handlingar, demonstrationer och medskapande handlingar. Den undervisningskunskap som analysen synliggör påvisar att lärarna i fritidshem har kunskap om att bedriva undervisning som är förplanerad, lärarinitierad och barninitierad samt att undervisningssituationer som påbörjas med en initieringsform kan förändras till en annan. Lärare i fritidshem kan ses möjliggöra för barns delaktighet och aktörskap i sin undervisning eller styra undervisningen utifrån sin planering där barns delaktighet blir begränsad i undervisningssituationen. Lärare i fritidshems undervisningskunskap kan utifrån analysen även ses innehålla: en handlingsberedskap att se undervisningsmöjligheter i den omedelbara situationen i interaktion med barn, en anpassning av undervisning utifrån barns förståelse av den, en samtidighet att använda flera olika undervisningshandlingar samtidigt och en kunskap om organisering av undervisning för barns delaktighet och aktörskap där läraren intar olika positioner genom att styra, lyssna och agera på barns handlingar samt vara medskapare i undervisningen. / The aim of this study is to investigate school-age educare teachers’ teaching actions with the purpose of understanding their pedagogical content knowledge. The analysis looks at how teaching situations can be initiated and how teachers transform subject matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and contextual knowledge into teaching actions. Through the analysis of the teaching actions, pedagogical content knowledge can be understood. Pedagogical Content Knowledge is the theoretical framework and tool used for the identification and analysis of teaching actions (Shulman, 1986; 1987). A teaching action is defined as an action in which all three knowledge categories, namely subject matter knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and contextual knowledge, are identified. These teaching actions are then analyzed to show the teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge. Observations through both video and field notes have been the main method for producing data in the study. In the observations, three teachers from three different school-age educare settings have participated. The results show that the teachers in the selected settings use speech acts, activity-driven teaching, discovery, demonstration, and co-creation representations in their teaching. The analysis demonstrates that school-age educare teachers’ teaching could be preplanned by the teachers, initiated by the teachers, or initiated by the children. The teaching initiative can also shift during the teaching situation, and the teachers position the children in different ways in their teaching. They can enable the children to be actors in the teaching situation where the teachers assume a position of an amplifier and act as a support to the children’s participation or they can take control over the teaching situation and only give the children limited agency. In the results, the pedagogical content knowledge of teachers is analyzed resulting in the themes of readiness for action where the teachers can see opportunities for teaching in the immediate situation in their interaction with children, an adaptation of teaching to every child’s understanding, and a simultaneity of using different teaching representations at the same time. In the analysis, the teachers also show a pedagogical content knowledge of how to organize their teaching in order to enable the children to be participants and actors. The teachers use different teacher positions that allow them to control the teaching and to decide how much control to give to the children in teaching situations in which the school-age educare teacher assumes the position of a co-creator.