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Direct linkSari Lipponen; Kenneth Eklund; Marja-Leena Laakso; Merja Koivula; Kerttu Huttunen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators' roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Game Based Learning
Download full textChappell, Julie; Szente, Judit – International Journal of the Whole Child, 2019
The goal of early childhood programming is to provide children with high-quality early care and to support educators' understanding and ability to implement high-quality practices on behalf of children and their families. Quality in early childhood care is an ambiguous concept, relative to various social and context-specific factors, making it…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Quality, Comparative Education, Foreign Countries
Kaartinen, Sinikka; Kumpulainen, Kristiina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
This article investigates the practice of participation in a kindergarten classroom whose pedagogy in the learning of mathematics draws on the sociocultural perspective. The article illuminates collective negotiation processes constructed into being across classroom members. These joint negotiations demonstrate what it is to do and learn…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Mathematics Education, Young Children, Interaction
Peer reviewedHujala-Huttunen, Eeva – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1996
Examined how family and day care are integrated in children's lives in the United States, Russia, and Finland. Found that congruence between parents' and teachers' views concerning upbringing and education was very high within societies, while opinions between societies differed greatly. Results suggest that implementation of early education in…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
Brostrom, Stig – 1998
In modern societies, children are becoming more and more users of a child culture constructed by adults, rather than producers of their own culture. This paper describes a project, implemented in Nordic child care centers and early childhood classes, that provides children the opportunity to narrate and illustrate their own stories, written down…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Exchange Programs
Pandis, Meeli, Ed.; Ward, Angela, Ed.; Mathews, Samuel R., Ed. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2005
This collection of papers presented at the 13th European Conference on Reading brings together a vast range of knowledge, research, and perspectives about literacy and its complex processes. The book explores topics including: (1) Literacy and critical thinking; (2) Working with learners at all levels, from young children to adolescents to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Pluralism, Literacy Education, Reading Skills
