Friendships between one-year-olds in a Norwegian child ca re in sti tu tion (Bar ne ha ge)

• Authors: Anne Greve , Annette Kristoffersen Winje
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There seems to exist a broad agreement that friendship plays an important role in children’s lives. This article explores the origins of friendships between one-year-olds in a Norwegian barnehage (Early Childhood Education and Care). This study through video observations established that young children utilize many different strategies to participate in each other’s life-worlds. Here, we emphasize five of the strategies that seem to be particularly apparent in our data; all of them are the results of encounters between the children: body contact, group glee, vocalizations, humour, and joining in. Friendship may be considered as a construction, built up by many encounters, where the children experience some sort of a mutual ‘we’. Some of the encounters between the children, although of short duration, could be regarded as their participation in each other’s life-worlds, and as such, form the ‘bricks’ in the construction of future friendship relations.

Keywords

EN

toddlers,; life-worlds,; phenomenology,; friendships,; encounters

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Pedagogiczne
• Journal: Problemy Wczesnej Edukacji
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4(19)
• Pages: 42-56

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Anne Greve

• Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (Norway)

author

Annette Kristoffersen Winje

• Stord/Haugesund University College of Applied Sciences (Norway)

Identifiers

ISSN

1734-1582