Helle Maria Skovbjerg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4250440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helle Maria Skovbjerg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helle Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Skovbjerg |
| SIGNATURE | SKOVBJERG H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Design School Kolding |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7409-9600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring transcendent play in hospital clowning
Playful opportunities for participation for children under three years and professional practice with infant-toddlers in Ecec
The international literature on professional education and care for children under the age of three is limited, particularly when compared to the significant body of research on their physical, cognitive, and emotional development, which often takes a healthcare or parent-child interaction perspective. This review addresses this gap by examining how ECEC professionals can integrate playful approaches to support developmental and participatory out…
Playful learning and participation in secondary school mathematics and language teaching
This scoping review examines the relationship between playful learning and student participation in secondary school mathematics and language teaching. Using a flexible scoping review methodology and snowball sampling, it synthesises existing evidence through reflexive thematic analysis, acknowledging the complex entanglements of play, participation, school cultures, and subject-specific curricular demands. The review incorporates multiple perspe…
Play qualities
In this paper, we investigate the concept of play qualities with the aim of supporting, creating, analysing, and evaluating playful approaches to learning in teacher education and social education. Through a design-based approach, it explores how the concept of play qualities might create opportunities to conceptualise playful approaches to teaching and learning in higher education. The concept of play quality has the following characteristics: T…
Could a playful approach to teaching be a path to resonant connections? Experiences from teacher education in Denmark
Creative and playful approaches to teaching in teacher education emerge these years. Due to the increasing focus on performance, pace, visible goals, and efficiency in the educational systems within the Western societies, there seem to be a search for new answers when organising teaching within teacher education—also for the future. Based on empirical material created in a large research project in teacher education in Denmark, this paper analyse…
On the border between play and art
Educators who work with playful approaches in teaching often use methods inspired by art-based learning. The aim of the study was, therefore, to investigate how pedagogics of art-based learning can contribute to the pedagogics of playful learning in a way that neither compromises essential values of art, nor the values of play. The study included two steps. First, we analyzed 70 didactic designs developed and tested in 2021 and 2022 in the in the…
The role of expertise in playful learning activities
Some playful learning (PL) approaches may underestimate the importance of students' prior expertise in specific kinds of play. This study examined the implications of expertise in a PL environment wherein tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) served as learning tools. Through a design-based project in which participants designed and played TRPGs, we investigated how student teachers’ TRPG expertise affected learning processes and outcomes. The find…
Wandering Fests
Based on a number of PhD workshops called Wandering Feasts, in collaboration between Monash University and Design School Kolding, this article explores academic writing as both a mode and a method of inquiry. The article both points to and performs five creative-relational orientations to alternative academic writing: Performativity in challenging dominant ways of knowing and representing knowledge in the academy; emergence as mindfully holding o…
Legeværksteder i overgangen fra børnehave til skole
Succeskriteriet for en vellykket skolestart er, at alle børn oplever trivsel i skolen og finder motivation for at deltage engageret i skolens aktiviteter. Med afsæt i et empirisk studie af 95 kommende skolebørns og 12 dagtilbudspædagogers deltagelse i fem legeværksteder på den lokale skole viser artiklen, hvordan børn i deres møde med skolens forventninger handler, udveksler og tager del i de rammesatte konstruktionslege – og derigennem aktivt sk…
At udforske leg i skolen i et økologisk perspektiv
Med afsæt i et design-based research projekt og længerevarende observationer af børns leg i skolen udvikler denne artikel begrebet om legeorden og et økologisk forståelsesperspektiv, der ser samspil, sammenhæng og helhedsorientering som centrale værdier for blikket på leg i skolen. Gennem konkrete empiriske nedslag viser artiklen, hvordan leg i skolen etableres og vedligeholdes,og hvordan skolens samspil er med leg. Med afsæt i eksisterende forsk…
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place
