Welcome to participate in a NERA pre-conference about slow pedagogy in early childhood education and care.
Tuesday March 3:rd 2026 at 13.00-17.00.
Location: University of Aarhus (Room to be advised)
No cost for the pre-conference!
Link to registration: Will soon be open…
Alison Clark will talk about: Slow pedagogy – slow research
The purpose of this pre-conference is to provide a network-arena for researchers and teacher educators to discuss the current knowledgebase and practices regarding slow pedagogy. Slow pedagogy is about valuing the moment, following children’s pace, respecting children’s interests, deep learning and unhurried everyday routines, to mention few examples. We will discuss the topic from the viewpoints of current early childhood research and practices with support from Alison Clarke who has developed slow pedagogy.
Biography
Alison Clark is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and an internationally recognised early childhood author, speaker and consultant. Together with Professor Peter Moss, she developed the Mosaic approach (Clark and Moss, 2001; Clark, 2017), a methodology for listening to and engaging with young children’s views and experiences and now widely developed and adapted by researchers and educators. Alison’s recent study ‘Slow knowledge and the unhurried child’ funded by the Froebel Trust, led to the award winning book published by Routledge (Clark, 2023) and currently being translated into Norwegian, Chinese and Japanese. Alison has been engaged in collaborative research around ‘slow practices’ with young children in Scotland, Norway, Japan and Iceland.