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(2018)The purpose of this thesis is to get an insight in kindergarten teachers’ thoughts about children’s participation and how children can influence in kindergartens and pre-schools. The focus on this study is kindergarten teachers’ thoughts and experiences on children’s participation. The theoretical background discusses children’s participation and what it means to take a child’s perspective. National regulatory documents and previous research is also discussed. This study is a qualitative study with interviews as method. Five kindergarten teachers were interviewed, three of which work with 3 to 5-year-olds and two at pre-schools. The interviews were recorded and transcribed. The results indicate that the kindergarten teachers consider children’s participation to be important and are encouraging children to influence in kindergarten and pre-school. The age of a child is not an obstacle for them to influence, but the age affects on how they can influence. All interviewed kindergarten teachers work with projects where the theme is decided by the children. Furthermore, children’s participation can be seen in daily routines and spontaneous situations. The kindergarten teachers experience difficulties within both the child group and amongst staff when it comes to children’s participation.
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(2019)The purpose with this study is to see how some kindergarten teachers are working with the theme children’s feelings and acting out behavior. The theory part is supported by the law, the national regulatory documents and scientific literature within the field. The thesis will also go deeper into the fundamental of the low arousal approach. This study is a qualitative study where the material is collected by an interview with four randomly picked kindergarten teachers. The interview questions are semi-structured and my informants have got the interview questions beforehand. The analysis of the material has been made by looking for similarities and differences between the informants’ answers. Through the analysis of the databases it did appear that the informants were thinking that the theme feelings is an important, but hard subject. The informants were largely working in the same way, but there were some differences though. One of the conclusions in the study is that kindergarten teachers perhaps could need more support and in-service training within this theme, in order to get the tools that are needed in order to work and support children’s emotional development in the best possible way.
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Barns kroppsuppfattning i lågstadiet : hur lärare kan stödja kroppsuppfattningen bland sina elever (2020)Mål. Undersökningens syfte var att undersöka vad som påverkar kroppsuppfattningen bland barn i lågstadieåldern samt vad lärare kan göra för att stödja sina elevers kroppsuppfattning. Tidigare studier visar att medians utseendeideal och internaliseringen av dem påverkar barns kroppsuppfattning negativt. Barn blir lättare än någonsin tidigare utsatta för idealen och eftersom kroppsuppfattningen börjar utvecklas före tonåren är det viktigt att stödja den redan i lågstadiet. Det är här som klasslärarens roll träder fram. Kroppsuppfattning hos barn verkar dock vara ett så nytt forskningsområde att det ännu saknas vägvisning för att arbeta med detta tema i lågstadiet. Utan praktiska råd och tillräcklig information gällande kroppsuppfattning i läroplanen, är det svårt för lärare att veta hur de ska arbeta med temat i skolan. Metoder. Materialet för denna litteraturstudie bestod av aktuell och relevant forskning och litteratur kring kroppsuppfattning hos barn. Jag hittade en stor del av materialet via Helka.fi. Materialet kom från flera olika länder och gav därmed en bred helhetsbild av hur situationen med barns kroppsuppfattning ser ut i världen. Dock var det svårt att hitta finländskt material. Vid analysen av artiklarna använde jag mig av en tematisk innehållsanalys och uppmärksammade därmed vissa teman som förekom i artiklarna. Resultat och slutsatser. Media och andra människor påverkade barns kroppsuppfattning negativt. Också övervikt hade en negativ inverkan på hur mottagligt barnet var för negativ kroppsuppfattning. En normal vikt var ändå inte en skyddande faktor mot negativ kroppsupp-fattning eftersom största delen av normalviktiga barn också var missnöjda med sin kropp. Vid undervisningen i lågstadiet var arbetet för ett gott klassrumsklimat, uppskattning av den egna och andras kroppar samt nolltolerans mot all sorts retande viktigt för att stödja elevernas kroppsuppfattning. Däremot påverkade inte undervisningen i media barnens kroppsuppfattning. Samarbete mellan skola och familj kunde hjälpa i denna process. Vidare forskning behövs ändå för att bättre och effektivare kunna arbeta med kroppsuppfattning i skolan. Resultaten i denna studie är användbara för lärare och annan skolpersonal, utbildningsplanerare, vårdnadshavare och andra viktiga vuxna i barns liv.
