Nordic childhood(s) in Transformation - Methodology for New Knowledge and Understandings in Higher Education

    Projektdetaljer

    Beskrivelse

    There is a great need in higher education to renew existing understandings of childhood. In particular, it is necessary to renew our knowledge of the diversity of children and adolescents' cultural participation and how we study it. Childhood can no longer be seen as a world within a world, but as different experienced childhood(s).
    The objectives of this development project are to create an intensive course at master's degree level to increase the competence of those studying to work with children and to encourage master's students to engage in further research (at PhD level). Another objective is to strengthen and combine the different contributions from the intensive course to find innovative ways of promoting more interdisciplinary cooperation. Ethical dilemmas and understandings of diversity among children as participants and creators of culture will be important topics in the course. Students will have a chance to test their ideas and argumentation about research methods, and will be helped to develop good research designs. Relevant issues and alternative approaches to the study of new Nordic childhoods, culture and heterogeneity as a subject area and practice will be elucidated and explored. The involved master's degree programs currently offered at the participating institutions see a need to develop a separate course to strengthen training in methods. The intensive course will contribute to achieving the competence goals in the respective program descriptions.
    StatusAfsluttet
    Effektiv start/slut dato01/08/1601/06/18

    Samarbejdspartnere

    • Norwegian School of Sports Sciences (Projektpartner)
    • Aalborg Universitet (Projektpartner)
    • University of Jyväskyla (Projektpartner)
    • Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Projektpartner) (leder)
    • University of eastern Finland (FI) (Projektpartner)
    • Københavns Universitet (Projektpartner)