Browsing by Author "Mannström, Nathalie"

In 2016 came out a new regulatory document for day care centres, The fundamental plan for child teaching, 2016. The new fundamental plan is strongly about children’s participation, and how they can participate. The purpose with this study is to find out how the children can participate in creating activities and who is in charge at the day care centre. I also want to find out how the children and pedagogues think about children’s participation, how the children feel that they can participate and how the pedagogues make the children participate. The study was carried out as a qualitative group interview. One group of children, one kindergarten teacher and also one nurse from a day care centre attended the study. The children were represented by a group of 6 children from 5 to 6 years old. The study is an informal/focus-based interview. The results from the study showed that children get to be involved in creating activities on day care centres and the pedagogues make sure that the children are involved. When there is a theme the children need to follow some guidelines, beyond that the children can tinker freely. The children can tinker whenever they want, if there is time available. When they want to tinker, they can. What the pedagogues need to review at the day care centre is how they can make the children participate regarding the creating environment, now it was more controlled by adults.