”Det var en gång…” En studie om sagornas syfte i förskolan

Storytelling is a classic tool that is used in preschools, through stories educators and children can learn together about different phenomena. Possibly stories can act as a link and in this way be able to stimulate children's different questions and concerns. The messages in the stories often aim to teach children about different emotions, situations or how to act in a conflict. It raises the idea of ​​how these messages can be influenced by the educators choice to work with the stories together with the children. Therefore more research is needed in this particular matter. The purpose with this study is to investigate the educators working methods with tales in preschools, as well as their approach towards its message. The theoretical perspective upon which the study is based on is the theory of educational development, in which key concepts are interaction, communication, co-operative learning, play and learning. The method we used to generate our empirical material, are partly interviews with educators in preschools and tales they chose to talk about under these interviews. The results of this study shows the importance of storytelling by educators to children in preschools and the benefits of the messages in the stories. This study is based on interviews with preschools teachers