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Understandings of religion as culture: Re-negotiating troublesome concepts in Swedish ECEC policy
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Educational Studies (from 2013). (Utbildnings- och idrottsvetenskapliga studier av barn och Barndom)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9916-6179
Högskolan i Borås, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9836-1909
2022 (English)In: The Routledge International Handbook of the Place of Religion in Early Childhood Education and Care. / [ed] Arniika Kuusisto, Routledge, 2022Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Preschools in Sweden, in which the groups of children are increasingly culturally diverse, are obligated to provide every child the opportunity to develop their own cultural identity, knowledge about and interest in different cultures. At the same time, teaching should be non-confessional and pass on a cultural heritage from one generation to the next. There are, according to previous research, several didactic dilemmas linked to preschool teachers interpretations of what is regarded as religion, culture and a cultural heritage. These dilemmas partly derive from how the concepts are used in the policy documents that regulate Swedish preschool. There is thus a need for further illumination of both the didactic dilemmas and the ambivalences expressed by the policy documents. Our contribution is a policy analysis in which the curriculum is studied in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which becomes Swedish law in 2020. The results show that there are several possible interpretations in terms of the concepts of culture and cultural heritage in relation to the concept of religion in the policy documents. This article discusses these different possibilities for interpretation and possible didactic consequences for pedagogical work in preschool.

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Routledge, 2022.
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Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Keywords [en]
Early Childhood Education and Care, Religion, Culture, Policy, International & Comparative Education, Multicultural Education
Keywords [sv]
Förskola, religion, kultur, policy, internationell & jämförande utbildning, mångkulturell utbildning
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Religious Studies Educational Sciences
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Educational Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-94604ISBN: 9781003017783 (electronic)ISBN: 9780367862251 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-94604DiVA, id: diva2:1756432
Available from: 2023-05-11 Created: 2023-05-11 Last updated: 2023-05-29Bibliographically approved

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