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Fantozzi, Victoria B. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
Although existing literature has established that technologies are utilized in play and can be supportive of learning, utilization of technologies in play-based classrooms is not commonplace. This study is an holistic examination of a successful 2-year process of integrating an iPad into a play-based preschool setting. Each year the use of the…
Descriptors: Play, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Preschool Education
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Pascal, Chris; Bertram, Tony – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic poses multiple challenges for young children in the modern world. Listening to, and capturing, the experiences and perspectives of young children on the pandemic are congruent with our sense of an inclusive, democratic society which values solidarity and the right to be heard, yet too often the voices of young children are…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children, Play
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Gomes, Judith; Fleer, Marilyn – Research in Science Education, 2019
There are a growing number of studies that have examined science learning for preschool children. Some research has looked into children's home experiences and some has focused on transition, practices, routines, and traditions in preschool contexts. However, little attention has been directed to the relationship between children's learning…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Science Education, Learning Experience
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Gomes, Judith; Fleer, Marilyn – Research in Science Education, 2020
There is increasing interest in early childhood science education and a corresponding increase in research in this area. Studies have shown that in some countries the teaching of science in the early years remains low. These studies show that science pedagogy in the early years needs attention, despite the myriad opportunities afforded for the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Science Education, Elementary School Science
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Ellegaard, Tomas; Kryger, Niels – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
Historically Danish preschool has emphasised play and downplayed curricular planning. Over the last 20 years, there has been heightened emphasis on learning and goal orientation. This article explores the consequential framing of play as result of that shift. This is done first by discussing the changes in policy and discourse in Denmark in…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, School Readiness
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Magnusson, Lena O.; Bäckman, Kerstin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on a meta-approach to the results of two separate studies and concerns the areas of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, mathematics) in early childhood education. One of the studies focuses on how preschool teachers understand STEM and how it is taught in the…
Descriptors: Art Education, STEM Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Kalkusch, Isabelle; Jaggy, Ann-Kathrin; Burkhardt Bossi, Carine; Weiss, Barbara; Sticca, Fabio; Perren, Sonja – Early Education and Development, 2021
This study investigated whether two educational strategies, providing material and active adult support during play, promote pretend play quality in a group of preschoolers. The sample consisted of 101 preschoolers (50% females; mean age at t1= 43.02 months, SD= 5.94) from 14 Swiss educational play groups. These were randomly allocated to the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Foreign Countries
Frede, Ellen; Hodges, Kate – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2023
The research note discusses various classroom observation tools used in early childhood classrooms and the degree to which they capture the facilitation of playful learning. We note that while all tools capture some aspects of play facilitation especially the preconditions for play, few tools directly measure techniques that solely facilitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Play, Teaching Methods
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Öztürk, Erhan; Can, Ajda Aylin – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study aims to explore the effect of music education on the acquisition of social values by preschool children. In this study, a quasi-experimental pattern model with the pretest-posttest control group is employed. The Preschool Social Values Scale is used for collecting the data. The participants of this study are 26 preschool children (the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Social Values, Social Development, Preschool Children
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Sanderud, Jostein Rønning; Gurholt, Kirsti Pedersen; Moe, Vegard Fusche – Sport, Education and Society, 2020
For many children living in Northern and mountainous regions of the world, playing in snow is enticing and connotes childhood for many adults. Even so, researchers have paid little attention to children's play in/with snow and ice. This paper aims to contribute to the growing knowledge on children's competencies and child-nature relationships by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Weather, Natural Resources
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Somolanji Tokic, Ida; Borovac, Tijana – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2020
Grounded in the sociocultural perspective, this paper analyses current Croatian theory and practice on the transition to school and addresses the importance of fostering a play-based pedagogy and symbolic play in particular. Despite the contemporary theoretical background on early childhood and children's transition to school, the mainstream…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Bay, Dondu Neslihan – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
In this study, the play preferences of 80 five-year-old children, 40 girls and 40 boys, from four schools in Turkey and the characteristics that shape their preferred plays were examined. The research was designed by descriptive method, which is one of the qualitative research patterns, and the data were collected using draw-and-tell technique.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Child Development, Play
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Günther-Hanssen, Anna – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
The focus of this study is the co-actings of a 5-year-old girl, a swing, and physical phenomena. The study explores how the swing and physical phenomena worked as co-creators of the girl's scientific explorations as well as her bodily capacities and identity construction. Empirically, the study makes use of a video sequence generated during a…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Human Body, Motion, Young Children
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McKendrick, John H. – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
This is the opening paper in a "Scottish Educational Review" collection on "Making Space for Play in Scottish Education." It is acknowledged that, historically, a perception of divergent purpose enabled education both to enlist play and to curb play to achieve desired educational outcomes. However, a new understanding of play…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Teaching Methods, Child Development
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Watts, Tansy – Global Education Review, 2022
A contemporary concern about children's loss of contact with the natural world accompanies an ongoing urbanization and their reduced independent mobility. Children are becoming increasingly reliant on adults in accessing outdoor play and this is giving rise to more such experiences being shared. This research has explored the contemporary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Ethnography, Activism
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