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Ilje-Lien, Johanne
Master thesis
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2015
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Abstract
The Framework Plan for the Tasks and Content for Kindergartens

(Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2011) emphasizes kindergartens’ responsibility to

facilitate all children’s participation in the classroom community. Despite this

emphasis, several studies show that many minority-language children do not

receive the possibility to interact in equal social relations in kindergarten. In

this study I have focused especially on children who I experienced as most

«silent» through contributing with less or no verbal language than the majoritylanguage

children in the group. In my assessment, these children contributed to

the classroom community through sound, movement and body language. This

assessment is the foundation for my assertion that these children participate

through physical action and sound, which I have termed action as voices.

Adults’ interest and follow up of children’s initiatives is crucial for children’s

experience of participation in the classroom community. This thesis is therefore

motivated by a desire to shed light on more ways, besides verbal language, that

children can influence and contribute to the classroom community. In this

thesis I investigate the potential of explorative arts and crafts as an arena that

facilitates equal opportunity for participation in the classroom community

through supporting possibilities for children’s use of action as voices. In this study I undertook a participant observation with a camera in two kindergartens

over six days. Observations took place under explorative arts and craft sessions

in which children, a preschool teacher and I participated. The goal for the arts

and craft sessions was that children should have the opportunity to explore

materials without plans, goals or controls from the preschool teacher or myself.

To aid in shedding light on new ways to understand the «silent» children’s

embodied expressions as meaningful, I have used the philosophy of Merleau-

Ponty (2012, 1968). I have also made use of Hannah Arendt’s (1996) concepts

of natality and plurality which describe the human need for a plurality of

unique reactions to one’s action in order to become «someone» (Arendt, 1996).

In my data, action as voice seemed to be an essential dimension of the

explorative arts and crafts sessions and seemed to form the dominant

communication form for the entire group of participating children. A further

consideration was how both the preschool teachers’ and my own requests for

verbalized meaning and reflection from the children could reduce the

participatory potential of arts and crafts sessions. I found that our expectations of verbal behavior seemed to contribute to the marginalization of the use of

action as voices. This thesis is therefore about the process of becoming

«someone» in an embodied conversation with material and the other(s).
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Master i barnehagepedagogikk
Publisher
Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus

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