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- Brantefors, Lotta, 1952-, et al.
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Human Rights Education as Democratic Education The Teaching Traditions of Children's Human Rights in Swedish Early Childhood Education and School
- 2019
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Ingår i: The International Journal of Children's Rights. - Pa Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 0927-5568 .- 1571-8182. ; 27:4, s. 694-718
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the teaching traditions of children's human rights in four levels of education in Swedish early childhood education and school by drawing on a three-year long didactic (Didaktik) research project on the teaching and learning of human rights. The purpose of the article is threefold. First, the aims, content and methods used in the teaching of the four levels are compiled. Second, the main characteristics of the observed teaching are analysed. Third, the question of why rights are taught is examined using Roberts' concept of curriculum emphases (1982). The article identifies the aims, content and methods used within each level of education and the main characteristics of the teaching of human rights and shows that the teaching of human rights often consists of the content themes interaction and the life conditions of others. When further analysed, the main conclusion is that the teaching tradition of human rights is strongly rooted in the fundamental and democratic values on which Swedish education is based (Education Act, 2010) - a democratic curriculum emphasis.
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- Due, Karin, 1953-, et al.
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Inte som i skolan - pedagoger positionerar naturvetenskap i förskolan : Preschool teachers talk about science – Positioning themselves and positioning science
- 2018
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Ingår i: NorDiNa. - : Naturfagsenteret. - 1504-4556 .- 1894-1257. ; 14:4, s. 411-426
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses how preschool teachers, who include a scientific content in their practice, describe their practice and their view of science in preschool. The study is based on 20 interviews in 9 Swedish preschools. The theoretical and analytical framework combine “communities of practice”(Lave & Wenger) and “positioning theory” (Harré & Langehove). The stories reveal a strong position for the pre-school curriculum and traditions. A prominent storyline is that Science in preschool is something different from science in school. This includes an anti-authoritarian view with a focus on ”the competent child”. The preschool teachers affirm fantasy, creativity and intuition as a part of science and they position science as easy to access. They also position themselves as pedagogues competent to manage science in preschool. One of the dilemmas is about letting children’s interests and initiatives drive the activities while educators curriculum-based goals have certain intentions to fulfill.
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- Evaldsson, Ann-Carita, 1958-, et al.
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"Don’t enter- its dangerous" : Negotiations for power and exclusion in preschool girls’ play interactions
- 2009
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Ingår i: Educational and Child Psychology. - Leicester, UK : British Psychological Society. - 0267-1611. ; 26:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Instead of focussing on the implications of children’s play for individual development, this study explores children’s play participation and their appropriation of cultural resources, as collective cultural productions. In short we are interested in the communicative competencies involved in the collective processes of social exclusion in girls’ play, and how these processes are part of children’s emerging peer culture and their place in the adult world. Data are drawn from ethnographic research in children’s peer groups in a preschool setting in Sweden. The approach taken combines ethnography with studies of talk-in-interaction. As demonstrated the girls in foci display complex communicative competencies (rejections of request for access, oppositions, ignorance, justifications, directives). In addition the girls creatively draw on cultural resources provided by the organization of the play activity (pretend characters, play-script, etc) to build social hierarchies, strengthen alignments of power, claim authoritative stances, casting some peer group members into more subordinate positions and excluding others. In so doing the girls creatively appropriate educational agendas and institutional rules of conduct, creating a locally shared peer culture, through appropriation and resistance, in the midst of play episodes.
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- Frödén, Sara, 1973-, et al.
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Guiding children towards individual and collective growth. Educative participatory experiences in a preschool setting
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Early Years Education. - : Routledge. - 0966-9760 .- 1469-8463.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is based on a fieldwork study that explored a 1-year-long process of integrating children's human rights-respecting practice in a preschool through a project with a popular culture theme. Drawing on John Dewey's educational theory, educative participatory experience is suggested as a useful concept to further understand and develop different forms of participation practices. The twofold aim of the article is to demonstrate the children's educative participatory experiences and relate these to the teacher's acknowledgement of both children's collective agency and their individual capacity to participate. The methods used are semi-structured interviews and video-documented and participatory observations. The data mainly consists of field notes, video recordings, photographs and transcripts. The results show that the teachers are viewing the children, and providing possibilities for them to act, as knowledgeable experts, competent conflict-solvers and reflective and caring practitioners. Furthermore, they consider both the children's individual and collective rights and responsibilities when creating a rights-respecting preschool environment.
