Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings

Abstract This study explores how children construct their belonging in culturally diverse early childhood settings in Finland and Iceland. Belonging is understood as a holistic phenomenon that is constructed through various relations. The study is a multiple-case study, influenced by ethnographic ap...

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Main Authors: Juutinen, J. (Jaana), Ólafsdóttir, S. M. (Sara Margrét), Einarsdóttir, J. (Johanna)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Informa 2023
Subjects:
belonging
early childhood education
ethnography
material relations
research with children
Iceland
Online Access:http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023052447423
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spelling ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe2023052447423 2023-07-30T04:04:20+02:00 Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings Juutinen, J. (Jaana) Ólafsdóttir, S. M. (Sara Margrét) Einarsdóttir, J. (Johanna) 2023 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023052447423 eng eng Informa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which thisarticle has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ belonging early childhood education ethnography material relations research with children info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T20:01:52Z Abstract This study explores how children construct their belonging in culturally diverse early childhood settings in Finland and Iceland. Belonging is understood as a holistic phenomenon that is constructed through various relations. The study is a multiple-case study, influenced by ethnographic approaches, conducted with children in two preschool settings, one in Finland and one in Iceland. The children were invited on walking tours with researchers and tablet computers, and participatory observations were utilised. The findings explore the daily moments in which belonging becomes constructed, involving movements, timing, touch, and play, relationally generated moments between children, and their material relations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Jultika - University of Oulu repository
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topic belonging
early childhood education
ethnography
material relations
research with children
spellingShingle belonging
early childhood education
ethnography
material relations
research with children
Juutinen, J. (Jaana)
Ólafsdóttir, S. M. (Sara Margrét)
Einarsdóttir, J. (Johanna)
Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
topic_facet belonging
early childhood education
ethnography
material relations
research with children
description Abstract This study explores how children construct their belonging in culturally diverse early childhood settings in Finland and Iceland. Belonging is understood as a holistic phenomenon that is constructed through various relations. The study is a multiple-case study, influenced by ethnographic approaches, conducted with children in two preschool settings, one in Finland and one in Iceland. The children were invited on walking tours with researchers and tablet computers, and participatory observations were utilised. The findings explore the daily moments in which belonging becomes constructed, involving movements, timing, touch, and play, relationally generated moments between children, and their material relations.
format Article in Journal/Newspaper
author Juutinen, J. (Jaana)
Ólafsdóttir, S. M. (Sara Margrét)
Einarsdóttir, J. (Johanna)
author_facet Juutinen, J. (Jaana)
Ólafsdóttir, S. M. (Sara Margrét)
Einarsdóttir, J. (Johanna)
author_sort Juutinen, J. (Jaana)
title Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
title_short Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
title_full Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
title_fullStr Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
title_full_unstemmed Children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
title_sort children’s belonging constructed through material relations in multicultural early education settings
publisher Informa
publishDate 2023
url http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2023052447423
genre Iceland
genre_facet Iceland
op_rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which thisarticle has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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