”Jag räknar med att barnen har det bra och annars säger de till” : En kvantitativ studie av vårdnadshavares perspektiv på relationer och kommunikationens innehåll i förskolan

Sammanfattning: In the preschool’s curriculum, it appears a collaboration between home and preschool is important for the child’s care as well as development and learning. From what we have seen, however, most of the research studies that refer to the relationship and communication between the parties are only based on the perspective of the preschool teachers. This quantitative study highlights partly the parents’ perspective on the importance of the relationship with preschool teachers in terms of the child’s best interests, partly the content of the communication regarding the child’s care as well as development and learning between the parties. The purpose of the study is therefore to test the study’s hypothesis to make parents attitudes visible in relation to the relationship with preschool teachers and the content of  communication in preschool. The study is based on statistical models of reliability, normal distributions and connections, which describe the data of the statistical analyses from SPSS and are at the same time our analytical instrument. With other words the statistical analyses form the basis of our study. To achieve the aim, we have chosen to perform a survey with statements based on the theory of attitudes, which include cognition, affect and behaviour. In total the survey generated 228r esponses, and the results show that it is equally important for the parents to communicate about the child’s care as well as development and learning. Furthermore, it is made visible that there is a non-significant connection between relationship and the content of communication.