Please do not disturb - maintaining and shielding of attentive dialogues in kinderkartens: Maintaining and shielding of attentive dialogues in kinderkartens

This article seeks to investigate how and why the attentive dialogues between children and pedagogues are often interrupted, and can be difficult to establish and protect. Through field observations, it becomes clear that even dedicated and professional pedagogues are affected both by interpersonal and intrapersonal interruptions, some being of avoidable nature and others being unavoidable. Through observation and interviews, the article proposes a taxonomy for the various interruptions and their causal origin and suggestions are brought forward for how undesirable interruptions can be prevented or at least reflected upon.