Vem bygger lego i klänning? : En normkritisk studie av pedagogers könsgörande kommunikation och interaktion med eller om barn i fri lek.

Sammanfattning: The Swedish pre-school has a mission to create an equal and egalitarianeducation where the gender norms in society are challenged. The inspirationto do this study, came from how I have experienced that preschool teacherstalked to children differently depending on the children ́s biological sexduring my workplace-based education and by that were doing genderreproducing traditional gender norms. The purpose of this study is to provideexamples of how stereotypical notions of gender are created or counteredwhen preschool teachers comment on or interact with children's free play.The study rests on the norm-critical perspective and qualitative observations.The collected empirical material was documented as notes during theobservations. The result shows that there is a wide spread in how preschoolteachers express themselves and act in relation to the children. How gender ismade depends on the situation and how a pre-school teacher acts isdepending on their norm-critical competence. The conclusion of this studyshows that work with gender and equality needs to be given space and jointdiscussions and reflections are necessary to fulfill the Swedish NationalAgency for Education's mission