Kemi och berättelse i förskolan : En kvalitativ studie om hur pedagoger använder berättelsen om Berta i kemiundervisningen

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study is to shed light on how educators in preschool use the story Berta to teach chemistry to children in preschool. The study consists of two sub-studies, partly an interview study and partly a text analysis. In the text analysis we have done a deductive analysis of Berta's experiment book, and in the interview study we have done six semi-structured interviews. For our text analysis, we have chosen to start from Berta's experiment book where the purpose was to find out which chemical phenomena’s and investigations are addressed in the story of Berta that educators can then apply in teaching. The results show that the focus is on the chemical phenomena of mixing and separation but also chemical reactions. The text analysis also examined which two types of studies are highlighted in connection with the experiments. In the result, demonstration has a dominant role. The results of the interviews showed the educators different ways of organizing and introducing Berta to the preschool activities. The educators in the study also experienced that the stories about Berta are a good tool as a complement to working with chemistry in preschool. It was clear from the results that there were opportunities but also challenges when it comes to the material and where, among other things, the importance of competence development and previous subject knowledge is highlighted as an important aspect for teaching.