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Conducting Online Ethnography during COVID-19: Methodological Reflections from a Kindergarten Classroom
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Buckband, Cory A. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2023
In this reflection, I contextualize my own experiences conducting educational ethnography in a synchronous online kindergarten classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. I highlight how conducting research in online classrooms transforms ethnographic research methodologies and concepts such as the field site. I offer four suggestions, derived from my…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Ethnography, Educational Research
Where Are We Going? International Views on Purposes, Practices and Barriers in School-Based Outdoor Learning
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Waite, Sue – Education Sciences, 2020
Popular demand for school-based outdoor learning is growing throughout the world, but there is relatively little use of international comparisons to inform the development and support of this growth. Motivations for providing outdoor learning may vary within and across countries/areas. Through understanding how different purposes are being…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, School Activities, Barriers, Comparative Education
Barriers to Use of Educational Technology in the Learning Process of Primary School Students in District 13 in Tehran
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Doshmanziari, Esfandiar; Mostafavi, Aida – International Education Studies, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine the barriers to use of educational technology in the learning process of primary school students in district 13 of Tehran. This research in terms of purpose is practical, in terms of the title characteristics of the research is descriptive, and in terms of data collection method is a field research. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Barriers, Educational Technology, Learning Processes
Stability and Patterns of Classroom Quality in German Early Childhood Education and Care
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Kuger, Susanne; Kluczniok, Katharina; Kaplan, David; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Many education systems worldwide have dedicated a significant amount of resources to improve quality levels in early childhood education and care. Research can contribute to this goal by providing information about conditions of high-quality education and care and reasons for changes in the quality provided to children. This study therefore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Longitudinal Studies, Field Studies
Picking up the Threads. Languaging in a Swedish Mainstream Preschool
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Puskás, Tünde – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2017
This paper examines the strategies monolingual teachers use to scaffold meaning and encourage and enhance verbal communication with emergent bilingual children in a Swedish mainstream preschool. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a preschool group in which seven of twelve children spoke Swedish as their second, additional language.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Practicing Engineering While Building with Blocks: Identifying Engineering Thinking
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Bagiati, Aikaterini; Evangelou, Demetra – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Children's free play naturally enhances skills of observation, communication, experimentation, as well as development of rationale and construction skills. These domains, while synthesised, can lead to the development of certain process models regarding the way constructions could be designed, built and improved. The Design Process model…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Play, Toys, Construction (Process)