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Rantala, Anna; Heikkilä, Mia – Education 3-13, 2020
Social interaction is one of the many things what preschool life is about, and how social life is constituted is of importance to understand. In early childhood education settings, children are guided and fostered by teachers and by each other in different directions. The overall aim of the article is to make a contribution to a deeper…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Issues, Discipline, Power Structure
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Häggström, Margaretha; Schmidt, Catarina – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This article advocates a holistic approach to education concerning literacy and ecological literacy development and builds on data from two different case studies in compulsory school classes in Sweden. The study is built on action-based research and the data material was analysed through directed qualitative content analysis. We argue that place…
Descriptors: Young Children, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Norén, Eva – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
This paper draws on data from a first grade multilingual mathematics classroom in Sweden. I explore how students' agency is pronounced in the classroom that actually can be a site where mathematics reform-oriented pedagogy thrives and how the emphasis on language support in such classrooms can support reform-oriented pedagogy. I argue that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Multilingualism, Elementary School Mathematics
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Caiman, Cecilia; Lundegård, Iann – Environmental Education Research, 2014
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in pre-school children's meaning-making and learning in education for sustainability. Young children should be recognized as "agents for change" and active participants in their own day-to-day practices. Such issues are thoroughly discussed in the early childhood education for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Sustainability, Sustainable Development
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Almqvist, Anna-Lena; Almqvist, Lena – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Children's experiences of empowerment in relation to preschool peers and in child-adult interactions were studied, involving 25 four- to six-year-olds from four Swedish preschools. Group interviews using puppets comprised pre-constructed scenarios to examine preschools' activities. Children took photos of indoor and outdoor preschool environments,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Student Empowerment, Student Experience
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Taguchi, Hillevi Lenz – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2005
This article constitutes an attempt to investigate how student teachers and teacher educators in the context of Swedish early childhood teacher education are invented and reinvented by practices that are inspired by feminist and post-structural thinking. I give examples of practice that explicitly make use of different aspects of the personal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Feminism, Postmodernism