Field of work
Liv Torunn Grindheimn is a core researcher, and a co-leader of WP 6 Conditions for childrens exploration, at KINDknow - Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures and the leader of the research group Kindergarten as formative educational arena - children's, student's and teacher's activity
Her research is informed by children's sosiology, cultural-historical approach, philosophy and critical etnography. Her aims are to contribute to national, international and transdiciplinary approaches to sustainabilty for children's contemporay and future lives.
Courses taught
- Bachelor: Sustainable development by involvement
- Master: Kindergarten Knowledge
- MBA511 Kindergarten as arena for cultural formation and kindergarden teachers' professional assignment
Research areas
- play
- children as citizens
- sustainable education
- early childhood education
- exploration
Research groups
Selected publications
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Approaching Agency in Intra-Activities
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In the Best Interests of the Child From the Century of the Child to the Century of Sustainability
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Conflict Analysis: A Methodology for Exploring Children's Cultural Formation in Early Childhood Education
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Barnehagelæreren - en verdibygger
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Early Childhood Education For Sustainability Through Contradicting and Overlapping Dimensions