“Det behöver inte vara att vi ska spela ett spel som barnen spelar hemma”: En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares syn på populärkulturen i förskolan
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Aim: The main aim of our study is to examine preschool teachers' view of the role of popular culture in teaching moments. We have performed qualitative interviews. We have interviewed four preschool teachers that work in different preschools. Some of our interviews were implemented digitally because of pandemic and restriction to meet physically.
Theory: The work was built on a phenomenography perspective, partly through the importance of knowledge about popular culture and partly through the focus on the use of popular culture. Three key concepts have been addressed in the work, these are culture play, children’s interests and stereotypes.
Method: In this study, qualitative interviews were chosen as the focus to investigate the purpose and issues. The interviews are done in a structured way to be able to examine how the preschool teachers view popular culture. We chose this method to thoroughly examine which views exist about popular culture.
Result: With analyzing our interviews, it seems clearly that preschool teachers thought it is really important to know about the popular culture and being up to date about the culture children use daily inand outside school. They thought even that is important to discuss with children about figures in popular culture to learn to criticize stereotypes.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 42
Keywords [en]
Popular culture, children's interests, culture play, Preschool, preschool teachers, stereotypical roles
National Category
Pedagogy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46117OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-46117DiVA, id: diva2:1578392
Subject / course
Pre-school education
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
2021-07-072021-07-062025-10-07Bibliographically approved