• Barnehagelærere med ny identitet. Ikke lenger profesjonsnomader? 

      Skauge, Tom Roger; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Kvitastein, Olav Andreas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2023-08-15)
      When professionals leave the profession for which they were trained, it is reasonable to assume that society has a challenge. Important theoretical and practical expertise and knowledge leave the sector. Often, escape routes from a profession are also a signal that those who are professionally educated are not satisfied with the working conditions at their workplace - a signal of an identity crisis ...
    • The Coronavirus Pandemic and Lessons Learned in Preschools in Norway, Sweden and the United States: OMEP Policy Forum 

      Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling; Wagner, Judith; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-17)
      The novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has moved rapidly across the world in 2020. This article reports on the recent consequences of the pandemic for early childhood education in Sweden, Norway, and the United States. The authors illustrate the effects of the pandemic on preschools in their countries, against a backdrop of frequent changes in infection and mortality rates, epidemiological ...
    • Dialogue about “learning” across the Northern Norway-Russia border: An analysis of textbooks in kindergarten teacher education 

      Merzliakova, Elena; Gradovski, Mikhail; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-03-16)
      This paper is the first in a series of three studies that explore the pedagogy used in the Norwegian and Russian early childhood settings by examining texts that are part of the syllabus in two early childhood teacher education programs that participated in our project with student international exchanges. The study explores how Mikhail Bakhtin’s notion of dialogue relates to the concept of ‘learning’ ...
    • Global Paradoxes and Provocations in Education: Exploring Sustainable Futures for Children and Youth 

      Borgen, Jorunn Spord; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2021)
      Global trends in education are accompanied by both paradoxes and provocations. The paradoxes constitute inherent educational dilemmas, such as the paradox of institutional education, wherein social rules and mandatory tasks are played out as a means of imparting lessons about freedom and independence. Our argument in this chapter is that we should reconsider the ‘future’ of planned and controlled ...
    • Hva er verdt å vite om observasjon i dagens barnehage? Metodologi i endring mellom tradisjon,ny vitenskap og personlig kunnskap 

      Birkeland, Johanna; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-10-28)
      Artikkelens utgangspunkt er en problematisering av kunnskapsgrunnlaget for metodeundervisningen i barnehagelærerutdanningen (BLU). Tidligere forskning avdekker manglende sammenheng mellom utdanningskvalifisering og yrkespraksis. Metodologisk kunnskap er sentralt for å kunne gjøre kvalifiserte valg og for å kunne utvikle og endre personlige og profesjonelle praksiser. Vi argumenterer for ...
    • Observation as a professional tool in Norwegian kindergartens and kindergarten teacher education 

      Birkeland, Johanna; Baste, Valborg; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-20)
      Observation has a long history in kindergarten teachers' education and profession. This research investigates observation as a professional tool in Norwegian kindergartens and as a topic in kindergarten teacher education. Based on a survey among 1311 in-service teachers, kindergarten managers, and pedagogy teachers, this study determines the use of and rationale for observation in kindergarten ...
    • Visualising Epistemological Perspectives Using Symbols and Metaphors to Research Sustainability 

      Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Myrstad, Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-22)
      This study articulates the epistemological underpinnings of a web banner’s visual elements featured on the webpage of the research centre, Kindergarten Knowledge Centre for Systemic Research on Diversity and Sustainable Futures (KINDknow). Through interdisciplinary work within a diverse framework including dialogical, cultural, historical, systemic, anthropological and more-than-human epistemological ...
    • What about the migrant children? The state-of-the-art in research claiming social sustainability 

      Boldermo, Sidsel; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-16)
      This study aimed to investigate research articles that relate to education for sustainability, primarily in early childhood, in order to describe to what extent a holistic perspective on education for sustainability has been applied, and how the social dimension is conceptualized. <br>The review comprised research articles in Nordic Journals of Education, International Journals of Early Childhood ...