Hur gynnas barns utveckling och lärande av estetiska uttrycksformer? : En studie om förskollärares uppfattningar av estetiska uttrycksformer.

Sammanfattning: The purpose of our study is to increase knowledge about how preschool teachers support children's development and learning through the aesthetic forms of expression in preschool education. We chose to use a qualitative study with a phenomenographic methodological approach and this method is based on interviews in a semi-structured form. Through the choice of method, we wanted to capture the preschool teachers' different perceptions of aesthetic forms of expression. Our results show that there are different views on aesthetics and how it is experienced by children and educators. What emerges in our study is that preschool teachers describe that aesthetic forms of expression are about giving children opportunities for varied learning. The result also emphasizes that aesthetic forms of expression are integrated through projects in teaching, which the preschool teachers emphasize is important. They mention that children learn differently and have different conditions for absorbing knowledge and therefore it is good to vary the teaching with aesthetic expressions. Another result that has emerged from our interviews is that aesthetics support children's development and learning because children explore and learn through their senses and use the body in aesthetic forms of expression.