Toddlers’ engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden

Annerbäck, Johanna,1985-Linköpings universitet,Tema Barn,Filosofiska fakulteten,Department of Thematic Studies–Child Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden (author)

This article explores toddler – place relationships outdoors during early childhood education in Sweden. Informed by Tim Ingold’s theorization of movement, we explore toddlers’ embodied engagements with the preschool playground and how the human–non-human environments become entangled. The results show that, just as in the wider world, the processes enabling and limiting toddlers’ engagements in the playground are continuously in motion. Toddler–place relationships are continuously created through a mutual dependence between human and non-human entities. In this sense, toddlers’ engagements with playgrounds are not separate from the place through which they engage, but change place.

Manni, Annika,1971-Umeå universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap(Swepub:umu)anma0195 (author)
Löfgren, Håkan,1968-Linköpings universitet,Utbildningsvetenskap,Tema Barn,Department of Thematic Studies–Child Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden(Swepub:liu)haklo15 (author)
Mårtensson, FredrikaDepartment of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Alnarp, Sweden (author)
Linköpings universitetTema Barn (creator_code:org_t)

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