Barns inflytande, delaktighet och intresse : En studie om samspel och förhållningssätt i förskolans vardag

Sammanfattning: The aim with this study was to give and receive an insight of children’s participation during one day in a preschool. Answers we were interested in finding out were how pedagogues act in relation to children´s influence, participation and interests and how this shows in the pedagogical context. Our own interest of children´s participation was influenced by the new revised curriculum that took place in 2010. Nowadays the pedagogues’ have to be more active and reflect and document children´s influence and participation, and therefore we wanted to use this opportunity to create a picture of how pedagogues deal with these new guidelines. We have with an ethnographic inspired approach performed a qualitative study with data collected during one day with focus on children´s influence, participation and interest in one preschool section. According to the result children’s participation and influence this day were controlled by the pedagogue. The influence was limited to matters concerning how much food the children could take and with whom and where they wanted to play, both inside and outside. The two interviewed pedagogues painted a picture that children’s participation is voluntary and that child’s interest affects the preschools’ everyday contents, especially when the pedagogue plan a theme. Communication was seen as the best method for finding out about child’s interests.