Roller och förväntningar - En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares resonemang kring deras anmälningsskyldighet
(2014) SOPA63 20132School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Author: Linn Adolfsson & Emma Ljungsten
Title: Roller och förväntningar – En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares resonemang kring deras anmälningsskyldighet
Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren
In Sweden there are many children who are in need of help from the social services. For the social service to be able to do their job, and help the children and their family, they need people to notify them about the children who might need their support. Because of this there is a law in Sweden saying that all the professionals who meet with children within their professions need to notify the social service if they suspect that a child might need their help. The school and the teachers are the ones who have the best possibility to notice these... (More) - Author: Linn Adolfsson & Emma Ljungsten
Title: Roller och förväntningar – En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares resonemang kring deras anmälningsskyldighet
Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren
In Sweden there are many children who are in need of help from the social services. For the social service to be able to do their job, and help the children and their family, they need people to notify them about the children who might need their support. Because of this there is a law in Sweden saying that all the professionals who meet with children within their professions need to notify the social service if they suspect that a child might need their help. The school and the teachers are the ones who have the best possibility to notice these children but research shows that not all of the suspected cases are notified to the social service. There are few studies that examine why teachers do not notify the social service or how the teachers feel about their obligation to report. Research shows that preschool teachers report fewer times than teachers who teach older kids. The purpose with this study was to examine how preschool teachers reason about their obligation to report suspicion that a child is being abused. To better understand how preschool teachers reason about their obligation to report we interviewed 8 preschool teachers. The results from the interviews were analyzed with role-set theory and we found that preschool teachers have multiple relationships (e.g. with the children, parents, colleagues, the principal and the social service) they need to take into consideration before they make a decision whether they should report or not. The preschool teachers also have a wealth of expectations from these different relationships that could help them in making a decision but the expectations can also influence the preschool teachers not to report. All of these relationships and expectations are factors that preschool teachers need to deal with in their daily work and the factors affect them when they have a suspicion about child maltreatment. (Less)
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- Adolfsson, Linn LU and Ljungsten, Emma LU
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- SOPA63 20132
- year
- 2014
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- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- Preschool teacher, obligation to report, maltreatment, role-set theory
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- Swedish
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- 4255042
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Title: Roller och förväntningar – En kvalitativ studie om förskollärares resonemang kring deras anmälningsskyldighet
Supervisor: Mikael Sandgren
In Sweden there are many children who are in need of help from the social services. For the social service to be able to do their job, and help the children and their family, they need people to notify them about the children who might need their support. Because of this there is a law in Sweden saying that all the professionals who meet with children within their professions need to notify the social service if they suspect that a child might need their help. The school and the teachers are the ones who have the best possibility to notice these children but research shows that not all of the suspected cases are notified to the social service. There are few studies that examine why teachers do not notify the social service or how the teachers feel about their obligation to report. Research shows that preschool teachers report fewer times than teachers who teach older kids. The purpose with this study was to examine how preschool teachers reason about their obligation to report suspicion that a child is being abused. To better understand how preschool teachers reason about their obligation to report we interviewed 8 preschool teachers. The results from the interviews were analyzed with role-set theory and we found that preschool teachers have multiple relationships (e.g. with the children, parents, colleagues, the principal and the social service) they need to take into consideration before they make a decision whether they should report or not. The preschool teachers also have a wealth of expectations from these different relationships that could help them in making a decision but the expectations can also influence the preschool teachers not to report. All of these relationships and expectations are factors that preschool teachers need to deal with in their daily work and the factors affect them when they have a suspicion about child maltreatment.}},
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