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Professor Asta Cekaite

Asta

Professor, Child Studies, Linköping University, Sweden

Email: asta.cekaite@liu.se

Profile

Asta Cekaite is professor at an Interdisciplinary Child Studies unit, Linköping University, Sweden. Her research involves an interdisciplinary approach to language, culture, and social interaction. Specific foci include social perspectives on embodiment, touch, emotion and moral socialization of children. Empirical fields cover adult-child and children’s peer group interactions in educational settings, and family. With M. Goodwin, she has co-authored ‘Embodied family choreography’ (Routledge, 2018). She is editor of a journal Research on Children and Social Interaction.

Research

Publications

Cekaite, A. & Simonsson, M. (2023). Guided Play Supporting Immigrant Children’s Participation and Bilingual Development in Preschools. International Journal of Early Childhood https://doi.org/10.1007/s13158-023-00370-1

Cekaite, A. & Bergnehr, D. (2024). Convergence of control and affection in classroom management in early childhood education: affectionate and disciplining touch and talk. Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction.

Cekaite, A. & Wirzen, M. (2024). Social and emotional functions of institutional touch in the relational care of young children. Child & Family Social Work.

Goodwin, M. & Cekaite, A. (2018): Embodied Family Choreography: Practices of Control, Care and Mundane Creativity. Routledge.

Expertise

Children's social worlds, educational policies and practices in early childhood education, and primary schooling. Linguistic - multilingual policies and practices; family and health related policies and practices involving children and families.
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