This research project concerns how various dimensions of resilience is expressed in children’s daily life in Early Childhood Education and Care. The research interest is specifically directed towards how resilience is materialised in children’s agency, belonging, and compassion in three dimensions of ECEC: sustainability education, worldview education, and play.
The research design is ethnographic with a research material consisting of observations, interviews, children´s drawings and narratives. The research material is co-created with children, staff, and students from four ECEC settings in the Swedish-speaking parts of Finland.
The research is conducted by a group consisting of associate professor, university researcher Ann-Christin Furu, doctoral students Linda Eriksson and Jessica Nylund, project researcher Alexandra Nordström, as well as professor Mia Heikkilä, who is the scientific leader of the project.
The reference group members are professor Alison Clark (University of South-Eastern Norway/ University College London), professor Tünde Puskas (Linköping University) and professor Arniika Kuusisto (University of Helsinki). The project is also affiliated with the Nordplus-network Reclaiming Slow in Nordic ECEC, which is led by professor Alison Clark and professor Karin Hognestad, University of South-Eastern Norway.
