The aim with this study is to, from educators' perspective, contribute with knowledge about the significance of homework for pupils' learning. This aim has been broken down into the following issues:
The method used to seek answers to the issues is qualitative interviews with four educators. All are active teachers in primary and middle school, and they have diffrent long experience of working with homework. What emerged from the interviews was that the homework was for rehearsal and to consolidate knowledge but also so the parents would get an insight into their child's work at school. The homework was also seen as a challange by the educators'. They argue that pupils receive diffrent amount of help at home, and that it may be perceived as unfair, because everyone learns at diffrent rates.
One conclusion drawn was that the pedagogues' had similar ways of looking at the homework and why the homework exists in school. To consolidate knowledge was the main reason that pupuils' were given homework and the pedagogues' perceived homework as negative in some respects with the regard to the unfair part of homework.