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Marianne Undheim; Maria Ploog – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This paper explores how digital competence and digital technology are addressed in Norwegian early childhood teacher education (ECTE). The aim is to provide a national overview of the ECTE institutions' programme and relevant course plans to identify how the preservice teachers are being prepared for their future professional life as digitally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Digital Literacy, Teacher Education Programs, Preschool Teachers
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Joner, Maya Dybvig; Reikerås, Elin; Alvestad, Marit – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
We investigated how children with language difficulties are identified, and which adapted provision is given in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) before referrals are made to The Educational Psychological Service (EPS), and the EPS assessment of such difficulties. A qualitative content analysis of 20 documents pertaining to four…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
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Sophie S. Havighurst; Maud Edvoll; Ida Tidemann; Evalill Bølstad; Hanne Holme; Marit Bergum Hansen; Hege Cecilie Eikseth; Egil Nygaard – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings": Early childhood workers (ECW's) play a pivotal role in shaping children's emotional competence. This study examined the efficacy of Tuning in to Kids for Kindergarten Teachers (TIK-KT) used with CLASS observations to improve ECW's emotion socialization, kindergarten emotional climate and children's functioning. Five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socialization, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Lagestad, Pål; Kippe, Karin – Education 3-13, 2023
The aim of the study was to examine differences between Norwegian male and female preschool staff according to physical activity (PA) levels during preschool hours. Using a mixed-method design, accelerometers were used to examine objectively measured PA level among male and female preschool staff, while observations, interviews and questionnaires…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Physical Activity Level, Gender Differences
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Baardstu, S.; Coplan, R. J.; Eliassen, E.; Brandlistuen, R. E.; Wang, M. V. – School Mental Health, 2022
The goal of this study was to explore longitudinally the protective role of relationships with early childhood and education care (ECEC) teachers for shy children's social functioning at age 5 and 8 years. Participants were N = 7343 children from the "Norwegian Mother, Father and Child" (MoBa) study, a prospective longitudinal cohort…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Mothers
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Pascale Garnier; Anne Greve; Oddbjørg Skjaer Ulvik; Victoria Chantseva; Sylvie Rayna; Bjørg Fallang; Liv Mette Gulbrandsen; Ingvil Øien – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This comparative study of everyday life in Norwegian and French preschools explores how 'risk' related to children's body practices is understood, practised and negotiated by teachers and how this may regulate educational practices in a short- and long-term perspective. Studying educational institutions in two different societies illuminates…
Descriptors: Risk, Preschool Education, Outdoor Education, Coping
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Kippe, Karin; Lyngstad, Idar – Education 3-13, 2022
The Norwegian preschool framework plan (Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training [2017. Framework Plan for Kindergartens. https://www.udir.no/globalassets/filer/barnehage/rammeplan/framework-plan-for-kindergartens2-2017.pdf]) establishes that preschools are to be an arena for daily physical activity. Preschool is an important arena for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Oropilla, Czarecah Tuppil; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen; Quinones, Gloria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Intergenerational programs have benefits for both children and older adults; however, the ongoing pandemic has changed social situations across the globe. The focus of this article is on exploring transitions and transformations due to societal conditions and demands that drive the implementation of intergenerational programs during a time of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Barriers
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Merzliakova, Elena; Gradovski, Mikhail; Ødegaard, Elin Eriksen – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2022
This paper is the first in a series of three studies that explore the pedagogy used in the Norwegian and Russian early childhood settings by examining texts that are part of the syllabus in two early childhood teacher education programs that participated in our project with student international exchanges. The study explores how Mikhail Bakhtin's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
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Martin Lytje; Atle Dyregrov; Minna Devatier Bergstrøm; Anita Fjaerestad; Linda Fisher-Hoyrem – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This article compares the institutional bereavements response systems available in Danish and Norwegian daycare institutions when encountering critical illness or death among attached families. Both countries' structured responses are developed around bereavement response plans that highlights the actions, which should be taken by institution…
Descriptors: Grief, Cross Cultural Studies, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Child Care Centers
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Baustad, Anne Grethe; Bjørnestad, Elisabeth – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
High-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC) is related to childrens' socioemotional and cognitive development, and the most important aspect regarding quality in ECEC is staff's interpersonal or interactive skills. Despite this, research on staff's interactive skills is currently sparse in Norway. This study uses the Caregiver…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interaction, Preschool Education, Child Care
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Borgund, Solveig Marie – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2022
Reform in higher education is on the agenda worldwide, and there is increasing political interest in the content of study programmes. This article looks at the policy process leading to the new national curriculum regulation (NCR) for kindergarten teacher education (KTE) in Norway in 2012. The following questions derived from Kingdon's Multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Change, National Curriculum, Higher Education, Preschool Teachers
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Birkeland, Johanna; Baste, Valborg; Eriksen Ødegaard, Elin – Cogent Education, 2020
Observation is one of the central elements of kindergarten teachers' education and the profession. Through a survey in Norway, in which 1311 in-service teachers, kindergarten managers, and pedagogy teachers participated (response rate 39.9%), this study examines how the use of and rationale for observation in kindergarten practice and kindergarten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Grindheim, Liv Torunn; Sadownik, Alicja R. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Bullying-related phenomena are reported as growing problems in early childhood education and care (ECEC), which calls for structures for teachers' handling of these problems. Using an approach that emphasises bullying as a social, socially situated and contextual phenomenon, we investigate how such an approach can facilitate a positive change in…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preschool Teachers, Bullying, Teacher Student Relationship
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Obee, Patricia; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Gerlach, Alison; Harper, Nevin J. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Risky play is defined as thrilling and challenging forms of play that have the potential for physical injury and has been linked to developmental and health benefits for children in the early years. Currently, in Western contexts, children's opportunities for risky play is decreasing. Social factors such as practitioner and parental attitudes and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Risk, Young Children
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