"Då kan du klä ut dig till en ytspänning" - Reflektionens potential för kompetensutveckling och ökad kvalitet i förskolan : En kvalitativ studie om hur diskursiva praktiker möjliggör kompetensutveckling i individuella reflektioner och i gemensamma arbetsl

Sammanfattning: Preschool workteams, must continuously and systematically monitor children's development and evaluate the opportunities the education offers for children to develop and learn in accordance with the curriculum. This qualitative study deals with reflection from a socio-cultural perspective where differences between individual reflection and collective workteam reflection are examined in relation to the preschool's work with quality and operational development. The participants consist of two workteams containing three people. They have completed an activity and then answered a questionnaire representing the individual reflection, as well as participated in a focus group interview, which represents the collective workteam reflections. By investigating how appropriation, internalization, proximal development zone and scaffolding are made possible in different reflection contexts based on the current discursive practices for the reflection, the competence development that becomes relevant can be made visible. The tools are also important factors for how reflection becomes competence developing. The result shows that the collective workteam reflections enable a more extensive content where more aspects of the same topic are covered. The workteams also have the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge, but are less likely to identify gaps in their own knowledge. The discursive practices, as well as the tools used, have consequences for the content that is dealt with in the reflection. These collective workteam reflections have a higher quality in comparison to the individual reflections and prove to be significant for the work with quality and operational development in the preschool.