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Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson; Ylva Holmberg – Music Education Research, 2024
In recent years, Swedish preschool has been subjected to significant changes. As there is a lack of studies examining how teachers in music rhetorically position themselves within this context, the aim is to study subject positions that are constructed in conversations between preschool music teachers (PMTs) and to discuss these positions in…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Music Education
Moa Frid; Susanne Westman – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
In this article, a collaborative Deleuze-Guattarian-inspired cartography is produced with preschool practitioners to explore the assemblages of teaching in preschool. The aim is to map how teaching comes into being in preschool planning and reflection practices following the movements of territorialisation and re-/de-territorialisation. Unwinding…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Planning
Ester Catucci; Benita Berg; Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines five preschool teachers' narratives about using the outdoor environment as a pedagogical resource for children's play, learning and experiences in Swedish preschools. Participants were asked to reflect on both opportunities and challenges in outdoor play and learning. The present study responds to the need for further research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschools
Adrian Lundberg; Christina Lindh; Philippe Collberg – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion concerning adaptations and improvements of preschool teacher education. Such changes are crucial, because many newly qualified preschool teachers struggle to live up to the requirements the profession places upon them. This study is conducted in Sweden, where early childhood education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Camilla Björklund; Hanna Palmér – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The aim of this study is to deepen the understanding of how preschool teachers can use representations of different kinds to bring fore the mathematical content that may be afforded in pictures and narrative designed for numerical learning purposes. Seventy-three video documentations of reading sessions with 27 toddlers (1-3 years of age) over the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Thulin, Susanne; Jonsson, Agneta; Fridberg, Marie; Redfors, Andreas – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Current research points out the need to develop early childhood education science content didactics. This qualitative study contributes to the field, illuminating teacher's and children's communication about physics. Teaching activities in five preschools, children age 1-5, are inspired by a science teaching model including digital support. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Preschool Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Rethinking Construction in Preschool: Discerning Didactic Strategies in Swedish Preschool Activities
Boström, Johan; Hultén, Magnus; Gyberg, Per – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
Even though construction tasks have a long history as an activity in the Swedish preschool, technology as a content matter (e.g., construction) is relatively new. Hence, preschool teachers are generally unsure of the content of technology and how to handle it from a teaching perspective. Thus, there is need for deeper understanding of how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers
Paul Horton; Camilla Forsberg; Robert Thornberg – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
While the efforts of teachers are crucial for preventing and stopping degrading treatment, harassment, and bullying in schools, research has found that teachers' understandings of such terms may vary significantly. In this qualitative study, we take a social-ecological perspective to investigate Swedish schoolteachers' understandings of the terms…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Sexual Harassment, Antisocial Behavior
Anna Otterborn; Bodil Sundberg; Konrad Schönborn – Research in Science Education, 2024
Swedish preschool science practice is confined to a unique educational setting where upbringing, care, and education are intertwined. This allows teachers to develop innovative cross-curricular and multidimensional science teaching. At the same time, society demands the digitalization of preschool practice, which has caused concern not only about…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Science Education, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
Heikkilä, Mia; Lillvist, Anne – Intercultural Education, 2023
The revised Swedish national curriculum stresses that preschools should, on the one hand, place emphasis on stimulating children's language development in Swedish, while on the other hand help children with a mother tongue other than Swedish develop their mother tongue. The aim of this study is to analyse preschool teachers' strategies to develop…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Ethnicity
Lundqvist, Johanna – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2023
At a time when inclusion is valued, an important question is how it can be put into practice. This study investigates how one Swedish preschool and one of its units achieve inclusion. It adopted a mixed method research approach and a case study design. Participating in the study were one head teacher, five preschool staff members and five children…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Preschool Teachers
Nordström, Malin Ekesryd – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2022
The purpose of this article was to investigate the conditions for identifying gifted children in their first encounter with the Swedish school system, the preschool. Interviews were conducted with 10 preschool teachers and 5 principals about their conceptions of giftedness and challenges in meeting the needs of gifted preschoolers in practice. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Principals, Teacher Attitudes
Lundqvist, Johanna; Franzén, Karin; Munter, Ann-Charlotte – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
The aim is to investigate early childhood mathematics in a preschool unit in Sweden. A mixed-method research approach and a case study research design were used. Three preschool staff members and 19 children were enrolled. Data were collected by means of observations and a focus group interview. Numerical and thematic analyses were conducted. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Preschool Education, Individualized Instruction, Foreign Countries
Birgitta Persdotter; Evelina Landstedt; Karin Hellfeldt – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Teachers in preschools and schools have a central role in detecting children at risk of maltreatment. The aim of this study was to provide a longitudinal understanding of teachers' temporary and prolonged concerns for children's home situations (CCHS), from preschool (age 3-5 years) to year 1-3 of elementary school (age 8-10 years). Teacher- and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Görel Sterner; Caroline Nagy; Peter Nyström – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
We report on a scaled-up mathematics intervention in preschool classes (children age six) in Sweden. In the intervention, teachers at seven schools in four municipalities implemented the Thinking, Reasoning and Counting in Preschool Class (TRC) teacher guide in their teaching of 254 students. Results are compared to a previous randomized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Children, Preschool Education