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Affectionate Touch and Care: Embodied Intimacy, Compassion and Control in Early Childhood Education
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Cekaite, Asta; Bergnehr, Disa – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Relational care, interpersonal intimacy and emotional attunement are crucial for children's development and wellbeing in ECEC. The present study examines how they are enacted in a Swedish preschool (for 1-5-year-olds) through recurrent adult-child physical conduct, i.e. affectionate and affectionate-controlling touch. The data consist of 24 hours…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy, Emotional Response, Child Development
Adult-Initiated Touch and Its Functions at a Swedish Preschool: Controlling, Affectionate, Assisting and Educative Haptic Conduct
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Bergnehr, Disa; Cekaite, Asta – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
The present study examines adult-child touch and its functions in a Swedish preschool (for 1 to 5-year-old children). The data are naturalistic observations and video-recorded data of everyday preschool activities. The study describes the frequently occurring functions of educators' haptic conduct (control, affectionate, affectionate-control,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Tactual Perception