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Shuey, Elizabeth A.; Kim, Najung; Cortazar, Alejandra; Poblete, Ximena; Rivera, Lorena; Lagos, María José; Faverio, Francesca; Engel, Arno – OECD Publishing, 2019
Curriculum plays an important role in ensuring continuity and progression from early childhood education and care (ECEC) to primary education. The alignment of curricula and standards across these settings shapes children's early experiences with education systems, with implications for children's relationships and engagement in both ECEC and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Alignment (Education), Academic Standards
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Sadownik, Alicja R. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
This article uses the concept of 'superdiversity' as a lens through which various conceptualisations of diversity in Norwegian early childhood education and care policies and professionals' understandings are made visible. Although Norwegian early childhood education and care is expected to highlight, value, and promote diversity and mutual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Diversity
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Sæle, Ove Olsen; Akslen, Åse Nylenna; Halsnes, Astrid Øien – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2017
In this article, preschool student teachers' thinking of young children's physical activities is discussed. The study is based on individual "pedagogic creed" texts written by preschool student teachers at a university college in Bergen, Norway, in their first and third years of the educational program. Students describe in detail what…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Student Teachers
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Hoel, Trude; Tønnessen, Elise Seip – AERA Open, 2019
Children develop their language when they explore and talk about literary texts. In this study, we explore the design of shared digital reading as a basis for critical reflection on the reading situation in an institutional context with its given opportunities and limitations. We examine six videotaped readings of one specific picture book app,…
Descriptors: Affordances, Young Children, Group Activities, Picture Books
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Hanssen, Natallia Bahdanovich – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2018
The present study focuses on exploring the relationships of preschool staff and children with language difficulties in Norwegian and Belarusian contexts. A qualitative case design was used, and data were gathered through video observations and video-based conversations. Through different approaches--narrative analysis and analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Sadownik, Alicja R.; Baraldsnes, Dziuginta; Kalgraf, Solveig – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This paper presents an analysis of how educators from Lithuania experienced the Norwegian ECEC during a short study trip. The research results are informed by the theory of Practice Architecture [7, 8] that describes educational practices using the concepts of "sayings," "doings," and "relatings." "Sayings"…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Semi Structured Interviews, Travel
Sadownik, Alicja R.; Aasen, Wenche; Jevtic, Adrijana Visnjic – Online Submission, 2019
This article presents Norwegian and Croatian students' perspectives on conditions for their professional growth during undergraduate kindergarten teacher education. The data gathered through focus group interviews are theorized using the cultural-historical wholeness approach that identifies institutional conditions for the development of certain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Greve, Anne; Garnier, Pascale; Ulvik, Oddbjørg Skjaer; Øien, Ingvil; Chantseva, Victoria; Fallang, Bjørg; Gulbrandsen, Liv Mette; Rayna, Sylvie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Food practices are culturally and historically situated, and so are conceptions of 'risk'. Comparative studies of food practices can highlight these cultural norms and conceptions. In this article we will present results from a study that investigated food practices in Norwegian and French kindergartens with a particular focus on constructions of…
Descriptors: Food, Risk, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background
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Carlsen, Martin; Erfjord, Ingvald; Hundeland, Per Sigurd; Monaghan, John – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
This paper focuses on kindergarten teachers' interactions with young children during mathematical learning activities involving the use of digital tools. We aim to characterise the teachers' roles and actions in these activities and extend considerations of teachers' orchestrations current in the research literature with regard to agency and…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Mathematics Activities
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
This paper, based on interviews conducted for the "Early Childhood Oral History Project," draws on oral life-history interviews with 14 prominent early childhood researchers who have been active since the 1970s within diverse European countries. A common theme across the interviews is the key role that collaborative research between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Oral History, Researchers
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Thiel, Oliver; Jenssen, Lars – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
One goal among many in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is that children develop positive attitudes towards mathematics. In order to support this development, teachers need professional competence in both cognitive and affective-motivational facets. Teacher students need to develop this professional competence during their initial teacher…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
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Storli, Rune; Hansen Sandseter, Ellen Beate – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
The aim of this study was to explore Norwegian early childhood education and care (ECEC) practitioners' perceptions and practices regarding children's indoor and outdoor rough-and-tumble play (R&T) from a gender perspective. A questionnaire and semi-structured interviews were used together in a mixed method design to provide quantitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Skjaeveland, Yngve – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
This article discusses the teaching of history in early childhood education and care centres and children's understanding of history. Based on interviews with eight Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers and on interpretative phenomenological analysis, the article shows how the early childhood education and care centres teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Løvgren, Mette – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Although childcare workers have the second-worst occupation for work-related health problems and the number of professional day-care centers is growing throughout Europe, few studies have examined these workers' emotional well-being. This study investigates the effect of position, competence, work role, role clarity, and work tasks on emotional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Burnout, Fatigue (Biology)
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Reinertsen, Anne Beate – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article is crafted through three scenes, through which the author tries to imagine quality as something that is third space, semiotic, plasticity, eternal, and simultaneously something solid and obviously good here and now, through a Spinozian/Deluzian/Braitottian joy/you/me. The author rhizomatically tries to lay everything out on a plane of…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Semiotics, Social Change, History
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