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Description
Childrens right to a safe and healthy psychosocial environment in ECEC protected from psychological harms such as exclusion, discrimination and bullying, was enshrined in the Norwegian Kindergarten Act (11.12.2020). A legal obligation that requires continuous knowledge of children's well-being and their lifeworld experiences in ECEC.
Children’s’ voices are, in this case, important sources in developing knowledge about how to create equal dialogues for sharing, listening and empowering the children’s voices, and what qualities the practitioner’s should have to achieve this. The aim of this presentation is to highlight the voice of the children and their perceptions about the role of the practitioners to empower their voice and subjective expressiveness.
From a study in an ECEC practicing dialogues to ensure children’s participating and well-being, the empirical findings from video-recorded interviews with 24 children show that the children enjoyed to talk about feelings and experiences, and appreciated this space to express their views about their social life in ECEC. The findings do also reveal that the children perceive the practitioner’s mood, intentions and attitudes through their presence and communication, and that this did impact on the dialogues intersubjectivity and the children’s personal expressiveness. Sharing experiences, feelings and views is largely an activity that is self-determined and situational conditioned, and prerequisites interpersonal conditions as respect, volition, and intersubjective participation. These findings substantiate the importance of the practitioner’s competence, as well as listening skills, responsiveness, and self-reflexivity, as an important foundation in empowering children’s voices and subjectivity in dialogues.
Keywords
ECEC, children, dialogues, self-determination, intersubjectivity,
| Please also indicate what kind of contribution it is: | Scientific |
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| Please indicate what type of scientific contribution it is | Qualitative method study |
