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Nilfyr, Katarina; Aspelin, Jonas; Lantz-Andersson, Annika – Education Sciences, 2021
The international trend of positioning the preschool as a pre-academic learning environment is challenging for preschool teachers, as it necessitates a balance between emotionally supportive interaction and goal-oriented learning instruction. However, previous research suggests that the complexities of such interactions need to be further studied.…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Goal Orientation
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Lotta Dellve; Robin Jonsson; Rebecka Arman; Nanna Gillberg; Ewa Wikström – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore whether participation in employer-provided skills and learning programs can strengthen older workers' abilities to carry out their work in a meaningful way so that it increases work attractiveness and a willingness to remain in the current job position. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was distributed to…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Labor Turnover, Labor Demands, Labor Problems
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Emelie Stavholm; Pernilla Lagerlöf; Cecilia Wallerstedt – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study focuses on teacher professional learning in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in response to the contemporary challenge of understanding the role of teachers in play. It explores the learning process of teachers when investigating how an ECEC work team in Sweden collaboratively changes their way of reasoning regarding their role…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Learning Processes
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Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Ribaeus, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which curriculum goals on digitalisation are viewed in relation to the overarching democratic mission of Swedish preschools. Groups of preschool staff from three preschools located in different areas were interviewed with the focus on how they discuss democracy and the democratic aspects of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preschool Teachers
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Sundqvist, Pernilla – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Developments in early childhood education (ECE) over the last two decades have for many countries meant a change towards a more subject-oriented pedagogy in which preschool staff are commissioned to teach technology to young children. This has been proved to be a challenge to the staff. Through analysis of activities at two preschool units, this…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Knowledge Level, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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Magnusson, Lena O.; Bäckman, Kerstin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on a meta-approach to the results of two separate studies and concerns the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) in early childhood education. One of the studies focuses on how preschool teachers understand STEM and how it is taught in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Ribaeus, Katarina; Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Löfdahl Hultman, Annica – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2022
This article focuses on student teachers' professional development and explores how the students connect theory and practice in these processes. Data consist of 17 talks during weekly seminars with 15 preschool student teachers and a group of researchers both at campus and at the practicum placements during their first term. Initially, the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Theory Practice Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Personal Autonomy
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David Kroik – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
This paper explores language teacher identity (LTI) among three preschool teachers. The focus lies on the preschool teachers' identities as linguistic role models by means of analysing their own descriptions of language learning, that is, their personal experiences of and reflections on language acquisition. Three interviews were made with…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Language Teachers, Role Models, Self Concept
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Anderstaf, Susanna; Lecusay, Robert; Nilsson, Monica – Intercultural Education, 2021
The research presented in this paper explores how preschool teachers in Sweden negotiate tensions stemming from perceived cultural dilemmas among themselves, the children they work with, and the children´s parents or guardians. The aim in characterising this process of negotiation is to expand knowledge about how to adapt pedagogically to the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Values
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Bourbour, Maryam – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This study aims to investigate the ways in which a particular digital technology, the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB), mediates preschool teachers' teaching. Over five months in 2017 and early spring 2018, five preschool teachers and 22 children aged 4--6 were video observed. By identifying aspects of IWB as a mediational means, the findings of the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Andersson Søe, Martina; Schad, Elinor; Psouni, Elia – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
The social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have challenged many aspects of preschool everyday life. Particularly vulnerable to these restrictions is the aspect of introducing new children to preschool, since preschool introduction constitutes a natural arena for establishment of preschool staff's relationships with children and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, School Orientation, Pandemics
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Siljehag, Eva; Westling Allodi, Mara – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Studies have shown that children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) are less engaged in social interactions with peers. The study attempted to investigate how Swedish preschool teachers in inclusive preschool settings implemented an evidence-based program called Play Time/Social Time; how they interpreted children's interaction; and how their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship
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Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This paper addresses national concern about teaching in preschool, building on the challenges, opportunities, and requirements facing today's preschools due to the higher expected level of preschool assignments. The aim is to build knowledge of how preschool teachers and managers from 10 Swedish municipalities characterise preschool teaching. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Wilder, Jenny; Lillvist, Anne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Research about transitions in early childhood education has had an upsurge especially in the last 15 years. Much attention has been directed to what constitutes and builds up positive transitions. Although, as learning is one of the main tasks in educational settings, there is a need for more explicit research discussions in the transition…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Models
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Samuelsson, Robin – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2019
This paper studies the scaffolding of conceptual development for children aged 4-5 years old during a science project at a Swedish preschool. It specifically examines how bodily knowledge and language are used in interaction, and how conceptual knowledge can be scaffolded with the use of external tools and artefacts. The science project was…
Descriptors: Interaction, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Science Projects
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