Anne-Li Lindgren

I'm teaching at the undergraduate and Master's programme in Early Childhood Education, as well as in PhD education courses.

Topics include:

i) History of childhood and early childhood education – politics, child perspectives and childhoods

ii) Child culture, children's culture and childhood

iii) Play – what is it and how can it be used in early childhood education

iv) Observations and documentations in early childhood education – why we need a visual ethics including children and adults

v) Children as actors: Childhood Sociology revisited

vi) Critical Discourse Analysis: A theory and method based on a three dimensional conception of discourse

In my research I combine theories and methods from Childhood studies, Early childhood education, Media studies, Discourse studies, History of childhood, Cultural studies and Visual studies. I have a speicific interest in observations, documentations and visuality in early childhood education in historical and contemporary perspectives.

Research projects

Swedish Sex Education 1882-2014: Norms about sexuality in educational history research

Preschool as an image and looking apparatus: ways of seeing and visual knowledge production in small children’s everyday lives

Highlighted publications

Lindgren, A-L & Grunditz, S, Examining Children's and Adult's Ways of Looking in Kindergarten: An Analysis of Documented Observations from the 1930s. In: Maarit Alasuutari, Helga Kelle and Helen Knauf, Documentation in Institutional Contexts of Early Childhood. Normalisation, Participation and Professionalism, Springer, 2020: 147-165.

Olsson, M, & Lindgren, A-L. The Role of Digital Cameras in Child and Researcher Encounters in Preschool. A Potential for a Decolonization of Childhood. Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, 2019, 4(1): 99–115, OA online.

Lindgren, A-L. Towards an ethics of sexuality – alternative feminist figurations and a (boy) child: a close reading of a prize-winning sex education manual from the early twentieth century, Gender & Education, 2019, 31(6): 774-787, online.

Lindgren, A-L. Materializing fiction: Teachers as creators of play and children as embodied entrants in early childhood education. International Journal of Play, 2017, 6(2): 1-16, online.

Sparrman, A, Cardell, D, Lindgren, A-L, and Samuelsson, T, The ontological choreography of (good) parenthood, In: Anna Sparrma, Allan Westerling, Judith Lind, Karen Ida Dannesboe (Eds.), Doing Good Parenthood. Ideals and Practices of Parental Involvement. Springer International Publishing AG, 2016, 113-125.

Lindgren, A-L, Sparrman, A, Samuelsson, T, and Cardell, D, Enacting (real) fiction: Materializing childhoods in a theme park, Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2015, 22(2): 171-186.

Samuelsson, T, Sparrman, A, Cardell, D & Lindgren, A-L. The active, competent child, capable of autonomous action: an inherent quality or the outcome of a research process? AnthropoChildren. Ethnographic Perspectives in Children & Childhood, 2015, 5. OA online.