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Profession of change and new ways of working: introducing a digital quality tool in preschool education
University of Gävle, Faculty of Education and Business Studies, Department of Educational sciences, Educational science. Umeå universitet.ORCID iD: 0009-0006-3075-6249
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Reflecting on what happens when a digital quality tool is introduced in a preschool setting, a system owner expresses: “[I]t’s a process in itself, it becomes a new way of working really. It may be that you work with the systematic quality work on paper today, or in another digital product, however, you do it, it changes things” (Quote from an interview with a system owner). The quote is a description of what happens when a digital tool for quality is introduced. Things change and new ways of working appear. The quote above is also representative of how different processes of digitalization seem to challenge professional knowledge, e.g. how to work with quality in preschools, and how this leads to processes of sensemaking (cf. Weick, 1995) among practitioners. Thus, introducing a digital quality tool affects professional settings and challenges traditional ways of working. The specific digital tool investigated in this study, consisting of an integrated app and a web interface, has an outspoken aim to organize and develop the work with quality. As such, the new digital quality tool has the intention to create new ways of working as well as change. Thus, the introduction of a digital quality tool does things and it needs to be made sense of by organizations and individuals. The following is as such an investigation of these new ways and changes related to how pre-schools work with issues of quality and how they are made sense of within their professional context.

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EERA , 2023.
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Pedagogy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-46616OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-46616DiVA, id: diva2:1944287
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ECER 2023, European conference on educational research, Glasgow, UK, August 22-25, 2023
Available from: 2024-10-28 Created: 2025-03-13 Last updated: 2025-10-02Bibliographically approved

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