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Kane, Eva – Educational Action Research, 2015
When doing research, or for that matter working in school-age childcare, the researcher/teacher is required to develop a plan for her/his work in spite of knowing that unexpected things will happen. This article aims to explore the relationship between the process of planning and unexpected events in childcare practice and action research. The…
Descriptors: Action Research, Child Care, Play, Research Methodology
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Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid; Pramling, Niklas – Education Inquiry, 2013
Theory-driven and practice-driven research are often separated, but in this article we shall argue for a research approach that is theory-driven but practice-oriented and shares features with the specific kind of early childhood education pedagogy this research approach has generated, what we refer to as developmental pedagogy (Pramling Samuelsson…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Foreign Countries
Podmore, Valerie N., Ed.; Swann, Fay, Ed. – 1995
This report contains six papers presented at 1993 and 1995 seminars conducted by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. It also includes the schedules of the two seminars and a summary of a general discussion on future directions in research in early childhood education and care conducted at the 1995 seminar. They include: (1)…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Day Care, Early Childhood Education