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Introduction
I work on developing theoretical concepts that can help us understand the ways in which human beings participate in and contribute to a social world. I am engaged in qualitative psychological and educational research centered on the everyday lives of children in societal arrangements such as day care, school, and so forth. The aim of my research is to raise a critical voice developed with a point of departure from an analytical first-person perspective of concrete children and their adults.
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September 2012 - February 2025
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This article analyzes the possibilities and obstacles in pedagogical practices in ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) in relation to developing relevant opportunities for participation for all children, by supporting their own engagements in order to expand their action possibilities. Over the last decades, the political agendas in the Nordic...
Denne artikel er en omskrivning af den for- svarstale jeg holdt ved mit Ph.d. forsvar d. 30. Maj 2011. Afhandlingen beskæftiger sig med at udvikle teori om, hvordan børns sociale liv ser ud til at have betydning samt om børns subjektive orienteringer i overgangen fra bør- nehave til skole. Afhandlingen underbygger udviklingen af teoretiske begreber...
In: Nordiske Udkast, Årgang 50, nr. 1, 2022.
This article argues for Danish/German critical psychology as a foundational theory for understanding why human well-being is currently challenged.
From a historical dialectical materialist perspective human subjectivity must be interpreted both ‘internally’ and ‘externally’; understood as inextricably l...
Rapport fra forskningsprojektet "Pædagoger i tværfagligt samarbejde om bekymringsbørn", finansieret af BUPLs forskningsfond.
Kort projektbeskrivelse:
Der er aktuelt stigende fokus på tidlige indsatser i forhold til bekymringsbørn. Som naturlig konsekvens heraf, følger stigende forventninger til, at samfundsmæssige problemstillinger på den lange ba...
I denne artikel vises det analytisk, hvordan forskellige parter på forskellige niveauer og måder bidrager til den samfunds- mæssige udvikling, hvori børn præsenteres for skolen og sko- lens disciplinering og faglighed tidligere og tidligere. Den samfundsmæssige udvikling analyseres som forbundet til både professionskampe og intentioner om at hjælpe...
In this article I argue for and unfold the conceptualisation of children's proximal societal conditions. This concept is developed through research based on the German/Danish version of Critical Psychology. Various research projects studying children's everyday life in different day care settings and in schools have made it clear that 'the societal...
En rapport om børns skolestart i Danmark
This chapter addresses the meaning of children’s communities in the transition
from kindergarten to school. It is based on a research project where I studied how
children, who come from different kindergartens and meet in a school’s kindergarten
class, find their bearings together and establish, get involved in and develop
a community of practice (...
Praksis er godt, men ikke nok. Skoleledere i dag skal navigere i krydspres mellem mange konkurrerende hensyn af politisk, økonomisk, faglig, praktisk og etisk karakter. Hvilke kompetencer har lederne brug for, og hvordan lærer de sig at bruge det, de kan på bedste vis? Denne bog fortæller om et kompetenceudviklingsprojekt i en dansk kommune og give...
This paper takes point of departure in research approaching both empirical and theoretical challenges related to the study of very young children’s everyday lives in institutional settings. In this paper, we present an analysis of pedagogical practice about developing democracy and influence for children in a Danish nursery. On the one hand the pap...
The article presents findings from a practice research project dealing with the everyday life of 0-2 year olds across family and different day-care settings. From a critical psychological perspective, it explores three related issues: Young children's conduct of everyday life in and across different institutional settings; professional pedagogical...
Download full text here: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/1048409
Abstract:
This article is concerned with ways in which children's social lives appear to have meaning and with children's subjective orientation in the transition from kindergarten to school. The article presents the development of theoretical concepts for ways in which we can...
This article aims to show the need for theoretical concepts that contribute to the understanding of the dialectic between the common and shared lives of children (their children's communities) and learning processes in educational institutions. The article takes its point of departure in the framework of German-Danish Critical Psychology, where the...
Rammerne om børns fritidsliv har ændret sig markant i løbet af bare et par generationer. De mindre, selvstændige fritidshjem, der tidligere tilbød børn et sted at være efter skole, er stort set forsvundet og er blevet erstattet af store skolefritidsordninger – SFO’er – hvis opgaver er knyttet til skolen, og som styres af nye mål for børns læring og...
