| Abstrakt: |
Nowadays researchers in different domains, including the field of early childhood education, is confronted with changed expectations Scientists should generate empirical knowledge and inform the public about it. Additionally, researchers should aim at transferring their findings sustainably as well as engaging the public in their research. Thus, they should strive for intensive cooperations with non-scientists. Group discussions with teams in early childhood education centres show that this perspective is also found amongst pedagogical professionals when they assign a function to and express their expectations of research. In their view, research results should have sustainable and practical effects, should reach both the public and parents, and should particularly improve the working situation in the early childhood education centres. These expectations regarding the scope of empirical findings and the commitment of researchers in the early education system must be critically discussed in light of professional identities and scarce resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
