Teaches within Teacher Education Programme in Early Childhood Education.

Research

Anna Palmer´s current research interests focus on material feminist studies and methodology in relation to Early Childhood Education. Her work looks closely at alternative ways of learning, doing and understanding mathematics in aesthetic learning practices. In a recent publication she draws on the work of Gilles Deleuze to understand how scientific concepts interact with children’s bodies and other material entities partaking in a learning event (de Freitas & Palmer 2015). Another research interest concerns different ways of understanding ethics in preschool, drawing on new materialist philosophy.

Doctoral projects/Licentiate projects

Experimenting dance in preschool, Lovisa Gustafsson

Sustainability and Future – Learning Laboratories in Preschools, Teresa Elkin Postila

Children, film and the preschool, Maria Olsson

Previous projects

Enhancing preschool children´s attention, language and communication skills: An interdisciplinary study of socio-emotional learning and computerized attention training

Becoming a "Math-person" in preschool and school