"A gentle push": barnets inskolning i förskolan

Sammanfattning: An absolute majority of all Swedish children begins to attend preschool at some point between the age of one and five. The acclimatisation to preschool means a great change in every small child's life. They leave all that is well known, the parent and their home, to face a whole new environment with new kids and adults to get to know and learn to trust. The purpose of this study has been to find out how the professionals in preschool reflect upon the child's acclimatisation at preschool. More specifically we wanted answers to how the preschool teachers, in their work with the child's acclimatisation, relates to the today, in preschool, much debated relationship between the two perspectives care and pedagogy. This qualitative study is based on ten interviews with preschool teachers at different preschools in a small town in Sweden. The analysis is based on a presentation of the interview material compared with earlier research and the theoretical aspects we have chosen, which are Bronfenbrenners Ecological Systems Theory and the Object Relations Theory. While working with this paper it has come clear to us that there is no explicit or common definition of the concept of care within preschool, while there is a clear definition of the concept of pedagogy. The result of the study shows that the preschool teachers we interviewed found it difficult to separate and describe the two perspectives apiece. When we asked them to try we found that they overall had a harder time describing the concept of care and more easily could describe the concept of pedagogy. We also noticed differences in which of the two perspectives the preschool teachers had as their main focus while talking about the child's acclimatisation. Literature, articles and interviews did all let us see that pedagogy is emphasized during the education on the expense of care and that there is a possibility this may lead to a deterioration of the concept of care. All of the interviewed claimed that they didn't get enough or even any knowledge about the child's acclimatisation during their education.