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dc.contributor.advisorØdegaard, Elin Eriksen
dc.contributor.authorBoldermo, Sidsel
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-27T12:23:59Z
dc.date.available2020-11-27T12:23:59Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-18
dc.description.abstractThis study examines how early childhood education for social sustainability can be understood through children with migrant backgrounds’ meaning making of belonging in kindergarten. ‘Belonging’ is conceptualised as relationally negotiated and practised, as well as an individual experiential state, and the study’s epistemological and ontological premise is situated within social constructionism and cultural-historical theory. The data material consists of a literature review, and of participatory observations, field notes, photos, and video recordings from field works conducted in two urban multicultural kindergartens. The study’s findings reveal that as early childhood research on social sustainability has conceptualised children as citizens, problem-solvers, and agents of change, the situations for children with migrant backgrounds appear as to be invisible in such a context. Further, the study disclose that even among two-year-old children in diverse early childhood settings, the negotiations of membership and being part are highly influenced by features in the peer culture, symbol systems and hierarchies. Another finding illustrates that semi-institutional environments such as local and global networks outside of the traditional institutions, 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 as the premises for socially sustainable societies’ being shaped in early childhood, early childhood education for sustainability should move beyond the narrative of children as agents of change and solvers of problems made by adult generations. The study argues the necessity to take into consideration that future heterogeneous societies demand new understandings of how different ways of meaning making of belonging are ongoing in children’s diverse communities already from their early years on, in order to safeguard inclusive kindergarten practices for sustainable societies to come.en_US
dc.description.abstractDenne studien undersøker hvordan utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling kan forstås gjennom barn med migrantbakgrunns meningsskaping av tilhørighet i barnehagen. Begrepet ‘tilhørighet’ er konseptualisert både som relasjonelt forhandlet og praktisert, så vel som en individuell opplevelsestilstand. Studiens epistemologiske og ontologiske premiss ligger innenfor sosial konstruksjonisme og kulturhistorisk teori. Datamaterialet består av en litteraturstudie, og av deltakende observasjoner, feltnotater, bilder og videoopptak fra feltarbeid i to urbane flerkulturelle barnehager. Studiens funn avdekker at ettersom forskning på bærekraftig utvikling i barnehage i stor grad har konseptualisert barn som medborgere, problemløsere og endringsagenter, synes situasjonen for barn med migrantbakgrunn å være neglisjert i en slik sammenheng. Videre viser studien at allerede blant to-åringer er forhandlingene om medlemskap og det å være en del av et fellesskap sterkt påvirket av trekk i jevnalderkulturen, symbolsystemer og hierarkier. Et annet funn illustrerer at semi-institusjonelle miljøer som lokale og globale nettverk utenfor hjem og barnehage, kan skape forutsetninger for barns meningsskaping av tilhørighet gjennom bruk av steder og artefakter i barnehagen. Studien fremhever at ettersom premissene for sosialt bærekraftige samfunn formes allerede i tidlig barndom, bør utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling i barnehage bevege seg utover narrativet om barn som endringsagenter og problemløsere. Studien argumenterer for at fremtidens heterogene og mangfoldige samfunn krever en ny forståelse for de ulike former for meningsskaping av tilhørighet som pågår i barns fellesskap allerede fra tidlig barndom av, for å sikre inkluderende barnehagepraksiser og bærekraftige samfunn.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractIn 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.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUiT, NECA Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council), BARNkunne NFR.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/19925
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.relation.haspart<p>Paper 1: Boldermo, S. & Ødegaard E.E. (2019). What about the migrant children? The state-of-the-art in research claiming social sustainability. <i>Sustainability, 11</i>(2), 459. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15808> https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15808</a>. <p>Paper 2: Boldermo, S. (2019). Practicing Belonging in Kindergarten: Children’s Use of Places and Artifacts. In Garvis, S., Harju-Luukkainen, H., Sheridan, S. & Williams, P. (Eds.), <i>Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education</i> (pp 61-79). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (Accepted manuscript version). Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15596> https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15596</a>. Published version available at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16866-7_4>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16866-7_4</a>. <p>Paper 3: Boldermo, S. (2020). Fleeting moments: Young children’s negotiations of belonging and togetherness. <i>International Journal of Early Years Education, 28</i>(2), 136–150. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19068>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19068</a>.en_US
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.titleEducation for Social Sustainability. Meaning Making of Belonging in Diverse Early Childhood Settingsen_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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