Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 528198
Sist endret: 11. januar 2017, 14:17

Cristin-prosjekt-ID: 528198
Sist endret: 11. januar 2017, 14:17
Prosjekt

Reflections of Fröbel in discourses about mathematics in Scandinavian early childhood education and care

prosjektleder

Andrea Synnøve Søndergaard Eikset
ved Institutt for språk, litteratur, matematikk og tolking ved Høgskulen på Vestlandet

prosjekteier / koordinerende forskningsansvarlig enhet

  • Institutt for språk, litteratur, matematikk og tolking ved Høgskulen på Vestlandet

Klassifisering

Vitenskapsdisipliner

Matematikk

Kategorier

Prosjektkategori

  • Grunnforskning

Tidsramme

Avsluttet
Start: 11. februar 2015 Slutt: 1. januar 2019

Beskrivelse Beskrivelse

Tittel

Reflections of Fröbel in discourses about mathematics in Scandinavian early childhood education and care

Vitenskapelig sammendrag

The aim of my project is to look for reflections of Fröbel in Scandinavian kindergarten history and to identify how these reflections have been used to create momentum for the pendulum that swings in different directions. Initial investigations suggest that Fröbel is reflected in different ways, in order to argue for different agendas about how and why we should do mathematics in ECEC. As a mirror can reflect an image that is distorted or mostly correct, the reflections of Fröbel are more or less representative of his original views. However, this project is not about judging how valid the different reflections are. Rather by critically analysing the discourses on Fröbel and his ideas, I can identify factors that affect the paradigm shifts about mathematics in kindergarten. 

Metode

In my project I will use critical discourse analysis of written sources to answer my research questions about what happened with Friedrich Fröbel's ideas in Scandinavian kindergarten tradition and the focus on mathematics in early childhood. Critical discourse analysis is a vigorous assessment of what is meant when language is used to describe or explain (Weinstein, 2007).  A discourse can broadly be defined as the various ways people can achieve communication (Fairclough, 2007).

A critical discourse analysis examines the form, structure and content of discourse, from its creation to its reception and interpretation by a wider audience (Weinstein, 2007). Discourse analysis is a wide area, but has two central components that have been widely agreed upon:

a) discursive practices, events and texts, and (b) wider social and cultural structures, relations and processes. The aim is to find out how those practices, events and texts arise from an ideology, how they are shaped by relations of power and struggles for power (Fairclough, 1995).

 

In my project I will look closer at the texts, the language and communication within their social context. I will identify different ideologies that dominates (or not) at a certain point in time in society, and how these have influenced the view of mathematics in early childhood education and care. I will continue to develop my framework of analysis, based on Fairclough's theories of critical discourse analysis of textual analysis. 

prosjektdeltakere

prosjektleder

Andrea Synnøve Søndergaard Eikset

  • Tilknyttet:
    Prosjektleder
    ved Institutt for språk, litteratur, matematikk og tolking ved Høgskulen på Vestlandet
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Resultater Resultater

“Fröbelske tanker" omkring matematikk i skandinavisk barnehagetradisjon.

Eikset, Andrea. 2016, Nordisk Lærerutdanningskonferanse. HVLFaglig foredrag
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