Vol. 13 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue: Nordic perspectives on linguistic diversity and multilingualism in early childhood education

Published: 2024-02-08

Editorial

• Nordic perspectives on linguistic diversity and multilingualism in early childhood education and care: Guest editorial

  Katri Hansell, Gunhild Tomter Alstad, Mari Bergroth

  1-12

Peer-reviewed articles

• Conceptualisations of multilingualism in early childhood teacher education: Ideological and implementational spaces in policy texts

  Gunhild Tomter Alstad

  13-41

• Staff self-assessment of ECEC practices in meeting language diversity in Finland

  Mari Bergroth, Raisa Harju-Autti, Jenni Alisaari

  42-67

• Acknowledging Sámi as indigenous people in early childhood teacher education in Finland – A study in the light of values, knowledge, and competencies

  Marina Lundkvist, Pauliina Sopanen

  68-91

• Swedish-English preschool as a site for the collaborative discovery of bilingual meanings

  Olga Anatoli

  92-121

• Creating early language education affordances in two pre-primary education classrooms

  Merja Koivula, Anu Palojärvi, Josephine Moate, Karita Mård-Miettinen

  122-148

• Language-learning tools used in Norwegian ECEC

  Åse Lund

  149-172

• Walking through kindergarten semiotic landscapes with multilingual children: A way to explore participation and engagement

  Martin Fjeld, Katrine Giæver

  173-195

• Teachers’ reflections on linguistic diversity in the linguistic and semiotic landscapes of Swedish-medium ECEC units in Finland

  Sanna Pakarinen, Katri Hansell, Maria Kvist

  196-220

• Multilingual learning environments in early childhood education in Finland

  Elisa Repo, Juli-Anna Aerila, Maria Tyrer, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen

  221-248

• Acts of bridging in communication with newly arrived Ukrainian children in the Norwegian ECEC context

  Anna Aluf, Elena Tkachenko

  249-273

• The significance of multilingual children´s voices in research

  Anja Pesch, Marit Sundelin

  274-295

• Linguistic diversity in transition: Shifting language orientations in the Swedish ECEC curricula

  Maria Papakosma

  296-318

• Language as a medium for inclusion and exclusion: Supporting multilingualism in a Swedish minority language ECEC setting in Finland

  Jan-Erik Mansikka, Monica Londén, Gunilla Holm, Maria Saloranta, Alexandra Nordström

  319-342

• (Re)thinking children’s picturebooks as the mirror of contemporary society

  Ellinor Skaremyr, Carina Hermansson, Getahun Yacob Abraham, Margareta Lindström

  343-367

Commentary

• Nordic perspectives on linguistic diversity and multilingualism in early childhood education and care: An afterword

  Andrea S. Young

  368-374