"Ja, vi är hela världen bara här" : En studie kring förskolan som normproducerande institution

• Main Authors: Hedström, Angelica, Sjöström Hedberg, Maria
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen 2015
• Subjects: Intercultural perspectiv; preeschool; white studies; discourse analysis; focus group discussion.; Interkulturalitet; förskola; vithet; diskursanalys; fokusgruppsdiskussion.
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28957

The aim of this study is to use empirical investigation to collect data and analyze the constructed normative ideas and concepts within the discourse of interculturality. We used the perspective of social constructions as a means of understanding the underlying normative discourses. We used critical white studies to get an alternative understanding on the constructed normative discourses. The investigation was an etnographic study of a preeschool in a multicultural suburb in Stockholm. We used quality methods such as focus groups discussions as the main material for our discourse analysis and did etnographic observations as a complement. The results showed that the preeschool teachers constructed interculturality in the same way as we understand multiculturality and thought the swedish language to be one of the most important elements in their deifinition of interculturality. They constructed the families at the preeschool in a position where they stood in opposition against the families in the inner city of Stockholm, which stands for the normative white majority society