The purpose of this study is to find out how teachers in preschool interact with children.

By unstructured observations of teachers in preschool I intend to find out how they interact with children. Is it possible to see that the operation is built on guided interaction speciality?

Positive interaction between adults and children is of importance to a good childhood and a child’s learning. I have asked myself how teachers interact with children in preschool. There are different ways of interaction. International Child Development Programme, ICDP, Guided interaction has named different ways of interaction. It is based on three dialogues which are divided into 8 themes. Each dialogue is directed to different parts in the interaction. The three dialogues are: The emotional dialogue, the meaning and extending dialogue, and finally the regulatory dialogue.

Teachers interact with children, in a positive way of interacting, and often without a thought of why, it is something they just do. What I saw was that the children received positive confirmation of the educators and the operation is built on ICDP’s interaction speciality.