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Professionalism of Preschool Teachers in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Hungary
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Peterson, Tiina; Veisson, Marika; Hujala, Eeva; Härkönen, Ulla; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Bakosi, Eva Kovacsne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The current study investigated the ratings of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian preschool teachers and principals regarding the professionalism of preschool teachers within a cross-cultural context. According to reports commissioned by the European Commission and OECD, the professionalism of preschool teachers is a key factor in ensuring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professionalism, Principals
Engagement and Emergent Literacy Practices in Swedish Preschools
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Norling, Martina; Sandberg, Anette; Almqvist, Lena – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Children's ability to express thoughts, ideas, and needs is vital to their full participation in a democratic society. In the preschool environment, multiple opportunities to engage in emergent literacy practices may stimulate this ability. The study used an ecological development approach to investigate the language environment in Swedish…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Learner Engagement, Democratic Values
Preschool--An Arena for Children's Learning of Social and Cognitive Knowledge
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Williams, Pia; Sheridan, Sonja; Sandberg, Anette – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
The aim is to investigate Swedish preschool teachers' accounts of children's learning in relation to the goals in the Swedish preschool curriculum. The research question is: "What do preschool teachers see as fundamental aspects of learning in preschool practice?" The study is based on interactionist perspectives founded in Urie…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Preschool Teachers' Views on Children's Learning: An International Perspective
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Broström, Stig; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Margetts, Kay; Nyland, Berenice; Frøkjaer, Thorleif; Kieferle, Christa; Seifert, Anja; Roth, Angela; Ugaste, Aino; Vrinioti, Kalliope – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This comparative study investigated the perspectives of preschool teachers in Australia, Denmark, Estonia, German, Greece and Sweden about learning and participation in preschool. A structured survey questionnaire investigated four main questions: What situations can be characterised as learning? What activities are important for learning? What…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
Systematic Quality Work in Preschool
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Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Sandberg, Anette – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the meaning that Swedish preschool teachers ascribe to systematic quality work. In Sweden, all preschools are required to work systematically with quality issues. This involves several interdependent steps that follow each other in a specific order. Although the concept of systematic quality work might…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
Learning and Participation: Two Interrelated Key-Concepts in the Preschool
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Johansson, Inge; Sandberg, Anette – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
At the European Early Childhood Education Research Association (EECERA) conference in Prague in autumn 2007, an international network of teacher trainers and researchers was formed to discuss and investigate what learning and participation meant for preschool teacher students and staff who work with young children. In Sweden, the first of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education
Children's Participation in Preschool--On the Conditions of the Adults? Preschool Staff's Concepts of Children's Participation in Preschool Everyday Life
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Sandberg, Anette; Eriksson, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyse and describe preschool staff's concepts of children's participation in everyday preschool life, as well as preschool staff's experiences and concepts of what characterises the children who participate. Furthermore, it addresses the conditions that preschool staff consider as crucial in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Content Analysis, Interviews, Questionnaires