"Pojkar tycker ju om actionfigurer" : en vetenskaplig essä om stereotypa genusföreställningar och jämställdhet i förskolan

Sammanfattning: This essay brings up topics including equality and stereotypical gender ideas in preschool. The purpose of the essay is to investigate if you can use one stereotypical gender idea to counteract another. The essay also demonstrate the importance of making one’s own stereotypical gender ideas visible in order to thereby be able to achieve equality. The curriculum is permeated by goals, which state that preschool teachers should work to secure the same rights for both girls and boys. Boys and girls ought to grow up with the sense of being equally valued. The biological gender should not matter how the educator treats children (Skolverket 2018). However, the curriculum does not address how to achieve these goals. With the help of this essay, I will therefore investigate what it takes for us educators to be able to work towards goals like equality. I am also going to lift some theories about why preschool teachers use methods they think are good tools in working to counteract stereotypical gender roles. How children may be affected by adults gender ideas and how these gender ideas continues to structure the societies view on girls and boys are further areas of investigation, which are brought up in the essay. With help of literature that treats subjects like gender and equality, written by gender scientists like Christian Eidevald, Kajsa Svaleryd, Lisa Andersson Tengnér, Mia Heikkilä and more, I have reflected about and investigated subjects that refer to equality in preschool. My dilemma illustrates how my actions in my work to counteract stereotypical gender roles risk leading to even further inequality. The questions that I have addressed are: can you counteract one stereotypical gender notion by using another, how may gender ideas affect children and how does different forms categorization affect gender identity. All of these questions are investigated with support of the literature. The results of my scientific investigation shows that equality is a complex subject which many preschool educators do not have much knowledge about. The educators own ideas about gender often creates inequality.