PhD project exploring how adults without upper secondary education learn their trade, develop a vocational identity, and obtain a trade certificate through the Norwegian practice candidate scheme.
The PhD project explores how pedagogical leaders exercise leadership in interaction with their co-workers in a diverse Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) context.
Leadership is understood as relational work and sensemaking processes in which power and trust are at stake when both leaders and those being led are active participants.
The research methods used in this project are shadowing and interviews. Shadowing is a type of observation in which the researcher closely follows the person being shadowed in their daily work.
The project is based on three sub-studies:
- The first sub-study explores what shadowing as a method entails for the researcher role in practice-oriented research, and how I, as an ethnically Norwegian researcher and ECEC teacher, navigate between closeness and distance when shadowing pedagogical leaders in a diverse ECEC context.
- The second sub-study explore how pedagogical leaders exercise leadership in the ECEC institution and how they handle different knowledge discourses when leading co-workers with a different knowledge base than their own.
- The third substudy explores the discourses on religion and culture that manifest in the ECEC institution, and the opportunities and challenges pedagogical leaders experience within their scope for action in leading cultural and religious diversity.
Publications from Nina Mellem Wiig (researchgate.net)
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