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- Isenström, Lisa, 1972-
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Att utbilda rättighetsbärare : Med läraren i fokus när undervisning för mänskliga rättigheter i skolans yngre åldrar studeras
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Teaching children about human rights is an important step towards strengthening human rights internationally and schools are considered primary sites for children to develop human rights understandings, attitudes and behaviours. This dissertation explores the teachers’ role in educating children about their human rights. Focusing on the everyday school life of young children, a holistic approach to rights-learning is applied that includes not only learning about human rights but also developing rights-conscious values, attitudes and behaviours. Also included in the concept rights-learning is the formation of a self-conception as a rights-holder. Against this background the aim of this dissertation is to clarify the impact of teachers’ actions on the construction of young children’s rights-learning, and their self-conceptions as rights-holders.Theoretically, the dissertation combines: (i) rights theorisation; (ii) theorisation of differing discourses of children and childhood; and (iii) Foucauldian governmentality. From these, analytical concepts of rights-learning situations, teachers’ rights-teaching mentalities and privileged rightssubject positions are constructed. The data used in the study derives from classroom observations and interviews with teachers, as well as drawing on previous research.The findings highlight that in everyday school practice the teachers’ rights-teaching mentalities will privilege different rights-subject positions for the children and thereby construct children’s rights-learning in different ways. With a holistic approach to rights-learning, as something that occurs in various interactions and situations in everyday school life, the findings presented in this dissertation can provide new perspectives and enrich discussions on teaching and learning children’s human rights.
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- Sundberg, Bodil, 1966-, et al.
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Förskolans naturvetenskap i praktiken
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Enligt förskolans läroplan ska varje barn ges möjlighet att utveckla förståelse för naturvetenskap. Barnen ska stimuleras att aktivt undersöka sin omvärld och tänka själva kring naturvetenskap. De ska också ges möjlighet att dela sina tankar och uttrycka dem på ett kreativt sätt. Men hur gör man det i praktiken? Hur kan man som pedagog stötta ett barn så att det utvecklas i sin förmåga att ställa frågor och undersöka? Hur stöttar man barns reflektioner kring de erfarenheter de får via undersökande verksamhet? Och hur gör man det på ett sätt som stämmer med förskolans värdegrund och övriga uppdrag?I den här boken ger författarna en mängd konkreta och inspirerande exempel på hur några förskolor har valt att arbeta med naturvetenskap. Den forskning som boken bygger på visar att pedagogernas förhållningssätt till naturvetenskap, snarare än valet av innehåll, är avgörande för om barnen verkligen erbjuds en möjlighet att utveckla förståelse för naturvetenskap. Bokens exempel utgår därför från olika förhållningssätt som man kan ha i samband med naturvetenskapliga aktiviteter. Till varje kapitel hör en eller flera faktarutor där det naturvetenskapliga innehållet förklaras och knyts till generella bärande idéer inom naturvetenskapen.Boken spänner över stora delar av det naturvetenskapliga fältet, och visar att det finns många olika sätt att låta barn möta naturvetenskap på. Exemplen i boken vidgar gränserna för hur man kan arbeta med naturvetenskap i förskolan och öppnar för möjligheter till många lustfyllda, engagerande och lärande stunder med barnen.
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- Sundberg, Bodil, 1966-, et al.
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Opportunities for and obstacles to science in preschools : views from a community perspective
- 2018
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Ingår i: International Journal of Science Education. - : Routledge. - 0950-0693 .- 1464-5289. ; 40:17, s. 2061-2077
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, Activity Theory (AT) is used to analyse general patterns for how cultural and historical factors interact with the shaping of science activities in preschools. Data was produced from field notes, video observations, video stimulated recall group discussions and individual interviews with preschool teachers at fourteen preschool units, where science activities were described as a common feature of the practice. Two factors were found to be particularly important for how and whether science learning opportunities were afforded the children: the structure of the preschool community and the type of educational culture within it. In communities characterised by weak mutual commitment and without joint understanding of the purpose of the activities, the science learning objects of the activity often became fragmented and thereby elusive. This was also true for strong communities, with a shared approach and a joint understanding of the purpose of the science activities, but with educational cultures where science learning was not actively supported. In contrast, a strong community combined with an educational culture that allowed teachers to lead and intentionally frame the science content, offered child-centred science activities with clear science learning objects.
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- Sundberg, Bodil, 1966-, et al.
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Understanding preschool emergent science in a cultural historical context through Activity Theory
- 2016
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Ingår i: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1350-293X .- 1752-1807. ; 24:4, s. 567-580
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to explore how cultural factors interact with preschool teachers’ shaping of activities with science content, and also how Activity Theory (AT) as a theoretical framework can be useful for examining interrelations within preschool systems. Qualitative data was collected from three preschools in the form of guided group discussions with preschool teachers, observations and video recordings of activities, and stimulated recall discussions based on the recorded practices. The preschools displayed diverse approaches for experiencing and learning science, some with great creativity. In all preschools learning was integrated with care, upbringing and play. To support children’s interest and confidence was central. How science activities were shaped mainly depended on how children’s interests were allowed to govern practice. The use of AT as an analytical tool was proven to be effective in identifying the elements, relationships and tensions crucial for understanding the framing of science activities.
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