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Nilsson, Carina; Svensson, Anette; Basic, Goran – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this article was to re-examine the empirical research focused on the creation and recreation of pre-school teachers' identity and their practices with multilingual children and language development. The analysis was based on empirical sequences from previously published qualitative analyses with the assistance of an interactionist…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Multilingualism, Teacher Student Relationship
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Fridberg, Marie; Redfors, Andreas; Greca, Ileana M.; García Terceño, Eva M. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This article describes outcomes from the Erasmus + project botSTEM, involving a theoretical framework for Science, Technology, Engineering & Technology (STEM) and robotics and teaching activities for preschool teachers and teachers educating children 4-8 years old. Spanish and Swedish preschool teachers' self-efficacy and views of teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, STEM Education, Robotics
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Löthman, Charlotte; Puskás, Tünde – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This article explores preschool practitioners' perceptions of their encounters with migrant parents in rural preschools. The practitioners' accounts are analyzed through Bakhtin's theory of dialogism. This theoretical approach was chosen based on the assumption that a successful integration process is accompanied by the presence of a dialogic…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Areljung, Sofie; Due, Karin; Ottander, Christina; Skoog, Marianne; Sundberg, Bodil – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
Researchers have provided many arguments for why drawing may contribute to science learning. However, little is known about how teachers in early childhood education (ECE) make use of drawing for science learning purposes. This article examines how teachers' views and framing of drawing activities influence the science learning opportunities…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Freehand Drawing, Early Childhood Education, Science Education
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Sjöman, Madeleine; Granlund, Mats; Axelsson, Anna Karin; Almqvist, Lena; Danielsson, Henrik – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background and aims: Social interactions in preschool and a child's gender are, in cross-sectional studies, related to the child's overall levels of hyperactive behaviour and engagement in preschool activities. However, whether social interaction and gender can predict children's engagement and hyperactivity is not thoroughly investigated. This…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Interpersonal Relationship, Student Behavior, Preschool Children
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Ekdahl, Anna-Lena – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
In this paper, differences in the implementation of a number activity called the snake game are studied. Nine Swedish preschool teachers worked in collaboration with a research team, enacting the same activity with their groups of 5-year-old children over a 3-month period. Variation theory forms the basis for the analysis of 67 videorecorded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Svärdemo Åberg, Eva; Insulander, Eva – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This article presents a meta-interpretative synthesis of contrasting research studies about methodological and theoretical challenges for Swedish preschool teachers in systematic quality development work. The first challenge involves an awareness of producing documentation from different levels of preschool work. The second challenge concerns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Documentation
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Nasiopoulou, Panagiota; Williams, Pia; Sheridan, Sonja; Yang Hansen, Kajsa – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This article explores preschool teachers' professional profiles in Sweden. Considering various educational policy reforms in Sweden the last decades, this study is grounded in interactionist perspectives and Bronfenbrenner's bio-ecological model. A set of multiple professional indicators related to preschool teachers' educational background,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Profiles, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Background
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Marklund, Leif – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This study investigates preschool teachers' perceptions about the pedagogical use of digital play and, by using the Learning in Working Life framework as a theoretical point of departure, it also investigates how these perceptions are connected to the teachers' professional learning environment. Participants wrote a self-report essay about digital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Beery, Thomas; Fridberg, Marie – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2022
Connectedness to nature (C2N) shows a positive relationship with many factors supporting children's health, wellbeing, and development. In addition, C2N has been shown to have a positive relationship with learning about and caring for nature. Despite a long history of outdoor education in early childhood settings in Sweden, C2N is not a concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Resources, Teacher Attitudes, Outdoor Education
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Andersson, Kristina; Gullberg, Annica; Danielsson, Anna T.; Scantlebury, Kathryn; Hussénius, Anita – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This study examines preservice preschool teachers' university science education experience. The empirical data are from a research and intervention project conducted on teacher education programs at two Swedish universities. We analyzed one of the assignments completed by 111 students within a science course as well as their conversations about…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Teacher Education Programs, Science Education, Preservice Teachers
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Sumpter, Lovisa – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
This paper investigates Swedish preschool educators' emotional directions towards mathematics. A questionnaire was answered by 157 preschool educators and their responses were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The majority of preschool educators stated that they are positive towards mathematics. Regarding the hypotheses…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Mathematics, Positive Attitudes, Context Effect
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Nasiopoulou, Panagiota – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020
This study aims to explore profiles of preschool teachers' intentions when they divide the children into subgroups. Interactionist perspectives, Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, and a pedagogical perspective on preschool quality provide the foundation for the study's theoretical framework. By applying a person-centered analytical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Intention, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Simon Sjölund; Jannika Lindvall – Journal of Educational Change, 2024
Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are emerging as a promising approach for educational change by closing the gap between educational research and practice. However, these partnerships face several challenges, such as addressing cultural differences as well as relationship-building in a historically unbalanced relationship between researchers…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Research, Preschools
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Klaar, Susanne; Wank, Ann-Charlott – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Preschool teachers in Sweden are expected to document children's learning and assess their learning outcomes, for the purpose of long-term evaluation and to develop the educational preschool practice. Previous research shows that the tools for documenting individual learning are particularly focusing on children's cognitive knowledge, while the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Documentation
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