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The Entangled Intersection of Children's and Educators' Engagement in the Educational Environment of a Preschool
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Lena O. Magnusson; Annika Elm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The study presented in this article shows some aspects of how children between the ages of three and five and their educators perceive and describe the educational environment in early childhood education in Sweden. The data is generated using "pedagogical walk-throughs" with the educators and "camera tours" together with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Preschools
What Is the Capacity of A in the Contexts of STEM?
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Magnusson, Lena O.; Bäckman, Kerstin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on a meta-approach to the results of two separate studies and concerns the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) in early childhood education. One of the studies focuses on how preschool teachers understand STEM and how it is taught in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Children's Preferences for Schoolyard Features and Understanding of Ecosystem Service Innovations -- A Study in Five Swedish Preschools
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Almers, Ellen; Askerlund, Per; Samuelsson, Tobias; Waite, Sue – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2021
This study was carried out within a project to promote health and ecosystem services, 'the benefits people obtain from ecosystems', in preschools in Sweden. The paper applies the concept 'affordance' to capture the functional meaning that children assign to different material aspects of their schoolyards before and after the installation of…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Preferences, Affordances, Preschool Children
Economic (In)Equality and Sustainability: Preschool Children's Views of the Economic Situation of Other Children in the World
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Borg, Farhana – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study explored preschool children's knowledge and views of other children's economic situation worldwide, and their self-reported sources of such knowledge. A total of 53 final-year preschool children, aged 5-6, from 12 preschools in Sweden were interviewed. Children's responses were analysed using content analysis and the Structure of the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Preschool Children, Preschools
Values and Needs of Children with and without Special Educational Needs in Early School Years: A Study of Young Children's Views on What Matters to Them
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Lundqvist, Johanna; Westling Allodi, Mara; Siljehag, Eva – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Understanding how children experience life in educational settings should be an imperative for educational practitioners, evaluators, and researchers. Listening to children's points of views would facilitate the development of educational settings that meet the needs of children and contribute to their wellbeing and development so that their…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Childrens Attitudes, Young Children, Value Judgment
Orchestrating and Studying Children's and Teachers' Learning: Reflections on Developmental Research Approaches
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Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid; Pramling, Niklas – Education Inquiry, 2013
Theory-driven and practice-driven research are often separated, but in this article we shall argue for a research approach that is theory-driven but practice-oriented and shares features with the specific kind of early childhood education pedagogy this research approach has generated, what we refer to as developmental pedagogy (Pramling Samuelsson…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Foreign Countries