Jakten på det kompetenta barnet i barnlitteraturen - En kvalitativ studie om barns kompetens i barnlitteratur på dagens förskolor

• Main Authors: Lindbäck, Elisabeth, Majvall, Louise
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS) 2020
• Subjects: child literature; child perspective; child's perspective; preschool; Reggio Emilia pedagogy; the competent child; Social Sciences; Samhällsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-34190

Children’s literature is written by adults, who have assumed a child’s perspective to understand their world. In other words, adults have a great impact with their subjective views and perspectives about what childhood is, in their presentation of literature. The purpose of this thesis is to attempt to identify what children’s literature mediates and how the concept of the competent child presents itself within relevant books. This term is well sought after in the Swedish preschool curriculum and heavily discussed between preschool teachers. With this thesis, our goal has been to examine the Swedish curriculum referencing the competent child, utilizing current children’s literature from preschools. With the help of the Reggio Emilia pedagogy we have acquired results that indicate factors such as age and the physical size of a child, amongst others, provide a negative obstacle that hinders a child to appear sufficiently competent from the perspective of adults. Therefore, we deem it important to analyze children’s literature and determine if it portrays a modern childhood and an accurate concept of the competent child, or if it fails to do so.