By gathering researchers across the Nordic countries, the workshop explores how ECEC contributes to integration in diverse and increasingly segregated preschool environments. The network emphasizes comparative approaches to practice and policy, with the goal of fostering long-term collaboration and informing inclusive ECEC strategies within the Nordic welfare context.
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.
Publications
Löthman, C., & Puskás, T. (2025). Peer integration–a free choice? Newly arrived children's participation in free play in Swedish preschools. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 14639491251320155
Lindgren, A-L., & Puskás, T. (2024) Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Integration: State Initiatives and Local Strategies. Deutsches Jugendistitut
Kimathi, E. (2024). An institutional ethnographic study on the social organisation of integration work in Norwegian ECEC Centers. Doctoral dissertations at University of Agder
Contact
Participants network
- Signe Thingstrup, Associate Professor, University College Copenhagen (KP), Denmark
- Zsuzsa Millei, Professor, Tampere University, Finland
- Hilde Lidén, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Social Research, Norway
- Tünde Puskás, Professor, Linköping University
- Anne-Li Lindgren, Professor, Stockholm University
- Wiji Bohme-Shomary, Teacher, Stockholm University
- Charlotte Löthman, Postdoc, Linköping University
- Annika Åkerblom, Associate Professor, Södertörn University
- Danielle E Ladru, Associate Professor, Stockholm University
- Mirjam Hagström, Associate Professor, Stockholm University
- Håkan Forsberg, Associate Professor, Uppsala University
- Anne Harju, Associate Professor, Malmö University
- Eric Kimathi, Associate Professor, University of Agder, Norway
- Antonia Scholz, PhD, German Youth Institute, Germany
- Hilde Hjertager Lund, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway
- Eva Gulløv, Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Stefan Lund, Professor, Stockholm University
- Eija Sevon, Associate Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Linda Häll, Associate Professor, Linköping University
- Sonja Olsen, Associate Professor, The University of the Faroe Islands, Färöarna, Danmark
- Arniika Kuusisto, Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Kari Krogstad, Associate Professor, University of South Eastern Norway
- Jan Kampmann, Professor Emeritus, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Nafsika Alexiadou, Professor, Umeå University
- Niina Rutanen, Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Eija Sevon, Associate Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
- Camilla Andersen, Professor, University of Inland Norway
Would you like to become a member of our network? Please contact Tünde Puskás