scholarly journals Refleksjon i barnehagelærerutdanningen

Author(s):  
Anna Rigmor Moxnes

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to discuss the use of reflection in both educational- and research literature regarding Early Childhood Teacher Education. When reading the literature, I find that reflection is linked to theory and practice, to change and new knowledge and to ethical and critical reflection. The understanding of reflection as a concept varies, however personal change and new knowledge is a common denominator. My research reveals reflection as a multifaceted and complex concept. A consequence of this complexity is that in order to give reflection importance in teacher education, it will require thorough preparations for reflection and comprehensive monitoring of students.Sammendrag: Hensikten med denne artikkelen er å diskutere hvordan refleksjon anvendes i ulik fag- og forskningslitteratur som omhandler barnehagelærerutdanningen. I studier av tekstene finner jeg at refleksjon knyttes til teori og praksis, refleksjon knyttes til endring og ny erkjennelse og til etisk og kritisk refleksjon. Det varierer hvordan refleksjon forstås, men personlig endring og ny erkjennelse er en fellesnevner. Undersøkelsen viser et mangefasettert og komplekst refleksjonsbegrep. Det framgår også at skal refleksjon ha betydning i barnehagelærerutdanningen, vil det kreve grundige forberedelser og tilrettelegging for refleksjon, og omfattende oppfølging av studenter.

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna R Moxnes ◽  
Jayne Osgood

This paper aims to investigate the affective flows and material intra-actions that unfold in micro-moments in Early Childhood Teacher Education (ECTE) within observations of student teachers’ cooperative work. Putting to work Haraway’s SF philosophy (1997, 2004 and 2016) we work towards reconfiguring the primacy of critical reflection, and the cultivation of reflexive practitioners by troubling pedagogical practices such as groupwork that claim to generate critical reflexivity. We ask what else gets produced during groupwork and argue that diffractive pedagogy might open up possibilities for student-teachers to move beyond a narrow concern with critical reflection. By playing with rhythm and plasticity we stretch established ideas about ECTE and offer diffractive pedagogy as a slippery, contingent, relational, emergent, speculative and ultimately less certain concept than critical reflection. Introducing diffractive pedagogy into debates about ECTE offers a generative rupture; an opportunity to extend conceptualisations and practices.


2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinthya M Saavedra ◽  
Michelle Salazar Pérez

Global south onto-epistemologies are rarely part of bilingual and early childhood teacher education programs. Most university courses, even those that are critically oriented, remain embedded in global north conceptualizations of theory and practice. In this paper, we offer critical examinations of how global north colonialism and its latest reiteration, neoliberalism, have produced hegemonic discourses which have shaped the education of teachers in the fields of bilingual and early childhood education. We then share our pláticas about our global south approaches to teacher education. In doing so, we offer ways in which to make sense of our role as teacher educators in challenging and navigating dynamic, and often all-encompassing neoliberal systems of oppression within bilingual and early childhood teacher/education.


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