Estetiska uttrycksformer i förskolans lärmiljö : Förskollärares uppfattningar om estetiska uttrycksformer

Sammanfattning

The purpose of this study is to invetigate preschool teachers' perceptions of opportunities and difficulties in work with aesthetic forms of expression in the preschool's learning environment. According to the preschool curriculum (Skolverktet, 2018), preschool education must give children the opportunity to experience, shape and communicate through aestethic forms of expression such as image, form, drama, movement, song, music and dance. It is also the preschool teachers' responsibility to develop pedagogical content and environments in the teaching that inspire development and learning (Skolverket, 2018). To investigate preschool teachers' own perceptions of opportunities and difficulties at work, a phenomenographic methodological approach and qualitative semi-structured interviews were used, which were also recorded and enabled in-depth answers. The results and the analysis shed light on preschool teachers' perceptions of the opportunities and difficulties that exist in the work of creating conditions for children to experience, shape and communicate in the learning enviroinment through aesthetic forms of expression. What preschool teachers preceive can create opportunities and difficulties are the educator, the physical environment and time, above all in the form of the preschool's daily routines. What dose not emerge are preschool teaschers' perceptions of how aesthetic subject knowledge is a possible contributing factor to the possibilities or difficulties that are experienced. Since previous research by Lindqvist (2019) showed that preschool teacher students preceive their aesthetic subject knowledge as insufficient, it would be interesting to possibly further investigate how active preschool teachers perceive that their subject knowledge in the aesthetic subjects affects preschool education. This can be seen as important in order to contribute to a further understanding of preschool teachers' perceptions of the aesthetic subject and the possibilities and difficulties of forms of expression.