Sweden has a longstanding tradition of working towards gender equality. Since 1994, the Swedish government's primary strategy for achieving gender equality policy goals has been gender mainstreaming. In practice, this means that a gender perspective should be considered in all policy areas affecting people's living conditions. A policy area that should be permeated by a gender perspective is pre-school education, which is one of the forms of education within the Swedish school system. The gender equality mission of pre-schools is established in policy documents, such as the curriculum for pre-schools - Lpfö 18. Despite the well-established gender equality mission in the governing documents for Swedish pre-schools, significant deficiencies have been identified in the implementation of the gender equality mission. The purpose of this thesis is to, through a qualitative interview method, examine pre-school educators' prerequisites for implementing a gender perspective in pre-school activities based on the curriculum for Swedish pre-schools - Lpfö 18. The study is based on the political scientist Lennart Lundquist's theory of understanding, ability and will. The study therefore aims to consider preschool educators as street-level bureaucrats and examine whether they have the understanding, ability, and will to implement the preschool's gender equality mission. To achieve this purpose, seven semi-structured interviews were conducted at a preschool unit in Halmstad municipality. Based on the interview material, it can be concluded that the prerequisite understanding, and willingness constitute favorable conditions for a successful implementation. Among the three prerequisites, knowledge is identified as the most significant obstacle to the successful implementation of the gender equality mission at the preschool that was investigated.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:hh-52542 |
| Date | January 2024 |
| Creators | Hansson, Lovisa |
| Publisher | Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle |
| 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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