Yngre barns inflytande i förskolan : En studie om pedagogers förhållningssätt till yngre barns möjligheter till inflytande i rutinsituationer

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study is to learn more about how educators in the preschool reason about younger children´s (1-3 years) opportunity to affect the actions in existing or daily routine situations. The target group is the work team at the preschool who is responsible for the younger children.  A semi-structured interview study was completed. I have performed interviews with two preschool teachers and one childcare worker who all belong to the same work team. The preschool is situated in a medium-sized city in Sweden with one section for younger children and one section for children in the age 3-6. The results show that the work team have an open-minded approach to facilitate opportunities for each child to influence the daily routine situations at this preschool.  The results indicate that there are both obstacles and limitations that makes the desire to enable children´s influence. One example mentioned by the work team is the large child group, that makes it more difficult to pay attention to all the children. Another obstacle mentioned is how the organizational constitution for some of the daily activities lack flexibility.