Karin Alnervik
Change your information Research
Karin Alnervik’s research is focused on pedagogical documentation as a tool for transformation in preschool. In her doctoral thesis “Yes, that’s also a way of thinking about it! Pedagogical documentation as a tool for transformation in preschool” (2013), changes in four preschool units have been analyzed retrospectively as expanded learning (Engeström) on the basis that the preschools have started to work with pedagogical documentation. Contradictions in the activity system related to pedagogical documentation being used as a tool are presented in the study. The study also shows how preschool personnel solve contradictions by changing their work and their organization on unit level as well as preschool level in order to be able to work with pedagogical documentation systematically. The study is highly relevant, in view of preschool curriculum being revised (effective July 1st, 2011) where a new chapter has been added, which places greater responsibility on preschool teachers and preschool managers to find forms to systematize documentary work.
Biography
In 2013 Karin received her PhD in Pedagogy from the School of Education and Communication in Jönköping. Karin has previously worked as a preschool teacher, teacher, school administrator at Kommunförbundet in Jönköping county and as a project leader for "Lärarna lyfter Sverige". She has also worked as a pedagogic instructor, lecturer and is a partner in HallonEtt (preschool).