About
Natália Costa is a psychologist and an early career researcher (ECR) at the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Faculty of Education and International Studies at OsloMet. She has completed her PhD at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, on the theme of infants’ locomotor exploration throughout their transition experience to ECEC services. Her work is underpinned by a cultural-historical framework and systemic views. Her research interests include development and pedagogies with infants and toddlers, visual and creative methods, embodiment, interactions, sociocultural processes in development and education as well as spatiality and materiality in ECEC. She is currently a primary member of the Methodological developments in kindergarten and education research group and a secondary member at the Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism in a Global Perspective group.
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da
; Dentz, Marisa von; Amorim, Katia de Souza
(2022).
While you were (not) asleep:
negotiation of times, routines, and
rhythms through the infant’s transition
process to early childhood and care.
Revista Brasileira de Educação.
Vol. 27.
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-24782022270117
White, E. Jayne; McNair, Lynn; Redder, Bridgette;
Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da
; Amorim, Katia de Souza; Harju, Kaisa; Westbrook, Fiona; Herold, Laura K. M.; Revilla, Yaiza Lucas; Marwick, Helen
(2022).
Enacted Pedagogies in First Transitions.
White, E. Jayne; Marwick, Helen; Rutanen, Niina; Amorim, Katia de Souza; Herold, Laura K. M. (Ed.).
First Transitions to Early Childhood Education and Care: Intercultural Dialogues across the Globe. p. 109-135.
Springer Nature.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-
Rutanen, Niina; Amorim, Katia de Souza; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Harju, Kaisa; Revilla, Yaiza Lucas; White, E. Jayne (2022). Living the Space in First Transitions. White, E. Jayne; Marwick, Helen; Rutanen, Niina; Amorim, Katia de Souza; Herold, Laura K. M. (Ed.). First Transitions to Early Childhood Education and Care: Intercultural Dialogues across the Globe. p. 199-224. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031
Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da
; Amorim, Katia de Souza
(2021).
Babies in Motion within Daycare Transition:(Co) construction of Locomotor Exploration in a Brazilian Case Study.
Fleer, Marilyn; Hedegaard, Mariane; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Sørensen, Hanne Værum (Ed.).
Qualitative Studies of Exploration in Childhood Education: Cultures of Play and Learning in Transition. p. 147-162.
Bloomsbury Academic.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350199453.ch-7
Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da
; Rossett-Ferreira, Maria Clotilde; Mello, Ana Maria Araújo de
(2021).
Providing outdoor experiences for infants and toddlers: Pedagogical possibilities and challenges from a Brazilian early childhood education centre case study.
Grindheim, Liv Torunn; Sørensen, Hanne Værum; Rekers, Angela (Ed.).
Outdoor Learning and Play
Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural Formation. p. 43-59.
Springer Berlin/Heidelberg.
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-
Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Amorim, Katia de Souza (2018). A coconstrução do fluxo locomotor em processos interativos bebê-bebê. Psicologia em Pesquisa.
