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Hermansson, C. & Olin-Scheller, C. (2019). Digi-läsning: Om läsning, kropp och rum i en digitaliserad förskola. In: Kjällander, S. & Riddersporre, B. (Ed.), Digitalisering i förskolan på vetenskaplig grund: (pp. 74-93). Stockholm: Natur och kultur
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2019 (Swedish)In: Digitalisering i förskolan på vetenskaplig grund / [ed] Kjällander, S. & Riddersporre, B., Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2019, p. 74-93Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2019
National Category
Languages and Literature
Research subject
Swedish; Educational Work; Comparative Literature
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-71691 (URN)9789127824331 (ISBN)
Available from: 2019-04-02 Created: 2019-04-02 Last updated: 2020-06-01Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C. & Saar, T. (2017). Nomadic writing in early childhood education. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), 426-443
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2017 (English)In: Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, ISSN 1468-7984, E-ISSN 1741-2919, Vol. 17, no 3, p. 426-443Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores how the processes of writing and writers emerge and transform in two examples of Swedish early childhood educational writing practices. Students' writing is a multifaceted activity involving a myriad of interconnected elements; however, to make sense of what is going on, more knowledge is needed about the connectivity, the movement and the unpredictability inherent in these activities. Taking a posthuman and nomadic perspective, the article studies how text and writer are co-constituted through the interrelations between human elements and non-human elements. The article concludes that conceptualizing writing as nomadic provides a way to view young children's educational writing as sites of experimentation, thus guiding the pedagogical attention to the productive potential of the writing situation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2017
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65951 (URN)10.1177/1468798417712341 (DOI)000418301100009 ()
Available from: 2018-01-25 Created: 2018-01-25 Last updated: 2018-06-29Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C. (2013). Nomadic Writing: Exploring Processes of Writing in Early Childhood Education. (Doctoral dissertation). Karlstad: Karlstads universitet
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2013 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This thesis explores how writing is made in two Swedish early childhood classrooms with a focus on how processes of writing are constituted in the writing event and what writings and writers the event offers potentials for. Theoretically, the research project takes its starting point in the assumption that processes of writing are an effect of relations between different elements, where the young writer is only one part of many human and non-human matters that make way for multiple becomings of writing and writers. In this context, the figuration of the nomad thought of Deleuze and Guattari is particularly applicable as it builds on the assumption that everything is always connected, continuously moving. The questions addressed are how the processes of writers, text-like writings and educational writing processes emerge, continue and transform in the writing event, and what writers, text-like writings and educational writing processes the event offers potentials for.

The thesis consists of three research articles based on different empirical data. The first article builds on data from the thinking and talking about writing and the writing child in scholarly literature since the 19th century. The second and third articles are based on analyses of ethnographic documentation of six- to seven-year-olds’ writing activities in two early childhood classrooms. The ethnographic strategies of the audio and video recordings, field notes, informal interviews and the collection of children’s text-like writings were carried out over a period of one and a half year during which the children moved from preschool class to their first year of school.

The findings of the first article suggest that the image of the ideal writing and the ideal writer has changed over time. However, the image of the young writer training for adult life predominates over time. The main result of the second article shows in specific ways that the mutual production of stabilizing processes of writing and processes of experimentation are vital components for becomings of writers and writing, irrespective of pedagogical framings. The finding of the third article illustrates how the teaching method of creative writing produced over time creates multiple pedagogical trajectories of “doing method” and “doing creativity”.

The thesis posits nomadic writing as a way to account for the movement, the connectivity and change in the processes of writing, thus contributing to an understanding of how the processes of writing create potentialities for multiple becomings of writers and writing.

Abstract [en]

Baksidestext/Blurb

How is writing made? How do processes of writing emerge, continue and change in educational writing events? And what kinds of writers and writings can potentially emerge from the writing event?

