Demokrati i förskolan - en cirkulär rörelse : En kvalitativ studie om barnkonventionens artikel 12 i förskolan

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to examine how pre-school teachers and principalspractices democracy in pre-schools. In this study, four phenomenographic interviews were made to get access to pre-school teachers and principal perspective on how the democracy mission is expressed in four different pre-schools.Also, another purpose of this study is to examine if an legislation of article 12in the Convention on the rights of the child have had impact on the democracymisson in pre-school. The results in this study is presented by quotes from interviews which are further explained and connected to different theoretical perspectives and previous researchs in discussions. The conclusion of the study iscategorized in to three different words which are communication, action andreflection. These three words aims to be a big part of the educators approachto help childrens to participate and to influence their part in pre-school. Thesethree powerful words can act as benchmarks in the democracy mission in preschool where communication is highly needed between child and adult, actionis important to make the child´s opinion visible and reflection helps to continuosly maintain the democratic climate.