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(2023)Barn har genom tiderna på ett naturligt sätt ställt frågor om liv, död, förluster och andra typ av livsfrågor. Olika teorier och tidigare forskning om hur barn förhåller sig till och hanterar olika fenomen i sin omvärld visar att barns livsfrågor är viktiga på flera sätt, barn utvecklas och deras unika livsåskådning bildas med hjälp av livsfrågor. Vuxnas förhållningssätt kring barns livsfrågor har en stor betydelse för hur barnen vill och vågar ställa olika typer av livsfrågor. Barns livsfrågor är ett relativt outforskat område inom småbarnspedagogiken men viktigt, detta gjorde att mitt intresse för pedagogers uppfattningar om barns livsfrågor och vilka är pedagogers arbetssätt kring barns livsfrågor vaknade. Mina egna erfarenheter av barns livsfrågor har gett mig osäkerhet, rädsla och försiktighet för hur jag som pedagog ska hantera barns olika livsfrågor, detta är också en orsak till att detta ämne blev intressant att studera. Eftersom intresset för föreliggande studie är att ta reda på pedagogers erfarenheter kring barns livsfrågor blev ansatsen i denna studie kvalitativ. Jag fick möjligheten att åka på nordiskt studentutbyte till Norge för att samla data inför studien. I studien deltog tre lärare som samtliga arbetar inom småbarnspedagogiken. Intervjuerna var semistrukturerade, de bandades in och transkriberades senare. Analysmetoden är innehållsanalys. Resultaten visar att informanterna är insatta i vikten av livsfrågorna inom småbarnspedagogiken. Informanterna hade erfarenheter om många livsfrågor och de ansåg att det är en del av vardagen. Resultaten visar att besvarandet av barns livsfrågor inte är simpelt. Det är en hel del aspekter pedagoger ska ta i beaktandet då de svarar på barns livsfrågor. Informanterna berättar att de fått bra stöd i svåra situationer, men i krissituationer kunde det vara meningsfullt med en utomstående expert som kunde hjälpa pedagoger och barn genom svåra situationer och diskussioner.
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(2020)Syftet med denna kandidatavhandling är att beskriva, analysera och tolka svensk- och finskspråkiga barns språkattityder och förhållningssätt mot det andra inhemska språket och engelskan, i en flerspråkig verksamhet som tagit plats inom forsknings- och utvecklingsprojektet DIDIA. Studien grundar sig på teori om motivation och attityder med närmare fokus på negativa och positiva språkattityder och vilka faktorer som påverkar språkattityderna. Ytterligare söker studien svar på flerspråkiga arbetssätt i skolan som kan förändra språkattityden. Kandidatavhandlingen baserar sig på kvalitativa, tematiska och halvstrukturerade fokusgruppintervjuer kring språkanvändning, språkkunnande och språkattityder. I fokusgruppintervjuerna deltog totalt 17 elever från årskurs tre, var av tio elever från en svenskspråkig skola och sju elever från en finskspråkig skola, båda belägna i en tvåspråkig kommun i Finland. Data analyserades med hjälp av tematisk innehållsanalys och strävar till att demonstrera barns språkattityder och förhållningssätt mot det andra inhemska språket och engelskan på basis av intervjuer som utfördes år 2018 och 2020. Materialet bjöd på rikligt med resultat om barns språkattityder till det andra inhemska språket och engelskan. De ofta förekommande förhållningssätten till engelskan var att engelskan som språk värderades och eleverna hade i stor allmänhet en vilja att lära sig engelska. Främst bland de finska eleverna märkte man att engelskan värderades högre än det andra inhemska språket. Förhållningssätten till de andra inhemska språken var varierande bland eleverna. Ofta upplevde både de finsk- och svenskspråkiga eleverna att ifall språket var svårt att lära sig, tyckte eleverna automatiskt inte om språket. I allmänhet hade de finskspråkiga eleverna en negativare språkattityd mot det andra inhemska språket än vad de svenskspråkiga eleverna hade, men det fanns vissa undantag bland eleverna. De svenskspråkiga eleverna hade en vilja att prata och försöka lära sig finska även fast det ibland kändes utmanande, medan de finskspråkiga eleverna visade ett mindre intresse för svenskan.
