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Direct linkMelanie Mackinder – Education 3-13, 2024
Forest School in England is the practice of young children playing outside, rooted in the outdoor kindergartens of Scandinavia and more especially Denmark. Using observation and semi-structured interviews with children and adults in two settings, this case study approach allowed an in-depth look at where, how and what children played in a Forest…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Outdoor Education
Bernstorff, Benedicte – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
From a child-centered perspective, this article explores the practices of children's self-organized play-communities in institutional everyday life in Danish early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, based on a phenomenological non-participant-observational study with a duration of 16 months involving two kindergartens (Bernstorff,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Play, Group Activities
Mukherjee, Sarah J.; Bugallo, Lucía; Scheuer, Nora; Cremin, Teresa; Montoro, Virginia; Ferrero, Martha; Preston, Marcia; Cheng, Doris; Golinkoff, Roberta; Popp, Jill – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2023
Drawing on a mixed-methods cross-cultural study undertaken in five locations in Argentina, Denmark, Hong Kong, England and the United States in 2018, this paper explores how children (aged five and seven) conceive of playfulness. Following a card-sorting task, 387 children selected familiar activities that they felt were most representative of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Young Children, Cultural Differences
Lundtofte, Thomas Enemark; Odgaard, Ane Bjerre; Skovbjerg, Helle Marie – Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
This article explores 4- to 7-year-old children's tablet computer (tablet) use, drawing on empirical data from day-care institutions, primary schools and private home settings in Denmark. Data were gathered via video observations in two different studies: (a) a media ethnography on children's tablet play practices in home settings and (b) a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Computer Use, Handheld Devices
Ahrenkiel, Annegrethe; Holm, Lars; Eilenberg, Laura Østergaard – Ethnography and Education, 2021
With inspiration from research in linguistic ethnography and children's perspectives, this article examines children's language use in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in a child perspective. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork including video recordings from four children's entire days in a Danish day care centre. A multimodal…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Child Care Centers, Foreign Countries, Language Usage
