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Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Marandon, André Steenbuch – ECNU Review of Education, 2019
Purpose: This article aims to describe and discuss what local weather landscapes mean to children and how weather implies exploring bodily sensations and capabilities. It does so by following the work of a community artist, working as a kindergarten teacher, over 1 year. Design/Approach/Methods: Through a narrative inquiry approach, which also…
Descriptors: Climate, Kindergarten, Artists, Preschool Teachers
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Jones, Liz; Rossholt, Nina; Anastasiou, Thekla; Holmes, Rachel – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article considers what the repercussions are when the concept of "quality" is examined within the epistemological and ontological theoretical shifts that are afforded by post-humanism. In particular, Braidotti's configuring of thinking as "nomadic activity" and the need for "process ontology", together with…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Epistemology, Humanism, Educational Philosophy
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Steinnes, Gerd Sylvi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This article compares the division of labour between kindergarten teachers and assistants in Norwegian kindergartens and discusses the two groups' perceptions of what kind of knowledge is important in order to carry out their tasks. This study is based on a survey representing kindergartens from all over Norway, and is part of a national research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Aides
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Alvestad, Marit – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2011
Discussion of learning in the kindergarten context is growing both in Norway and internationally. This article focuses on some central aspects of learning described by groups of children aged 4-6 years, in three Norwegian kindergartens. The research concerns children's descriptions of aspects of learning experienced in their everyday life in…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Otterstad, Ann Merete – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
Contemporary research processes might be identified as having neither a beginning nor an end. This article is written as an interruption in the ending of the author's doctoral processes. The project is to critically reflect and examine complexities involving who is at risk when methodology and theory argue for displacements that unpack…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Sciences, Epistemology, Story Reading