Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer

PhD student @AarhusUni, @AU_Archaeology with focus on the children of the past

[SSCIP @SscipChildhood]

Please note 📣date change📣: SSCIP 2025 will now take place from the 25th-27th June

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project, and by @UlrikHjJohnsen1 at @MuseumMoesgaard by allowing me access to the ethnographic collections.

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

Lastly, we argue that how important play is for innovation, pointing out how the initial emergence of play objects correlates with periods of innovation.

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

We have identified different learning processes and aims as well as changing roles within a community of practice of Wodaabe bowyers.

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

NEW PAPER. My second PhD-paper is now out. In collaboration with Miriam Haidle and @ARCHAEOfelix, we have used the method of cognigrammetry on a bow-and-arrow play set from the Wodaabe in West Africa. The paper published by @LivUniPress: https://t.co/5SMiEuwxrj

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

By analysing the bow-and-arrow play set we have been able to reconstruct a setting of situated learning through developing peripheral participation across different-age learners and teachers.

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

Our study shows how analysing toys using the method of cognigrammetry can tell us about the cognitive capacity of children.

[SSCIP @SscipChildhood]

📢 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 SSCIP Annual Conference will take place in Aarhus, Denmark from 24th - 26th June 🥳 #conference #childhoodstudies

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

The paper is open access, and supplementary material can be found here https://t.co/TPispGjxrA

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

PAPER ALERT. First paper from my PhD-project is now out. In collaboration with @ARCHAEOfelix, we have looked at children and innovation during the Little Ice Age in Greenland. Read it in EJA by @archaeologyEAA published by @CambUP_Archaeo: https://t.co/wyNqpXFhGy

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

This research was made possible by @AU_Archaeology at @AarhusUni_int with funding my PhD-project and by additional funding by @Nationalmuseet through the Elisabeth Munksgaard foundation.

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

Ready to learn about playful dissemination at the Playful Space Summit at @designskolenkd. Gonna be an interesting day, I’m sure 👏🏻

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

My last day visiting @UVicAnthro ending the best way possibly with a hands-on workshop on palaeolithic art with @NowellApril, playing with clay and charcoal

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

Enjoying the nice sunshine and beautiful nature in Victoria on my last Sunday here before going home again 🇨🇦🇩🇰

[Mathilde Vestergaard Meyer @MathildeVester5]

Went whale watching outside Victoria yesterday with @Whale_Sightings and their knowledgeable staff 🐋 Amazing experience