This paper highlights a methodological vagueness within the existing qualitative research interview literature related to reflecting where interviews takes place. The aim is to interrogate how the use of the concept of emplaced participation can account for the multisensory constitution of place within interviews as well as how the place can provide an opportunity to generate knowledge about participants' everyday practices. Casey's understanding…
Playful approaches to learning as a realm for the humanities in the culture of higher education
This article presents playfulness as an emerging approach to learning in higher education that emphasises the arts and humanities across disciplines. The article is based on a qualitative, hermeneutical literature review in light of educational culture in higher education. The literature review indicates that playful approaches to learning stand in opposition to educational cultures that focus on rapidness and student performance. However, an edu…
Absorbency and utensilency
This article explores 4- to 7-year-old children’s tablet computer (tablet) use, drawing on empirical data from day-care institutions, primary schools and private home settings in Denmark. Data were gathered via video observations in two different studies: (a) a media ethnography on children’s tablet play practices in home settings and (b) a socioculturally informed, design-based study involving children as co-producers in institutional settings. …
Play practices and play moods
The aim of this article is to develop a view of play as a relation between play practices and play moods based on an empirical study of children's everyday life and by using Bateson's term of ‘framing’ [(1955/2001). In Steps to an ecology of mind (pp. 75–80). Chicago: University of Chicago Press], Schmidt's notion of ‘commonness’ [(2005). Om respekten. København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitets Forlag; (2011). On respect. Copenhagen: Danish Sch…
Play practices and play moods
The aim of this article is to develop a view of play as a relation between play practices and play moods based on an empirical study of children's everyday life and by using Bateson's term of ‘framing’ [(1955/2001). In Steps to an ecology of mind (pp. 75–80). Chicago: University of Chicago Press], Schmidt's notion of ‘commonness’ [(2005). Om respekten. København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitets Forlag; (2011). On respect. Copenhagen: Danish Sch…
The role of expertise in playful learning activities
Some playful learning (PL) approaches may underestimate the importance of students' prior expertise in specific kinds of play. This study examined the implications of expertise in a PL environment wherein tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) served as learning tools. Through a design-based project in which participants designed and played TRPGs, we investigated how student teachers’ TRPG expertise affected learning processes and outcomes. The find…
Wandering Fests
Based on a number of PhD workshops called Wandering Feasts, in collaboration between Monash University and Design School Kolding, this article explores academic writing as both a mode and a method of inquiry. The article both points to and performs five creative-relational orientations to alternative academic writing: Performativity in challenging dominant ways of knowing and representing knowledge in the academy; emergence as mindfully holding o…
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place
This paper highlights a methodological vagueness within the existing qualitative research interview literature related to reflecting where interviews takes place. The aim is to interrogate how the use of the concept of emplaced participation can account for the multisensory constitution of place within interviews as well as how the place can provide an opportunity to generate knowledge about participants' everyday practices. Casey's understanding…
Play practices and play moods
The aim of this article is to develop a view of play as a relation between play practices and play moods based on an empirical study of children's everyday life and by using Bateson's term of ‘framing’ [(1955/2001). In Steps to an ecology of mind (pp. 75–80). Chicago: University of Chicago Press], Schmidt's notion of ‘commonness’ [(2005). Om respekten. København: Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitets Forlag; (2011). On respect. Copenhagen: Danish Sch…
Absorbency and utensilency
This article explores 4- to 7-year-old children’s tablet computer (tablet) use, drawing on empirical data from day-care institutions, primary schools and private home settings in Denmark. Data were gathered via video observations in two different studies: (a) a media ethnography on children’s tablet play practices in home settings and (b) a socioculturally informed, design-based study involving children as co-producers in institutional settings. …
Playful approaches to learning as a realm for the humanities in the culture of higher education
This article presents playfulness as an emerging approach to learning in higher education that emphasises the arts and humanities across disciplines. The article is based on a qualitative, hermeneutical literature review in light of educational culture in higher education. The literature review indicates that playful approaches to learning stand in opposition to educational cultures that focus on rapidness and student performance. However, an edu…
