Sub-groups

Child politics

(Theme leaders: Maiju Paananen and Zsuzsa Millei)

Research in this group explores the politics of childhood and early childhood education: child politics. By the term ‘politics’ we refer to the the workings of power both in official and everyday realms. Politics shape in explicit and covert ways notions of childhood, care and education, and children’s everyday lives. We understand children and educators as political actors. We seek answers to the question of how societal and environmental changes shape childhood(s), early childhood education, and the everyday lives of children. Thus, our research explores for example datafication, gender, ethnicity, coloniality, nationhood and multiple worldviews in the production of childhood and social, economic, and regional inequalities.

Child Ecology

(Theme leaders: Zsuzsa Millei & Juliene Madureira Ferreira)

This is an emerging research theme that considers the child as an embodied and biological being and considers politics, development, learning and inclusion. The group’s interest is twofold: 1) microbes and childhood; and 2) embodied cognition and learning.

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