Borde jag säga det? : En essä om mötet mellan pedagog och föräldrar i förskolans utvecklingssamtal

Sammanfattning: This essay is about my experience of planning and implementing two separate parent-teacher conferences. In these two parent-teacher conferences I am faced with various options which I perceive as difficult to assess. What is difficult to assess is how I maintain and develop a strong relationship with the parents without contradicting with other parts of my duty.    The purpose of the essay is to examine what the parent-teacher conferences mean and what its content should or can be. Questions treated in the essay are: What is the purpose of the parent-teacher conferences and how can we talk about the child in the parent-teacher conferences? How can the power relationship appear between the teacher and parents in the parent-teacher conferences? How can we understand the content of the parent-teacher conference in relation to the view on norms?    Reflection and writing is used in this essay as method to examine these questions. Important theoretical concepts for the essay are development, assessment, documentation, power, discourse, norms and rules, which are concepts that I go into dialogue with in order to understand my experiences in new ways. Through writing the essay I have discovered that different understandings of the concept development can influence what parents and educators believe that the parent-teacher conference should be about. I have also discovered how I can discuss children's development and learning in a way that is consistent with the regulation of the Swedish pre-school, that both teachers and parents have the power of controlling the content of the parent-teacher conferences and that teachers’ and parents' different views on rules can create different views regarding the children.