Toddlers' engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden

Sammanfattning

This article explores toddler - place relationships outdoors during early childhood education in Sweden. Informed by Tim Ingold's theorization of movement, we explore toddlers' embodied engagements with the preschool playground and how the human-non-human environments become entangled. The results show that, just as in the wider world, the processes enabling and limiting toddlers' engagements in the playground are continuously in motion. Toddler-place relationships are continuously created through a mutual dependence between human and non-human entities. In this sense, toddlers' engagements with playgrounds are not separate from the place through which they engage, but change place.

Nyckelord

Place; Preschool; Playground; Toddlers'; Engagement

Publicerad i

Children's Geographies
2024, volym: 22, nummer: 5, sidor: 810-825
Utgivare: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD

SLU författare

• Mårtensson, Fredrika

  • Institutionen för människa och samhälle, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Kulturgeografi

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2024.2386242

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