Books by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalence that are actualised when seeking to ... more This book investigates and uncover paradoxes and ambivalence that are actualised when seeking to make the right choices in the best interests of the child. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established a milestone for the 20th century. Many of these ideas still stand, but time calls for new resections, empirical descriptions and knowledge as provided in this book. Special attention is directed to the conceptualisation of children and childhood cultures, the missing voices of infants and fragile children, as well as transformations during times of globalisation and change. All chapters contribute to understand and discuss aspects of societal demands and cultural conditions for modern day children age 0–18, accompanied by pointers to their future.
Springer, 2019
This book provides a philosophical, socio-political and theoretical understanding of the notion o... more This book provides a philosophical, socio-political and theoretical understanding of the notion of Becoming in the context of the related concepts, and in contemplation of the notion of Being. Deriving from different traditions from various countries, these concepts act as windows on contemporary early years settings and communities around the world where adults map out infant becomings. This book is a valuable resource for early childhood educators, students, professionals, researchers, and policy makers around the globe who seek to understand the locatedness of infant becomings in space and time.
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation, 2020
The open access book Children’s Exploration and Cultural Formation examines the educational condi... more The open access book Children’s Exploration and Cultural Formation examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of activities in different settings with social relationships, local landscapes and artefacts. The book builds on the understanding of cultural traditions as deeply implicated in the developmental processes, meaning that local considerations must be reflected in education for sustainable futures. Therefore the book examines and conceptualises exploration and cultural formation through locally situated cases and navigates toward global educational concepts. The book provides different windows into how children may explore in everyday practice settings in kindergarten, and contributes to a loci-based, ecological, integral knowledge relevant for early childhood education.
This study aimed to investigate research articles that relate to education for sustainability, pr... more This study aimed to investigate research articles that relate to education for sustainability, primarily in early childhood, in order to describe to what extent a holistic perspective on education for sustainability has been applied, and how the social dimension is conceptualized. The review comprised research articles in Nordic Journals of Education, International Journals of Early Childhood Education, and International Journals of Education/Environmental/Sustainability education. The findings disclosed that researchers within the field of education for sustainability acknowledged, to a large extent, environmental, economic, and social aspects, and thus applied a holistic perspective. This review shows, however, that even if the social dimension were conceptualized as strongly related to topics such as social justice, citizenship, and the building of stable societies, few articles have investigated diversity, multicultural perspectives, or migrant children's situations in the context of early childhood education for sustainability. This review discloses that the concept of belonging is rarely used in connection to migrants and refugees in research on early childhood education for sustainability. A further argument encourages the inclusion of these aspects in further research which claims social sustainability.
Sammendrag: Artikkelen presenterer resultater fra en studie om praksislaereres doxa. Gjennom en M... more Sammendrag: Artikkelen presenterer resultater fra en studie om praksislaereres doxa. Gjennom en Mixed Methods-studie gis innsikt i hvordan barnehagelaerere (praksislaerere) snakker om hvordan, når og hvorfor de observerer. Analyse av praksislaereres italesettelser gir innsikt i diskursive vilkår praksisstudier gir for studenters laering om observasjon. Studien indikerer et brudd mellom barnehagelaererutdanningens mål og undervisning og praksislaerernes bruk av og begrunnelser for observasjon. Studien viser at barnehagelaerere oppgir samspill barnbarn og språk som hovedfokus i observasjonsarbeidet, mens barns medvirkning ikke oppgis som fokus. Videre viser studien at praksislaerere i svaert liten grad bruker systematisk og skriftlig observasjon i det daglige arbeidet. De oppgir mangel på tid som årsak til dette. Forfatterne reiser spørsmål om hvorvidt dette også kan skyldes mangel på nyere metodekunnskap.
This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark... more This book brings together key authors from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) to discuss theoretical and empirical research on families and children. Sharing the Nordic perspective from each of the five countries, the book highlights key ideas within and across the countries. The chapters provide an understanding of the history of the Nordic perspectives of family and children, present current innovative research on solutions to complex issues, and explore contemporary issues. Nordic countries continually attain high scores in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children's outcomes. Much of this has to do with the specific culture and policy of the Nordic countries. Written by academics within the region who are well regarded for contributing to academic and public debate, this book will appeal to an international audience interested in the Nordic perspective and social policy around family and children.
This article will address methodological issues concerning the making of knowledge.
Drawing on a ... more This article will address methodological issues concerning the making of knowledge.