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(2018)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an introduction to the subject of children’s stress in child care settings. The paper discusses the neuropsychological foundation to stress, as well as what this implicates for the educator’s work on reducing stress in child care settings. The research questions were as following. 1. How does the stress system work in a child? 2. How can the educator use current research on stress to help children improve their stress management skills and reduce stress in child care settings? The method that has been used in this thesis is a narrative literature review. The thesis arrives at the conclusion that educators need to broaden their knowledge on how the stress system works in a child. The thesis also identifies which aspects of the child care setting and the educator’s working method that are importiant in reducing children’s stress. The thesis argues that there is need for a working method that is more conciously focused on reucing stress.
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(2016)The purpose of this study is to give insight into, and to create a better understanding of children’s thoughts on bullying. Understanding the phenomenon from the children’s point of view is of immense importance for the educators working to prevent bullying in kindergartens. The theoretical premise for the study is bullying in kindergartens. The survey is made up of individual, qualitative interviews, conducted with the story crafting method. Ten pre–school children participated in the study. The interviews started with reading out loud from a children’s book in which the predominating theme was bullying. The children then proceeded to draw a picture of a confrontation between oppressor or oppressors and victim, together with an accompanying story. The discussion that followed was then recorded in order for it to be analyzed at a later stage. The study’s most important result implies that children mainly associate the phenomenon of bullying with verbal and physical abuse. There is also a notable difference between the children in nature of the bullying. Girls highlight verbal abuse while boys tend to focus on the physical side of it. The result also shows that bullying cause negative sentiments in the victim. The pictures that were drawn in order to illustrate their view of the phenomenon tend to employ mainly darker colors. From the study one can conclude that educators in kindergartens have an important role and a responsibility to create awareness of, and to take preventive measures against bullying.
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(2016)The purpose of this thesis is to explore children´s perception of their possibilities to participate in and influence the daily activities and their learning in preschool. This study emphasizes the children´s perception by exploring the phenomenon from the children´s perspective. The theoretical background focuses on influence and participation as concepts, democratic rights and factors that have an impact on children’s possibilities to be able to affect the daily activities and their own learning. The study´s empirical part was executed as a qualitative interview with preschool children. Ten preschool children participated in the interview and the interviews were conducted in pairs at the preschool. The research approach for this study is phenomenographical, because I wanted to research children´s perceptions of their influence and participation at preschool. The study shows that children perceive limited possibilities to affect the daily activities of the preschool. An interesting result is that children perceive that it is mainly the educators who decide at preschool and that free play is the only activity in which the children feel that they can decide freely what to do. In the results differences in perceptions of the possibilities in the free play emerge since some children consider that they can decide independently while other children consider that they can decide almost independently. It is found that the children have a possibility to affect the planned daily activities to some degree. Though it is entirely depending on if the educators offers the children the opportunity. The results show that most of the children perceive that they can affect their own learning, with help from their own dedication the children can get assistance in learning.
