Open this publication in new window or tab >>2019 (English)In: Challenging Democracy in Early Childhood Education / [ed] Valerie Margrain & Annica Löfdahl Hultman, Springer, 2019, p. 13-24Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This chapter presents a conceptual framework, helpful when implementing, communicating and practising democratic education in educational contexts. The framework illustrates democracy in early childhood education as integrated in a dynamic context where political, structural, cultural, professional and personal ideas on democracy inevitably are involved. Four distinct dimensions are outlined, influencing the preschool practice, directly and indirectly through interplay with each other. The framework is assumed to rest on a definition of democracy as a complex, dynamic concept carrying values such as justice, equality and rights. Further, as a learning object, democracy calls for interpretation and concretisation, done in formal steering documents but also in everyday interactions between teachers and children. Democratic education takes place in social, political and cultural contexts, related to local, national and global circumstances. Finally, social and interactive aspects of education are essential in children’s individual and collective learning when practising democracy.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2019
Series
International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD), ISSN 2468-8746, E-ISSN 2468-8754 ; 28
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78228 (URN)10.1007/978-981-13-7771-6_2 (DOI)2-s2.0-85084120741 (Scopus ID)978-981-13-7770-9 (ISBN)978-981-13-7771-6 (ISBN)
2020-06-122020-06-122020-10-14Bibliographically approved