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Empathic Expressions among Three-Year-Olds in Play and Interaction in ECEC Institutions in Norway: Bodily Empathic Expressions Purposed for Peers' Well-Being and Confirming Relationships
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Nergaard, Kari – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This article is based on video observations of three-year-old children's empathic expressions in the context of playful interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions in Norway. The data were analysed within a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, searching for a system of the children's self-initiated empathic expressions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Empathy, Play
"The Heartbreak of Social Rejection": Young Children's Expressions about How They Experience Rejection from Peers in ECEC
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Nergaard, Kari – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Playful interactions with peers have a significant role in children's lives, and experiencing belongingness and acceptance through interpersonal relationships is a fundamental presupposition for children's health and well-being. Peer rejections appear to be an inevitable component of peer interactions. Sometimes, rejection involves relational…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation, Early Childhood Education