Supporting Children's Psychosocial Well-Being in sami ECECs
Our aim is to investigate how Sámi early childhood education and care institutions (ECECs) contextualise their work to support psychosocial well-being among children aged 4–6. We have conducted seven qualitative interviews among ECEC educators. Using Stepwise Deductive Induction (SDI) analysis we fo...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/30122 2023-09-05T13:22:56+02:00 Supporting Children's Psychosocial Well-Being in sami ECECs Bjerklund, Monica Åmot, Ingvild 2023-08-16 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30122 https://doi.org/10.23865/barn.v41.5481 eng eng Cappelen Damm Akademisk Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden Bjerklund, Åmot. Supporting Children's Psychosocial Well-Being in sami ECECs. Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden. 2023;41(2-3):121-139 FRIDAID 2167980 doi:10.23865/barn.v41.5481 0800-1669 2535-5449 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30122 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) openAccess Copyright 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2023 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.23865/barn.v41.5481 2023-08-23T23:07:13Z Our aim is to investigate how Sámi early childhood education and care institutions (ECECs) contextualise their work to support psychosocial well-being among children aged 4–6. We have conducted seven qualitative interviews among ECEC educators. Using Stepwise Deductive Induction (SDI) analysis we found that Sámi ECECs contextualise their work to support psychosocial well-being among children by constantly balancing between dealing with the possible consequences of Norwegianisation and the assimilation process from the past and highlighting Sámi culture in a positive way. In practice the staff try to support the children’s positive sense of self, recognition and feeling a sense of belonging to the Sámi culture. They also strive to contextualise Sámi practices in terms of today’s society and adjust to the present group of staff, children, and parents to ensure the children’s well-being. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Barn – forskning om barn og barndom i Norden 41 2–3 |
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Our aim is to investigate how Sámi early childhood education and care institutions (ECECs) contextualise their work to support psychosocial well-being among children aged 4–6. We have conducted seven qualitative interviews among ECEC educators. Using Stepwise Deductive Induction (SDI) analysis we found that Sámi ECECs contextualise their work to support psychosocial well-being among children by constantly balancing between dealing with the possible consequences of Norwegianisation and the assimilation process from the past and highlighting Sámi culture in a positive way. In practice the staff try to support the children’s positive sense of self, recognition and feeling a sense of belonging to the Sámi culture. They also strive to contextualise Sámi practices in terms of today’s society and adjust to the present group of staff, children, and parents to ensure the children’s well-being. |
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Supporting Children's Psychosocial Well-Being in sami ECECs |
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