Moral och normer utifrån barnens perspektiv : Ett arbete kring barns moraliska utveckling inom en förskolekontext

Sammanfattning: What is considered as right and wrong, and how to treat each other influences the daily life in the kindergarten. Consequently, this study aims to make moral values of children visible, which in fact also is what so called peer culture implies. The aim is also to highlight in what way the kindergarten affects children´s perspective in moral values. That, in turn, also means what impact the peer culture has on moral development. Previous research shows that children´s democratic participation in the kindergarten gives the children an opportunity to influence their daily life.  In effect, this means that we together with the children read a picture book that lead the children to further discussions. Eight children from two preschools in Halland participated. The collected data is analyzed trough symbolic interactionism. That interprets further how the children discussed the subject together. The children talked about friendship related questions. The result indicates that moral values can vary between peer cultures in kindergartens. Furthermore, this indicates how a peer culture is impacted by the environment.