Linköping Studies in Pedagogic Practices No. 31
Linköping Studies in Education and Social Sciences No. 12
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Production and
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Documentation
Entanglements of children, things,
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FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
Linköping Studies in Pedagogic Practices No. 31
Linköping Studies in Education and Social Sciences No. 12 Department of Social and Welfare Studies (ISV)
Linköping University
SE-601 74 Norrköping, Sweden
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Preschool teachers are required to document and evaluate the qual-ity of the preschool. Documentation involves human and non-human material entities, such as teachers, children, computers, photos and templates. How do all entities play a part in documentation? What is produced as preschool quality?
The Swedish Curriculum for the Preschool suggests that children participate in documentation and evaluation. Through a posthuman-ist agential realposthuman-ist approach, the study shows how children’s partic-ipation in production of documentation does not depend on which documentation method is used. The study also points out that the products of documentation produce rather than represent certain el-ements of quality. The focus of preschool documentation shifts away from individual children and towards teachers’ activities and, rather than representing preschool practices, documentation creates pos-sibilities for what preschool practices and quality may become.
