Webinar: Pedagogisk og ansvarlig innovasjon: Hva betyr det i barnehagelærerutdannning?

NORBARN fortsetter sin webinarserie, og denne gangen vil Liv Torunn Grindheim (Professor ved BARNkunne-senteret, HVL) og Svein Gunnar Sjøtun (Handelshøgskolen HVL) holde webinaret: "Pedagogisk og ansvarlig innovasjon: Hva betyr det i barnehagelærerutdannning?"

Presentasjonen vil foregå på engelsk, mens dialogen etterpå kan være på både norsk og engelsk.

Early childhood teacher education (ECTE) has low status and falling number of students. Top-down changes and reforms are asked for and implemented. A critique of these reforms is that they are initiated and driven by stakeholders outside the field of practice, and often appear to be neither efficient nor relevant for the involved stakeholders. Several teachers and researchers ask for productive changes that are close to ongoing practices and involved actors. Such practices that can be seen as ‘innovation’ or ‘educational innovation’ have generally remained undertheorized, which have limited their value in practice and policy development beyond the specific higher education institution in which they take place. To meet this lack of theorising, we explore the relations, complementarities and differences between the concepts responsible innovation and pedagogical innovation, which both address issues of responsibility, ethics, reflexivity and involvement in innovation processes. We appreciate involvement in this exploration and welcome you to join the webinar. 

Dr. Svein Gunnar Sjøtun works as an associate professor at the HVL Business School at Western Norway university of Applied Sciences, where he also leads the master programme in Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His research lies at the intersection of Economic Geography, Innovation Studies and Socio-Technical Transition Studies and his main empirical studies have focused on green innovation and transition in the maritime and marine industries in western Norway. He has also worked with student entrepreneurship and various innovations tools and methods, such as Design Thinking. A central topic for his research has been to study drivers and barriers of sustainable transition and innovation processes and regional development, and how these are embedded in various geographical contexts. Herein, a central focus has been to study the directionality of such processes—i.e. how they align with ‘societal missions’—different conceptualisations of value of innovations, and how innovation processes can be conceptualised as responsible and desirable.

Liv Torunn Grindheim (Ph.D.) is a Professor in Early childhood education (ECE), at the faculty of pedagogy, religion and sport and at KINDknow research centre, at Western Norway University of Applied sciences. Grindheim’s research interests are play,  cultural formation, children as citizens and sustainability in ECE and in ECE teacher education. She is a leader of the research group  Kindergarten as an arena for cultural formation and editor in the Journal Nordic early childhood educational research  She is currently leading the local part of the project Making the invisible in teacher education, visible, where stakeholders like students, lectors, professors, administrative staff, leaders and in-service teachers, are co-researchers and participants. Identifying areas for innovation is an overall aim for the project, and therefore the concept responsible innovation became relevant.

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Host for dette webinaret er postdoktor Czarecah Oropilla