Participant Info
- Title
- Dr
- First Name*
- Elina
- Middle Initials
- Last Name*
- Viljamaa
- email*
- elina.viljamaa@oulu.fi
- Gender*
- F
- Country*
- Finland
- Role in the Network*
- WG-member, Management
Committee Substitute
- Working Groups*
- WG4 – Methods tools and frameworks for the development of the child with disabilities’ play
- Picture*
- Personal website, blog or social media link
- Ph.D*
- Yes
- Scientific Area
- Education
- Year of PhD Award
- 2012
- Early Stage Researcher*
- Yes
- Sector*
- Higher Education & Associated Organisations
- Name of organisation*
- University of Oulu, Faculty of education
- Area of Work*
- Children's play as a narrative process, meaning making, knowing, embodiment
- Expertise Contributions*
- I am interested in play as a meaningful narrating space for all children. Narrating is not tied to words, but is embodied by its nature. I understand, that making sense of the world and oneself is the heart of narrating. Supporting play and interpreting children's narrative processes is challenging for an adult, because children's ways of being in the world differs from adults ways.