Kindergarten as formative educational arena - children, students and teacher activity
The research group is developing an integrated research field in which the inner life and activity of the kindergarten, the political and historical conditions for practice and the kindergarten teacher education programme are studied and developed.
Head of Research Group
Members
Members
Here you will find a total list over all members in this group.
Members
- Aihua Hu
- Alicja Renata Sadownik
- Andrea Synnøve Søndergaard Eikset
- Anne Synnøve Ekrene Hammer
- Annette Stavseth Furnes
- Baizhen Ciren
- Birgitte Ivarhus Sollesnes
- Czarecah Tuppil Oropilla
- Elena Severina
- Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
- Hege Wergedahl
- Ida Lervik Midtbø
- Jannice Eikefet Berland
- Johanna Birkeland
- Jorunn Spord Borgen
- Kamal Prasad Acharya
- Karen Vibeke Klepsvik
- Kjerstin Sjursen
- Kristine Hjelle
- Laurent Gabriel Ndijuye
- Lillian Ylvisåker Pedersen
- Magni Elen Hope Lossius
- Margareth Eilifsen
- Maria Grindheim
- Marie Brandvoll Haukenes
- Marit Frimannslund
- Maritha Berger Nylund
- Modgun Ohm
- Nina Carson
- Olav Nikolai Helgøy
- Randi Moe
- Silje Østreim
- Thomas Mountjoy
- Tiri Beate Bergesen Schei
- Torunn Herfindal
- Trude Kyrkjebø
- Wenche Aasen
- Åsta Birkeland
The research filed is referred to as: Kindergarten as educational arena - studies of formative education and didactic practices in kindergartens and teacher training programmes.
The main areas for research content (and change work) are:
- Children as participants and explorers in kindergarten
- Historical and ideological conditions for pedagogical practice in kindergarten
- Educational practice, change and skills development
The research group studies formative education as a cultural tradition, experience and agent of change. Activity, exploring, formation of identity, agency and meaning are all different starting points for gaining a better understanding of how people are formed and, through participation, change their practice.
The research group works with describing, analysing and changing practices that provide children with the conditions for exploratory activity and the development of life skills in their everyday lives.
Projects
- MITED Making the invisable in teacher education visable
- Exploring outdoor play and activities for social and cultural sustainability in and across cultures
- Conditions for children as explorers
- Kindergarten pioneers
- The kindergarten teacher role - pedagogical leadership and guidance
- Dual Master Degree in Early Childhood Education
- Are they ready? A study on the transition from kindergarten to school in Norway, China, and Hong Kong
- Bullying as concept and phenomenon in kindergarten context
- Understandings, practices and conditions for critical reflection in kindergarten teacher education
- Bærekraftig utvikling i barnehager praksis
