ICDP : Ett verktyg för att förverkliga FN: s barnkonvention?

Sammanfattning: The basic view on children has change radically in the swedish society during the last century. From beeing seen as ruled by internal evil powers that only church could help controling later on the children should be brought up as citizen well-behaved and capable of work with help of the state's control. Today we see the child as competent and equal, and through Swedens adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in year 1990, Sweden as a country undertakes itself to always see to the child´s greatest in all decision-making process concerning the child and also vouch for that the rights stated in the convention are beeing fulfild. Working with the convention in a such way that it's intention becomes reality in educational activities requires instruments for the pedagogues. During the years between 1980 and 1990 a number of different methods and programmes were developed with staring-points in the interplay between the child and the adult. One of those programmes was ICDP (International Child Development Programmes) who are based on the four core principles in the convention; non-discimination, devotion to the best interests of the child, the right to life, survival and development and respect for the views of the child. The aim of my study is to investigate if and in that case how ICDP can be an instrument to realize The Convention on the Rights of the Child in the daily work in some educational activities. On the basis of the aim three questions at issue are asked. Can ICDP be used as an instrument for realizing The Convention on the Rights of the Child in the daily work, and in that case how? Can ICDP prevent violations between adults and children, and in that case how? What are the benefits from, respectively the difficulties of working with ICDP? I have used as method qualitative interviews with pedagogues from different schools. All the pedagogues have training in ICDP and I wanted their descriptions of their practical work with ICDP. The interviewed pedagogues gives a image of ICDP as an instrument for putting focus on the adults attitude in relation to children and pupils. All pedagogues gave examples of how ICDP fulfil the thoughts in the convention in the way of seeing the child as competent and willing to develop. To have a keen ear and the ability of following the child´s initiative are according to the the interviewed pedagogues important qualities by the adult that ICDP are focusing on. Yhe pedagogues gives a number of examples of benefits from as well as the difficulties of working with ICDP. My conclusions of this study are that pedagogues need instruments to realize The Convention on the Rights of the Child in the daily work and that ICDP can be used as one. The most importent thing after all isn´t what method or programme who will be used. Instead the fact that the work with the adults attitudes in relation to the children, pupils, colleagues and parents are done in an active and consciously way are the main thing. Keywords: The view on children, The Convention on the Rights of the Child, The school and the convention, ICDP