Drawing on a recent case study from an early childhood educational setting, I will give detailed descriptions of
the process of video analysis including the process of transcription and the uses of logs. An aspiration is to create
transparency by displaying an analytical process as dynamic, and show how theoretical positions and the
researcher her/himself is intertwined in the construction of the empirical base, and thereby in the construction of
knowledge. A meta-case is made, and will thereby serve as an example of epistemological reflexivity; how a
process of analysis gives certain views and certain truths. To put it in a narrative idiom, this article contains a
researcher’s learning story about the importance of looking at someone looking through a pirate’s telescope, to
put it in words indicating a meta perspective on a case study called Captain Andreas and his Crew (Ødegaard
2006a, 2007). The article will also, on the basis of a creation of a meta-case, contribute to rethinking truths of
children’s meaning-making, gender- and identity-work; boys using swords for battles, as the mention of pirates
indicates. The article will problematize whether boys using swords for play battles necessarily can be seen as
gendering stereotype masculinity.
The aim of this chapter is to illuminate a cultural-historical understanding of a relatively stab... more The aim of this chapter is to illuminate a cultural-historical understanding of a relatively stable and dominant educational idea in Norway and Sweden: education for democracy. The chapter will examine why approaches associated with education for democracy have taken the direction they have. An argument will be put forward that education for democracy and through democratic approaches has developed in close relation to political events and philosophical ideas active in Sweden and Norway. Ideological conditions have formed a habitus of folksiness that corresponds to democratic values. By describing and analyzing what the national curricula articulate in terms of democratic values, the logic of current early childhood education (ECE) practice can be understood. How democratic ideas circulate in everyday practice will be illustrated by a vignette taken from a recent kindergarten study called Circles of Participation .
Subject is then shown drawings of: bird-rifle-dagger-bullet. "The swallow doesn't fit here…No…thi... more Subject is then shown drawings of: bird-rifle-dagger-bullet. "The swallow doesn't fit here…No…this is a rifle. It's loaded with a bullet and kills the swallow. Then you have to cut the bird up with the dagger, since there is no other way to do it." [-] But these are weapons. What about the swallow? "No, it's not a weapon." So that means these three go together and the swallow doesn't? "No, the bird has to be there too, otherwise, there'll be nothing to shoot." (Luria 1976, pp. 56-57; italics and bold in original)
Papers by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Perspectives in cultural-historical research, 2024
Perspectives in cultural-historical research, 2024
Perspectives in cultural-historical research, 2024
Beyond Observations, 2015
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Books by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Drawing on a recent case study from an early childhood educational setting, I will give detailed descriptions of
the process of video analysis including the process of transcription and the uses of logs. An aspiration is to create
transparency by displaying an analytical process as dynamic, and show how theoretical positions and the
researcher her/himself is intertwined in the construction of the empirical base, and thereby in the construction of
knowledge. A meta-case is made, and will thereby serve as an example of epistemological reflexivity; how a
process of analysis gives certain views and certain truths. To put it in a narrative idiom, this article contains a
researcher’s learning story about the importance of looking at someone looking through a pirate’s telescope, to
put it in words indicating a meta perspective on a case study called Captain Andreas and his Crew (Ødegaard
2006a, 2007). The article will also, on the basis of a creation of a meta-case, contribute to rethinking truths of
children’s meaning-making, gender- and identity-work; boys using swords for battles, as the mention of pirates
indicates. The article will problematize whether boys using swords for play battles necessarily can be seen as
gendering stereotype masculinity.
Papers by Elin Eriksen Ødegaard
Drawing on a recent case study from an early childhood educational setting, I will give detailed descriptions of
the process of video analysis including the process of transcription and the uses of logs. An aspiration is to create
transparency by displaying an analytical process as dynamic, and show how theoretical positions and the
researcher her/himself is intertwined in the construction of the empirical base, and thereby in the construction of
knowledge. A meta-case is made, and will thereby serve as an example of epistemological reflexivity; how a
process of analysis gives certain views and certain truths. To put it in a narrative idiom, this article contains a
researcher’s learning story about the importance of looking at someone looking through a pirate’s telescope, to
put it in words indicating a meta perspective on a case study called Captain Andreas and his Crew (Ødegaard
2006a, 2007). The article will also, on the basis of a creation of a meta-case, contribute to rethinking truths of
children’s meaning-making, gender- and identity-work; boys using swords for battles, as the mention of pirates
indicates. The article will problematize whether boys using swords for play battles necessarily can be seen as
gendering stereotype masculinity.