”Nuets didaktik. Förskolans lärare talar om läroplan för de yngsta”.

The purpose of this study is to develop knowledge about how child carers who work with children aged 0 to 3 years perceive and describe the curriculum at daycare facilities. The study particularly examines what child carers describe as vital for the children to learn, and how children can learn this. The study works with an expanded understanding of a curriculum, which comprises management documents describing work and content of the daycare centres, and what is actually said and done at the daycare facility.

The results show that work on children’s learning and development mainly seems to take place ‘here and now’ and to a lesser extent on the basis of planned courses. Therefore, the concept ‘the didactics of the now’ has been introduced. This concept describes the curriculum expressed in the interviews and contains clarification, a time aspect as well as a clear child perspective. 'The didactics of the now' is characterised by coupling the close, current situations with the child carers’ didactic considerations. The child carers see personal development and social adaptation as the most important goal in work with the youngest children’s learning and development, and play has the same value as more specific content such as mathematics and natural science. However, the child carers describe that the child’s own interests and needs always come before the curriculum and the child carers’ intentions.

Data material consists of transcriptions of semi-structured interviews with 15 child carers. The study design is built on a phenomenographic approach with focus on how people perceive something in a specific context. This approach is the basis for analysing the interviews in which characteristic categories are constructed for the curriculum described by the child carers.

Jonsson, A. (2011). ”Nuets didaktik. Förskolans lärare talar om läroplan för de yngsta”. Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet.