Prosjekttittel: The Reading Group

Temaområde:

Utdanning

Leader:
Professor Jeanette Rhedding-Jones

FoU Project 2006-2009

This early childhood education group is an extra-mural informal course. It meets one evening a month at Jeanette’s home to develop Doctoral level scholarship by reading at levels beyond the HiO Masters degree in barnehagepedagogikk. Participants spend four weeks reading individually the selected reading for the month. They then meet for 2-3 hours to:

(1) discuss the selected book or chapter or article and its recent publication. Collaboratively selected readings regard critical issues and critical theories; new research methodologies; postcolonial and feminist poststructural theories 

(2) develop and construct participants’ own theoretical knowledge

(3) inform participants’ current writing of conference papers, articles, chapters and books

(4) expand participants’ ideas of critical issues and research methodologies

(5) improve participants’ spoken English and academic Norwegian so they can then better present internationally and nationally, at conferences and in publications

(6) let all of the above change participants’ teaching and  work with children, staff, parents and others in kindergartens and early schooling

(7) link participants’ FoU to international networks Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education; the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood; and the European Early Childhood Education Research Association.