In this thesis Carina Hermansson explores how writing is produced in early childhood education, partly through analyses of the thinking and talking about writing and the writing child provided in scholarly literature since the 19th century, and partly through analyses of ethnographic documentation of six- to seven-year-olds’ writing activities in two early childhood classrooms.

The research identifies how the processes of writing are an effect of many elements assembled in the writing event, such as computers, learning outcomes, bodily movements, children and teachers, and experiences based on children’s popular cultures. Hermansson posits nomadic writing as a way to account for the connectivity, the movement and change in the processes of writing, thus contributing to an understanding of how the processes of writing create potentialities for multiple becomings of writers and writing. The findings show that the mutual production of stabilizing processes of writing and processes of experimentation are vital components for becomings of writers and writing, thus offering a way to view early childhood writing classrooms as sites of experimentation.

Nomadic Writing: Exploring processes of writing in early childhood education is a book about children’s writing and writing development in a society where media, digital technology and new forms of communication and literacy are conceptualized as important in education. It provides researchers and teachers with a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamic processes of writing.

 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2013. p. 229
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2013:17
Keywords
Early childhood education, writing, Deleuze and Guattari, writing processes, movement, connectivity, transformation, nomadic, becomings
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-26750 (URN)978-91-7063-494-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2013-05-08, Nyquistsalen, 9C 203, Karlstads univeristet, Karlstad, 13:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 721-2007-3671
Note

The online version of the thesis differs slightly from the printed version as research articles have been removed for copyright reasons.

Available from: 2013-04-19 Created: 2013-03-24 Last updated: 2013-05-14Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C. (2011). Images of Writing and the Writing Child. Nordisk Barnehageforskning, 4(2), 41-59
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2011 (Swedish)In: Nordisk Barnehageforskning, E-ISSN 1890-9167, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 41-59Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article uses a discursive lens to illuminate how writing and the writing child is constructed in different texts since the nineteenth century. The concept ‘image’ is used as an analytical tool to gain perspective on dominant ideas about children as writers and their educational writing practices. These images are produced in educational practices, theories of writing, societal conceptions and didactic models, which together are referred to as a formation. The article ends by reflecting upon what consequences may be seen if taking a critical child perspective. The article provides an analysis against which writing teachers, teacher educators and researchers can gain a perspective on dominant ideas about young writers and their educational writing practices.

Keywords
Early childhood writing education, Critical child perspective, Review.
National Category
Social Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-26963 (URN)
Available from: 2013-04-17 Created: 2013-04-17 Last updated: 2024-07-04Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C. (2009). The literacy child- who is that?. In: Saar, T., Hägglund, S. & Löfdahl, A (Ed.), Det politiska barnet : bidrag till utforskandet av barn och barndom som politiska kategorier: (pp. 56-65). Karlstad: Karlstad University Studies (2009:39)
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2009 (English)In: Det politiska barnet : bidrag till utforskandet av barn och barndom som politiska kategorier / [ed] Saar, T., Hägglund, S. & Löfdahl, A, Karlstad: Karlstad University Studies , 2009, no 2009:39, p. 56-65Chapter in book (Other academic)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstad University Studies, 2009
Keywords
Pedagogy, Educational Work, Didactics of Higher Education
National Category
Pedagogical Work
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-11337 (URN)9789170632624 (ISBN)
Available from: 2012-02-08 Created: 2012-02-08 Last updated: 2013-06-12Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C. & Saar, T. Children’s Text-Like Writing as Nomadic Writing.
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(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-26964 (URN)
Available from: 2013-04-17 Created: 2013-04-17 Last updated: 2021-11-19Bibliographically approved
Hermansson, C., Saar, T. & Olin-Scheller, C. Five Days and a Story: The Emergence of an Educational Writing Process in a Swedish Early Childhood Classroom.
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(English)Manuscript (preprint) (Other academic)
National Category
Educational Sciences
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-26965 (URN)
Available from: 2013-04-17 Created: 2013-04-17 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved
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