"Måltidssituationer är som att valla får" : En kvalitativ intervjustudie om pedagogers upplevelse kring måltidssituationer i förskolan.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study is to investigate educators' experience of mealtime situations in preschool, and this was carried out with a qualitative approach through semi-structured interviews. The theoretical lenses used during this study are supported by Vygotsky's sociocultural perspective and the child perspective when analyzing the results. Through the sociocultural, you can see how the interaction help the children reach their development zone and how the pedagogues' scaffolding is important in children's development and learning. The child perspective permeates educators' wishes regarding how meals should be designed for the children's best interests. It appears in the study that educators' prerequisites do not always go hand in hand with the curriculum's goals when it comes to designing mealtime situations in preschool. Through the study, it can be seen that different ways of serving mealtime in preschool have different meanings when it comes to creating an educational meal, which should contain purpose and learning that favors children's individual development. The study lifts previous research where the majority illuminates the content of the meal but not much about how the meal should be served for children's development and learning. Therefore, through this study we want to demonstrate the gap between these different research areas.