Delaktighet och inflytande : En kvalitativ studie om hur fritidshemspersonal skapar och upprätthåller elevers delaktighet och inflytande i fritidshemmet
Sammanfattning: Based on the After-School Centers governing documents, the activities must stimulate the pupil’s development and learning and offer meaningful leisure time. A prerequisite for the pupils to experience meaningfulness is that they are made involved and have an influence on the design of the activity. Previous research in our subject shows that pupils 'influence and participation is limited, therefore the purpose of our study is to investigate how educators create and maintain participation and influence in after-schools, and what factors enable and limit pupils room for maneuver. We have chosen to use a qualitative research method in the form of semi-structured interviews with three adults who work at different After-School Centers. Our empirical data is analyzed on the basis of a socio-cultural framework with a spatial perspective. In the spatial perspective, we take the help of different entrances based on a Foucault-inspired view of power, as well as Harry Shier's participation model. The result we came to from our study is that the educators enable the pupil’s participation and influence formally in various democratic forums, as well as informally in the free play and everyday conversations. Participation and influence are found in the After-School Centers, but are limited by the educators' double tasks as the after-school center is basically situation-controlled and child-initiated, where the pupils must be given participation and influence. At the same time, the educators have governing documents with goal formulations to relate to. Other factors that limit is the adults' perspective, which sets the framework for how much room for maneuver the pupils can get.
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