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Research article2024Peer reviewedOpen access

Toddlers' engagements with preschool playgrounds: ethnographic insights from Sweden

Annerback, Johanna; Manni, Annika; Lofgren, Hakan; Martensson, Fredrika

Abstract

This article explores toddler - place relationships outdoors during early childhood education in Sweden. Informed by Tim Ingold's theorization of movement, we explore toddlers' embodied engagements with the preschool playground and how the human-non-human environments become entangled. The results show that, just as in the wider world, the processes enabling and limiting toddlers' engagements in the playground are continuously in motion. Toddler-place relationships are continuously created through a mutual dependence between human and non-human entities. In this sense, toddlers' engagements with playgrounds are not separate from the place through which they engage, but change place.

Keywords

Place; Preschool; Playground; Toddlers'; Engagement

Published in

Children's Geographies
2024, Volume: 22, number: 5, pages: 810-825 Publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD

    UKÄ Subject classification

    Human Geography

    Publication identifier

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2024.2386242

    Permanent link to this page (URI)

    https://res.slu.se/id/publ/131647