"Nu får du skärpa dig! : En essä om pedagogens förhållningssätt i mötet med barn som har svårt att hålla sig inom förskolans ramar

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to investigate how I, as a preschool educator, treat a child who I find difficult to adhere to the preschool´s rules and routines. It is based on three different situations that tell how the relationship between the child and me took place. The focus is not on the child but on me as an educator. The question arose in me when I experienced a child as difficult to handle in my department but as soon as the child was moved to another department, he was experienced in a completely different way by the other educators who worked there. The purpose is to examine my role as an educator in all this. I ask myself questions about my own behavior and in what way the children may have been affected by it. The essay's method is essay writing, a tool I use to able to process the already experienced situations and in conversations with different philosophers, psychologists and professors of pedagogy be able to reflect on them. I reflect, among other things, through the psychologist Albert Bandura on the environment and man and the mutual influence they have on each other, around Foucault's analysis of power to understand the role that power plays inrelationships. I have also turned to Vygotsky’s theories to reflect on how the proximal developmental zone takes place in preschool, even if we do not notice it. The different theories I used in the reflection helped me to understand my own actions. Notonly have I gained more knowledge about different theories, but my understanding hasdeepened. There are no difficult children, it is difficult to be a child in an environment characterized by ignorance, misunderstanding and limited resources.