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Rainio, Anna Pauliina – Journal of Educational Change, 2008
This article introduces an empirical analysis of the potentials and contradictions of a "narrative playworld intervention" aimed at changing the pedagogical practices of a Finnish mixed-age elementary school classroom in spring 2004. In the playworld, students and teachers explore different phenomena by taking on the roles of characters…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Age Grouping, Elementary School Students, Student Role
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Strandell, Harriet – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1997
Presents results from ethnographic study on children's everyday life in Finnish daycare centers. Raises question of the relationship between play and real life, and analyzes play and playfulness as communicative resources used by children in creating everyday routines. Argues play is not a separate children's world; by using play, children also…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Child Behavior, Daily Living Skills