The modern child and
the flexible labour market:

Policy and practices in day care centres

Seminar in Trondheim

14 – 16 May 2004

Friday 14 May

09.00-09.15         Welcome and introduction: Jens Qvortrup

09.15-10.15         Magdalena Joos: The discourse of gender equality and its implications for the dilemmas of childcare

10.15-10.45         Coffee

10.45-11.45         Tora Korsvold: Welfare state policy towards small children. An historical-comparative study of Norway, Sweden and Germany

11.45-12.45         Guðný Björk Eydal: Public child care and policies – the case of Iceland

12.45-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.00         Anne Trine Kjørholt, Minna Rantalaiho and Vebjørg Tingstad: Reflections on flexibility, children and kindergarten

15.00-15.30         Coffee

15.30-16.30         Anne Trine Kjørholt, Minna Rantalaiho and Vebjørg Tingstad: Reflections on flexibility, children and kindergarten (cont.)

17.45                    Departure for Sverresborg – Trøndelag Folk Museum

19.15                   Dinner at restaurant Tavern

Saturday 15 May

09.00-10.00         Allison James: Day care or early education? Perspectives on the institutional provision for young children in the UK

10.00-10.30         Coffee

10.30-11.30         Eva Gulløv: Kindergartens in Denmark – some anthropological reflections

11.30-12.30         Harriet Strandell: A decade of ethnography in Finnish day care centres. What next?

12.30-14.00         Lunch at restaurant Bølgen og Moi

14.00-15.00         Randi Dyblie Nilsen: “Natural childhoods” in Norwegian day care centres?

15.00-15.30         Coffee

15.30-16.30         Line Hellem: The global in the local – practices in Norwegian day care centres

16.30-17.30         Peder Haug: What can research in Swedish kindergarten tell about the consequences of the introduction of the national curriculum for pre-school in 1998?

20.00                   Dinner at restaurant Chablis

Sunday 16 May

09.00-12.00         · Discussion of future cooperation – possibilities for comparative projects?

· Publication plans

· Seminar in 2005

12.00                    Lunch

Departure

Participants

Tatek Abebe, NOSEB, Norway

Guðný Björk Eydal, University of Iceland, Iceland

Eva Gulløv, The Danish University of Education, Denmark

Peder Haug, NOSEB, Norway

Tora Haugaløkken, NTNU, Norway

Line Hellem, NOSEB, Norway

Michael-Sebastian Honig, University of Trier, Germany

Allison James, University of Sheffield, UK

Heidi Jensberg, NOSEB, Norway

Jan-Erik Johansson, Oslo University College, Norway

Magdalena Joos, University of Trier, Germany

Anne Trine Kjørholt, NOSEB, Norway

Tora Korsvold, NOSEB, Norway

Randi Dyblie Nilsen, NOSEB, Norway

Jens Qvortrup, NOSEB, Norway

Minna Rantalaiho, NOSEB, Norway

Barbara Rogers, NOSEB, Norway

Harriet Strandell, University of Helsinki, Finland

Monica Sæland, NTNU, Norway