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(2017)The purpose of this study is based on the pedagogues point of view to find out how caregivers and pedagogues negotiate about children’s nap in kindergarten, what conflicts there are regarding nap and how pedagogues view the importance of the nap for children. I have studied how pedagogues experience cooperation with the caregivers about the nap at kindergarten and what importance the pedagogues feel that nap has for the child. The theory chapter deals with the basis for the study and give an idea of what the study is about. The study is qualitative in structure and was conducted by interviews and observation. In total, three different kindergartens in a small town in western Uusimaa took part. There interviews were conducted with pedagogues at the daycare department for children aged of 3–5 years and three observations of children’s nap in the same ward as the pedagogue worked. The result showed that the pedagogues agree that the nap is important for the child. One reason is that society is so stressful today that it is extra important for the child to be able to relax. The nap is needed for the child to grow normally and for their creativity, emotion, mood, concentration and immune system to develope properly. The nap is also important for the child's well-being and for strengthening. The study indicates that there are challenges in everyday life for both pedagogues and caregivers and cooperation is a tool in the work for the best interests of the child.
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(2017)The aim of this thesis was to investigate how kindergarten teachers experience daycare start. Within the Swedish speaking daycare in Helsinki, the work is based on the "With the eyes of children" approach. This working model addresses following questions; how do kindergarten teachers perceive home visits, how do they experience the soft landing period in daycare and what thoughts do they have about the self-care model. The theoretical part focus on theories associated with the self-care model, previous research and hence emphasize national governing documents. A qualitative research method was used in this study and data was collected by using a semi-structured interview. Three kindergarten teachers participated in the study and the interviews were recorded, transcribed and analyzed. The results reveals that kindergarten teachers perceive the self-care model as one of the most important tools in the field. Home visits are seen as an important trust building link between families and teachers and therefore are home visits perceived to deepen the relationship between the teacher, parent and child. Soft landing as a method creates a safe foundation for a child to start daycare as the child and teacher already have a connection with each other. Some improvement suggestions concerning the soft landing method are addressed. One improvement suggestion could be to clarify parents’ participation in the self-care model. Additionally was pointed out, that a self-caregiver at the daycare start, is quite tied up and that the self-care model does not always work out in the best possible way. This means that as a self-caregiver you have to be flexible and be able to adapt the self-care model in a neat way.
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(2016)Pedagogical documentation is used as a tool to make children’s thinking and learning visible, both for the child itself and for others. As a method it helps us in understanding every child’s individual learning process. The purpose of the study is to find out which methods of pedagogical documentation kindergarten teachers use and what the aim of the documentation is. Pedagogical documentation, in the sense it will be described in the study, has its roots in the pedagogical philosophy in the city of Reggio Emilia in Italy. Therefore there also is an interest for how the philosophy is visible in the kindergartens. The study was executed by qualitative interviews. The informants were three kindergarten teachers all working in kindergartens with influence from the pedagogical philosophy in Reggio Emilia. The interviews were fully recorded and transcribed. In the transcribing process meaning condensation was used to make the analysing process more effortless. The result indicates that the most used methods for pedagogical documentation are taking notes and photographing. The documentation is used to make the child’s development, as well as the everyday life at the kindergarten, visible for the parents. It is also used to support the child’s learning process. The Reggio Emilia philosophy was visible in accenting the sense of community and the importance of participation. Even though the Reggio Emilia philosophy had similar characteristics in the kindergartens, it was pointed out that every kindergarten creates its own philosophy and the adaptation of Reggio Emilia-philosophy looks different in every kindergarten.
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(2016)The purpose of this thesis was to find out what kind of experiences recently graduated kindergarten teachers have about developmental pedagogy and how they can practice it in activities with children. The study brings up kindergarten teachers attitudes to developmental pedagogy, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as how they use it in practice, if they do. The theoretical frame concentrates on where the developmental pedagogy theory has arisen from, what it involves and also discusses developmental psychology’s association to developmental pedagogy. It also emphasizes what the national regulatory documents consider about children’s development and learning, as well as previous research about developmental pedagogy. The study was qualitative and based on interviews. Four recently graduated kindergarten teachers participated in the study, which work both in municipal and private kindergartens in the metropolitan area of Helsinki. The interviews were executed individually at the respective teachers work places. My research approach is phenomenological. The results show that the teachers have a positive attitude towards developmental pedagogy and they find it to be a good tool for successful activities in the kindergarten. Developmental pedagogy enriches the child’s learning and the child constitutes understanding for its surrounding world. However, developmental pedagogy is very time-consuming and it assumes that all the colleagues share the same perspective on children and work similarly.
