Miljöns betydelse för barns lek

The purpose of our study is to examine preschoolteachers ' views on the aspects that is important in the creation of the educational indoor environment related to children’s play. We also want to investigate the offers that can be distinguished in preschoolteachers ' views on children's play in the indoor environment. In order to achieve the purpose of the study and questions of the study, we have conducted interviews with six professional pre-school teachers. The preschool teacher whom we interviewed have different lengths of time and experience in the profession and are operating in two different municipalities in central Sweden. We have been using a qualitative research method and semi-structured interviews. In our study, we assume an environmental psychological approach using affordance-the concept, as the central theoretical starting point. The results of the study indicates that preschool teachers believe that play is important for the child and that they, in different ways, have created environments to enable and encourage children's play. The results reveal that the environments of the wards are created in different ways to, among other things, reduce running and direct children toward desired actions in the educational indoor environment