”Jeg ville bestemme alt som går an” : en intervjuundersøkelse om et utvalg barns syn på ”den gode barnehagen”
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This paper is based on a qualitative interview with six children at the age of 4-6 years
old, from two different kindergartens. My purpose with this study is to let the
children’s own voices be heard in the debate about the quality of early childhood
education in the kindergartens in Norway. The main issue is:
What views do a selection of children have on what the ideal kindergarten (“den gode
barnehagen”) should be like?
Another purpose is to compare the topics that concern the children with a relevant
political document. This spring, 2013, Meld St. 24 (2012-2013) (2013) Framtidens
barnehage from the Norwegian government, was released. In this study I let the
children’s views form the starting point for reading the Meld. St. 24 in search of how
this document mentions the topics I identified as the most important ones for the
children when they talked about how they wanted the kindergarten to be if they could
decide.
The study is inspired of the critical hermeneutic phenomenology, and in the second
chapter of this paper I explain more about both phenomenology and hermeneutics,
and especially the critical hermeneutics.
My methodological choices have become a very important part of this study. I have
discussed these choices with the purpose of trying to let the children´s voices be
heard. Nevertheless it will still be me, the adult and researcher, who has the power.
That is why it has been especially important to reflect on ethical dilemmas and the
views of how knowledge is produced. A short summary of my findings is that for most of the children it is the opportunity to
play and make friends, as well as the esthetical dimension of the physical
environment, that makes a good kindergarten. In the political document Meld. St. 24
the employees in the kindergarten are highlighted as the most important element.
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Master i barnehagepedagogikk