DOI: 10.1177/09075682231218805 ISSN: 0907-5682

Teaching nature and nation in the Swedish mobile preschool

Danielle Ekman Ladru, Zsuzsa Millei, Camilla Eline Andersen, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Katarina Gustafson, Sirpa Lappalainen
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Life-span and Life-course Studies

Ideas of nature, nation and childhood are intertwined in Nordic early childhood education. We explore in ethnographic data the ways nature is taught in Swedish mobile preschools. We show how everyday nationalism manifests in the teaching practices of ‘good’ pedagogy in nature. We argue that depending on who is teaching and learning, various constructions of nationhood emerge enabling the re-imagination of a single national imaginary to a plural one.