Anna Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6587-4900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The young child as connoisseur in research
This article investigates the potential of recognising preschool children as connoisseurs within academic research. Drawing on a project in Early Childhood Education (ECE), it foregrounds the emergence of children's connoisseurship as situated, affective and relational knowledge. Informed by Stengers’s conceptualisation of the connoisseur, encompassing knowing, feeling, responding to and engaging with local matters, the article examines how child…
The effect of extreme weather events on the frequency of child marriage
Child marriage is considered a human rights violation, and its elimination is an explicit target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is growing concern that climate change may be threatening efforts to eliminate child marriage. We conducted a systematic review to synthesise quantitative research on the relationship between climate change and child marriage and assess the risk of bias across these studies. We identi…
Precarious leadership in troubled times
In recent years in Sweden, preschools in so-called ‘particularly vulnerable areas’ close to large cities have experienced several crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, shootings and car fires due to gang violence in the vicinity. Leading and maintaining the preschool as a safe place for the children in its care in a crisis has become an important part of the preschool manager’s leadership role in vulnerable areas. With the supp…
Dress like a winner
This article investigates alternative ways doing of mathematics in an Early Childhood Education Teacher Programme using aesthetic forms of expression, the body and reflections on ethics, gender and responsibilities in the transition from student teacher at university to a qualified preschool teacher of children aged 4-5 years.The purpose of the article is to explore an interdisciplinary mathematics workshop in which student teachers investigate m…
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation
INTRODUCTION: With limited resources, attaining maximal average health service coverage can be at odds with maximising equity which attempts to promote greater reach among underserved populations. In this study, we examined the trade-offs in immunisation coverage levels and equity for children under 5 years of age in Pakistan across various subpopulations who can be targeted with different combinations of immunisation service modalities. METHODS:…
A costing analysis of a state-wide, nurse-led hepatitis C treatment model in prison
A randomized controlled trial to examine the effect of two teaching methods on preschool children’s language and communication, executive functions, socioemotional comprehension, and early math skills
The result of the intervention shows that neither of the two intervention paradigms had measurable effects on the targeted skills. However, there were results as to the follow-up questions, such as executive functions predicting all other variables (language and communication, socioemotional comprehension, and math). Background variables were related to each other in patterns congruent with earlier findings, such as socioeconomic status predictin…
The Hill to Die On
A protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled superiority trial investigating the effects of two pedagogical methodologies in Swedish preschool settings on language and communication, execu…
If this intervention study shows evidence of a difference between group-based learning paradigms and individual training of specific skills in terms of enhancing children's abilities in fundamental areas like language, executive functions and attention, socioemotional skills and early math, this will have big impact on the preschool agenda in the future. The potential for different pedagogical methodologies to have different impacts on children o…
Is this the tallest building in the world?’ A posthuman approach to ethical dilemmas in young children’s learning projects
In this article, I explore alternative ways of understanding ethics in preschool. In this, I draw on a posthumanist understanding of ethical concerns as entangled intra-actions of the world, rather than as a human affair. The examined data are part of an ongoing preschool project called ‘Children’s relations to the city’, in which children begin to investigate tall buildings in the immediate vicinity of the preschool and then turn their attention…
Individuating 'sparks' and 'flickers' of 'a life' in dance practices with preschoolers
What are the dominant images of the Child in contemporary Western societies? In order to challenge some dominant images of the Child, this essay explores the possibilities of analyzing an experimental dance practice with preschoolers aged 1–2 years with Claire Colebrook's theorizing on 'the war on norms'. Colebrook suggests a Queer Vitalism to push the limits of how to understand humanness generally, and more specifically, how to understand proce…
Reading a Deleuzio-Guattarian Cartography of Young Girls' "School-Related" Ill-/Well-Being
This article puts to work a Deleuzio-Guattarian methodology of cartography using data from a pilot study of young schoolgirls' "school-related" ill-health and well-being. Doing a cartography means setting up a "map" of various kinds of data produced by a multiplicity of desiring agents in various power-producing fields such as medicine, psychology, popular science, media, as well as narrative data from young girls and the two researchers themselv…
Prospective food diaries demonstrate breastfeeding characteristics in a UK birth cohort
Breastfeeding duration and exclusive breastfeeding rates are universally below those recommended by World Health Organization. Due to limitations and challenges associated with researching breastfeeding characteristics, the times when exclusivity is likely to be lost and when women are most likely to discontinue breastfeeding have not yet been identified. Prospective food diaries allow reliable description of the dynamics of breastfeeding to be m…
