En sammenhængende overgang?

This paper examines play experiments during children’s transition from kindergarten to school. Empirically, the article relies on field observations from a pilot study in 2020 where play experiments were designed and unfolded as transition activities in a Danish school district. In a range of pedagogically framed play experiments at the local school, the oldest children from the local kindergartens participated together with school children from 3rd grade, and with pedagogical professionals from kindergartens and school. The play experiments are examined by shedding light the children’s pathways to school as they unfold in these activities, as well as by highlighting what potentials this activity format displays with regards to coherence during transition to school. A central finding is that the play experiments enable pathways into the school as a flexible participatory space. However, this poses different demands on the professionals’ participation than many other transition activities. The play experiments actualize transition as a process where readiness cannot be assigned to either the child, the kindergarten, or the school. Rather, all participants must mutually adjust to one another within the framing of play orders

En sammenhængende overgang? Om legens fleksible deltagelsesrum i overgangen fra dagtilbud til skole

This paper examines play experiments during children’s transition from kindergarten to school. Empirically, the article relies on field observations from a pilot study in 2020 where play experiments were designed and unfolded as transition activities in a Danish school district. In a range of pedagogically framed play experiments at the local school, the oldest children from the local kindergartens participated together with school children from 3rd grade, and with pedagogical professionals from kindergartens and school. The play experiments are examined by shedding light the children’s pathways to school as they unfold in these activities, as well as by highlighting what potentials this activity format displays with regards to coherence during transition to school. A central finding is that the play experiments enable pathways into the school as a flexible participatory space. However, this poses different demands on the professionals’ participation than many other transition activities. The play experiments actualize transition as a process where readiness cannot be assigned to either the child, the kindergarten, or the school. Rather, all participants must mutually adjust to one another within the framing of play orders

Børns perspektiver på trivsel. Aktivitet og underaktivtet i børnehaven

Mange studier har vist, at børns trivsel skabes i relationer internt i børnegruppen, men få har udforsket de voksnes rolle. Jeg vil i denne artikel vise, hvordan børns perspektiver på glæde i børnehaven fører til en beskrivelse af trivsel som noget, der sker mellem børn, men som ligeledes indbefatter en balanceakt. Børn balancerer mellem at være en del af et børnefællesskab, udfordre de voksnes regler og samtidig bibeholde en god relation til både børn og voksne. Trivsel kan ikke eksistere uafhængig af voksne, men den kan opstå i børnenes ’aktiviteter under aktiviteten’, hvor god balancekompetence er lig med god trivsel

Idealet om det glade og afstemte barn: Pædagogers blik for trivsel i børnehaven

Abstract: Danish early childhood professionals (pedagogues) are responsible for the well-being of all children in their care, but it is not clear what well-being implies. The article presents an analysis showing how pedagogues observe and categorize the well-being in children. Well-being is a state that pedagogues recognize by using special' seeing-techniques', related to their ideas of how children are supposed to behave in a certain context. The body of a child is culturally created, depending on the indoor or outdoor surroundings. The ideal of a happy child is an attuned child, who is able to adapt to adult expectations, while the physical surroundings are co-determining what the pedagogues 'see'