Att arbeta med integration av barn med annat modersmål än svenska i förskolan. : En kvalitativ intervjustudie med förskollärare

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study was to investigate and to be able to contribute with knowledgeabout preschool teachers' work with integrating children with a mother tongue other thanSwedish in preschool. To investigate how the preschool teachers work in the way ofincluding all the children. In the study, a qualitative method was used by interviewingfour preschool teachers from four different preschools in the same municipality. Theyhave been able to tell their stories based on their own experiences about the integrationwork of children with a mother tongue other than Swedish. The theoretical starting pointthat inspired my study is phenomenology. In the study, an inclusion perspective has beena basis in my analysis work when I have been listening to the stories that the preschoolteachers have described. From that rspective, it was later seen in the results that all fourpreschool teachers work with inclusion in the integration work, although they do it inslightly different ways. Differences were shown when some of the preschool teachersdivide the children into integrated small groups and some did not. The results of the studyalso showed that the four preschool teachers have found, what I interpret as a commonstrategy for the integration work. They performed the work in different approaches but itturned out that they had the same starting points. The starting points resulted in fivecommon tools that the four preschool teachers considered to be of great importance.Those points were the language, guardians, body language, rhymes and rhymes as well asfairy tales. These five are all of great importance for integrating children with a mothertongue other than Swedish in preschool according to the preschool teachers.