Vad vill du bli, flicka eller pojke? En genusstudie på en förskola

Abstract

We have conducted a study on a specific preschool department where we examined how teachers in the department interacts with girls and boys.Our purpose of this study was to see if the teachers' work is based on specific gender norms and gender values, and how if so expressed.Through conducted observations and interviews reinforced with visual material in the form of photographs we have tried to provide concrete examples of how ideas about the concepts of "girl" and boy" is constructed in social settings and in the interaction between teachers and child. Our study shows that educators are both consciously and unconsciously active in formation of gender norms, traditions and values.This also makes teachers' work in early childhood education one gender creative practice" where stereotypes gender differences are created and recreated.