The purpose of this study is to investigate physical touch and how it effects educators and children at preschool. This is done by answering the questions, “How does educators in preschool use physical touch?” and “What are the educators purpose regarding physical touch? “ The empirical material is collected through qualitative interviews with five different educators. The empirical evidence showed that the educators see physical touch as an important part of their and the children's everyday at preschool. Touch is used by the educators with the purpose to among others create safety, calm, better relationships and confirm the children. The touch used depends on the situation and is given on the children's terms. The result also shows that many of the educators who have worked with planned contact, such as massage, does not do it at all or to a very small extent at the present time. In the analysis, I have chosen to look at the material from an intercultural and socio-cultural perspective.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-34481 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Eriksson, Damaris |
| 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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