ECEC as a commons: Involving communities in the development of ECEC-services as an alternative to dominant approaches to early intervention in Denmark

This session presents findings from two research projects that explore relations between everyday lives in communities and ECEC-services, and how these affect children’s and parents’ belonging. The projects critique dominant approaches to vulnerability in ECEC and argue that they increase marginalization by reducing curriculum and stigmatizing lives and knowledge forms of children and parents. Through participatory methods, the projects explore possibilities for developing ECEC-services as a commons where differences are recognized and where conflict and disagreement contributes to development of novel communities and forms of belonging. The panel session shares empirical material and invites discussions about this.