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Overflowing Every Idea of Age, Very Young Children as Educators
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Johannesen, Nina – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
In this article I explore if and how very young children can be the educators of their early childhood educators. I describe and discuss a story constructed from a fieldwork done in one early childhood setting in Norway. The story is read with Levinas and his concepts Said and Saying. Further I discuss if and how this might be understood as…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries, Praxis, Young Children
Studying Meaning in Children' Drawings
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Hopperstad, Marit Holm – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2010
This paper reports on an ethnographic study conducted with two Year 1 classes in two different Norwegian schools. In total, 35 five- and six-year-old children were involved in the study and were observed over a two-month period as they engaged in learning activities that involved drawing. Building on Kress and Van Leeuwen's (1996) theory of a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Visual Literacy, Teacher Attitudes, Freehand Drawing
Children's Right to Participate--Challenges in Everyday Interactions
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Bae, Berit – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2009
The article starts by illustrating how children's right to participation comes to the fore in legal documents regulating the field of early childhood education in Norway. Issues regarding the views of children, understanding of democracy and of play, which influence how this right is realised in early childhood practice, are taken as a point of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Evaluation, Student Participation