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Teresa K. Aslanian; Anne-Line Bjerknes; Anne Kristin Andresen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This article explores children's self-initiated outdoor play and holistic learning in a Norwegian kindergarten. While children's self-initiated play is valued in Nordic ECEC, it is rarely analyzed in relation to holistic learning. To explore how children's self-initiated outdoor play contributes to children's holistic learning in ECEC, we observed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Processes, Outdoor Education, Preschool Education
Whewell, Emma; Caldwell, Helen; Frydenberg, Mark; Andone, Diana – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This paper presents data from two international projects focused on the interaction between changemaking and digital making in university students. The data is drawn from the contributions of 63 university students located in the United States, Romania, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Denmark and England. Using a design thinking methodology and a thematic…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Computer Simulation, Creative Activities
Anke Zondag – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Because most real-life foreign language speech is naturally unpredictable, spontaneous speech should be practiced in the foreign language classroom. Student teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) may benefit from practising methodology for spontaneous speech practice. This article reports the findings for a study into EFL student…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Learning Activities, Speech Communication, English (Second Language)
Espeland, Åsmund; Kvile, Synnøve; Holdhus, Kari – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
In teaching situations, teachers constantly have to make spontaneous and more or less planned choices based on input from pupils, adapted to the specific school setting and within society's social and cultural norms. Two phenomena underpinning such a view on teacher practices are teacher agency and teacher improvisation. The focus of this article…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Creative Activities, Correlation, Teaching Experience
Kvinge, Øystein – Cogent Education, 2018
The current study aims to interpret student-teachers' PowerPoint presentations using concepts derived from jazz improvisation. The purpose of the study is to acquire insight on how knowledge is instantiated in action in a ubiquitous educational setting. If musical lead sheets depict the draft model that provides players with a framework for…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Visual Aids, Teaching Methods, Models
Maeland, Kjellfrid – Power and Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to get an insight into how members of a research project group describe and interpret the dynamic relations in the group in running a research project investigating improvisation in teacher education. The empirical data consists of field notes from the research group meetings and project events in the initial phase of the…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Group Dynamics, Creative Activities, Teacher Education Programs
Selvik, Sabreen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Worldwide, domestic violence forces many mothers with their children into refuges for abused women. Some children experience multiple residential relocations and continual schooling disruption. Limited research exists exploring these children's school experiences. This article examines their strategies at school. Data were collected in qualitative…
Descriptors: Females, Family Violence, Mothers, Grounded Theory
Ask, Anne Selvik; Røed, Margrethe; Aarek, Ingebjørg – Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 2018
Lecturers in higher education in Norway are encouraged to take a researcher's attitude to their own teaching methods to determine what works best. This study looked at what environmental factors are successful criteria for further education courses. The research was based on information from three pedagogic entrepreneurship courses for Norwegian…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Adult Education, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Ben-Horin, Oded; Chappell, Kerry A.; Halstead, Jill; Espeland, Magne – Cogent Education, 2017
The goal of this qualitative study is to provide theoretical knowledge and design principles for a creative educational environment characterized by simultaneous study and exploration of science or math, and the arts: Write a Science Opera (WASO). To do so, we used a theory of creativity in education which links collaborative co-creation in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Music Education, Creative Activities
Spante, Maria – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2019
Purpose: The goal to stimulate perspective taking and inference making on social phenomena, such as gender roles in society, has proven to be difficult to achieve in general and in particular for primary school students. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to develop creative models and concepts for learning that provide guidance addressing these…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Creative Activities, Video Technology, International Cooperation
Hauge, Torunn Bakken; Paulsen, Anne Synnøve; Ødemotland, Siv – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2016
This article investigates the process of devising strategy in an intercultural Baltic-Nordic setting. Sixty teacher education participants collaborated on an interdisciplinary artistic production based on Norwegian folk beliefs and wights through an intensive, week-long program called Nordplus. Using this as a case study, we explored how the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Dramatics, Creative Activities
Maeland, Kjellfrid; Espeland, Magne – Education Inquiry, 2017
This article is based on a qualitative case study of teachers' conceptions of improvisation in teaching. Empirical data are master student teachers' texts (transcripts, reflections) based on observations and interviews of practising teachers. The texts were analysed in an abductive process. We can identify four specific characteristics of how…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Creative Activities, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
Knudsen, Jan Sverre – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
The intention of this article is to explore, challenge and expand our understandings of children's improvised vocalisations, a fundamentally human form of expression. Based on selected examples from observation and recording in non-institutional settings, the article outlines how this phenomenon can be understood as learning and as communication.…
Descriptors: Singing, Creative Activities, Young Children, Learning

Cohen, Monroe D.; Hoot, James L. – Childhood Education, 1997
Introduces and describes this special international issue focusing on educating through the arts. Argues that the arts promote children's sense of success, creativity, and self-expression. Notes contributions to this international issue from Canada, Finland, Norway, Australia, and the United States. Includes a bibliography of 11 references on…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation

Balke, Eva – Childhood Education, 1997
Argues that children need play time to explore the world because it is valuable, irreplaceable, spontaneous, and provides situations where children can learn with all their senses. Examines play in terms of its role in exploration, imagination, creative activity, work, learning, knowledge expansion, art, and the culture of children. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Art, Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education