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Preschool Teachers' Views on Competence in the Context of Home and Preschool Collaboration
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Vuorinen, Tuula; Sandberg, Anette; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The purpose of this article is to analyse and discuss preschool teachers' views regarding competence within their profession in the context of home and preschool collaboration. The question addressed is as follows: In what situations do preschool teachers perceive that their competence becomes visible for parents? The results, based on interviews…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Family School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
Preschool Teaching in Sweden--A Profession in Change
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Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia; Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Educational Research, 2011
Background: Historically, the meaning of teacher competence has changed and is continuously being re-constructed along with changes in society as well as with shifting values and intentions in preschool guidelines and curricula. Over the past decade, Swedish preschool has been incorporated as a part of the educational system, and has received its…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, National Curriculum, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Preschool-Home Cooperation in Change
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Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2008
The purpose of this study is to bring forth preschool teachers' and parents' views on both established and future forms of cooperation between the preschool and home. The empirical sample is based on both individual and focus-group interviews. Results show that cooperation mainly revolves around the individual child. The form of cooperation that…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Preschool Teachers, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Parent Attitudes
Dimensions of Childhood Play and Toys
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Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse play through a contemporary historical perspective, based upon pre-school teachers', students majoring in education, and teacher education students' descriptions of memories from their childhood regarding play and toys. The overall method is retrospective. The data consists of 111 interviews…
Descriptors: Play, Toys, Recall (Psychology), Child Development
Practitioner-Oriented Research as a Tool for Professional Development
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Johansson, Inge; Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
The aim of this study was to analyse how a model for practitioner-oriented research can be used as a tool for professional development in the preschool. The focus of interest is the type of knowledge that is formed when researchers and preschool staff cooperate on local projects, and what this new knowledge means for the images of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Researchers, Questionnaires, Interviews
The Future Is Created by and within Children
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Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2007
The overall aim of this study was to present research areas within early childhood education in a dialogue between municipality and university. The purpose was to produce ideas and develop research in teacher education, with the hope of increasing the understanding of what kind of research is needed into early childhood education. The data…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Children, Preschool Teachers