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Introduction
Scentific key areas:
The everyday life of children and families, family work, children’s communities and marginal positions, children’s perspectives. Parents’ perspectives on institutions and schools, parental collaboration, social justice.
Collaborative research methodology and ethnographic methods, situated ethics
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August 2010 - present
Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Description
- Dorte Kousholt is Associate professor at Department of Educational Psychology. Her research area is the everyday life of children and families and childrens communities in day care/ school and parental collaboration. She teaches at master and PhD level.
August 2010 - present
Danish School of Education
Position
- Professor (Associate)
February 2000 - January 2005
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Publications (45)
I denne artikel undersøger vi forældres refleksioner over barndom og familieliv, som de udfoldede sig under Covid-19-pandemien i Danmark, der også var en tid præget af voksende klimabevidsthed blandt mange danskere. På baggrund af empirisk materiale fra danske familier fra middelklassen sætter vi fokus på disse forældres håndtering og forståelser a...
Forskning som organiseres i tæt samarbejde med deltagerne, og som foregår i hverdagslivets kontekster, stiller forskeren over for flere etiske dilemmaer undervejs i forskningsprocessen. Overvejelser knyttet til fx informeret samtykke, dataopbevaring og -behandling og anonymiseringsspørgsmål er vigtige aspekter af forskningsetik, men adresserer kun...
I artiklen er vi optaget af de udfordringer, unge oplevede i de år, der var præget af coronapandemien. Vi retter fokus på unge alderen 15-19 år, der kan siges at være ’på vej ud af familien’, men som på grund af nedlukninger og sociale restriktioner ’sendes hjem i familien’. Med afsæt i Corona som et ’selvfølgelighedsbrud’ og med hverdagsliv og tid...
In this article, we explore everyday ethical concerns associated with the Covid-19 lockdowns of Danish society as experienced by members of Danish middle-class families with one or more children living at home. Combining family theory with anthropological perspectives on ethics and morality, we discuss the pandemic’s ethical implications with a foc...
This article contributes to discussions of transmethodology by drawing on experiences from conducting practice research aimed at the development of theory and practice through research collaboration. We analyze efforts to build research communities where researchers and professionals work together to perform analyses and develop knowledge. A collec...
This article contributes to discussions of transmethodology by drawing on experiences from conducting practice research aimed at the development of theory and practice through research collaboration. We analyze efforts to build research communities where researchers and professionals work together to perform analyses and develop knowledge. A collec...
The special issue deals with entanglements, borders, and bridges between ideas, concepts, and spheres often considered separate and distinct elements in research processes that are frequently represented as well-ordered and linear. Under the heading transmethodology, our aim has been to make space for and bring to light the often messy, non-linear,...
In this article, we discuss the situated ethics of researching the everyday lives of children and families. Research conducted in close collaboration with research participants in everyday contexts presents the researcher with multiple ethical dilemmas involving doubts, uncertainties, and often also discomfort, conflicting emotions, and contradicto...
I denne rundbordssamtale, diskuterer vi forskellige former for kritik, historisk og aktuelt. Vi diskuterer, hvordan kritik er blevet noget uomgængeligt og allestedsnærværende, og hvilken problemer- og udfordringer det stiller til en kritisk praksis i dag. Vi skitserer to arketypiske kritikformer, som vi benævner som negativ og affirmativ kritik. De...
Skolelivet er på en gang mangesidet og modsætningsfyldt. Børn, unge, lærere og forældre har forskellige opgaver, indblik og bidrag og forskellige måder engagere sig og prioritere på. Vi retter her fokus på de forskellige parters perspektiver som på en gang forskellige og forbundet gennem deres engagementer skolen som en fælles sag. Kapitlet ser fra...
In this paper, the concept of transmethodology will be reflected in relation to developing research communities and collective multi-perspective analyses that assist in transgressing divisions between theory and practice and isolated knowledge. I will discuss these issues in relation to a collective research project where the aim was to explore chi...
Parental collaboration is both promoted for enhancing children’s performance and criticized for reproducing educational inequality. The issue of parental collaboration thus presents an opportunity to discuss theoretical differences in current debates about education, notably the educational consequences of social background and governmentality. The...
This article examines a general question about how we in research develop the knowledge we write about and present as ‘result of research’. It scrutinizes research processes as a social practice, where several parties participate, collaborate and learn from a process where researchers involve themselves in exploring specific problems across societa...
How can theoretical psychology develop concepts for analyzing connections between subjective dilemmas in everyday life and contradictions in historical social practice? We discuss this question by analyzing conflicts related to problems in children’s school lives. One frequent conflict is whether school problems should be explored in relation to in...
In this article, we discuss issues that are rarely (if ever) talked about in research: experiences of deep insight and inspiration, of meaning-making, of embodied passion and of excitement related to the practice of engaging in qualitative research and of being a qualitative researcher. These are the ‘aha’ moments or ‘eureka’ experiences. Drawing o...
This chapter takes as its point of departure the methodological challenge of exploring the interconnections of subjective and structural aspects of persons conducting their everyday life in and across social practices. My concern is how research can develop knowledge about common problems and social life conditions from
the personal experiences of...
This article contributes to ongoing discussions in psychology about how to explore psychological phenomena as embedded in social practice. While recognising the valuable contributions from ethnographic methodology, we argue that ethnographic explorations in psychology can be developed further in order to shed light on psychological problems in prac...
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...
Denne rapport præsenterer de første resultater fra projektet Vidensbaseret indsats over for udsatte børn i dagtilbud (VIDA). Rapporten belyser dagtilbuds pædagogiske praksis, forældresamarbejde og børns kompetencer ved VIDA-projektstart. En baseline-undersøgelse. Projektets overordnede målsætning er at belyse spørgsmålet: Hvordan tager vi i dagtilb...
Børnefællesskaber og familieliv handler om børns fælles liv i daginstitution og om forældres og børns hverdag sammen. Børn i dag lever deres liv på tværs af institution og hjem – og det har betydning både for børns udvikling og børnefamiliers hverdag. Bogen tager afsæt i spørgsmål om
• Hvordan børnenes sammensatte hverdagsliv har betydning for fa...
Abstract In this article I investigate family as an everyday life context and conflictual community. My starting point is an exploration of children's lives across their day care and home settings. Children's development is theorized in relation to their participation in and engagements with different communities across multiple contexts. I show th...
Artiklen bidrager med et teoretisk perspektiv på familien som social praksis belyst ud fra børnenes liv. Artiklen trækker på eksempler fra et forskningsprojekt hvor 5-årige børns hverdagsliv på tværs af daginstitution og hjem er fulgt over en periode på 11⁄2 år. Familiens praksis analyseres ud fra konflikter og dilemmaer i børn og forældres samarbe...
Hvad jeg lærte om forskning i min sovepose...Skiftande identiteter och könsvarationer i yngre skolbarns samspel med kamraterWallflowers?
I dette nummer er følgende blevet anmeldt: "Børn, løgn og kvinder - et opgør med ligestillingsbedrebet" (Lone Nørgaard), "En rigtig mor? En beretning om moderskab og karriere" (Lena Wennberg), "Brutte Løfter. En kulturhistorisk studie av kjønn og ære, 1700-1900 (Kari Telste), "Statepolicy and Gender system in the Two German States and Sweden 1945-1...
