PhD project

Lise Hostrup Sønnichsen

PhD student
Lise Hostrup Sønnichsen
Project period
2020 - 2024
Main supervisor
Sune Klok Gudiksen
Project supervisor
Helle Marie Skovbjerg
LAB
Play and Design
LAB theme
Playful Learning
Collaboration partners
UC SYD Teacher Education
Playful Learning Research Extension programme
Background
The analyses and descriptions in the thesis illustrate how participation in study activity characterised by playful approaches can provide a framework for student teachers' professional development.
what

About

The project was based on two research questions: 

  1. How can participation in study activity characterised by playful approaches have an impact on the professional development process (Bildung) of student teachers? 
  2. How can playful approaches be used to design study activity that invites a playful attitude to study work in teacher education?
why

Purpose

The project showed that playful approaches to learning and teaching in the Danish teacher education can influence the professional development process (Bildung) of student teachers eg. their way of relating to themselves as designers of playful teaching, differentiation and variation, playful facilitation and children’s playfulness in teaching.

“I have never been introduced to playful approaches before. And what if I had chosen another subject as my third subject, which teacher would I have been? Maybe it's about the fact that I feel that everything I have in me can suddenly be put together in a meaningful way. Now it makes sense to me”

– Mathilda, student Teacher
how

Methods and outcome

Methodologi: design-based research (Barab & Squire, 2004) combined with a narrative approach called self-correcting induction (Boje, 2008; Boje & Rosile). The research process was bound together by a continuous focus on conducting different types of conversations mediated by different actionable methods. A process that allowed abductive, inductive, and deductive approaches.

Contact

Lab for Play and Design

Sune Klok Gudiksen

Associate Professor, Lab for Play and Design