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The point of departure for this chapter on the kindergarten as a social space for childhood and children’s everyday lives is discourses on flexibility and user orientation. Time and place are important dimensions of the social space that is constituted by political discourses, since they represent and produce images of childhood and what it means to be a child, as well as particular understandings of learning, knowledge and care. Teachers and staff in kindergartens, like the children themselves, are also active participants in (re)constructing time and space through everyday social practices.
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Kjørholt, A.T., Seland, M. (2012). Kindergarten as a Bazaar. In: Kjørholt, A.T., Qvortrup, J. (eds) The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market. Studies in Childhood and Youth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230314054_10
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