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Values and Needs of Children with and without Special Educational Needs in Early School Years: A Study of Young Children's Views on What Matters to Them
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Lundqvist, Johanna; Westling Allodi, Mara; Siljehag, Eva – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Understanding how children experience life in educational settings should be an imperative for educational practitioners, evaluators, and researchers. Listening to children's points of views would facilitate the development of educational settings that meet the needs of children and contribute to their wellbeing and development so that their…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Childrens Attitudes, Young Children, Value Judgment
Drawings as Representations of Children's Conceptions
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Ehrlen, Karin – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
Drawings are often used to obtain an idea of children's conceptions. Doing so takes for granted an unambiguous relation between conceptions and their representations in drawings. This study was undertaken to gain knowledge of the relation between children's conceptions and their representation of these conceptions in drawings. A theory of…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Concept Formation, Freehand Drawing, Art Activities
An "Ethics of Resistance" Challenges Taken-for-Granted Ideas in Swedish Early Childhood Education
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Taguchi, Hillevi Lenz – International Journal of Educational Research, 2008
In the present action-research project, three teachers and the researcher engaged in a series of meetings to analyze children's drawings from several different theoretical perspectives, or "readings." Using two interrelated processes, deconstructive talks and an ethic of resistance, the teachers purposefully sought to recognize and…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Early Childhood Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
Choice, Chance and Utopia: Futures-Related Questions and Ideas, Developed by Children in Sweden, Using a Participatory and Multi-Media Approach.
Nicholson, Simon – Educational and Psychological Interactions, 1982
"Gruppo Futuro" (Future Group), a novel educational project linking futures studies to multimedia and giving children control of the content of their instruction by focusing on their views of the future, was implemented in a Swedish fourth-grade class. Participating in the project were 29 children in Tullingebergsskolan, their teacher,…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Education