“…When educators then plan and perform activities aiming to benefit preschoolers' language, they presumably take their starting point as theories they are familiar with and have learned during their training, and what research has more or less explicitly presented as the best and most applicable (Hvit, 2015;Norling, 2014;Sheridan and Gjems, 2017). What the research literature, as well as assessments of Swedish preschool services, then shows is that it seems theories within the sociocultural field, together with social constructionism and sometimes post-perspectives, are the priority in educators' interpretation of the curriculum (Brostr€ om et al, 2014;Jonsson et al, 2017;Sheridan and Williams, 2018;Swedish Schools Inspectorate, 2018 (henceforth SSI); Tallberg Broman et al, 2015;Vallberg Roth, 2018).…”