Legeværksteder i overgangen fra børnehave til skole
Succeskriteriet for en vellykket skolestart er, at alle børn oplever trivsel i skolen og finder motivation for at deltage engageret i skolens aktiviteter. Med afsæt i et empirisk studie af 95 kommende skolebørns og 12 dagtilbudspædagogers deltagelse i fem legeværksteder på den lokale skole viser artiklen, hvordan børn i deres møde med skolens forventninger handler, udveksler og tager del i de rammesatte konstruktionslege – og derigennem aktivt sk…
At udforske leg i skolen i et økologisk perspektiv
Med afsæt i et design-based research projekt og længerevarende observationer af børns leg i skolen udvikler denne artikel begrebet om legeorden og et økologisk forståelsesperspektiv, der ser samspil, sammenhæng og helhedsorientering som centrale værdier for blikket på leg i skolen. Gennem konkrete empiriske nedslag viser artiklen, hvordan leg i skolen etableres og vedligeholdes,og hvordan skolens samspil er med leg. Med afsæt i eksisterende forsk…
Re-thinking research interview methods through the multisensory constitution of place
This paper highlights a methodological vagueness within the existing qualitative research interview literature related to reflecting where interviews takes place. The aim is to interrogate how the use of the concept of emplaced participation can account for the multisensory constitution of place within interviews as well as how the place can provide an opportunity to generate knowledge about participants' everyday practices. Casey's understanding…
The role of expertise in playful learning activities
Some playful learning (PL) approaches may underestimate the importance of students' prior expertise in specific kinds of play. This study examined the implications of expertise in a PL environment wherein tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) served as learning tools. Through a design-based project in which participants designed and played TRPGs, we investigated how student teachers’ TRPG expertise affected learning processes and outcomes. The find…
Wandering Fests
Based on a number of PhD workshops called Wandering Feasts, in collaboration between Monash University and Design School Kolding, this article explores academic writing as both a mode and a method of inquiry. The article both points to and performs five creative-relational orientations to alternative academic writing: Performativity in challenging dominant ways of knowing and representing knowledge in the academy; emergence as mindfully holding o…
Play qualities
In this paper, we investigate the concept of play qualities with the aim of supporting, creating, analysing, and evaluating playful approaches to learning in teacher education and social education. Through a design-based approach, it explores how the concept of play qualities might create opportunities to conceptualise playful approaches to teaching and learning in higher education. The concept of play quality has the following characteristics: T…
Could a playful approach to teaching be a path to resonant connections? Experiences from teacher education in Denmark
Creative and playful approaches to teaching in teacher education emerge these years. Due to the increasing focus on performance, pace, visible goals, and efficiency in the educational systems within the Western societies, there seem to be a search for new answers when organising teaching within teacher education—also for the future. Based on empirical material created in a large research project in teacher education in Denmark, this paper analyse…
On the border between play and art
Educators who work with playful approaches in teaching often use methods inspired by art-based learning. The aim of the study was, therefore, to investigate how pedagogics of art-based learning can contribute to the pedagogics of playful learning in a way that neither compromises essential values of art, nor the values of play. The study included two steps. First, we analyzed 70 didactic designs developed and tested in 2021 and 2022 in the in the…
Playful learning and participation in secondary school mathematics and language teaching
This scoping review examines the relationship between playful learning and student participation in secondary school mathematics and language teaching. Using a flexible scoping review methodology and snowball sampling, it synthesises existing evidence through reflexive thematic analysis, acknowledging the complex entanglements of play, participation, school cultures, and subject-specific curricular demands. The review incorporates multiple perspe…
Exploring transcendent play in hospital clowning
Playful opportunities for participation for children under three years and professional practice with infant-toddlers in Ecec
The international literature on professional education and care for children under the age of three is limited, particularly when compared to the significant body of research on their physical, cognitive, and emotional development, which often takes a healthcare or parent-child interaction perspective. This review addresses this gap by examining how ECEC professionals can integrate playful approaches to support developmental and participatory out…
Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)