The purpose of our study is to find out what constitutes a supportive pedagogical approach in conversations with children and what communicative tools and methods educators use to encourage children to communicate in preschool. Socialconstructivism is a research approach that we apply to ourstudy. With socialconstructivism as a research approach, we reflect on how different communicative ways of working have developed over time. As a method of our survey, we have had interviews with sixpreschool teachers who work at two preschools in the same preschool area. The interviews have been conducted in three different group interviews where two pedagogues participated on each occasion. The interviews have been recorded with audio recording and then transcribed. Each group interview lasted under an hour and the content focuses on the pedagogues' approach to language development tools andmethods and how they use them in practice. We have then observed the same pedagogues that we interviewed to see what approach they had towards the children and what tools or methods they used. The study’s result shows that the pedagogues are using socratic questions, smaller conversation groups,aesthetic expressions, reflection and metareflection, TAKK, image support, digital tools, projectors,body language, Tuomelas language levels and the proximal development zone of Vygotskij, to supportchildren's language development. In this study we address three issues: What pedagogical methods can be seen as supportive in a communicative interaction betweenchildren and pedagogues? What communicative tools do pedagogues use to encourage children to communicate in differentways? What is the approach of pedagogues to the tools and methods used?
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-45923 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Eklöf, Sara, Hammarsten, Camilla |
| Publisher | 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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