Research group Practice-based research in and about early childhood education and care - PraFF
This research group is intended to explore understandings and definitions of practice-based research, with a particular focus on early childhood education.
This research group is theoretically and empirically diverse, but we are united in an ambition to work with and to further explore practice-based research in early childhood education and care - what it is and what it can be. Practice-based research can be carried out with several methodological approaches and what to be called practice-based research can vary, and also what each researcher calls her/his research - practice-based, implementation research, intervention research, follow-up research, etc. It is in the nature of exploration, how practitioners and practice is involved, what topics are focused on and how it can inform practice is in the core understanding of practice-based.
The research group is based on the idea that high quality research can be done close to practice and implemented in a variety of ways. One question we are increasingly asking is, what kind of knowledge production is done by practice-based research ? How should the results be understood in relation to teaching and learning?
Using the term practice-based includes the idea that the research undertaken may be used by the field and that it fulfils a need, but not necessarily in a “one to one” relationship. However, working with practice-based research often includes the idea that practice is developed with the support of research, but how this is done is far from given.
Group description
In relation to the research group several research projects are undertaken.
The research group meets approximately once a month.
Group members
Group managers
Mia Helena Heikkilä
Professor
Members
Lena Aronsson
Universitetslektor
Klara Dolk
Universitetslektor
Christine Eriksson
Universitetslektor
Sofia Frankenberg
Universitetslektor
Anna Günther-Hanssen
Universitetslektor
Bodil Halvars
Universitetslektor
Maria Hylberg
Doktorand
Mie Josefson
Universitetslektor
Susanne Kjällander
Universitetslektor
Robert Lecusay
Universitetslektor
Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
Professor
Anna Palmer
Universitetslektor, Docent
Petra Anna Petersen
Lektor
