”Ibland kan man tro att man har samma idéer om saker och ting. Men sen när man pratar om dem, kan man höra att det är olika.” : En kvalitativ studie om förskollärarens uppfattning om arbetslagets betydelse för konflikthanteringen mellan barn.

PurposeThe purpose with thisstudyis to find out how preschool teachers describe their individual and collaborative work in relation to handling and preventing the children’s conflicts. Further the objective is to discover therole of the individual pedagogue, and the teacher team have in conflict situations. To discover the relevance of the teacher teamin the children’s conflicts,the studywill also evaluate how the collaborative work within the teamcan be made possible. Research methodThe data has been collected by interviews to research how the preschool teachers describe the individual, and collaborative work with conflicts, and how they perceive the work with conflicts.ResultsThe study shows that the preschool teachers find thatit’s important to handlethe conflicts that emerge among the children. Although the collaborative work within the teacher teams varied, the teachers still found it of importance of handlingthe conflicts within the group. According to the preschool teachers, the reason that the collaborative work is crucial is because a lack of organization between the pedagogues, results in inconsistent methods for handling the children’s conflicts. An organized teacher team is also important because the collaboration allow the children to develop and learn from their conflicts