Inkludering av barn med särskilda behov : En intervjustudie om fyra pedagogers resonemang om sitt arbetssätt för en inkluderande verksamhet

The purpose of this study is to gain insight of four preschool teacher’s perspectives and reasoning in two different local if they working to counteract exclusion. The questions this study assumes are: How does the teachers in preschool reason about how they working against exclusion of children with diagnosis in the free game, if there are? How does the teachers reasoning about their methods and personal strategies they uses to include children with diagnosis in the free game, if they are excluded? How does the teachers reasoning about the diagnosis effect of these children’s social interaction with other children if the diagnosis became their identity? The method in this study to collect material about the teacher´s perspective on the subject is semi-structured interviews. The collected material has been analyzed and interpreted from a socio-cultural perspective. The conclusion of this study is that you can see pattern of the teachers reasoning about the subject, their methods and their personal strategies to include children with diagnosis. They work very close to the children and focus on the individual child in the group and the importance of excluding work for inclusion. The inclusion work is complex and the teacher’s approach and child perspective affects the inclusion work and if the children get stigmatized because of their diagnosis as identity. Exclusionary practices is necessary for the inclusion work and work close to the individual and also knowing the child´s difficulties and strength to support where it´s needed so the child can be involved in social interaction with other children