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Children, sub-headings and verbal discussions creating evaluations: acknowledging the productiveness of ambivalence
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Child and Youth Studies.
2018 (English)In: Pedagogy, Culture & Society, ISSN 1468-1366, E-ISSN 1747-5104, Vol. 26, no 3, p. 363-379Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Drawing on the empirical case of an evaluation meeting in a Stockholm preschool as well as participant observations over a period of 10 months, this paper uses an Actor-Network Theory methodology to explores the actors and relations that emerge when an evaluations are made. The principle of general symmetry is used to create knowledge of the way evaluations are made from relations among teachers, children’s games, toy guns, evaluation goals and sub-headings. The study specifically highlights the ability of verbal discussions to embrace ambivalence in relation to, for example, everyday children’s games with toy guns in the preschool. The paper argues that ambivalence is productive and influential in the evaluation process, even though it is not included in final evaluation texts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2018. Vol. 26, no 3, p. 363-379
Keywords [en]
Preschool,  curriculum,  children,  evaluation,  Actor-Network Theory
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Didactics
Research subject
Early Childhood Education
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148628DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2017.1403951ISI: 000437465000003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-148628DiVA, id: diva2:1154391
Available from: 2017-11-02 Created: 2017-11-02 Last updated: 2022-02-28Bibliographically approved
In thesis
1. Breakdowns, overlaps and ambivalence: an Actor-network theory study of the Swedish preschool curriculum
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Breakdowns, overlaps and ambivalence: an Actor-network theory study of the Swedish preschool curriculum
2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Within the discipline of early childhood education research, the present study will focus on the Swedish preschool curriculum text, using a sociomaterial approach offered by Actor-network theory (ANT). The study adopts ethnographic methods, foremost participant observations in a preschool, to generate knowledge of how the curriculum text comes to act through moments in the everyday preschool work. The doctoral thesis consists of three research papers. Research paper I explores the delayed access to the field through the occurrence of a water leak. Through the focus on the value of breakdowns in ANT, the water leak becomes an empirical event where the researcher is allowed to learn about the mundane objects and practices making a preschool work, such as schedules and lists. Research paper II reports on the case of the curriculum concept of children´s interests (Moberg, 2017). Here, empirical moments are highlighted where the curriculum concept of children´s interests is defined and made to act by children and materialities. Finally, research paper III (Moberg, in press) reports on the case of an evaluation meeting where an evaluation text is to be produced. Here, the curriculum text is highlighted as vulnerable in its inability of embracing pedagogical dilemmas and ambivalence in the preschool everyday work.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm University: Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, 2017
Keywords
Curriculum, preschool, actor-network theory, texts, children, materiality
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Early Childhood Education
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148631 (URN)978-91-7797-075-0 (ISBN)978-91-7797-076-7 (ISBN)
Public defence
2017-12-20, Nordenskiöldsalen, Geovetenskapens hus, Svante Arrhenius väg 12, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Manuscript. Paper 3: Accepted.

Available from: 2017-11-27 Created: 2017-11-02 Last updated: 2022-02-28Bibliographically approved

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