About the PhD-project Sculpturing Words

The PhD-project “Sculpturing Words” is about young children’s diverse language development during their creative play with three-dimensional materials. I believe that this kind of playful pedagogical context can develop in to a meaningful aesthetic learning process, if a teacher supports children’s multimodal ways of expression. This project is about teacher’s competence, and children’s verbal and aesthetic languages, but most of all about synergistic effects between different ways of expression and communication: literacy in the multimodal perspective. Through discourse analyses and action research, I aim to identify learning potentials in children’s aesthetic learning processes, and which kind of didactical competence this demands from a teacher.