KINDknow - Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures
KINDknow is a research centre investigating knowledge about kindergartens, predominantly but not exclusively in Norway. The main aim of KINDknow is to explore how living together as social- and ecological citizens can be achieved through improving understandings of how local and global conditions affect practices in kindergartens.
The centre is located at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), but is a collaboration of researchers at HVL, UiT –The Arctic University of Norway and University of Stavanger. These institutions have large cohorts of kindergarten preservice teacher, located in two counties in the north and three counties in the west which have common strategic interests and cooperate closely to changing social and environmental milieus.
KINDknow Research topics
The centre aligns itself with the ideas in the United Nations’ Frameworks for Education for Sustainable Development and Futures, the Norwegian kindergarten act, as set out by the Norwegian government, and the curriculum, known as the Framework Plan (FWP). The research of the KINDknow centre will be closely linked to kindergarten teacher education (KTE), master education in kindergarten knowledge and PhD programme, particularly the Western Norway University of Applied Science´s programme ‘Bildung and pedagogical practices’. It will also inform and influence kindergarten teacher education research at partnership institutions, University of Tromsø and University of Stavanger who are partners in the project.
