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Sofie Areljung

Observed name: Areljung, Sofie
Institution: Umeå University
ORCID: 0000-0001-7273-5442
Observed ORCID: 0000-0001-7273-5442
OpenAlex ID: A5037462075
Why do teachers adopt or resist a pedagogical idea for teaching science in preschool?
2018 · Sofie Areljung · International Journal of Early Years Education · 98
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Understanding preschool emergent science in a cultural historical context through Activity Theory
2015 · Bodil Sundberg, Sofie Areljung, et al. · European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · 42
Why and how teachers make use of drawing activities in early childhood science education
2021 · Sofie Areljung, Karin Due, et al. · International Journal of Science Education · 39
Opportunities for and obstacles to science in preschools: views from a community perspective
2018 · Bodil Sundberg, Sofie Areljung, et al. · International Journal of Science Education · 30
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Opportunities for Education for Sustainability through multidimensional preschool science
2019 · Bodil Sundberg, Sofie Areljung, et al. · Nordic Studies in Science Education · 29
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STEAM education: An opportunity to transcend gender and disciplinary norms in early childhood?
2021 · Sofie Areljung, Anna Günther-Hanssen · Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood · 28
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Teaching for Emergent Disciplinary Drawing in Science? Comparing Teachers’ and Children’s Ways of Representing Science Content in Early Childhood Classrooms
2021 · Sofie Areljung, Marianne Skoog, et al. · Research in Science Education · 25
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Expanding the notion of ‘ownership’ in participatory research involving teachers and researchers
2021 · Sofie Areljung, Lotta Leden, et al. · International Journal of Research & Method in Education · 22
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‘Drawing the Leaves Anyway’: Teachers Embracing Children’s Different Ways of Knowing in Preschool Science Practice
2016 · Sofie Areljung, Christina Ottander, et al. · Research in Science Education · 22
Inte som i skolan - pedagoger positionerar naturvetenskap i förskolan Preschool teachers talk about science – Positioning themselves and positioning science
2018 · Karin Elisabet Due, Britt Tellgren, et al. · Nordic Studies in Science Education · 21
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Navigating the risky terrain of children’s working theories
2016 · Sofie Areljung, Janette Kelly-Ware · Early Years Journal of International Research and Development · 19
Science verbs as a tool for investigating scientific phenomena – a pedagogical idea emerging from practitioner-researcher collaboration
2016 · Sofie Areljung · Nordic Studies in Science Education · 16
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Teachers’ conceptualisations of science teaching – obstacles and opportunities for pedagogical continuity across early childhood school forms
2022 · Karin Due, Marianne Skoog, et al. · International Journal of Early Years Education · 11
Young children’s learning in physics: a (dis-)trustful play with gravity, friction and counterforces?
2023 · Sofie Areljung, Lena Bäckström, et al. · European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · 10
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Five Ways of Integrating Arts and Science: A Framework for Planning and Analyzing Arts–Science Education in Early Childhood
2023 · Sofie Areljung · Studies in Art Education · 10
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How Does Matter Matter in Preschool Science?
2019 · Sofie Areljung · Cultural studies of science education · 9
How primary school students use their disciplinary drawings to navigate between everyday and scientific discourses of water
2025 · Bodil Sundberg, Johanna Andersson, et al. · Chemistry Education Research and Practice · 7
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Capturing the world with verbs: Preschool science education beyond nouns and objects
2018 · Sofie Areljung · Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood · 7
Co-drawing to Learn in Science
2024 · Sofie Areljung, Johanna Andersson, et al. · Research in Science Education · 5
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Exploratory Space for Whom? Children’s Opportunities for Subject-Related Learning in Early Childhood Education and Care
2025 · Maria Rönnlund, Sofie Areljung, et al. · Nordic Studies in Education · 3
Sharpening the gaze, sharpening the pencil: supporting observational drawing in primary education
2025 · Marianne Skoog, Sofie Areljung, et al. · Journal of Biological Education · 3
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Potential for multi-dimensional teaching for 'emergent scientific literacy' in pre-school practice
2018 · Sofie Areljung, Bodil Sundberg · 3
Five ways of engaging with a drawing task: exploring children’s drawing processes and emergent systems thinking
2026 · Sofie Areljung · European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · 2
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From problem-solving, innovation and creativity to empathy, connection and care? Troubling the use of STEAM buzzwords in early childhood education research
2025 · Anna Günther-Hanssen, Sofie Areljung, et al. · Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood · 2
The Risks of Reification: Using ‘Professional Risk’ to Understand Why and How Teachers Choose to Document (Some of) Children’s Ideas and Actions
2020 · Sofie Areljung, Janette P. Kelly-Ware · Springer eBooks · 2
Works count: 51
Citation count: 470
H-index: 12
I10-index: 15
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