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Niklas Pramling; Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study presents the research that Pramling Samuelsson's keynote at the 32nd annual EECERA conference in Brighton 2024 drew upon. The study addresses an important but understudied feature of early childhood education and care for sustainability (ECECfS), namely engaging children in prospective or what-if thinking. Our reasoning is founded on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Imagination
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Lyngfelt, Anna; Sporre, Karin; Lifmark, David; Lilja, Annika; Osbeck, Christina; Franck, Olof – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
The overarching aim is to explore what teachers perceive as the opportunities provided by using literature in ethics education in compulsory school. When being interviewed, in what ways do the teachers express views on the potential of fiction to encourage students to accept certain human conditions as imaginable, or to create motivation for…
Descriptors: Ethics, Fiction, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
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Hofverberg, Hanna; Kronlid, David O. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
In recent discussions about the widening and opening up of anthropocentric perspectives in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) research, a recurrent issue has been what reasonably could be a subject of inquiry and an agent of knowledge. This article aims to showcase an empirical study of the relevance of human-material relationships…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Handicrafts, Foreign Countries
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Henry, Alastair; Thorsen, Cecilia – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Demotivation (Dörnyei & Ushioda, 2011) and non-participation (Norton, 2001) characterize negative responses to classroom practice of a generally chronic nature. In this article, focus is directed to negativity that emerges within the context of a particular language developing activity, and which can be understood as a situated response to the…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ljung-Djärf, Agneta; Magnusson, Andreas; Peterson, Sam – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
We explored the use of the learning study (LS) model in developing Swedish pre-school science learning. This was done by analysing a 3-cycle LS project implemented to help a group of pre-school teachers (n?=?5) understand their science educational practice, by collaboratively and systematically challenging it. Data consisted of video recordings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Science Instruction, Preschool Teachers
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Pramling, Niklas; Samuelsson, Ingrid Pramling – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
In a significant book, Cameron suggested that we study metaphor as "prosaics" (i.e. as a feature of mundane talk). In this article, by means of a few brief examples, we point to instances of such talk in the setting of preschool. We also discuss some opportunities for learning that such talk could offer children, and what the…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Preschool Children, Classroom Communication, Interpersonal Communication