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Revisiting Reggio Emilia through a More-than-Human Lullaby: Diffractive Montages as Documenting Childhood (and) Literacy Otherwise
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Giovanna Caetano-Silva; Fernando Guzmán-Simón; Alejandra Pacheco-Costa – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The authors draw on posthumanism to expand Reggio Emilia's pedagogical documentation techniques through a diffractive montage. Analysis of a phenomenon involving 4- and 5-year-old children singing a lullaby in a school in Seville (Spain), considers how this diffractive montage leads to a reconfiguration of the pioneering work of Reggio Emilia. The…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Preschool Education, Humanism, Foreign Countries
Effect of an Integrated Active-Lessons Programme on Vocabulary and Narrative Comprehension in Pre-School Children
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Cámara-Martínez, Alba; Suarez-Manzano, Sara; Martínez-López, Emilio J.; Ruiz-Ariza, Alberto – South African Journal of Education, 2022
The acquisition of vocabulary and narrative comprehension are key abilities for children's literacy development and to potentiate cognitive and academic skills from early ages. The aim with this study was to analyse the effects of a 6-week integrated active-lessons programme based on playful games, vocabulary, and narrative comprehension.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Active Learning, Reading Comprehension
Children's Social Play and Affordance Availability in Preschool Outdoor Environments
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Larrea, Inaki; Muela, Alexander; Miranda, Nekane; Barandiaran, Alexander – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The aim of this study was to examine whether the availability of affordances in preschool outdoor environments influences children's social play. Participants were 173 children aged between 3 and 6 years (M = 3.95, SD = 0.82) who were attending a total of 18 early childhood education centers in the Basque Country (Spain). The results indicate that…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Playgrounds, Foreign Countries
Ecological Correlates of Spanish Preschoolers' Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours during Structured Movement Sessions
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Lahuerta-Contell, Sara; Molina-García, Javier; Queralt, Ana; Bernabé-Villodre, María del Mar; Martínez-Bello, Vladimir E – European Physical Education Review, 2021
From an ecological perspective that understands health behaviours to be the result of interactions between personal, psychosocial and environmental factors, different authors have described patterns and correlations between physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviours (SB) in physical education (PE). However, to our knowledge there have been no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Life Style, Physical Education
Improving the Quality of Preschool Outdoor Environments: Getting Children Involved
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Muela, Alexander; Larrea, Inaki; Miranda, Nekane; Barandiaran, Alexander – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was the first international treaty to emphasize the importance of listening to children's views and including them in decision-making processes. In that line, the primary aim of this study was to show how the quality of preschool outdoor environments can be improved through a participatory…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Educational Environment