The purpose of the study is to contribute with more knowledge about how preschool educators experience children’s influence in relation to the preschool's curriculum goals regarding physics and sustainable development. The study method consists of two sub-studies, a questionnaire survey and an interview study. The questionnaire was answered by 30 active educators in the preschool and the interview study contains six semi-structured interviews with preschool teachers. To analyze collected data material, a phenomenographic method approach is applied. The results of the study show that there is a great variation in how preschool educators describe physics and sustainable development both for themselves and for the children. The physics teaching that the educators describe shows that physics in preschool is mostly about floating, sinking and friction. Sustainable development, on the other hand, is described less frequently. Participants have difficulty applying an interdisciplinary approach when it comes to these topics. On the other hand, they view a subject-integrated teaching regarding physics and sustainable development positively. In our study, we conclude that the educators during our interviews were interested in a broader view of how to connect subject-integrated teaching regarding physics and sustainable development in preschool. Action competence is a concept in sustainable development that is used to understand that human action has consequences in the areas that sustainable development affects. The study's conclusion is that children’s action competences was a new concept for most of the people who participated in the study, but it was a concept that they could relate to preschool teaching.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-85062 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Berglund, Sofie, Granqvist, Katarina |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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