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Liang Li – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
There has been a major international focus on the education and care of toddlers. To date, empirical studies on adults' interactions in play with toddlers have focussed on the proximity of teachers, teachers' affective responses, and joint attention between adults and children in play. However, less attention has been given to the role of two…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Play, Teacher Collaboration
Gisella Rossini; Federico Manzi; Cinzia Di Dio; Antonio Iannaccone; Antonella Marchetti; Davide Massaro – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
In the field of educational robotics, it is important to understand the processes trough which child-robot interactions are established during play activities. In terms of socio-material characteristics, robots can vary widely, from more mechanical robots to more anthropomorphic ones. Research has shown that the degree of anthropomorphization of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Toddlers, Robotics
Enni-Mari Ylikörkkö; Satu Karjalainen; Anna-Maija Puroila – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This article focuses on child participation in early childhood education (ECE). The theoretical basis for this study is a relational approach that highlights the significance of spatiality and materiality. Drawing from these theoretical perspectives, child participation is understood as a space that children actively do in various combinations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries
Chen, Keting; Hamel, Erin E. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Direct experience with nature is a primary component of environmental education and especially beneficial for young children. The present study examined the outdoor play preferences of toddlers and investigated the role teachers play in the outdoor space. Toddlers' outdoor play was video recorded by GoPro cameras and coded for preferred play…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Play, Preferences, Playgrounds
Marilyn Fleer; Sue March; Anne Suryani – Science Education, 2024
Calls to bring more equity into science education research (McWayne and Melzi, 2023) are most notable for early childhood. We know very little about the teaching of science to infants and toddlers, yet this is where science education begins. To address the dearth in research, we undertook an in-depth intervention study in an Australian early…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Science Education, Early Childhood Education
MacRae, Christina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
This article will focus in on one short play spell in the outdoor space of a classroom of 2-year-olds. Using the medium of video as data, it explores the way that children's bodies are caught up in what Ingold calls a 'dance of animacy', when bodies and matter encounter each other. I will deploy the figure of the 'post-human' child to challenge a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Human Body, Play, Child Development
Emanuel J. Mason; Karin Lifter; Amanda Cannarella; Haley Medeiros – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
This paper follows an earlier report of young children's object play activities investigated in a cross-sectional sample of 289 typically developing children. Thirty-minute videotaped observations were taken of children at 8, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 54, and 60 months of age in their homes. Forty-nine percent were boys. Children were identified…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Play
Little, Helen; Stapleton, Matthew – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
The notion of 'belonging' is a core component of many early childhood curriculum frameworks and recognises the importance of children's sociocultural context for their self-identity and well-being. Children's risk-taking in play has also been the focus of contemporary research in examining its beneficial role for children's physical, social and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Sense of Community, Risk, Play
Aline Cole-Albäck; Chris Pascal; Tony Bertram – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
The "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" is one of the most widely-ratified human rights treaties, yet the visibility of children in the early years, in the mandatory government reports to the "UN Committee on the Rights of the Child" and in the Committee's concluding observations to States Parties, is relatively low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, Treaties
Arculus, Charlotte; MacRae, Christina – Global Studies of Childhood, 2022
Childhood states are commonly invoked by adult humans in derisory ways and as put-downs. While infantile and clownish ways of behaving are often met with insult, we argue that these ways of being could instead be seen in terms of their productive potential. Drawing on posthuman and feminist theories and invoking clownish qualities of Haraway's Bag…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Behavior, Individual Characteristics, Teaching Methods
Palmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Designs for Learning, 2022
This paper reports on a design oriented study conducted in close collaboration between two researchers and three preschool teachers. Within this study, a play-based interview script was designed in accordance with theoretically driven principles. Based on this script, the preschool teachers conducted interviews with children from three preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Interviews
Paola Zanchi; Gaia Giulia Angela Sacco; Gaia Silibello; Paola Francesca Ajmone; Maria Antonella Costantino; Paola Giovanna Vizziello; Laura Zampini – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Maternal input plays an important role in influencing linguistic development during the first years of life, and it is evident that mothers adapt their language according to their child's characteristics. Recently, it was demonstrated that maternal input addressed to children with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs) at 8 months of age is…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistic Input, Parent Child Relationship, Intellectual Disability
Sandvik, Ninni – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
This article takes a discrepancy between experienced pedagogical and childish life orientations as a point of entry and speculates about loosening play from its organised position as form and instead looking at play as processes. Accordingly, the speculative focus of the article is on how different orientations might come into existence within an…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Play, Philosophy, Learning Processes
Aksoy, Ayse Belgin; Özkan Kunduraci, Hurside Kübra; Aksoy, Merve – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The aim of the study is to examine the symbolic play behaviours of the child and mother at home and to determine how the mother participated when playing with her child. The study included 19 mothers and their children with 24-36 months old children from Turkey. The symbolic play that the mother and child played together in their home environment…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers
Marilyn Fleer – Research in Science Education, 2024
In recent years, limited research attention has been directed to what happens in science education before the age of 3 years. We present the findings of a study that followed 13 infant-toddlers aged 0.1-2.2 years (mean 1.8 years) and their educators from a childcare centre. Under the conditions of an educational experiment, the results of our…
Descriptors: Science Education, Toddlers, Infants, Early Childhood Education