Askfat och galna gorillor : En essä om det Levande Verkstadspedagogiska förhållningssättet inom skapande verksamhet på fritidshemmet

Sammanfattning: In this scientific essay, I reflect on children's free creation within the creative activities in Swedish school and at leisure time centers based on my experiences as a Living Workshop pedagogue. I start from an event where a student expresses that during our creative sessions we "only make feelings" when the child and another pedagogue were allowed to create exactly what the child wanted. It made me think about how much I, as an educator control the students in their creation and what free creation really means. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what my role as a Living Workshop pedagogue and leisure time center pedagogue is in the creative activity. My reflections are based on Vygotsky and May's theories of creativity and imagination and examine how the view of creative activity within the school can look like based on a dissertation on how teachers in aesthetic subjects and principals legitimize aesthetic activity. I present the current theories in Living Workshop pedagogy and reflect on the concept of free creation based on different theories. Furthermore, I reflect on what restrictions in relation to children's free creation there may be within Living Workshop pedagogy, as well as what restrictions there may be within the school and the leisure time center's activities linked to the current governing documents.