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Lee-Hammond, Libby; Bjervås, Lise-Lotte – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Pedagogical documentation has been understood as an important way for early childhood educators to provide high-quality learning environments for children. The authors explore the contested nature of quality and its interpretation in two cultural contexts: in Western Australia, where pedagogical documentation is a relatively uncommon practice, and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Quality, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
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Heikkilä, Mia – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The focus of this study has been to examine a number of municipalities that work to recruit more men to work in preschools. The aim of the study has been to identify ways of working conducted by municipalities aiming to recruit more men to work in preschools. The study includes seven municipalities, all included in one network specifically aiming…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Males
Boyd, Wendy, Ed.; Garvis, Susanne, Ed. – Springer, 2021
This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Policy
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Björklund, Camilla; Ahlskog-Björkman, Eva – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
This study presents an analysis of preschool teachers' reasoning about pedagogical goals. Of specific interest is how teachers in a Swedish and a Finnish context describe goals for children's learning and how they describe them implementing these goals into their practice. The research question is thus: How are pedagogical goals perceived and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
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Eidevald, Christian; Bergström, Helena; Broström, Anna Westberg – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Previous research has described a discourse where men working within Early Childhood Education and Care are viewed as potential pedophiles. The aim of this study is to describe and analyze how men, working in Swedish preschools, position themselves in relation to this "pedophile discourse." Twenty-five men were interviewed about their…
Descriptors: Males, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Sex Stereotypes
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Sumpter, Lovisa; Hedefalk, Maria – European Journal of STEM Education, 2018
The aim of this paper is to study teachers' roles in preschool children's mathematical reasoning using analysis of epistemological moves. Three moves were identified: instructional moves, confirming move and a new move, concluding move. There were no generative moves encouraging the children to produce different arguments for choice of strategy or…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Preschool Children, Mathematical Logic, Foreign Countries
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Linda Palla; Ann-Christine Vallberg Roth – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2018
The aim of this research is to explore what may characterise teaching in language, communication and multilingualism in preschools, as expressed in writing by preschool teachers and managers in 10 Swedish municipalities in 2016. The data consists of written answers to an open-ended question in a reflective document. The reflective document was…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
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Hellman, Anette – Ethnography and Education, 2021
The aim of the article is to explore norms about care and masculinity in early childhood education and care settings in Indonesia and Sweden. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it is shown how care in the two nations was produced as ambivalent for men, causing a risk of being accused of working with children for the wrong reasons. Two…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Masculinity, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Palmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2017
This article focuses on professional development among teachers within a Swedish national network on toddler mathematics education. The activities within this network can be understood as participant-oriented collective professional development based on a knowledge of practice approach. An inventory of toddler mathematics was performed within this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Mathematics Education
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Björklund, Camilla; Magnusson, Maria; Palmér, Hanna – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
The focus of this article is on mathematics teaching in a play-based and goal-oriented practice, such as preschool, and on how different lines of actions may impact children's learning opportunities. Video recordings of authentic play activities involving children and nine teachers from different preschools were analyzed qualitatively to answer…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Play, Goal Orientation
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Sundberg, Bodil; Areljung, Sofie; Due, Karin; Ekström, Kenneth; Ottander, Christina; Tellgren, Britt – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
In this study, Activity Theory (AT) is used to analyse general patterns for how cultural and historical factors interact with the shaping of science activities in preschools. Data was produced from field notes, video observations, video stimulated recall group discussions and individual interviews with preschool teachers at fourteen preschool…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Educational Environment
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Fridberg, Marie; Jonsson, Agneta; Redfors, Andreas; Thulin, Susanne – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This paper describes analysis of teaching instances that are part of an in-service preschool teachers programme about chemistry and physics in preschool. The aim is to develop knowledge about the communication established between teacher and children in relation to an object of learning, specifically the role of intersubjective communication in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Chemistry, Physics
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Brodin, Jane; Renblad, Karin – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
Many children in preschool have speech and language disorders and a poor communication development, and the need for support is extensive. The aim was to find out if and how reading aloud and storytelling could enhance children's communication development, the study was interactionistic. Eleven municipal preschools with 23 child units (573…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Skill Development, Speech Communication, Story Telling
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Münger, Ann-Charlotte; Markström, Ann-Marie – Education Inquiry, 2018
Although domestic violence takes place in the private domain, preschool and school professionals are confronted with its consequences in the intermediate domain between home and school when they encounter children who have been exposed to violence. This article investigates whether and how Swedish professionals in pre/school identify children who…
Descriptors: Identification, Family Violence, Child Abuse, Preschool Teachers
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Schwarz, Eva; Lindqvist, Beatriz – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2018
This article explores how constructions of identity, race and difference permeate and are challenged in a Swedish preschool class. The study is informed by theories of phenomenology and critical whiteness. Data are drawn from a larger ethnographic study conducted in an ethnically diverse preschool. The purpose of the study was to explore how…
Descriptors: Whites, Preschool Children, Freehand Drawing, Personal Narratives
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