Open this publication in new window or tab >>2018 (Swedish)In: Nordisk tidskrift för allmän didaktik, ISSN 2002-1534, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 59-75Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article focuses on how responsibilities and tasks have been allocated between preschool teachers and child-care workers some years after the revision of the Swedish National Education Act and the preschool curriculum in 2010, in which the preschool staffs responsibility was clarified. The revision intended to strengthen the educational quality in preschool by providing preschool teachers with an increased responsibility for the educational activities carried out by preschool teams. Our overall aim was to investigate whether the revision has led to a redistribution of responsibilities and/or tasks in the everyday preschool practice carried through by preschool teams consisting of preschool teachers and child-care workers. The investigation is grounded through observations of the daily work of four mixed teams and analyses of local documents, field conversations and interviews with the team members and their heads. Due to the results there has been some redistribution of responsibilities and tasks. For instance, all the heads have made organizational changes in order to enable preschool teachers to take greater responsibility for educational activities and their quality, which in turn resulted in a more hierarchical organization. The article discusses the complexity associated with the interpretation and implementation of an educational reform and its effects.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, 2018
Keywords
division of labour, education reform, ethnography, policy, preschool teacher, responsibility
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Teacher Education and Education Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-13267 (URN)
Projects
Att tolka, konkretisera och leda - en studie av förskollärarens förändrade uppdrag
Funder
Swedish Research Council
2018-12-272018-12-272019-01-14Bibliographically approved