Pedagoger och toddlares strategier i sociala samspel : En kvalitativ studie om pedagogers strategier i arbetet med toddlarna samt toddlarnas tillträdesstrategier i samspelssituationer utomhus.

Sammanfattning

The purpose of this study is to contribute knowledge about how educators work with toddlers’ social interaction in interaction situations. The study is based on qualitative research where the methods interview, and observation have been used. The theoretical perspective on which the study is based is the socio-cultural perspective. Six toddlers and four educators have been observed, afterwards the four educators have also been interviewed, with the observations as starting point. The purpose of the interviews was to examine educators’ actions in the observations but also to ask general questions about toddlers in order to gain a deeper understanding of the educator’s knowledge about toddlers. To analyze the empirical data, an interaction analysis has been used as a starting point. In the analysis, it has emerged that educators daily use strategies to support toddlers with the social interaction. However, more development Is needs among educators how to concretely work with toddlers and educators need to become more aware of when and how the different strategies should be used. It has also emerged that toddlers use different type of access strategies in interaction situations to connect.