Picture cards is a tool used to replace or supplement missing speech or language. This study sheds light on how swimming teachers experience the use of picture cards in the swimming schools organized by Folkhälsan. The issues raised are: What opportunities does the swimming teachers see with the use of picture cards? What challenges does the swimming teachers see with the use of picture cards? To find out what opportunities and challenges they see, a total of five semi structured interviews wereconducted. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then analyzed through a thematic analysis. The results showed that the use of picture cards in swimming school contributes to increased inclusion, it enables different working methods, and it creates conditions for several other effects like students becoming more attentive, listen better and the lessons being more well thought out. The challenges the swimming teachers could see with the use of picture cards were mainly about insufficient information and deficient material and that some practical difficulties can arise. The practical difficulties that emerged were that it got messy in the group because of too many cards and that focus sometimes is drawn from the children. In conclusion, the swimming teachers felt that the picture cards have more positive effects than negative ones.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-197922 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Storrank, Jennifer |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Pedagogiska institutionen |
| 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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