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Velibor Bobo Kovac; David Lansing Cameron – Child Care in Practice, 2024
The aim of the study was to examine the attitudes and beliefs of preschool workers with respect to the phenomenon of bullying in preschool. Participants comprised 694 employees in private and municipality run preschools who responded to an internet-based survey in Norway. The largest group of participants in the study were qualified preschool…
Descriptors: Surveys, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Bullying
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Lillian Pedersen; Astrid Reidun Berglid Bakken; Kjersti Johannessen; Sigrid Bøyum – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
In this paper, we aimed to examine what characterizes teachers' interactions with children in micro-level transitions in Norwegian preschools. We used video and observed transitions at the micro level, such as between meal and sleeping time, and between playing and meals. The participants were 22 teachers from 22 classrooms in 17 preschools. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Teacher Student Relationship
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Tarja Alatalo; Martina Norling; Maria Magnusson; Sofie Tjäru; Hanne Naess Hjetland; Hilde Hofslundsengen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
Preschool teachers' read-aloud and writing practices were investigated using a questionnaire about how activities were planned and organized, and what their purpose was. The results indicate that early literacy practices were not planned systematically. Most of the preschool teachers (77%) reported having storybook read-alouds at least three times…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Beginning Writing, Emergent Literacy
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Brinchmann, Ellen Irén; Røe-Indregård, Hanne; Karlsen, Jannicke; Schauber, Stefan Kilian; Hagtvet, Bente Eriksen – Child Development, 2023
The association between decontextualized talk (DT; i.e., talk extending beyond immediate context) and child language outcomes is well-attested but not well-understood. This study tested the hypothesis that DT is more linguistically complex than contextualized talk (CT). Thirty-eight Norwegian children (M[subscript age] = 5.5 years; 25 girls; 30…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Picture Books
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Kucherenko, Svitlana; Rydland, Veslemøy; Grøver, Vibeke – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study used sequential analysis to investigate teachers' use of literal and inferential questions and their relation to children's responses during small-group shared reading in preschool. Participants were 202 dual-language learners (age 3-5 years) and 53 preschool teachers in multiethnic preschool classrooms in Norway.…
Descriptors: Inferences, Questioning Techniques, Reading Strategies, Preschool Children
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Kimathi, Eric; Nilsen, Ann Christin Eklund – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
Early intervention and integration are highly valued ideals in kindergartens in Norway. Building on two research projects informed by institutional ethnography, the authors address how kindergarten teachers 'do' early intervention and integration in their everyday work. They argue that this work largely revolves around managing categories, whether…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Integrated Curriculum, At Risk Students
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Hanne Røe-Indregård; Ellen Irén Brinchmann; Veslemøy Rydland; Meredith L. Rowe; Bente E. Hagtvet; Imac M. Zambrana – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Although it is well documented that toy play and book sharing shape communication between adults and children in different ways, relatively few studies have compared teacher-child interactions in the two activities. The aim of this observational study was to describe and compare the conversational functions of teachers' and…
Descriptors: Toys, Sharing Behavior, Books, Teacher Student Relationship
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Liu, Junjie; Birkeland, Åsta – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2022
Risky play provides multiple benefits for children's development. This study compared teachers' perceptions of risky play in one kindergarten in Norway and one in China, including the concept of risky play, the roles of teachers, the protective strategies adopted, and the factors limiting the practice of risky play. The aim of the article is to…
Descriptors: Risk, Play, Child Behavior, Teacher Attitudes
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Håvard Horndalen Tveit; Frode Stenseng – Prevention Science, 2024
Heterogeneous effects from interventions often remain hidden in between-group analyses, risking overgeneralized conclusions of treatment effects. In this exploratory study, we performed latent profile analysis to unveil differential treatment effects among children in The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Programme (IY TCMP). This…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries
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Storli, Rune; Tobiassen, May Liss; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors consider play to be critical and intrinsic to healthy human life and development, and they argue that children's right to play should be supported by the environment in which they live. Their study seeks to understand what children do when they appear not to play during free play periods at early childhood education and care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children
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Sørenssen, Ingvild Kvale; Bergschöld, Jenny M. – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
In Norway's 'Framework Plan for kindergartens' digital tools are to be implemented for learning, play and creativity. Implicitly the concept of digital tools, or ICTs, tend to be tablets, computers, and interactive whiteboards, smartphones are as such not taken into account. However, we find that the smartphone is particularly interesting because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Early Childhood Education
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Carlsen, Kari; Clark, Alison – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This article seeks to look below the surface of pedagogical documentation with a temporal lens. We focus on the potentialities of pedagogical documentation as an intertwined research process with children and teachers as learners in 'slow pedagogies' (Clark [2020]. "Towards a Listening ECEC System: Valuing Slow Pedagogy and Slow…
Descriptors: Documentation, Foreign Countries, Observation, Data Interpretation
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Hogstad, Ingrid; Jansen, Anne – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
The present study focused on professionals' meaning-making support to young children (1-6 years old) anticipating and grieving the loss of a parent because of a severe, somatic disease. A two-phased interview study with palliative health-care professionals (11) and kindergarten teachers (18) provided data for a comparative analysis of…
Descriptors: Parents, Death, Grief, Young Children
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Nordmo, Bente G. Kvitvaer; Meland, Aud Torill – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Research demonstrates that physical activity is essential for a child's well-being, learning and motor development. The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore how female and male kindergarten staff promote physical activity towards boys and girls in the outdoor playground of a Norwegian kindergarten consisting of fifty children…
Descriptors: Playgrounds, Play, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities
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Pape-Pedersen, Ida – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This article builds on an arts-based pedagogical development project where a kindergarten educator and a somatic dance teacher have created and conducted dance-workshops for kindergarten teachers, aiming at developing bodily professional knowledge through dance. The research is carried out from a post-human perspective (Barad, Karen, "Meeting…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Collaboration, Workshops
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