Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation

High quality is considered to be important for children’s development and learning in early childhood education. Swedish preschool teachers are required to systematically develop their practice and support children’s learning, using documentation and taking children’s interests into account. From a...

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Main Author: Katarina Elfström Pettersson
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus 2017-02-01
Series:Nordisk Barnehageforskning
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Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/1756
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spelling doaj-dbf3c66d530d477abe4a005b10f6f4e92020-11-25T02:32:53ZdanHøgskolen i Oslo og AkershusNordisk Barnehageforskning1890-91672017-02-011410.7577/nbf.17561756Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentationKatarina Elfström PetterssonHigh quality is considered to be important for children’s development and learning in early childhood education. Swedish preschool teachers are required to systematically develop their practice and support children’s learning, using documentation and taking children’s interests into account. From a posthumanist perspective, preschool documentation, models and templates could be seen as actively producing certain elements of quality.  Reading  documentation from eight Swedish preschool groups diffractively through different texts, such as the national curriculum, supportive texts and research, this article discusses how teachers’ actions and children’s interests are produced as important quality aspects in one of these groups.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/1756DocumentationEarly childhood educationPosthumanismPreschool quality
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Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
Nordisk Barnehageforskning
Documentation
Early childhood education
Posthumanism
Preschool quality
author_facet Katarina Elfström Pettersson
author_sort Katarina Elfström Pettersson
title Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
title_short Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
title_full Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
title_fullStr Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
title_full_unstemmed Teachers’ actions and children’s interests. Quality becomings in preschool documentation
title_sort teachers’ actions and children’s interests. quality becomings in preschool documentation
publisher Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus
series Nordisk Barnehageforskning
issn 1890-9167
publishDate 2017-02-01
description High quality is considered to be important for children’s development and learning in early childhood education. Swedish preschool teachers are required to systematically develop their practice and support children’s learning, using documentation and taking children’s interests into account. From a posthumanist perspective, preschool documentation, models and templates could be seen as actively producing certain elements of quality.  Reading  documentation from eight Swedish preschool groups diffractively through different texts, such as the national curriculum, supportive texts and research, this article discusses how teachers’ actions and children’s interests are produced as important quality aspects in one of these groups.
topic Documentation
Early childhood education
Posthumanism
Preschool quality
url https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/1756
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