Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool

Published:2023-12-12 Issue:1 Volume:31 Page:13-29
ISSN:0907-5682
Container-title:Childhood
language:en
Short-container-title:Childhood

Author:

Ekman Ladru Danielle¹^ORCID,Millei Zsuzsa²,Andersen Camilla Eline³,Gawlicz Katarzyna⁴,Gustafson Katarina⁵,Lappalainen Sirpa⁶

Affiliation:

1. Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

2. University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

3. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

4. University of Lower Silesia, Wrocław, Poland

5. Department of education, Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden

6. Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

Abstract

Ideas of nature, nation and childhood are intertwined in Nordic early childhood education. We explore in ethnographic data the ways nature is taught in Swedish mobile preschools. We show how everyday nationalism manifests in the teaching practices of ‘good’ pedagogy in nature. We argue that depending on who is teaching and learning, various constructions of nationhood emerge enabling the re-imagination of a single national imaginary to a plural one.

Funder

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Sociology and Political Science,Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Life-span and Life-course Studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09075682231218805

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