Ann-Charlotte Mårdsjö Olsson

Title: PhD
Unit: Childhood and Adolescence Studies
Phone: 46 (0)31-786 2040
E-mail: ann-charlotte.mardsjo@ped.gu.se

Research interests

You learn new things all the time, but how does that take place? As a teacher, you have a duty—to teach children to learn. How do you contribute to children’s learning? In my doctoral dissertation, The Shifting Meaning of Learning—Expressed by Preschool Teachers in a Continuing Education Course, I investigated how preschool teachers perceive what they are learning in a continuing education course and how they participate in children’s learning in their professional practice. I also studied how teachers’ perceptions of their own learning have changed during the continuing education course. One finding is that a condition for learning is that the object to be learned should be varied. How can you, as a teacher, discover the variation that children/students themselves create and use it in your teaching? And how can you, as a teacher, use this variation in teaching that you initiate so that children/students will understand what they are learning?

Teaching interests

I teach and supervise both undergraduates and teachers returning for advanced courses. I also like to lecture on, for instance: developmental education, preschool curriculum, documentation, plans for individual development. I have also initiated and performed a number of developmental projects geared to study how preschool teachers develop greater competence and awareness of how they can contribute to children’s learning of various aspects of content.

Keywords

competence development, documentation, evaluation, individual development plans, how teachers experience that they create meaning in their own learning and how they perceive that they contribute to children’s learning

Selected publications

Mårdsjö, A-C. (2005). Lärandets skiftande innebörder - uttryckta av förskollärare i vidareutbildning. Göteborgs studie in educational sciences 225.

Mårdsjö, A-C. (2005). Lek och Lärande en studie av verksamheten i Lek och Lär i Kungsbacka. Kungsbacka kommun.

Mårdsjö. A-C. (2004:11). Kvalité i förskolan relaterat till strukturella förutsättningar. Linköping.

Mårdsjö, A-C. (1997). Grundläggande färdigheter och färdigheternas grundläggande. Lund. Studentlitteratur.

Links to research groups and projects:

• Research programme: Early Childhood Education