Open AccessSpor etter kjønnsdiskurser i barnehagepersonalets praksisfortellinger
Author(s) -
Randi Oppermann Moe,
Grete Nordvik
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
nordisk barnehageforskning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1890-9167
DOI - 10.7577/nbf.314
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , gender studies , power (physics) , sociology , discourse analysis , michel foucault , psychology , epistemology , linguistics , political science , politics , philosophy , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Gender discourses provide conditions for children's constructing of gender. The empirical basis of this article is stories from practice written by staff in two kindergartens in Norway. Our purpose is to trace how gender discourses manifests in the stories. In the analysis of the texts we have been inspired by Foucault's theory of discourse, power and control. The main findings of the analysis show that we can trace discourses that emphasize gender as a difference, and gender as complex. We discuss how various gender discourses work together with educational discourses and provide different opportunities for children's constructing of gende