Crazy cameras and children's virtual image-vision, image-thinking and film making.

Maria Olsson defends her doctoral thesis " Crazy cameras and children's virtual image-vision, image-thinking and film making in preschool”.

Maria Olsson Photo: Niclas Björling

Maria Olssons doctoral thesis investigates what happens when children create digital films in preschool. Children today are used to using digital media to film and document their learning and educational work at the preschool. Maria gave the children a freedom to decide what they wanted to film, and thought they would film when they were building blocks or doing something else educational. But they weren't interested in that. They wanted to film the invisible ghost.

Read the interview with Maria Olsson.