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(2017)This study aims to investigate the perceptions of pre-school teachers regarding multicultural education in pre-schools. Multicultural education is a topical issue in Finland because of the immigration to the country. This is a qualitative study and the method for data collection is interviews. By interviewing three pre-school teachers, I have gained insight into the perceptions of pre-school teachers regarding what multiculturalism is, what kind of challenges there are in multicultural education in pre-schools, and how pre-school teachers work with multicultural education. These interviews also shed light on the current state of multicultural education in Finland. However, as this study is conducted with only three interviewees, the conclusions regarding the perceptions of the pre-school teachers about multicultural education are somewhat limited. The results of this study indicate that most pre-school teachers perceive multicultural education in pre-schools as a continuous and natural presence in the interaction with children. Moreover, there is, at least to some extent, planned multicultural education in all pre-school groups. There are challenges in multicultural education, some of which emerge intermittently while others are present on a daily basis. Most of the pre-school teachers perceived multiculturalism as a situation. The pre-school teachers perceived that in multicultural education means paying attention to, accepting and respecting differing cultures, traditions and habits.
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(2018)The aim of this thesis is to find out how early childhood teachers experience well-being in the working community in the field of early childhood education and care, and how well-being can be promoted. This thesis helps to increase understanding of what early childhood teachers experience as a healthy working community. In addition, the thesis contributes to knowledge about how well-being can be promoted within a work team. The background to this thesis is changes in society, the new legislation that implies changes in daily activities of early childhood education and care, which bring new challenges to early childhood teachers. In this thesis, the following research questions are central: How would early childhood teachers define a well-functioning work community in early childhood education? In what ways can well-being be promoted? The theoretical point of departure in this study is psychosocial work environment, work culture and leadership. The methodology used in this thesis is qualitative research methods with a phenomenological approach to describe four respondents’ perceptions of well-being in the working community, in two different day-care centres. This, to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon this study focuses on and to gain an idea of how early childhood teachers perceive their everyday work life. The result of this study shows that communication has a central role in a healthy working community. Other important factors are social support, cooperation, evenly allocated work, sufficient human resources and leadership.
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(2018)The purpose of this study is to find out the factors that have influence on wellbeing of kindergarten teachers. When the new curriculum of early childhood education was adopted, the demands on kindergarten teachers increased. There are only a few earlier studies about the wellbeing of kindergarten teachers. The main questions of this study are: 1. Which factors have impact on wellbeing of kindergarten teachers? 2. How does the wellbeing of kindergarten teachers affect educational activity? 3. Which changes may increase the wellbeing of kindergarten teachers? The study uses phenomenography as research approach. Ten kindergarten teachers from five kindergartens in the capital area were interviewed. The results of the study show that the colleagues, the job assignment and the supervisor are important to wellbeing. There’s also a relationship between wellbeing of kindergarten teachers and educational activity. If you feel uncomfortable, you can’t develop and vary the activities. Good communication, more time and continuity in the job team would increase the wellbeing.
