Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Alexandra Nordström is a postdoctoral researcher and university lecturer at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki. Her research themes include early childhood education and care, young children’s affect, literacy practices, interaction, multiliteracies pedagogy, and sociocultural and new materialist theories and post-perspectives in educational research. Alexandra also teaches in the bachelor and master programmes at the Faculty of Educational Sciences.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
Award Date: 29 Mar 2023
Master of Social Sciences
Fields of Science
- 516 Educational sciences
- Early Childhood Education
- Literacy
- 5141 Sociology
- Childhood Studies
International and National Collaboration
Publications and projects within past five years.
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Digital kompetens inom småbarnspedagogiken och förskoleundervisningen i Svenskfinland
Nordström, A. & Mannila, L., 24 Apr 2024, Helsingfors: Svenska kulturfonden. 94 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Ilon ilmeneminen varhaiskasvatuksessa
Translated title of the contribution :The emergence of joy in early childhood education Research output: Other contribution
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Kroppslighet och materialitet i små barns tidiga litteracitet
Nordström, A., Tjäru, S. & Jusslin, S., 29 Aug 2024, In: Läraren. 12/2024Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › General public
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Language as a medium for inclusion and exclusion: Supporting multilingualism in a Swedish minority language ECEC setting in Finland
Mansikka, J.-E., Londen, M., Holm, G., Saloranta, M. & Nordström, A., 8 Feb 2024, In: Journal of Early Childhood Education Research. 13, 1, p. 319–342 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Re-Thinking Joy and Young Children’s Literacy Practices Through a Relational Lens
Nordström, A., Dec 2024, In: International critical childhood policy studies journal. 11, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open AccessFile
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ALLBINK: All Children Included!
Holm, G. (Project manager), Landén, C. E. (Participant), Londen, M. (Participant), Mansikka, J.-E. (Participant), Nordström, A. (Participant), Saloranta, M. A. J. (Participant) & Thostrup, M. (Participant)
Stiftelsen Brita Maria Renlunds Minne
01/03/2021 → 31/12/2025
Project: Foundations (Private Foundations, Non-Profit Foundations, Charitable Trusts)
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PLC - Playful Learning Center
Kumpulainen, K. (Project manager), Lipponen, L. (Participant), Sintonen, S. (Participant), Mertanen, O. (Participant), Sairanen, H. (Participant), Kajamaa, A. (Participant), Leskinen, J. (Participant), Nordström, A. (Participant), Hilppö, J. (Participant), Rajala, A. (Participant), Kangas, J. (Participant), Vartiainen, J. (Participant), Sormunen, K. (Participant), Sundstedt, M. C. B. (Participant), Byman, J. S. (Participant), Renlund, J. A. (Participant) & Wong, C. C. (Participant)
01/04/2014 → 31/12/2026
Project: Research project
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Exploring Imagination and Creativity through Play in Nordic Early Literacy Education
Jusslin, S. (Principal Investigator), Hofslundsengen, H. (Co-Principal Investigator), Magnusson, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Alatalo, T. (Co-Principal Investigator), Norling, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Næss Hjetland, H. (Co-Principal Investigator), Nordström, A. (Co-Principal Investigator), Tjäru, S. (Co-Principal Investigator), Wijnbladh, C. (Co-Principal Investigator) & Høyland, R. (Co-Principal Investigator)
02/01/2023 → 31/12/2024
Project: Other funder
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MOI: Monilukutaitoa Opitaan Ilolla tutkimus- ja kehittämishanke, rahoitus OKM
Kumpulainen, K. (Project manager), Sintonen, S. (Principal Investigator), Vartiainen, J. (Principal Investigator), Nordström, A. (Principal Investigator), Sairanen, H. (Principal Investigator) & Wong, C. C. (Other)
01/01/2019 → 31/12/2020
Project: Research project
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MOI: Monilukutaitoa Opitaan Ilolla (MOI) -kehittämis- ja tutkimusohjelma, rahoitus OKM, wbs: 3999923
Kumpulainen, K. (Project manager), Sintonen, S. (Participant), Vartiainen, J. (Participant), Valkonen, S. (Participant), Sairanen, H. (Participant), Nordström, A. (Participant), Mikkola, A. (Participant) & Kajamaa, A. (Participant)
12/12/2016 → 31/12/2018
Project: Research project
Prizes
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JECL award (Journal of Early Childhood Literacy: award for best paper given by an early career researcher)
Nordström, A. (Recipient), 8 Mar 2019
Prize: Prizes and awards
Activities
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Encountering literacy as affective and relational in early childhood education – Thinking with a storybook project
Nordström, A. (Speaker)
7 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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What if education is the initiation of cultivation? Affective and slow pedagogies in a process of becoming-with in early childhood education
Nordström, A. (Speaker) & Sintonen, S. (Speaker)
12 Jan 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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NERA 2024. Language as a medium for inclusion and exclusion in ECEC
Londen, M. (Speaker), Mansikka, J.-E. (Speaker), Holm, G. (Speaker), Nordström, A. (Speaker) & Saloranta, M. A. J. (Speaker)
6 Mar 2024 → 8 Mar 2024Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Joy in young children's literacy practices in early childhood education
Nordström, A. (Speaker)
29 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Reading reflections diffractively
Nordström, A. (Speaker), Jusslin, S. (Speaker), Hilli, C. (Speaker), Byman, J. (Speaker), Höglund, H. (Speaker), Svenlin, M. (Speaker), Åkerholm, K. (Speaker) & Renlund, J. (Speaker)
9 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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Glädje och vidgade textvärldar inom småbarnspedagogiken
13/06/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media