KINDknow - Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures
KINDknow generates knowledge that is locally sensitive and internationally relevant. International comparative surveys combined with qualitative, close-to-practice research approaches provide overviews over the diversity of early childhood education and inspiring insights into local practices.
The use of participatory designs aims to empower kindergarten teachers and children as actors in the field, enhance synergies between the academics, kindergartens and communities, but also reconstructing the multi-voiced, complex worlds of practice(s).
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.
International PhD event
On the 26th and 27th of November KINDknow and Conceptual PlayLab in Monash University in Australia are arranging an international online event for PhD students. In 2018 KINDknow and Conceptual PlayLab started the planning of an event where PhD students and their supervisors were going to meet in Oxford University. Since we were not able to meet physically the event has been made into a digital event.
The event is designed to open up space for dialogue on concepts used in culturalhistorical research. Presenters and participants will collectively discuss concepts in relation to their empirical studies. The event aims to advance thinking on cultural-historical concepts. To achieve this aim, the event will encourage those attending ISCAR or other major conferences, to present and receive feedback on their draft papers/posters.
In keeping with the oral tradition of the cultural-historical community, this event is designed to focus on the theoretical concepts of crisis, learning and development and crisis, play and learning. We invite presenters to orient their work towards crisis, development, learning and/or play.
If you are interessted in joing this event please contact us: maria.grindheim@hvl.no