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Sally Wiggins; Annerose Willemsen; Jakob Cromdal – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Play has long been understood as an important pedagogical practice, particularly in early childhood education and care settings. Playing with food, however, has typically been overlooked, and very little is known about food play during mealtimes. The apparent dichotomy between rule-following and playfulness at mealtimes has led to a paucity of…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Food, Imagination
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Evaldsson, Ann-Carita – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2021
In this study, particular focus is on micro-ethnographic studies of children's peer play-in-action and how children create shared peer cultures through their collaborative performances in situated game activities. It will be shown how children create micro dramas in play that serve as cultural frameworks to i) dramatize and transform experiences…
Descriptors: Play, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Games
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Nilsson, Monica; Ferholt, Beth; Lecusay, Robert – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2018
In this article, the authors problematize the dichotomization of play and learning that often shapes the agenda of early childhood education research and practice. This dichotomization is driven in part by the tendency to define learning in terms of formal learning (i.e. learning as an outcome of direct instruction and school-based approaches that…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Child Development, Outcomes of Education
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Ljung-Djärf, Agneta; Magnusson, Andreas; Peterson, Sam – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
We explored the use of the learning study (LS) model in developing Swedish pre-school science learning. This was done by analysing a 3-cycle LS project implemented to help a group of pre-school teachers (n?=?5) understand their science educational practice, by collaboratively and systematically challenging it. Data consisted of video recordings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Science Instruction, Preschool Teachers
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Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
The purpose of this article is to describe and analyse play through a contemporary historical perspective, based upon pre-school teachers', students majoring in education, and teacher education students' descriptions of memories from their childhood regarding play and toys. The overall method is retrospective. The data consists of 111 interviews…
Descriptors: Play, Toys, Recall (Psychology), Child Development