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(2022)Mål. Barn med utmanande beteende har rätt till lämpligt stöd i verksamheten för småbarnspedagogik. Pedagoger inom småbarnspedagogik förutsätts ha yrkeskompetens nog att bemöta dessa barn. Syftet med denna avhandling är att jämföra olika metoder för att bemöta barn med beteendeproblematik samt att betona vikten av förebyggande arbete för att undvika utbrott. De metoder som kommer undersökas är lågaffektivt bemötande och CPS-metoden. En utgångspunkt för avhandlingen är vikten av medvetet bemötande i samspelet med barn med beteendeproblematik och i situationer där barn agerar utåt. Metoder. Avhandlingen är en litteraturöversikt gjord baserad på litteratur och vetenskapliga studier i lågaffektivt bemötande och CPS-metoden. Materialet för forskningsdelen består av sju vetenskapliga artiklar som valts enligt specifika sökord via forskningsdatabaser. Resultat och slutsatser. Att bli bemött på ett lågaffektivt sätt eller med CPS-metoden minskade symptom på beteendeproblematik hos barn och unga. Arbetet med metoderna gjorde att personalen agerade mindre kontrollerande och restriktivt. Båda metoder visade sig vara fungerande för att stödja barn i utvecklingen av sociala och emotionella färdigheter och exekutiva funktioner. Pedagogen har en viktig roll i att stödja barnets utveckling och att förebygga beteendeproblematik. Barn med beteendeproblematik, och specifikt utåtagerande beteende, gynnas av att bli bemötta med lågaffektivt bemötande och CPS-metoden.
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(2023)Mål. Tidigare forskning lyfter fram att barns ökade utmanande beteende på daghemmet upplevs som utmanande och att pedagoger upplever att de saknar metoder för att hantera och bemöta barn som utmanar. Barn som upplevs ha ett utmanande beteende har ofta svårigheter i växelverkan med andra barn eller med vuxna, barnen kan även vara rastlösa, impulsiva, ha svårigheter att vänta på sin tur. Utgångspunkten för min studie är att barn som uppvisar ett utmanande beteende är i behov av stöd för sitt lärande och sin utveckling. Syftet med min studie är att jämföra tre lågaffektiva orienteringar kring bemötande och stödandet av barn med utmanande beteende och hur pedagoger utgående från dessa metoder kan stöda dessa barn i den småbarnspedagogiska verksamheten. Metoder. Denna studie genomförs som en kvalitativ litteraturanalys där de valda metoderna jämförs mot varandra för att hitta likheter och skillnader mellan de valda metoderna. Centrala begrepp i relation till de valda metoderna och i relation till Grunderna för planen för småbarnspedagogik sammanställs i en matris som utgör utgångspunkten för innehållsanalysen. Litteraturvalet har gjorts utgående från litteratur skriven av utvecklarna och förespråkarna av de valda metoderna. Resultat och slutsatser. Samtliga metoder lyfter fram att barnet reagerar med ett utmanande beteende för att barnet i stunden saknar de färdigheter som behövs för att hantera situationen på ett mer lämpligt sätt. Den största skillnaden mellan metoderna är att det lågaffektiva bemötande är ett förhållningssätt bestående av flera olika metoder, medan Collaborative Proactive Solutions och Jag Kan metoden är enskilda metoder. Alla metoder lyfter fram att det första steget att pedagoger finner inom vilka områden barnet har svårt, dvs vad som är svår, i hurudana situationer barnet har svårt och vilka förväntningar som ställts på barnets förmågor i jämförelse med barnets verkliga förmågor. De valda metoderna utgår från positiv, tydliggörande pedagogik, barnets delaktighet, att göra förändringar så att vardagen ur barnets perspektiv blir förutsägbar, dvs hanterlig, begriplig och meningsfull.
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(2019)The purpose of this thesis is to study how pupils are treated in physical education classes, how the treatment can affect gender equality during classes and how the pupils perceive themselves. Previous research shows that teachers' subconsciousness about their own view of gender and practice can be part of shaping and reproducing gender differences in physical education. Furthermore, previous research has revealed stereotypical beliefs that boys to nature are more suitable for sports than girls. Boys' performance is considered to be the norm for physical education and girls differ from this norm due to their gender. This study aims to analyze PE teachers' attitudes towards gender equality in physical education classes using the following research questions; (1) how does student interaction take place in physical education? and (2) in what way is gender equal education promoted? The thesis is based on a systematic literature review. The research material consisted of nine peer-reviewed articles from eight different countries. The material was found using keywords and keyword combinations from different databases and the material was analyzed through a content analysis. The results of the literature review show that teachers interact with pupils in physical education both verbally and through their practice. There were clear differences in teachers' way of interacting with girls and boys in the way they communicated, how frequently the communication took place and, in the attention paid to achievements. The results also point to scarcity in equality in physical education due to a lack of competence among teachers and teachers' unawareness about their own view of gender and how it affected their own actions.
