Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen

Cultural diversity and cultural naivete in early childhood education and care: In this article I focus on cultural diversity as it is presented in the Norwegian Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kindergartens. The concept Kindergarten does not refer to first year in school as in USA, b...

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Main Author: Olav Kasin
Format: Article
Language:Danish
Published: Cappelen Damm Akademisk NOASP 2010-06-01
Series:Nordisk Barnehageforskning
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Online Access:https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/258
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description Cultural diversity and cultural naivete in early childhood education and care: In this article I focus on cultural diversity as it is presented in the Norwegian Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kindergartens. The concept Kindergarten does not refer to first year in school as in USA, but refer to any kind of early childhood education and care institutions. I argue that the understanding and interpretation of culture is too narrow in this plan. It presents culture mainly as a value and as something that should be made visible and carried out in practical work in the kindergartens. I argue that this understanding of culture and cultural diversity can lead to stereotype understanding of children - children as representatives for cultural diversity. Children should only be understood as representatives of themselves and not as some kind of cultural "marionettes". As an alternative to this way of understanding culture, I present the term as way of analyzing social life, as a way of thinking, and also as different kinds of practice, something that characterize activities between people, not primarily as qualities within people.
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spelling doaj.art-955ca2012ad541d5be13f467518765e22023-09-03T01:15:32ZdanCappelen Damm Akademisk NOASPNordisk Barnehageforskning1890-91672010-06-013210.7577/nbf.258200Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagenOlav Kasin0Høgskolen i OsloCultural diversity and cultural naivete in early childhood education and care: In this article I focus on cultural diversity as it is presented in the Norwegian Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kindergartens. The concept Kindergarten does not refer to first year in school as in USA, but refer to any kind of early childhood education and care institutions. I argue that the understanding and interpretation of culture is too narrow in this plan. It presents culture mainly as a value and as something that should be made visible and carried out in practical work in the kindergartens. I argue that this understanding of culture and cultural diversity can lead to stereotype understanding of children - children as representatives for cultural diversity. Children should only be understood as representatives of themselves and not as some kind of cultural "marionettes". As an alternative to this way of understanding culture, I present the term as way of analyzing social life, as a way of thinking, and also as different kinds of practice, something that characterize activities between people, not primarily as qualities within people.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/258Cultural diversityFramework PlanEarly childhood education and careInterpretation of culture
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Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
Nordisk Barnehageforskning
Cultural diversity
Framework Plan
Early childhood education and care
Interpretation of culture
title Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
title_full Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
title_fullStr Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
title_full_unstemmed Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
title_short Kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
title_sort kultur som mangfold og enfold i barnehagen
topic Cultural diversity
Framework Plan
Early childhood education and care
Interpretation of culture
url https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/nbf/article/view/258
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