This study has a two-fold purpose; to examine the conceptions of newly qualified preschool teachers concerning preschool teaching and children’s right to participation, as well as their conceptions of professional implications of the legislation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) in January 2020. A lack of professional competence regarding CRC has been noticed in Sweden by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Swedish government has both published strategies to strengthen the rights of the child and introduced further training concerning CRC to preschool teachers. Previous research shows that preschool teaching is a complex phenomenon, but a number of didactics has been developed to adapt the concept of teaching to preschool context. A study about research in education about human rights (EHR) shows that EHR tend to focus primarily on participation and agency in early childhood education, whereas other areas such as children’s awareness about their own rights and respect towards the rights seem to be connected to primary school. The study’s theoretical framework is phenomenography and concerns qualitatively different ways to experience different phenomenon in the surrounding world, in this case the conceptions of newly qualified preschool teachers. For this purpose, data was collected in a total of ten semi-structured interviews; nine of them via telephone and sound recorded for later transcription, and one through writing. A phenomenographic analysis of the data collection resulted in a total of six categories of description based on the conceptions referential meaning and limitation towards the context and other conceptions. The categories in the first part, relating to conceptions about the relation between teaching and participation are: Participation as a base for preschool education, Participation through experience-based teaching and The child’s awareness about its right to Participation by reflection. The qualitative differences resided in the level of didactic perception and reasoning about participation. The categories in the second part, relating to conceptions about one’s own didactic competence regarding CRC as well as professional implications of the legislation of the CRC, are: The need for didactic competence regarding the CRC; The mission to actualize the CRC and The need to reflect upon contradictions. The following conclusions are drawn: participation can be viewed from a preschool didactics perspective in order for the child to develop its participation as well as an awareness about its right to participation; further didactic discussions in relation to education about CRC are needed in both preschool teacher education and preschools in order to actualize CRC in a preschool context. There is also a need for discussions about the implications of the legislation of CRC in relation to individual preschools.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-414490 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Olsson, Malin |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier |
| 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 |
| Relation | Examensarbete vid Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier |
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