Att arbeta med anknytning : En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares erfarenheter och upplevelser av att knyta an till barn i utbildningen.

Sammanfattning

When children gives good conditions to create a trustful attachment, with a secure preschool staff, they are given the opportunity to develop on many levels. However, when children create insecure attachment patterns, children need help to be able to develop good relationships consciously. Four in-depth interviews were conducted with active preschool teachers, with a focus on the phenomenon of relational work in preschool. Both conditions and obstacles to give all children a possibility to trustful attachment and a sense of security in preschool appears in the result. The result shows that trustful attachment activities is affected by the preschool teachers’ approach to attachment activities, approach to children and self-awareness of how trustful attachment activities can be carried out. Furthermore, the preschool teachers emphasizes that external factors such as time, group size, organization, physical environment, rules and regulation as well as educational level and staff density affect the work of trustful attachment activities. The preschool teachers cannot influence these factors in the organization. The preschool teachers experience that it is important that the principal and the municipality are aware of these in order to be able to support and change the activities for the better. The result shows that preschool teachers perceive that trustful attachment activities are opportunities for development and learning for the children. The conclusion is that the factors above needs to be taken into account in preschool, in order to create good conditions in the daily work with trustful attachment activities.