A more ‘livable’ school? A diffractive analysis of the performative enactments of girls' ill-/well-being with(in) school environments
School girls in Sweden are reported to develop psychological (ill)health in relation to their school behaviour and over-achievements. The methods offered as prevention and treatments are aimed at the individual girl's self-management of stress, health and psychological state, putting the responsibility on the girls themselves. This feminist agential realist study aims to explore how the material-discursive school environment, that is, the entangl…
How many sums can I do”? Performative strategies and diffractive thinking as methodological tools for rethinking mathematical subjectivity
The aim of this article is to illustrate how the understanding of mathematical subjectivity changes when transiting theoretically and methodologically from a discursive and performative thinking, as suggested by Judith Butler (1990, 1993, 1997), to an agential realist and diffractive thinking, inspired by Karen Barad’s theories (2007, 2008). To show this I have examined narrative memory stories about mathematics written by students participating …
I’m not a “maths‐person”!’ Reconstituting mathematical subjectivities in aesthetic teaching practices
In this study I have investigated how alternative ways of teaching mathematics influence and affect Early Childhood Education (ECE) students' attitudes towards maths and how they understand their own subjectivities as more or less mathematical during a 10‐week alternative maths course. The investigated course adopts a feminist post‐structural approach based on critical pedagogy and deconstructive theory and includes an interdisciplinary approach …
A more ‘livable’ school? A diffractive analysis of the performative enactments of girls' ill-/well-being with(in) school environments
School girls in Sweden are reported to develop psychological (ill)health in relation to their school behaviour and over-achievements. The methods offered as prevention and treatments are aimed at the individual girl's self-management of stress, health and psychological state, putting the responsibility on the girls themselves. This feminist agential realist study aims to explore how the material-discursive school environment, that is, the entangl…
Reading a Deleuzio-Guattarian Cartography of Young Girls' "School-Related" Ill-/Well-Being
This article puts to work a Deleuzio-Guattarian methodology of cartography using data from a pilot study of young schoolgirls' "school-related" ill-health and well-being. Doing a cartography means setting up a "map" of various kinds of data produced by a multiplicity of desiring agents in various power-producing fields such as medicine, psychology, popular science, media, as well as narrative data from young girls and the two researchers themselv…
How many sums can I do”? Performative strategies and diffractive thinking as methodological tools for rethinking mathematical subjectivity
The aim of this article is to illustrate how the understanding of mathematical subjectivity changes when transiting theoretically and methodologically from a discursive and performative thinking, as suggested by Judith Butler (1990, 1993, 1997), to an agential realist and diffractive thinking, inspired by Karen Barad’s theories (2007, 2008). To show this I have examined narrative memory stories about mathematics written by students participating …
I’m not a “maths‐person”!’ Reconstituting mathematical subjectivities in aesthetic teaching practices
In this study I have investigated how alternative ways of teaching mathematics influence and affect Early Childhood Education (ECE) students' attitudes towards maths and how they understand their own subjectivities as more or less mathematical during a 10‐week alternative maths course. The investigated course adopts a feminist post‐structural approach based on critical pedagogy and deconstructive theory and includes an interdisciplinary approach …
Individuating 'sparks' and 'flickers' of 'a life' in dance practices with preschoolers
What are the dominant images of the Child in contemporary Western societies? In order to challenge some dominant images of the Child, this essay explores the possibilities of analyzing an experimental dance practice with preschoolers aged 1–2 years with Claire Colebrook's theorizing on 'the war on norms'. Colebrook suggests a Queer Vitalism to push the limits of how to understand humanness generally, and more specifically, how to understand proce…
I’m not a “maths‐person”!’ Reconstituting mathematical subjectivities in aesthetic teaching practices
In this study I have investigated how alternative ways of teaching mathematics influence and affect Early Childhood Education (ECE) students' attitudes towards maths and how they understand their own subjectivities as more or less mathematical during a 10‐week alternative maths course. The investigated course adopts a feminist post‐structural approach based on critical pedagogy and deconstructive theory and includes an interdisciplinary approach …
How many sums can I do”? Performative strategies and diffractive thinking as methodological tools for rethinking mathematical subjectivity
The aim of this article is to illustrate how the understanding of mathematical subjectivity changes when transiting theoretically and methodologically from a discursive and performative thinking, as suggested by Judith Butler (1990, 1993, 1997), to an agential realist and diffractive thinking, inspired by Karen Barad’s theories (2007, 2008). To show this I have examined narrative memory stories about mathematics written by students participating …
Prospective food diaries demonstrate breastfeeding characteristics in a UK birth cohort
Breastfeeding duration and exclusive breastfeeding rates are universally below those recommended by World Health Organization. Due to limitations and challenges associated with researching breastfeeding characteristics, the times when exclusivity is likely to be lost and when women are most likely to discontinue breastfeeding have not yet been identified. Prospective food diaries allow reliable description of the dynamics of breastfeeding to be m…
