Är "fint" fint? : Om pedagogers förhållningssätt gentemot barns bildskapande

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay, with the title “Is “fine” fine? About educator’s approach towards tothe visual creative activities of preschool children”, is to analyze how us preschool educator’s approach to the visual creative activities of preschool children and why we relate to them in acertain way or why we use a certain linguistic expression, when we comment on children’s visual creative activities. Part of the purpose is also to reflect about how this controls the occupation. That is why I take the starting point in discourse theory. I ask the questions what discources form the educator’s ideas and what ideas form the educator’s respective discourses and what is the background to the usage or avoiding of a specific linguistic expression. As both play and learning are prominent in the preschool world and also can be related to visual creative activities, I also relate to theory of play in this essay. As a background in the text andas a help to understand the reason in different views of art or creative activities, I also refer to certain theories of art. From this I try to distinguish tendencies in the approach amongst educators. I reached the conclusion that there is an ambivalence around different approaches and also that the curriculum is ambiguous, which according to my opinion with advantage could lead to an increased collegial reflection regarding linguistic expressions and the irmeaning. From the interviews and my observations, there is a consciousness surrounding accepted expressions and treatment but no deeper reflection around why it is accepted or not accepted to express oneself in one way or another.