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ERIC Number: EJ1425576
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1350-293X
EISSN: EISSN-1752-1807
Children's Holistic Learning during Self-Initiated Outdoor Play in a Norwegian Kindergarten
Teresa K. Aslanian; Anne-Line Bjerknes; Anne Kristin Andresen
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, v32 n3 p371-382 2024
This article explores children's self-initiated outdoor play and holistic learning in a Norwegian kindergarten. While children's self-initiated play is valued in Nordic ECEC, it is rarely analyzed in relation to holistic learning. To explore how children's self-initiated outdoor play contributes to children's holistic learning in ECEC, we observed a group of twenty-four-five-year-old children during outdoor play in a Norwegian kindergarten, taking field notes and photographs. We analyzed it with a biosocial approach, where learning is understood as produced through an assemblage of social and biological forces. We found that with a creative and imaginative attitude, children sought intense and novel physical experiences and interactions with each other, other species, and things, while also navigating rules, relationships, and their own and others' emotions. We discussed the strategies we observed in relation to 'indirect pedagogy' and teacher-led pedagogy, challenges relating to risk, and young children's opportunities for holistic learning through self-initiated play in ECEC.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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