Field of work
Elin Eriksen Ødegaard is research director at 'KINDknow - centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures', also called BARNkunne in Norwegian. She is a capacity builder with commitments to sustainability and equity in early years.
She researches in the areas of early childhood education and teacher education with particular attention to conditions for children's cultural formation and teachers transformative practices. Keywords in her research are often: play, exploration, collaborative narratives and dialogic engagement. She produced the animated film 'Becoming .- the first 1000 days of early childhood.
Prize: FoU Prisen - 2013 For excellence in research concerning children's collaborative meaning-making, narratives and play and for capacity building and research leadership.
Current roles of trust
- Professor II at University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway
- Member of Executive Committee in World Organisation for Early Childhood Education - OMEP)
- Vice President in Association for Visual Pedagogy (AVP)
- Member of the board of NAFOL- The National Research Scool for Teacher Education
- Scientific Advisor for 'Playful learning Research' led by Helle Skovbjerg, Founded by Lego Foundation
- Scientific Advisor for 'The Second Language Learners Plus Intervention' led byv Kari-Anne B. Næss, financed av NFR, UiO and HVL
- Scientific Advisor for 'Play responsive teaching' led by Niklas Pramling, University of Gothenburg
- Member of the board 'International Journal of play'
- Collaborative Editor in Chief of Nordic Journal of Early Childhood Research
Current projects
- Exploration and cultural formation – climate and weather-landscapes
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Courses taught
- Kindergarten as an arena for cultural formation
Research areas
- 'Becoming' and 'Cultural formation', 'Exploration', EX-PED-LAB, and 'narrative inquiry,
Research groups
Selected publications
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Strengthening the Call for Intentional Intergenerational Programmes towards Sustainable Futures for Children and Families
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Reimagining “Collaborative Exploration”—A Signature Pedagogy for Sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care
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Childhood Cultures in Transformation 30 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Action towards Sustainability
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Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
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Local Weather Events: Stories of Pedagogical Practice as Possible Cultures of Exploration