Linda Häll

Associate Professor

Age in Preschool

This research project concerns how children’s age is expressed in the preschool’s pedagogical activities.

This is anchored in a view of age as a “doing”; that is, something participants achieve in social interaction (“doing age”). This perspective, inspired by symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology, was developed in analogy with the interactionist approach of gender research with its key concept of “doing gender”.

Publications

2025

Linda Häll, Tünde Puskás (2025)

Doing Being Orten: Managing Commonplace Super-Diversity in Swedish School-Age Educare Children & society, Vol. 39, p. 1041-1050 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/chso.12972

2022

Linda Häll (2022)

"Is he a giant, no he is tiny, a baby": Age categorization in preschool (Doctoral thesis, monograph)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3384/9789179292430

2014

Anna Liisa Närvänen, Linda Häll (2014)

Perspektiv på ålder i vardagslivets interaktioner [Perspective on age in everyday interactions] Sociologisk forskning, Vol. 51, p. 15-28 (Article in journal)

2013

Linda Häll (2013)

Kommunikativ mångfald i förskolebarns lek Nationell förskola med mångkulturellt uppdrag, p. 71-90 (Chapter in book)

Research

En förskolelärare bygger med klossar tillsammans med tre barn.

Network on Nordic ECEC and Integration Processes NECIP

This network brings together researchers in the Nordic region interested in how Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is used in integration processes within the broader context of Nordic welfare regimes.

An Investment in Research with a Focus on School-Age Educare

Utgångspunkt för vår forskning är barn och elevers erfarenheter av olika former av utbildningsinstitutioner. Vi studerar yngre barns villkor för till exempel lärande och meningsfull fritid i barns institutionaliserade vardagsliv.

Social Interaction as Educational Practice

The research in this knowledge field analyzes interplay between actors (children, pedagogues, physical artefacts) with different special and social contexts (classroom, sandbox) in different communicative activities (free play, driving lessons).

Section for Pedagogic Practises

The section for Pedagogic Practices is a research environment that deals in research in association with Linköping University’s teacher training, especially the training held in Norrköping.

Division of Learning, Aesthetics, Natural Science (LEN)

LEN is a division at IBL engaged in education and research within the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Linköping University.