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.

I utbildningsdebatten och i genusforskning framställs ofta pojkar som ointresserade av skolarbete, underpresterande och hur vissa pojkar stör ordningen och tar tid från lärarens undervisning och andra elevers lärande. Syftet med artikeln är att presentera alternativa berättelser och att nyansera den stereotypa bilden av skolpojken som ointresserad av skolan och fångad i en maskulin kultur dominerad av styrka, tävling, rangordnande och motstånd. Det empiriska underlaget utgörs av material från ett längre etnografiskt projekt där ett antal förskoleavdelningar och klasser i grundskolans tidigare år deltog. Utifrån kritisk diskursteori och queerteori analyseras och diskuteras hur maskulinitet och könspositioner produceras i relation till undervisningens organisation och olika lektionspraktiker. Artikeln avslutar med att konstatera att det finns en mängd sätt för pojkar att vara i skolan som inte ansluter till den stereotypa bilden av skolpojken, eller som självklart kopplats till eller artikulerats som maskulinitet. Dessa sätt och individer riskerar dock att osynliggöras och inte igenkännas och förkroppsligas som "riktig" manlighet. 

The voluntary after-school setting is a significant part of the educational system in Sweden and includes about 80 % of the children from 6 to 9 years old. The national curriculum stipulates that the setting should not carry on teaching, but provide a stimulating and safe environment and offer activities that support the development of values, communicative and social skills. The aim of this article is to challenge this polar understanding of knowledge and discuss after-school pedagogy from a ‘nomadic’ and democratic perspective, based on observations of how children receive, handle and develop activities in the after-school setting. The results present an alternative understanding of learning and knowledge and show that children’s activities unfold and open for new ways to assemble and handle a situation, although not articulated and understood as learning by the pedagogues. The staff’s supervising and fostering activities can interrupt the children’s flow and becomings, but in some cases also be supportive. This implicates a pedagogy in the after-school setting that builds on children’s play, intensity and the joy of exploring the possibilities of a situation. 

The aim of this article is to discuss how pedagogical practices, methods and materials produce processes and assemblages that regulate the positions and kinds of meaning that are allowed to emerge in the classroom. The empirical material used in this article consists of ethnographic field-study  observations and interviews at a Swedish primary school. An episode in a maths lesson is described and analysed using concepts and metaphors developed by Deleuze and Guattari. The observations show how the students at one point during the lesson turn from counting and repeating the factual number of cats in a picture to discussing the existence of potential cats. Two pedagogical trajectories are identified and analysed. One relates to the task of determining and conceptualising predefined numbers, and the other consists of flows and forces that explore, embody and unfold ways of relating to numbers that challenge the dominance of cognitive rationality and linear processes of school mathematics. The article ends with a discussion of pedagogy for the primary school that combines the real and the immanent. This approach opens for a mutual articulation of what is and what can be, but also for students' influence on educational practice.

Knowledge possibilities in the Swedish afterschool settings 

This article discusses how the Swedish afterschool settings can be understood as a pedagogic practice. Interviews and field observations with teachers and children were analyzed from a discursive and network perspective. The teachers articulated a discourse about a professional competence to control the organization of the activities in relation to ideals and practical conditions. In practice, however, the children negotiated, challenged and developed the activities in ways that went beyond what was planned and possible to articulate, evaluate and control. The article proposes a pedagogy for the afterschool setting that is built on teachers and children’s joint descriptions of the knowledge possibilities that are ongoing produced in the activities.