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Ann Merete Otterstad

Ann Merete Otterstad

Job title
  • Professor
Visiting address
  • Pilestredet 40, 0167 Oslo
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 997 36 323
E-mail
  • ann.otterstad@oslomet.no
Affiliation

Field of study

Early Childhood Education   Poststructural perspectives   New material theories

Research groups

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Fønnebø, Bente ; Jensen, Maybritt ; Malone, Karen; Myrvold, Hanne Berit ; Nakata, Reiko Hayashi; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland ; Waterhouse, Ann- Hege Lorvik (2026). Earthly Childhood Methodologies. Malone, Karen; Angell, Mona-Lisa; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da; Fønnebø, Bente; Jensen, Maybritt; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland (Ed.). Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods. p. 1-18. Springer Nature Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-0430-4_1

Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2026). Foreldresamtalens og barnehagepedagogikkens (brutale) optimisme: En performativ litteraturstudie. Nordisk tidsskrift for pedagogikk og kritikk. Vol. 12.
https://doi.org/10.23865/ntpk.v12.7152

Malone, Karen; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Costa, Natália Meireles Santos da ; Fønnebø, Bente ; Jensen, Maybritt ; Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland ; Myrvold, Hanne Berit ; Nakata, Reiko Hayashi; Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Waterhouse, Ann-Hege Lorvik (2026). Earthly Methodologies as Unfolding Childhoods. ISBN: 9789819204304. 258 p. Springer Nature Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-92-0430-4

Førde, Elin; Afdal, Hilde Wågsås ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2026). Interventions and Standardised Quality Assurance Programmes in Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care: A Scoping Review. Education Sciences. Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci16091440

Rostøl, Vilde Træland; Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Myrvold, Hanne Berit (2025). Diffraktive fotofabuleringer med lydbølger og bærekraft som barnehagefaglig fenomen. Tidskrift för genusvetenskap (TGV).
https://doi.org/10.55870/tgv.v45i1.14653

Osgood, Jayne; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Angell, Mona-Lisa ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2024). Editorial. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6045

Skoglund, Tonje; Lerbak, Kari; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2023). Vad kan en barnbok bli som forskningsmaterial i förskollärarutbildningen?. Andersen, Camilla Eline; Aronsson, Lena; Taguchi, Hillevi Lenz (Ed.). p. 107-122. Gleerups Utbildning AB.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5020943

Osgood, Jayne; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2022). Portal-time and wanderlines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research?. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM). Vol. 13.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3161398

Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Dahlberg, Gunilla (2022). Early Childhood Pedagogues, Thresholds, Feminisms and New Materialism. Langford, Rachel; Richardson, Brooke (Ed.). THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR Chritical Conversation in Feminist Theory. p. 175-190. Bloomsbury Academic.
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350267220.ch-10

Lerbak, Kari; Skoglund, Tonje; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2022). Å gjøre «hørestyrke» til en mindre fortelling om barns språk. Nordisk barnehageforskning (NBF). Vol. 19.
https://doi.org/10.23865/nbf.v19.246



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Textbooks

Gulpinar, Tona ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2012). Samtidskunstens plass i barnehagen. ISBN: 9788215019413. 14 p. Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4618721



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Research reports

Otterstad, Ann Merete (2018). Å stå i trøbbelet. Kartograferinger av barnehageforskningens metodologier. Postkvalitative passasjer og (ny)empiriske brytninger. Universitetet i Oslo.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3279393



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Dissemination

Førde, Elin; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2026). Ein presentasjon av forsking på intervensjonsprogram og standardiserte kvalitetssikringsprogram i nordisk barnehage: Ein scoping review av forskingsfeltet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5591913

Odegard, Nina ; Skundberg, Øystein ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2024). Episode 38: Ann Merete Otterstad - om posthumanistisk barnehageforskning, teori og metodologi.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4074263

Reinertsen, Anne Beate; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2024). Turning the tides; the child and the political. Methodologies for integraled child politics in education. Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology (RERM).
https://doi.org/10.7577/rerm.6154

Otterstad, Ann Merete (2024). Posthumane og ny-materielle teorier. Bergsland, Mirjam Dahl; Haugen, Gry Mette Dalseng (Ed.). Vitenskapsteori for masterstudenter i barnehagelærerutdanningen. p. 157-182. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3619768

Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Osgood, Jayne Louise (2022). Portal-time and wanderlines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research?’. Reimagining pedagogies in transformational times. RECE - Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3301241

Otterstad, Ann Merete (2022). Sensing past, present, and future professional matterings and planetary concern in Nordic early years. SJIEC 18th Annual Conference – Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater. Social justice .
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3527121

Otterstad, Ann Merete (2022). Sporinger av pedagogikkfaget. Kan studentenes valgte tema i bacheloroppgaven si noe om pedagogikkfaget i utdanninga? Og i tilfelle hva?. Pedagogikkonferanse 2022: Å utdanne pedagoger med kunnskap, dømmekraft og handlekraft. Pedagogikk ved Oslomet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4419686

Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2021). Handling quality in research and publication - insights and challenges from journal editors. NERA Pre-conference. NERA network Post-approaches to Education.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3546289

Osgood, Jayne; Andersen, Camilla Eline ; Otterstad, Ann Merete (2021). Portal-time and wanderlines: What does virusing-with make possible in childhood research?. The IX Conference on Childhood Studies.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3491900

Knudsen, Jan Sverre ; Otterstad, Ann Merete ; Nilsen, Anne Birgitta ; Haug, Kristin Holte ; Hellne-Halvorsen, Ellen Beate (2020). Tidsskrifter ved OsloMet kveles.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3781821



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