| Summary: | <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">The aim of this article is to analyse teachers’ changing ways of talking about children’s aesthetic learn-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">ing in the early years as a result of a research and development project. With a point of departure in developmen-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">tal and variation theory, a praxis oriented project was designed with the aim of finding out whether collaborative </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">talk and meta-cognitive dialogues could contribute to children’s learning of music, dance and poetry. The partici-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">pating teachers were offered in-service training in order to develop a new way of teaching and new ways of think-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">ing about the curriculum and children’s learning. Interviews with the teachers were carried out at the beginning </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">and the end of the project. The teachers’ learning was expressed in changed ways of talking about aesthetics and </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">learning. From an emphasis on personality development and the teacher’s lack of expertise with the aesthetic sub-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">jects as an obstacle, the teachers expressed a view of having become more aware of the concept of learning objects </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">in the aesthetics, of their own role as teachers in directing children’s attention and to listen to children. The teach-<span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">ers thus gained a new way of talking about themselves as teachers and about children’s learning within music, </p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Times;">dance and poetry. </p>
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