Photo-elicited interviews indicate that children hardly ever mention educators when asked about elements in preschool that make them feel happy. Happiness is found to occur in activities in the 'underlife' of the ECEC institution. Children challenge adult rules and norms in order to create status in the peer-group, while at the same time, they seek to construct social identity and maintain a positive relationship with their educators. A child that manages to balance both adult expectations and what is needed to participate in the underlife among peers, experiences happiness and thus, is in a good state of well-being.
nordisk barnehageforskning utgitt av høgskolen i oslo i samarbeid med nettverket barnehageliv-Trivsel, det er noget jeg ser. Det barn, som kommer glad ind om morgenen og går glad hjem, det har vaeret i trivsel i den mellemliggende periode … og sådan en dreng som Peter, når han kommer ind ad døren, ikke? Han hopper ind ad døren som en krudtugle og siger 'Hej' og 'Godmorgen' og i den dur. Det er da en dreng, der trives med stort T, og det er den måde, jeg kan se på, at børn har det rigtig godt.
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