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Andrea Ritoša; Lena Almqvist; Henrik Danielsson; Mats Granlund – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" This study examined the engagement of 494 preschool children in Sweden (M = 53.44 months, SD = 10.64) using both teacher questionnaires to measure global engagement (trait) and observations to measure momentary engagement (state). Using a person-oriented approach with cluster analysis, we identified five distinct…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learner Engagement, Early Childhood Education, Personality Traits
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Emma Hübinette; Stina Udén; Gustav Nilsson; Elinor Schad – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2024
The PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX-GBG) is a school-based intervention shown to enhance student self-regulation, encourage prosocial behavior, and curb challenging behaviors. However, little is understood about students' perspectives on the intervention. In this study, we conducted a survey and semi-structured interviews with 3rd-grade students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Hermansson, Carina; Olin-Scheller, Christina – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
This article addresses questions related to how the change in the textual landscape, from paper-based books to electronic books, has an effect on the teaching of reading in early childhood classrooms as well as how the digital devices relate to different aspects of reading instruction. Drawing on the theoretical concept of affect, the purpose is…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Electronic Publishing, Children, Foreign Countries
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Sumpter, Lovisa – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
This paper investigates Swedish preschool educators' emotional directions towards mathematics. A questionnaire was answered by 157 preschool educators and their responses were analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods. The majority of preschool educators stated that they are positive towards mathematics. Regarding the hypotheses…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Mathematics, Positive Attitudes, Context Effect
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Hellman, Anette – Ethnography and Education, 2021
The aim of the article is to explore norms about care and masculinity in early childhood education and care settings in Indonesia and Sweden. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it is shown how care in the two nations was produced as ambivalent for men, causing a risk of being accused of working with children for the wrong reasons. Two…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Masculinity, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Maier-Höfer, Claudia – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
By focusing on a collective aesthetics based on sensation and affect, researchers, especially in Stockholm, Sweden, are exploring a pedagogy that opens up space for assemblages of desire, acknowledging the expressions of children who transform themselves and their milieus into a weave of bodies, spaces, signs and media. By analysing this pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes