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Systematic Quality Work in a Swedish Context

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Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education

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In Sweden, systematic quality work (SQW) falls within the statutory obligations of preschools and leisure-time centres; this work takes up a significant portion of teachers’ time. This chapter describes and analyses the enactment of SQW in municipal arenas as well as its pedagogical practices in both preschools and leisure-time centres. In this chapter, SQW is discussed as a recontextualised discourse. In terms of the enactment of SQW, the norms and traditions within discursive practices are also discussed. In this chapter, documentation is shown to be a crucial aspect of teachers’ SQW in terms of governance, materiality, sense-making, resistance, learning, and the achievement of objectives.

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    Heidi Harju-Luukkainen

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Lager, K. (2019). Systematic Quality Work in a Swedish Context. In: Garvis, S., Harju-Luukkainen, H., Sheridan, S., Williams, P. (eds) Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16866-7_9

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