Prøveforelesning: Sidsel Boldermo v/ institutt for lærerutdanning og pedagogikk

Tittel på avhandlingen:  "Education for Social Sustainability. Meaning Making of Belonging in Diverse Early Childhood Settings"

Oppgitt prøveforelesningstekst: 

«Belonging, togetherness and social sustainability in the context of cultural-historical theory»

Clarify the concept social sustainability theoretically and critically. Relate social sustainability to belonging and togetherness, and discuss how cultural-historical theory is useful in analyzing belonging, togetherness and social sustainability.

Prøveforelesningen vil avholdes digitalt og streames på mediasite: https://mediasite.uit.no/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/0096862e4ab540768373c1de62251d7821 

Disputas avholdes samme dag kl 11.45.  

Avhandlinen er tilgjengelig i Munin: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19925

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag:

In this study, the education for social sustainability is brought together with concepts such as belonging and diversity in the context of Norwegian early childhood education. Specifically, the study examines how early childhood education for social sustainability can be understood through children with migrant backgrounds’ meaning making of belonging in kindergarten. The data material consists of a literature review, participatory observations, field notes, photos, and video recordings from field works in kindergarten. The findings disclose that already among two-year-olds, negotiations of membership and being part are highly influenced by prevailing features in the peer culture and the drawing of boundaries of ‘us’ and ‘them’. Another finding illustrates that local and global networks outside of home and kindergarten, can provide conditions for children’s meaning making of belonging through the use of places and artefacts within the kindergarten. The study put forward that early childhood education for sustainability should move beyond the narrative of children as agents for change and solvers of problems made by adult generations. Future heterogeneous societies demand new understandings of how meaning making of belonging are ongoing in children’s diverse communities, in order to safeguard inclusive kindergarten practices for socially sustainable societies to come.

Veiledere:

Hovedveileder professor Elin Eriksen Ødegaard, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

Biveileder professor Susanne Garvis, Gøteborgs universitet/Swinburne University

Opponenter:

1. opponent: Professor Lasse Lipponen, University of Helsinki
2. opponent: Professor Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Mälardalen University

Professor Gry Paulgaard har ledet bedømmelseskomiteen.

Disputasleder
Instituttleder Helge Habbestad, Institutt for lærerutdanning og pedagogikk, UiT Norges arktiske universitet

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