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Victoria de Leon Born

Researcher - Faculty Administration, UV

Email v.de.l.born@iped.uio.no

Mobile phone +47 93034345

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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 7 Helga Engs hus 0371 Oslo

Postal address Postboks 1161 Blindern 0318 Oslo

Other affiliations Department of Education

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Academic Interests

I am concerned with modern identity and the terms of identity development and childrearing within different social groups in globalized societies, which are characterized by rapid changes, few stable points of orientation and individualization. My focus is on how new platforms for socialization, exchange of information and technological landscapes affect the experience of self-understanding, making life choices and contributes to the production of social roles. In my current project, I investigate Nordic cultural ideals in relevance to parenting, children and family life with an emphasis on the construction of motherhood.

Teaching

PED2300 – Grunnleggende sosialiseringsteori
PED2202 – Barn og ungdom - oppvekst og opplæring (under planlegging)
PED1001 – Læring og undervisning (under planlegging)

Background

Master in Pedagogy, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo 2016.
Bachelor in Pedagogy, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo 2012.

Tags: Education, Identity, Modern childhood

Born, Victoria de Leon; Hegna, Kristinn & Vasbø, Kristin Beate (2024). Reconciling Ideals of Autonomy and Parental Influence. Young People’s Stories of Educational Choice. British Journal of Sociology of Education. ISSN 0142-5692. doi: 10.1080/01425692.2024.2381684. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Young people’s room for autonomy and independent life choices is challenged by intensive parenting practices and ambiguous ideals underpinning the youth-parent relationship. In this article, we explore how young people make sense of and relate to parental influence as they are about to make choices of higher education. Through Foucauldian discourse analyses of interviews with 23 young men and women (19 years) in Oslo, Norway, this study sheds light on how the youth reconciled ideals of self-expression and self-determination with perceived parental influence. We demonstrate how their ‘autonomous self’ is portrayed as ‘accountable’ and ‘malleable’, to allow for parent’s influence through their subject positions as ‘advisor’ and ‘socialising agent’. These subject positions overlap with discourses of intensive parenting previously described as disciplining the modern parent. We discuss whether youth contribute to the cultivation of ‘the intensive parent’, and the potential the ideal of autonomy holds for conformity to normalizing powers.
Born, Victoria de Leon & Vasbø, Kristin Beate (2024). “Doing authority”: Stories of parental authority across three generations. Journal of Marriage and Family. ISSN 0022-2445. doi: 10.1111/jomf.13028. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Objective This article tracks changes in stories of parental authority in Norway from a youth perspective, comparing how three generations talked about their own relationships with their parents while growing up. Background Previous research has described contemporary youth–parent relationships as being characterized by both diminution of parental authority, due to a democratization of family life, and by more covert forms of parental control. In addition to shedding light on generational differences in youths' perspectives on parental authority, the analysis reveals important nuances with regard to the ambiguous dynamics of power in contemporary youth–parent relationships. Method Through a narrative analysis of the stories of 67 participants, the article maps out how the three generations talked about different ways of “doing authority,” connoting how parental authority was relationally constructed and normatively anchored in their stories. Results Although the successive democratization of the youth–parent relationship is visible across the three generations, this democratization does not entail a corresponding loss in parental authority. Conclusion The normative sources by which youth legitimize parental authority have changed to include ideals of the equal and close parent who is deserving of respect and hence retains an emotional authority.

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Zahl, Joakim Haugane; Fonn, Erik Kjos; Kristensen, Bjørn Dahl; Born, Victoria de Leon & Thomsen, Lotte (2026). Return the Favor: Preverbal Infants Represent and Emotionally Value Direct Reciprocity. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
The distribution of scarce resources, priority rights, help, and care are central dilemmas of human life. Seminal proposals hold that reciprocity is key for the evolution of cooperation among non-kin, and norms of reciprocity permeate human society. Yet, it remains unknown if human infants are prepared to represent and respond appropriately to direct reciprocity prior to extensive socialization. Here we show that preverbal infants (N=340) predict, postdict, and respond emotionally whether novel agents selectively donate scarce resources to former benefactors, triangulating measures of anticipatory-looking, violation-of-expectation, and emotional responses across six experiments. These results indicate that dedicated psychological coordination mechanisms for direct reciprocity form such basic building-blocks of the human mind that they help humans recognize and appropriately navigate reciprocal coordination already from preverbal infancy onwards.
Kalmus, Veronika; Opermann, Signe; Benga, Oana; Born, Victoria de Leon; Esteban-Guitart, Moises & Hernando, Noelia [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2026). Doing media generations within and across European families: Towards “platformised generations”? Full text in Research Archive
Nordtug, Maja & Born, Victoria de Leon (2026). Hva er problemet med digitalisering av lek? Full text in Research Archive Show summary
KRONIKK: Toy Story-universet sier noe om barndom og barns måter å leke på. Hva viser Toy Story 5 oss om digital lek?
Jaavall, Jo Fosby; Nordtug, Maja; Hegna, Kristinn & Born, Victoria de Leon (2026). Hva kan vi gjøre i stedet for å forby sosiale medier? Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Å forhindre ungdommer fra å bruke sosiale medier har mange utfordringer. Kan vi ikke i stedet skape bedre og mer tilgjengelige fellesskapsarenaer for barn og ungdom?
Nordtug, Maja; Born, Victoria de Leon & Hegna, Kristinn (2026). Falsk trygghet med digital familiesporing? Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Det kan føles trygt å alltid vite hvor barna, foreldrene eller besteforeldrene er. Men sporingsappene lever også av at vi frykter hva som kan skje uten appene. Les kronikken.
Mino-Puigcercos, Raquel; Nordtug, Maja; Born, Victoria de Leon & Hegna, Kristinn (2026). Let's talk about IT! Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Let's talk about IT! A game to start THAT conversation about technology with your family. A conversational card game for families based on real histories from real three generation families from PlatFAMs.
Hegna, Kristinn; Nordtug, Maja & Born, Victoria de Leon (2025). Surveillance cultures across three generations in spanish and norwegian families’ everyday lives. Full text in Research Archive
Nordtug, Maja; Hegna, Kristinn; Born, Victoria de Leon; Spain, Raquel Mino-Puigcercos, University of Barcelona, & Jacovkis, Judith (2025). PLATFORM SURVEILLANCE AS CONTEXT FOR PRACTICES OF FAMILY SURVEILLANCE ACROSS GENERATIONS IN SPANISH AND NORWEGIAN FAMILIES. Full text in Research Archive
Hegna, Kristinn; Nordtug, Maja & Born, Victoria de Leon (2025). INTIMATE SURVEILLANCE IN CHILD-PARENT RELATIONSHIPS : Understanding the platformisation of Norwegian families across generations. Full text in Research Archive