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Sari Lipponen; Kenneth Eklund; Marja-Leena Laakso; Merja Koivula; Kerttu Huttunen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators' roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Game Based Learning
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Sanni Kahila; T. Kuutti; J. Kahila; N. Sajaniemi – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
Practicums as part of teacher education are important for teacher students' professional development. Co-operative teachers support students' learning during practicums, but in the early childhood education (ECE) context the work community of the ECE center is also seen as an essential part of the practicum environment. This study investigated ECE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Student Teachers
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Kaisa Harju; Mari Vuorisalo; Maiju Paananen; Niina Rutanen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This longitudinal multiple case study explores children's transitions within early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland. In ECEC children typically transition from one group or center to another. This study explores how physical, social and philosophical discontinuities and continuities constitute these transitions. Five focus children's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Children