This study is about the teacher’s cooperation with the recreational pedagoguein the classroom and it ́s basically based on interviews made at the Orionschool situated in one of Stockholms northern suburbs.

The theories usedin this study are Moira Von wrights “the intersubjective turn” and Uire Bronfenbrenners “Ecology of the human development”and Norbert Elias “The established and the outsiders”. Bronfenbrenners theory was used toshow that the development of the recreational pedagogue’ssituation in the classroom is affected by processes located in different levels from his or herown point of view. Moira Von wrights “the intersubjective turn” was usedtoshow that the perspective, the punctual or the relative, which is brought into the communication between the two parts is a determinant factor for the development of theircooperation. The theory about the established and the outsiders was usedto show the fact thatmany teachers is holding on to old traditions andlooks upon the recreational pedagouges as “newcomers” and less competent.

During the past twenty years,the after-school centre has been integrated in school and the recreational pedagoguesare now working side by side with the teacher in theclassroom. My results showthat the recreational pedagoguesmission in school contexts as extremely unclear. And italso shows that the teacher’sperspective on learning with theoretical knowledge in focus has higher status thenthe recreational pedagoguesfocus which is on social developmentand social learning.

The Swedish National Agency for Educationhave lately started to pay more attention to the recreational pedagogues and their mission.They have concludedthat their work needed to be strengthen up and are now initiatingdevelopment work in the local schools. Such a development work had just begunat the Orion school where this study took place.