Redvaldsen, D.;
(2023)
Not by the book: the teaching of history in Norwegian kindergartens.
History Education Research Journal
, 20
(1)
, Article 3. 10.14324/HERJ.20.1.03.
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Abstract
This article reports a local study of the presence of history as a subject in the kindergartens of Kristiansand, a municipality in southern Norway. There is no syllabus for history in the national curriculum; nevertheless, the research sought to find historical content in the kindergartens. The research method was informed by a precept of history didactics, namely that history is everywhere. Using this observation, tentative categories for content likely to feature history were formulated, and then searched for in the individual yearly plans of the kindergartens. This was supplemented by interviews. It is concluded that, in accordance with the national curriculum, history in the kindergartens is a local affair. It emerges especially through local history, visits to museums, and projects with historical features. This research was not designed to determine whether learning outcomes in history are achieved, nor to consider kindergartens outside Kristiansand. However, it references a corpus of literature on history in Norwegian kindergartens, and interacts with it. The conclusion about the presence of the subject is the same as was found for another city, Trondheim, in research by others. For international readers, the article also argues that in principle it is possible for young children to learn history orally and informally.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Not by the book: the teaching of history in Norwegian kindergartens |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/HERJ.20.1.03 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/HERJ.20.1.03 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023, David Redvaldsen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | history, history education, history didactics, local history, kindergartens, early childhood education, early years learning, preschool education, national curriculum, Framework Plan |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10175240 |
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