Abstract: There is currently limited previous research that concerns the area of language development in the preschool's outdoor environment. The purpose of the study is to investigatepreschool teachers´view of the outdoor environment in order to stimulate the children's language development. Thestudy is conducted with a qualitive method by using semi-structured interviews.The purpose of the study is answered with the help of the following questions: How do preschool teachers plan language-stimulating teaching in an outdoor environment? and What are the possibilities and limitations of language-stimulating teaching in an outdoor environment? To analyze the empirical evidence, we have used the childhood sociological concepts of place, spaceand the socio-cultural concepts of mediation and artefacts to help us. The result of the study shows that the geographical place, together with the preschool teachers' space, is significant for how preschool teachers plan for a language-developing teaching in an outdoor environment. The limitations and possibilities lie in the educators' space for the creation of a place in the physical location. The surrounding environment, preschool teachers who have a mediating role and the artefacts used as mediating appeared to be significant. Specific elements that take the children's attention in the outdoor environment were seen as limiting to enable language-developing teaching in the outdoor environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-55597 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Abdiaziz, Efrah, Sjöstedt, Ellinor |
| Publisher | Malmö universitet, Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS) |
| 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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