Research project Multimodal communication, power and identity creation.
Multimodal Communication, Power and Identity Formation
About children’s communication with one another concerning age and gender. The dissertation examines how children communicate with one another about social categories, more specifically age and gender, in a preschool context.
Preschool is a place where children from different backgrounds and experiences meet and create a shared everyday life. In the preschool context, numerous social interactions among children occur continuously across a variety of situations. The study aims to investigate how children approach one another, explore and perceive different social categories, and, together, test various theories and representations and give shape to them in different ways.
Processes of inclusion, exclusion, and community-building are constantly underway, linked to social categories such as age and gender, and to how these are communicated among children.
Supervisor: Mia Heikkilä