A more ‘livable’ school? A diffractive analysis of the performative enactments of girls' ill-/well-being with(in) school environments
School girls in Sweden are reported to develop psychological (ill)health in relation to their school behaviour and over-achievements. The methods offered as prevention and treatments are aimed at the individual girl's self-management of stress, health and psychological state, putting the responsibility on the girls themselves. This feminist agential realist study aims to explore how the material-discursive school environment, that is, the entangl…
Reading a Deleuzio-Guattarian Cartography of Young Girls' "School-Related" Ill-/Well-Being
This article puts to work a Deleuzio-Guattarian methodology of cartography using data from a pilot study of young schoolgirls' "school-related" ill-health and well-being. Doing a cartography means setting up a "map" of various kinds of data produced by a multiplicity of desiring agents in various power-producing fields such as medicine, psychology, popular science, media, as well as narrative data from young girls and the two researchers themselv…
Is this the tallest building in the world?’ A posthuman approach to ethical dilemmas in young children’s learning projects
In this article, I explore alternative ways of understanding ethics in preschool. In this, I draw on a posthumanist understanding of ethical concerns as entangled intra-actions of the world, rather than as a human affair. The examined data are part of an ongoing preschool project called ‘Children’s relations to the city’, in which children begin to investigate tall buildings in the immediate vicinity of the preschool and then turn their attention…
Individuating 'sparks' and 'flickers' of 'a life' in dance practices with preschoolers
What are the dominant images of the Child in contemporary Western societies? In order to challenge some dominant images of the Child, this essay explores the possibilities of analyzing an experimental dance practice with preschoolers aged 1–2 years with Claire Colebrook's theorizing on 'the war on norms'. Colebrook suggests a Queer Vitalism to push the limits of how to understand humanness generally, and more specifically, how to understand proce…
A protocol for a three-arm cluster randomized controlled superiority trial investigating the effects of two pedagogical methodologies in Swedish preschool settings on language and communication, execu…
If this intervention study shows evidence of a difference between group-based learning paradigms and individual training of specific skills in terms of enhancing children's abilities in fundamental areas like language, executive functions and attention, socioemotional skills and early math, this will have big impact on the preschool agenda in the future. The potential for different pedagogical methodologies to have different impacts on children o…
A randomized controlled trial to examine the effect of two teaching methods on preschool children’s language and communication, executive functions, socioemotional comprehension, and early math skills
The result of the intervention shows that neither of the two intervention paradigms had measurable effects on the targeted skills. However, there were results as to the follow-up questions, such as executive functions predicting all other variables (language and communication, socioemotional comprehension, and math). Background variables were related to each other in patterns congruent with earlier findings, such as socioeconomic status predictin…
The Hill to Die On
A costing analysis of a state-wide, nurse-led hepatitis C treatment model in prison
Cost optimisation analysis of the expanded programme for immunisation
INTRODUCTION: With limited resources, attaining maximal average health service coverage can be at odds with maximising equity which attempts to promote greater reach among underserved populations. In this study, we examined the trade-offs in immunisation coverage levels and equity for children under 5 years of age in Pakistan across various subpopulations who can be targeted with different combinations of immunisation service modalities. METHODS:…
Dress like a winner
This article investigates alternative ways doing of mathematics in an Early Childhood Education Teacher Programme using aesthetic forms of expression, the body and reflections on ethics, gender and responsibilities in the transition from student teacher at university to a qualified preschool teacher of children aged 4-5 years.The purpose of the article is to explore an interdisciplinary mathematics workshop in which student teachers investigate m…
The effect of extreme weather events on the frequency of child marriage
Child marriage is considered a human rights violation, and its elimination is an explicit target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is growing concern that climate change may be threatening efforts to eliminate child marriage. We conducted a systematic review to synthesise quantitative research on the relationship between climate change and child marriage and assess the risk of bias across these studies. We identi…
Precarious leadership in troubled times
In recent years in Sweden, preschools in so-called ‘particularly vulnerable areas’ close to large cities have experienced several crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, shootings and car fires due to gang violence in the vicinity. Leading and maintaining the preschool as a safe place for the children in its care in a crisis has become an important part of the preschool manager’s leadership role in vulnerable areas. With the supp…
The young child as connoisseur in research
This article investigates the potential of recognising preschool children as connoisseurs within academic research. Drawing on a project in Early Childhood Education (ECE), it foregrounds the emergence of children's connoisseurship as situated, affective and relational knowledge. Informed by Stengers’s conceptualisation of the connoisseur, encompassing knowing, feeling, responding to and engaging with local matters, the article examines how child…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)