A new toolbox era in Danish early childhood pedagogy

In recent years, the Danish early childhood pedagogy, which traditionally has been conducted in very diverse (and methodologically independent) institutions, has changed rather dramatically. A new type of commercially initiated pedagogical methods and programmes have emerged, often initiated (and bought) by municipalities, imposing them as “evidence-based” concepts to all day-care facilities in the region. In this session, the focus is on mapping and understanding this phenomenon, presenting a research study that partly investigates what methods, programs and concepts that are popular throughout Denmark, and partly identifying the characteristics and common denominators of these concepts.