The context of this study is the ongoing change and development of vocational professions in Swedish pre-schools, the objective of which is to increase the quality of education. Amongst the different professions are the development leaders. The highly-qualified development leaders focused on in this study all work in development teams in the municipality of Malmö. The teams consist of eight professionals, each one with their own specific field of competence.The aim of this study is to contribute to increased knowledge and understanding of how certain development leaders articulate discourses on their own practice. In addition to that, I discuss how the development leaders construct their professional subject in the light of the dominant discourses. The empiric material consists of five interviews carried out with as many development leaders. As part of the interviews the development leaders were asked to visualize their ideas of the task and profession. The findings were analyzed against a theoretical framework consisting of discourse theory and post structuralism. Furthermore, a multimodal, social semiotic perspective has been used in order to understand the narratives of the verbal and visual data. The intention of combining the two semiotic resources is to present a diverse and complex material which provides multiple presentations of how the professional subject is being constructed.The results show that the development leaders construct their professional subject mainly in relation to knowledge and learning. To be accepted by the staff of the pre-schools, the development leaders construct a professional subject characterized by humility, self-distance, sense of humour, flexibility and the ability to listen. The development leaders also express that certain values, pedagogical theory and philosophy are important in constructing their professional selves. Through the subject positions taken, the development leaders participate in the construction of discourses on development leaders in Swedish pre-schools. In constructing the discourses and their professional subjects, the development leaders take part in the formations of knowledge and learning in Swedish pre-school.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:mau-27926 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Glaser, Ulrika |
| Publisher | Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), Malmö högskola/Lärande 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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