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Menning, Soern Finn – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
Several authors have argued that early childhood education and care (ECEC) is essentially an ethical practice based on certain values and conceptions about the purpose of education. Is this also the case for educational practices surrounding the highly valued notion of curiosity? While psychological approaches portray it as neutral, this article…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Ethics, Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups
Birkeland, Johanna – Online Submission, 2019
Knowledge and skills in observation form part of the qualifications a kindergarten teacher needs to become a professional. In this article, I will focus on the theme of observation in kindergarten teacher education (KTE) in Norway. One of the largest educational institutions in the country is used as reference for this study. By means of document…
Descriptors: Observation, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Undheim, Marianne; Jernes, Margrethe – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Digital technology is a central part of young children's everyday lives in most societies today. This paper contributes to current research by exploring two teachers' pedagogical strategies when creating digital stories together with groups of six kindergarten children (age 4-5). The study has a qualitative, multiple-case study design. The…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Electronic Publishing, Kindergarten
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Ribaeus, Katarina; Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Löfdahl Hultman, Annica – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
This article focuses on student teachers' professional development and explores how the students connect theory and practice in these processes. Data consist of 17 talks during weekly seminars with 15 preschool student teachers and a group of researchers both at campus and at the practicum placements during their first term. Initially, the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Personal Autonomy
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Berge, Anita – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
This research explores how the material environment in kindergarten frames social practices and everyday life and how change may affect pedagogy. Data were drawn from an ethnographic study conducted in a large, newly established kindergarten in Norway. The analyses focus on one conversation between two educators and the head of the kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Furniture, Caring
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Skoglund, Ruth Ingrid; Åmot, Ingvild – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Research on educational activities generally focuses on the importance of positive emotions in the interaction between teachers and children. This article will focus on the challenging emotions that can arise when kindergarten staff interact with the children. The empirical material has been collected from a qualitative study of conflicts between…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Interaction, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Jernes, Margrethe; Knaben, Åse Dagmar; Tungland, Inger Benny Espedal; Alvestad, Marit – Cogent Education, 2020
In this paper, the objective is to explore the area of pedagogy in the reform of kindergarten teacher education (KTE), which was implemented in 2013 in Norway. The data material is based on semi-structured interviews with 41 educators from six focus groups, and is analysed with a hermeneutical approach. The main findings is presented in three…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Educational Change, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Gomes, Judith; Almeida, Sylvia Christine; Kaveri, G.; Mannan, Farhana; Gupta, Prachi; Hu, Aihua; Sarkar, Mahbub – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted countries across the globe. The pandemic has created a completely new teaching-learning environment of interaction for early childhood educators. In many countries, face-to-face teaching has been replaced by remote teaching, while in others, there have been intermittent lockdowns and limited…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children
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Berge, Anita; Johansson, Eva – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2021
The aim of this paper is to advance knowledge about the politics of belonging in Norwegian preschools by exploring how educators describe and consider processes of belonging in their educational practice. In educational research, the dominating focus has been on the sense of belonging and children's emotional bonding to others. Here belonging is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Group Membership
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Magnusson, Maria; Hofslundsengen, Hilde; Jusslin, Sofia; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Svensson, Ann-Katrin; Heilä-Ylikallio, Ria; Hagtvet, Bente E. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study investigates preschool student teachers' views on how early writing should be supported in preschool. The sample consists of 66 preschool student teachers from Finland, Norway, and Sweden, who participated in the study by responding to open-ended questions on a written questionnaire. Results show that the respondents' answers were…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Writing (Composition), Emergent Literacy, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Aslanian, Teresa K. – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
Care is traditionally researched in ECEC as a dyadic, human phenomenon that relies heavily of tropes of females as care providers. The assumption that care is produced in dyadic relationships occludes material care practices that occur beyond the dyad. Drawing on Bernice Fisher and Joan Tronto's care ethics and Karen Barad's focus on the agency of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Service Occupations
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Aslanian, Teresa K. – Journal of Education Policy, 2020
There is growing concern within the field of education regarding how the implementation of national frameworks based on the European Qualifications Framework displaces tacit and less traditionally formalized knowledge from policy. This issue is particularly salient concerning national frameworks that regulate early childhood teacher education, in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Child Care
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Urban, Mathias; Reikerås, Elin; Eidsvåg, Gunnar Magnus; Guevara, Jennifer; Saebø, Janken; Semmoloni, Carolina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
This paper presents and discusses the findings of a collaborative investigation into Nordic approaches to evaluation and assessment in early childhood education and care. The project explored values and principles that underpin and guide evaluation in ECEC systems and practices in five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality
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Stensen, Kenneth; Lydersen, Stian; Ranøyen, Ingunn; Klöckner, Christian A.; Buøen, Elisabet S.; Lekhal, Ratib; Drugli, May Britt – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The Student-Teacher Relationship Scale-Short Form (STRS-SF) is one of the most frequently used instruments globally to measure professional caregivers' perceptions of the relationship quality with a specific child. However, its psychometric properties for children younger than 3 years of age enrolled in early childhood education and care (ECEC)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Psychometrics
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Meland, Aud Torill; Kaltvedt, Elsa Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate how gender manifests itself in Norwegian kindergarten, as observed by students during three weeks' work experience. The empirical basis was collated from 40 accounts of work experience from 20 kindergartens. Student kindergarten teachers' observations of how gender is expressed in kindergarten forms the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Gender Issues
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