Organization profile

Organisation profile

The centre’s research activities focus on everyday life and educational and caring (pedagogical) practices in child care centres such as nurseries, kindergartens and age-integrated institutions for children 0-6 years of age.

The aim of the Danish Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care is to contribute to discussions on the life of children and pedagogical professionalism in the context of societal changes and changes in political management of early childhood education and care.

This aim is achieved through various activities:

Producing and systematising research on early childhood education and care
Connecting Danish research and development environments and projects within the field of early childhood education and care, and strengthening relationships with international research environments
Supporting development of practice on a knowledge-based, participatory foundation
Providing support and feedback for political agendas nationally and internationally through strong dialogue with stakeholders and the field of practice

The centre's main objective is to create a strong, collective and attractive research environment that attracts and stimulates research and development in order to influence national and international research agendas, as well as to establish a sound knowledge foundation for future development of the field of practice and the political agendas that shape it.

Research Themes and Projects

The centre's research themes are the foundation of its activities and aim to bring together national and international researchers, including visiting researchers, with a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Current central themes of strategic importance:

Children's everyday life in child care centres
Knowledge, professional expertise and working life
Pedagogical Practice
Policy and management

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Profiles

Annegrethe Ahrenkiel

annegrah@ruc.dk

Department of People and Technology - Associate Professor
Working Life - Associate Professor
Centre for Action Research and Democratic Societal Change
Center for Arbejdslivsforskning
The Danish Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care
Center for Velfærd, Profession og Hverdagsliv

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Søs Anne-Lise Bayer

annelira@ruc.dk

Department of People and Technology - Associate Professor
The Danish Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care

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Benedicte S. Bernstorff

bernstorff@ruc.dk

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Research Output

Microgenetic transitions in everyday life and child subjectivity: Children’s perspectives

Juhl, P., 2022, (In preparation) Bloomsbury Academic. 200 p. (Transitions).

Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review

"Det er vi sikre på nok skal komme". Forandringer i hvordan børnehavebørn skal være parate fra år 2000 til i dag.

Ellegaard, T., Mar 2020, Parate børn : - forestillinger og praksis i mødet mellem familie og daginstitution. Bach, D., Dannesboe, K. I., Ellegaard, T., Kjær, B., Kryger, N. & Westerling, A. (eds.). Frederiksberg: Frydenlund Academic, p. 185-203 19 p. (Velfærd, professioner og hverdagsliv under forandring).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

Documentation of children’s language development: A critical analysis and discussion of the conceptualization of language in widespread language assessments.

Ahrenkiel, A. & Holm, L., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Documentation in institutional contexts of ECE: Normalisation, power relations, and participation. Alasuutari, M., Kelle, H. & Knauf, H. (eds.). Springer VS

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review