Download or read book Educational Encounters Nordic Studies in Early Childhood Didactics written by Niklas Pramling and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualitative analyses of young children’s learning in natural settings are rare, so this new book will make educators sit up and pay attention. It lays out a Nordic, or continental European teaching and learning paradigm whose didactic framework is distinct from the Anglo-American system. This analysis, which features contributions and case studies from researchers in a range of subjects, is built on principles such as the learner’s perspective, establishing sufficient intersubjectivity, ‘pointing out’, and informing experience linguistically. After clarifying some historical background, the book discusses the contemporary emphasis in early childhood education on pedagogy/learning. What should ‘didactics’ mean in educating young children? The book examines the opportunities for learning that teachers provide for children in early childhood education, as well as how children respond to these opportunities. It presents empirical studies from a variety of naturalistic settings, including mathematics, making visual art, ecology, music, dance, literacy and story-telling, as well as learning about gender, morality and democracy. The authors seek to answer key questions about the processes involved in both teaching and learning. What challenges do teachers face as they try to expand children’s knowledge in various fields of learning? How do they respond to these challenges, and what can we learn about children’s corresponding uptake? What now requires further research? One key distinction in researching children’s learning is between studies that look at ‘process’ and those that analyze ‘product’. In the tradition of Piaget, Vygotsky and Werner, as well as Mercer and Valsiner’s more recent work, this book advocates the importance and relative rareness of the former type of study.
Download or read book Nordic Childhoods and Early Education written by Johanna Einarsdottir and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, noted Nordic researchers and teacher educators provide insights into early childhood discourses and practices in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In addition to these insiders’ perspectives, an American scholars explore Nordic themes, trends, and practices as they emerge in the book's chapters on such varied topics as Nordic childhoods, children's perspectives, preschool teacher education reforms and developments, transition from preschool to primary school, learning through play, caregiving and instruction.
Download or read book Nordic Families Children and Early Childhood Education written by Susanne Garvis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely as a result of social policies and cultural factors, the Nordic countries continually score high in lifestyle measures, quality of life and children’s outcomes. This book brings together authors from the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) to share knowledge and understanding regarding families, children, primary education and children’s leisure time activities. The empirical research and theoretical contributions provide important insights into the ‘Nordic model’ and explore the issues facing Nordic countries. The book reveals that while there are many similarities across the countries, differences also arise. The content of the book is more relevant now than ever, as countries look at better ways to support their populations. Nordic Families, Children and Early Childhood Education will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Education, Sociology and Social Policy.
Download or read book Nordic Social Pedagogical Approach to Early Years written by Charlotte Ringsmose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the major characteristics of the social pedagogical approach to early childhood education and care. It does so by investigating the distinctive elements of the Nordic approach and tradition. The cultural, educational, and ideological structures and values within the Nordic tradition indicate a strong “social pedagogical” rather than “early education” emphasis. The Nordic tradition applies a social learning approach that emphasizes play, relationships and outdoor life, and presumes that learning takes place through children’s participation in social interaction and processes. Set against this background, the book examines the characteristics of the pedagogue and the important features that develop through the Nordic approach. It compares children educated in the Nordic tradition with those educated in the French-English and Anglo-American tradition. It explores quality in relation to how children can enjoy childhood, and at the same time become able to actively participate in society and develop the social and cognitive skills and competences that individuals require to do well in society.
Download or read book Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education written by Kirsten Lauritsen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is aimed at practitioners and scholars interested in democracy, social justice and diversity. The importance of the book lies in the way it discusses possible ways for early childhood education to work with diversity and language in order to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the text offers broad insights into the field of diversity through historical and organisational perspectives, as well as viewpoints of children, practitioners and parents.
Download or read book Play Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education written by Niklas Pramling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the ‘what’ of learning and didaktik. Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play and provides insight into the diversity of beliefs about the practices of play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research. The second part of the book consists of empirical studies on teacher’s playing skills and examples of play with very young as well as older children.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care Portugal 2012 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-27 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in Portugal.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care Korea 2012 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in Korea.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care Czech Republic 2012 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series of country reports focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care New Zealand 2012 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in New Zealand.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care Norway 2013 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in Norway.
Download or read book Quality Matters in Early Childhood Education and Care Sweden 2013 written by Taguma Miho and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care in Sweden.
Download or read book Starting Strong III A Quality Toolbox for Early Childhood Education and Care written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on quality issues in early childhood education and care: it aims to define quality and outlines five policy levers that can enhance it.
Download or read book The Nordic Education Model written by Ulf Blossing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed analysis of the educational model in Nordic European countries. It describes the traditional idea of education for all, which can be characterized by the right for every child to have an education of equal quality in a common school for all pupils regardless of social class, abilities, gender, or ethnicity. Against this background, The Nordic Education Model traces the rise of neo-liberal policies that have been enacted by those who believe the School for All ideology does not produce the knowledge and skills that students need to succeed in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace. It examines the conflict between these two ideas and shows how neo-liberal technologies affect the Nordic model in different ways. The authors also show how social technologies are being interpreted in different ways in actual school practices. This process of translating national regulations into internal sense builds on the values in the culture to which they are introduced. In the end, this book reveals that a Nordic model can constitute a delicate balance between traditional values, institutionalized practices, and contemporary, neo-liberal forms of governance and policies. It may be argued from a new institutional perspective that the main structures of the Nordic educational model will sustain as long as the deeply rooted Nordic culture survives in the globalised society.
Download or read book Values in Early Childhood Education written by Eva Johansson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Eva Johansson is Professor of Education at the Department of Early Childhood Education, University of Stavanger, Norway. Dr Johanna Einarsdottir is a Professor of Early Childhood Education and the Dean of School of Education at the University of Iceland.
Download or read book Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals written by Cecilia Wallerstedt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There are important differences between these approaches, but they also share some features, which makes it possible to see them as examples of a particular tradition of knowledge building. Collaborative knowledge building constitutes close ties between developing practices of early childhood education and care, and generating empirically grounded theoretical knowledge. This book contributes to the methodology of practices-developing research by mapping this movement through exemplifying themes actualised in such studies, and through conceptualizing important and recurring gains and challenges. It also describes how the latter can be taken on.
Download or read book Changing Stereotypes and Breaking Traditions Gender Equality in Early Childhood Education and Care written by Alasaari, Nea and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2021-552/ A report commissioned by the Finnish presidency in the Nordic Council of Ministers, written by Nea Alasaari and Sara Sundell, maps the legislation and national curriculums steering early childhood education and care (ECEC), studies made related to gender equality and ECEC during 2010–2021 and practises and tools to promote gender equality in preschools in the Nordic region.
