"But We're Talking about Jonas?!" Danish ECEC between Quality Cultures

Autor/in	Togsverd, Line
Titel	"But We're Talking about Jonas?!" Danish ECEC between Quality Cultures
Quelle	In: Journal of Pedagogy, 14 (2023) 1, S.59-78 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1338-2144
DOI	10.2478/jped-2023-0004
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Early Childhood Education; School Culture; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Accountability; Educational Assessment; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Pädagogische Kompetenz; Verantwortung; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Dänemark
Abstract	The aim of the article is to support critical consideration about what quality is and might be in ECEC. It argues that two different quality cultures -- understandings of what quality is, how it may be understood and supported -- intersect and create tensions in relation to the ECEC area in Denmark. One is analyzed as influenced by a transnational quality discourse, a specific regime of truth regarding quality as a phenomenon "out there" that must be defined and assessed to improve. This technical-instrumental quality culture needs to be balanced by a quality culture founded in pedagogy as a distinct perspective foundational for ECEC. Drawing on a continental tradition of pedagogy as a human science discipline the article offers a language and understanding of "pedagogical qualities." Such qualities refer to the attributes of pedagogy and go beyond what is easily disregarded as subjective in the prevailing quality culture. To identify such pedagogic qualities the article revisits empirical data from a narrative research project that explored pedagogic knowledge at play in ECEC professionals' practice. The article argues that a critical quality culture founded in thoughtful consideration and ethical balancing of pedagogical qualities is crucial for the sake of the children and our democratic society. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01