Senior Researcher
Anne Homme is senior researcher at NORCE – Norwegian Research Centre and associate professor in the Department of Education, University of Bergen. Anne is principal investigator of the five-year ongoing evaluation of the implementation of the 2017 framework plan for early childhood education and care (kindergartens) in Norway. Anne did her PhD in Political Science in 2008 at the University of Bergen, on the relation between state and municipal responsibilities in the governing of education in Norway, 1814-2000. Her research interests concern early, primary, and secondary education, and her publications address multi-level governance in education, comparative education policy, and administrative reforms and institutional change in education.
Research Professor
Hilde Danielsen Research is a professor at NORCE and associate professor at NLA University College Bergen. Hilde held a coordinating role in the evaluation of the implementation of the 2017 framework plan reform. Hilde did her Ph.d in Cultural studies in 2006 at the University of Bergen, writing about families and diversity. She has published extensively about gender roles and gender equality. Hilde is concerned with the formation of new citizens, diversity and social inequality, the latest years participating in research projects regarding kindergartens, child poverty and parenting cultures.
Science journalist
Jakobsen works as a science journalist who specialises in writing about educational research.
Since the 1990s, Norwegian kindergartens have transformed from only being available to some children, to being something all children from the age of one have the right to. To achieve this, Norway introduced an initiative called the Kindergarten Promotion Reform.
Parallel with the extensive expansion of the country’s early education and care sector, awareness of the importance of having high quality early childhood education and care also increased. The issues no longer revolve around just having enough places. In 2017, Norway adopted a new Framework Plan for Kindergartens. The focus of this article is on the process of drafting this document and on the results of an evaluation of how the current framework plan has been implemented. The general finding of this is that the Framework Plan for Kindergartens in Norway is now a familiar and comprehensive document. The plan has gained broad support from the early childhood education care sector.
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