Abstract
Cultural diversity and cultural naivete in early childhood education and care: In this article I focus on cultural diversity as it is presented in the Norwegian Framework Plan for the Content and Tasks of Kindergartens. The concept Kindergarten does not refer to first year in school as in USA, but refer to any kind of early childhood education and care institutions. I argue that the understanding and interpretation of culture is too narrow in this plan. It presents culture mainly as a value and as something that should be made visible and carried out in practical work in the kindergartens. I argue that this understanding of culture and cultural diversity can lead to stereotype understanding of children - children as representatives for cultural diversity. Children should only be understood as representatives of themselves and not as some kind of cultural "marionettes". As an alternative to this way of understanding culture, I present the term as way of analyzing social life, as a way of thinking, and also as different kinds of practice, something that characterize activities between people, not primarily as qualities within people.
Highlights
”Det kulturelle mangfoldet skal gjenspeiles i barnehagen” står det i Rammeplan for barnehagens innhold og oppgaver (R06) (Kunnskapsdepartementet, 2006)
Disse knytter seg til forståelsen av språket selv, vårt forhold til kulturbegrepets mangetydighet og til spørsmål knyttet til fortolkningsmuligheter i Rammeplanen
Dette kan for eksempel dreie seg om å arbeide for best mulig integrering av ”våre nye landsmenn”, arbeid med å fremme kvinners rettigheter og arbeid mot rasisme
Summary
Olav Kasin Avdeling for lærerutdanning og internasjonale studier, Høgskolen i Oslo, Norge. I argue that the understanding and interpretation of culture is too narrow in this plan. It presents culture mainly as a value and as something that should be made visible and carried out in practical work in the kindergartens. Jeg blir med andre ord ikke lenger så sikker på hva staten ber barnehagene om å gjøre når de skal gjenspeile et kulturelt mangfold i barnehagen. I denne artikkelen vil jeg rette et kritisk blikk på Rammeplanens tematisering av kulturelt mangfold i barnehagen. Dette kan i sin tur lede til forenklede og stereotype oppfatninger, både av barna og av den kulturen de eventuelt skulle representere
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