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(2023)Pedagogiska och psykologiska metoder och teorier har utvecklats kring problemskapande beteende. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att undersöka hur olika existerande teorier och metoder ser på orsaken bakom det problemskapande. Studien fokuserar specifikt på den teori och metod som nyligen implementerats i grundskolorna och fått mest kritik när det handlar om bemötande av elever med problemskapande beteende dvs. det lågaffektiva bemötandet. Studien är en litteraturöversikt baserad på systematisk litteratursökning. Litteraturanalysen bygger på nio artiklar. Artiklarna består av litteratur som beskriver olika perspektiv kring problemskapande beteende. Då fokus i studien ligger på det lågaffektiva bemötandet består artiklarna även av tidigare forskning om själva metoden för att tydliggöra den kritik den fått. Resultatet visar att pedagogerna i grundskolorna kan ha olika förhållningssätt då de bemöter elever med problemskapande beteende. Hur pedagogen förhåller sig till elevens orsak bakom beteendet är ur de specialpedagogiska perspektiven något som är förankrat i eleven där det kompensatoriska perspektivet anser att orsaken bakom beteendet ligger i själva eleven och dilemmaperspektivet anser att det är elevens dilemma som eventuellt inte har någon lösning. Det systemteoretiska perspektivet ser orsaken på elevens problem som en helhet där omgivningen inverkar på orsaken till elevens problem. Problemet enligt det lågaffektiva bemötandet ses däremot ligga i läraren, inte nödvändigtvis i eleven. Dessa fyra perspektiv ser på orsaken bakom det problemskapande beteende på olika sätt och litteraturöversikten påvisar inte något rätt eller fel förhållningssätt av pedagogen. Genom kunskap hos pedagogen om att orsaken bakom beteendet kan ligga både i eleven, omgivningen eller pedagogen själv kan elevernas problemskapande beteende förebyggas då pedagogen vet hur hen ska agera i situationen.
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(2018)Aims. This study is built on the researcher’s own experience as an exchange student. The research material was the researcher’s self-kept diaries during the exchange year. The aim of this study was to analyse the content of these diaries and to examine the nature of intercultural sensitivity found in them. The intercultural sensitivity is part of teacher’s profession. Multicultural educator’s competence specifically underlines cultural awareness and ability to interact interculturally sensitively. According to previous research both professionalism and intercultural sensitivity of a teacher develop reflectively. This study examines the orientations of M. J. Bennet’s Model of Intercultural Sensitivity Development (DMIS) in the diaries. The study is a self-reflective learning process according to J. Mezirow. Methods. The research material consists of private diaries kept by the researcher during the school year 2004 — 2005. The diaries are a biographical narrative, which was written during a stay at a zulu-family in South Africa. The research material was analysed by the method of content analysis and theory based content analysis by M. J. Bennett’s DMIS. The diaries were construed as a description of a critical event, which the exchange student year was. The subjective basis of this study made it relevant to apply J. Mezirow’s theory of Transformative Learning for critical reflection’s and meaning perspectives’ part. Results and conclusions. There were three main themes discovered in the diaries: the challenges with adjustment, the life style and the growth process. Both ethnocentric and ethno-relativistic orientations of Bennet’s DMIS appeared in the research material – host family mainly ethnocentric and self mainly ethnorelativistically positioned. The challenges related to intercultural sensitivity development were clearly marked in the diaries. A self-reflective study such as this one takes a form of a learning process which concludes more specified under- standing and better consciousness of one’s own intercultural sensitivity.
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