Detta arbete är ett examensarbete i Informationsdesign med inriktning mot rumslig gestaltning. Arbetet har inneburit en studie om hur en förskolemiljö kan användas som ett stöd för pedagoger i deras dagliga arbete med förskoleverksamheten. Utformningen av miljön ska bidra till att fungera som ett verktyg för att underlätta pedagogernas arbetssätt. Studien har haft sin utgångspunkt vid en avdelning på förskolan Pärongården i Stockholm. Ett förslag på förändring av förskolemiljön visar hur man kan använda den rumsliga utformning som ett verktyg i den temainriktade verksamheten med barn i förskolan. Metoder såsom intervju, platsanalys, observation och avstämning har genomförts för att skapa en förståelse för pedagogernas arbete i förskolan i dagsläget. Resultatet av metoderna har visat att förskolemiljön behöver anpassas på ett bättre sätt för att kunna stödja pedagogernas temaarbete med barnen. Metodresultat, teorier och litteratur har varit ett stöd i framtagandet av ett designförslag. Ett förslag skapat utefter pedagogers behov har lett till en funktionsbaserad rumsmiljö. Detta för att utnyttja lokalytorna effektivare och för att anpassas till den dagliga verksamheten. En funktionsbaserad rumsmiljö bidrar till att fler moment i det dagliga arbetet inspirerar och underlättar till arbete med barnen. Med detta förslag har även en dokumentation- och utställningsstation skapats, där personalen kan ställa ut barnens färdiga projekt som sedan kan diskuteras och reflekteras tillsammans med föräldrar. Detta för att främja pedagogernas arbete med dokumentation till föräldrar, vilket utgör en viktig del i styrdokument för förskolor. / This work is a thesis in Information Design with a focus on spatial design. The work has involved a study on how a preschool environment can be used as a support for teachers in their work with early childhood education. The design of the environment contributes as a tool to facilitate teachers’ work. The study had its starting point in a section at the preschool Pärongården in Stockholm. A change in the preschool environment shows how to use the spatial design as a tool in daily theme activities with children in the preschool.   Methods such as interview, room analysis, observation and control check have been carried out to create an understanding of teachers' work in preschools in the current situation and an understanding of the environments importance for the theme work with children. The results of the methods have shown that preschool environment needed to be more adapted to the educators theme work with the children.   Method results, theories and literature have supported the development of a design proposal. A draft created along the educators needs have resulted in a function-based room environment. This is to utilize floor space more efficiently to primarily support educators working with thematic focus.   A function-based room environment contributes to several elements in the theme work that inspires and facilitates the work with the children. With this proposal a documentation- and exhibition station has also been created where educator can exhibit the children finished projects, which can later be discussed and reflected with parents. This is to encourage teachers’ work with documentation for parents, which are an important part of the regulatory documents for preschools.

Pupils learn in different ways. It’s up to the teachers´ to give pupils the knowledge they need to live and work in society. The teacher should be aware of the ways of children learn in the classroom and should teach accordingly. Pupils work individually but should even be offered some kind of group work regularly. In this study I chose to put focus on theme work as awork method. The questions I would like to find answers to are: How important is theme work for students´ education according to the teachers inthis study? Why do teachers in this study choose theme work as a method? The result to this study are based on observations and interviews. The observations were made on two occasions of a school class there teachers worked with the theme, moss and lichen. I observed their teaching methods to get the teacher’s opinion about theme work as a teaching method. I chose to interview three teachers at the school. All three practised theme work as a method of teaching. The result of my study shows that the most important thing for the pupils is not theme work, but practicing how to communicate, integrate and discuss. They should be able to connect what they learn at school with their everyday activities and experiences. How a teacher works or what methods are used are not important. The important thing is that the pupils should be able to put all that they learn into practice on a daily basis.

The purpose of the study was to examine how teachers and children interpreted the project and understood its values. To this end, it was necessary to focus on four defining parameters which affect the investigation: structure of pre-school project work, content and delivery, the methods used by teachers during the project, which pedagogical documentation was used (and how), and how the project determined the approach, the curriculum goals and values. Using a qualitative approach, regular unsystematic observations were made over five days, during which three teachers, two pedagogues, two pre-school teachers, and one nanny from the same kindergarten were interviewed regarding children in three age groups: 1-2 years old, 3 years old, and 4-5 years old. The results of my investigation showed that the teachers were divided on how to apply the project as a working method. Children's active role in the pre-school project varied depending on the extent to which teachers adopted children perspective in everyday practice. The teachers used the documentation to evaluate, make visible processes of learning in children and reflect on the educational work of the projects. / Reggio Emilia

The aim of this study was to develop knowledge on the influence of preschool working conditions, i.e. social and political factors and factors within the individual preschool, on offers afforded to children. To illustrate this in­fluence, I chose to investigate the design and implementation of preschool theme work. The study examined preschool pedagogues’ motives, organi­sation, contents and methods that underlie their teaching in the theme work and the influence of working conditions in this process. Ethnographic methods have been applied, including observations and interviews with pre­school pedagogues in four preschool settings. The study had a theoretical starting point in curriculum theory, with Bernstein’s concept of classification and framing as well as frame factor theory used as tools in analysing the material. The results show that a combination of various working conditions affects offers afforded to preschool children in theme work. The pedagogues make decisions that underlie their teaching partly in relations to social and political changes and reforms, and partly in relation to processes formed historically. The children are offered an organisation, contents and methods in the theme work that arise from pedagogues’ understanding of their mission, curriculum and the childrens’ interests and needs. / <p>Licentiatuppsatsen har författats inom forskarskolan ”Utforskande lärprocesser och literacy: Förskolebarns lärande i språk, matematik och naturvetenskap” som genomförts i samarbete mellan Stockholms universitet, Uppsala universitet, Umeå universitet och Högskolan Dalarna. Tio doktorander har varit knutna till forskarskolan som finansierats av Vetenskapsrådets utbildningsvetenskapliga kommitté. Forskarskolan är en del av regeringens satsning på fortbildning av förskollärare.</p>