Browsing Artikler (Articles) by Subject "ECEC"
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A Continuum Deconstructed: Exploring how Day-care Staff’s Discursive Practices Construct Children as Possibly Impaired
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Based on interviews and fieldwork in Norwegian day-care institutions, I examine day-care staffs’ descriptions of children suspected of, but not (yet) diagnosed as, having impairments. The main research question is: how do ... -
Before, During, and After Examination: Development of Prospective Preschool Teachers’ Mathematics-Related Enjoyment and Self-Efficacy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article examines the stability of Norwegian prospective preschool teachers’ enjoyment of mathematics and their mathematics-related self-efficacy before, during, and after a teacher-education examination. In addition, ... -
Bridging or Bonding: An Organizational Framework for Studying Social Capital in Kindergartens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The article develops our understanding of social capital by analyzing social capital as an organizational phenomenon. The analysis is based on qualitative data consisting of interviews and documents obtained from six ... -
Empathic Expressions among Three-year-olds in play and interaction in ECEC institutions in Norway: Bodily empathic Expressions ourposed for peers' wellbeing and confirming relationships.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article is based on video observations of three-year-old children’s empathic expressions in the context of playful interactions in Early Childhood and care institutions (ECEC) in Norway. The data were analysed within ... -
Injuries in Norwegian early childhood and care (ECEC) institutions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Children’s play and exploration involves risk and a possibility for being injured. Early childhood and care institutions (ECECs) should provide children with physical challenges in a safe environment. Over the past years, ... -
Pedagogiske identiteter i norsk barnehagepolitikk fra 1970–årene og fram til i dag
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The purpose of this article is to illuminate various pedagogic identities in Norwegian White Papers directed to Early Childhood Education and Care institutions. In this article, I present a study of eight White Papers ... -
Risky Play and Children’s Well-Being, Involvement and Physical Activity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Children’s activities and experiences in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) institutions are essential for children’s present and future lives. Playing is a vital activity in childhood, and playing is found to be ... -
Teaching Cultural Heritage In Culturally Diverse Early Childhood Centres In Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article discusses teaching cultural heritage in culturally diverse Early Childhood Centres (ECCs) in Norway. What type of cultural heritage should be conveyed in an ECC with cultural diversity, and in what ways can ... -
The Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care institution as a learning arena: autonomy and positioning of the pedagogic recontextualising field with the increase in state control of ECEC content
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)When the responsibility for ECEC institutions was placed under Ministry of Education and Research in 2006, the ECEC institution as a learning area was brought in to the foreground in early education and care policy. Norwegian ... -
"We Don't Allow Children to Climb Trees": How a Focus on Safety Affects Norwegian Children's Play in Early-Childhood Education and Care Settings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)On one hand, we want to keep children as safe as possible; on the other, learning to take risks is a normal part of childhood and child development. In Norway, research has shown that early-childhood education and care ...