Att göra geggamoja till ett lärotillfälle om blandning och separation : En kvalitativ studie om användningen av organiserande syften för didaktisk analys och design av kemiundervisning i förskolan

Sammanfattning

The purpose of this study is to contribute to the increase of knowledge about how the didactic model “organizing purposes” can be utilized within a preschool environment, as support in didactic analysis and design of exploratory teaching of the chemistry concepts: mixing and separating. In this study we have implemented the research approach action research and within this framework exemplified how the didactic model organizing purposes can be used as support in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of teaching. We will study this with the help of our teaching activity that is based on “geggamoja”. Based on this, we have together with children in the age of four to five years old completed two teaching cycles and started a third cycle. We’ve systematically planned, acted, observed and reflected on the teaching design with the help of the conceptual apparatus that establish the didactical model organizing purposes: ultimate purposes, proximate purposes, end-in-view and continuity. The data for the analysis and evaluation of the teaching design was collected through observation, sound recordings and field notes of the teaching cycles that took place. The results of this study show that the model organizing purposes acted as support in making improvements. The conceptual apparatus also proved to give support in analyzing, evaluating and improving a teaching activity. To make learning meaningful and understandable for the children participating, and as a result contribute to their knowledge development. Our conclusion of this study is that educators can use organizing purposes as support in systematically improving the quality of teaching chemistry in early childhood education.