The aim of this study is to adress how preschool teachers reason about children's opportunities and difficulties for influence in preschool and how preschool teachers describe that this is shown in the preschool pedagogical environment. The questions that this study is based on are, how preschool teachers reason about children's opportunities for influence in preschool, in what way preschool teachers describe that they work with children's influence in everyday life at preschool and what difficulties and obstacles preschool teachers experience when it comes to working with children's influence in preschool. This qualitative study is based on the interviews of nine preschool teachers in the Stockholm area. The research approach has been a hermeneutic perspective and the results have been analyzed in accordance with power perspective and child perspective. The result has shown that preschool teachers have a common view of what children's influence is and that they, in accordance with the preschool's control documents, are working consciously with children´s influence in their preschool practice. On the other hand, it has been proven that working with children's influence in preschool is complicated. As the preschool teachers expressed there are several factors that affect what working with children's influence can look like. Some of these factors are time, routines, staff shortage and the approach of educators. The result also showed that the preschool teachers express that children do gain influence in small and large choices, but that this is constantly done within the frame of what preschool teachers think is reasonable.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-45480 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Dahl, Susanne, Johansson, Tova |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen |
| 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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