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Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland; Myrvold, Hanne Berit; Joramo, Unn-Wenche; Thoresen, Marianne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
This article draws on new materialism, especially the work of Karen Barad, in order to explore curious encounters and intra-actions within the context of a Norwegian kindergarten. The article argues that intra-actions between both human and non-human agents can potentiate forms of learning as well as forms of knowledge that can be neither…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Workplace Learning, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
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Säre, Egle; Luik, Piret; Fisher, Robert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to design an instrument for five- to six-year-old children to help measure their verbal reasoning skills and assess the validity and reliability of the resulting instrument. For this purpose, the researchers have created the Younger Children Verbal Reasoning Test (YCVR-test) and a control instrument, which have been…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Verbal Ability, Thinking Skills, Verbal Tests
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Golden, Deborah – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This paper, based on an ethnographic study of an Israeli kindergarten, describes the practice of hugging, by the girls, of the teacher, and the latter's response to the girls' initiative. Based on Bourdieu's concept of "habitus" and the assumption that embodiment is crucial to social-cultural learning, the paper demonstrates the complex…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries