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Direct linkSairanen, Heidi; Kumpulainen, K.; Kajamaa, A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This paper investigates adult-child interaction in the early years of education. The intention is to understand how children's initiatives and practitioners' responses support and/or hinder children's agency. Our ethnographic data include 150 h of video data supplemented by observational field notes from a Finnish Early Childhood Education (ECE)…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Ethnography, Video Technology, Early Childhood Education
Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Kajamaa, Anu – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
This study investigates the sociomaterial movements of student engagement in a school's makerspace. Here, we understand sociomaterial movements as emergent and relational, comprising complex dynamics of agency across students, teachers and materials in situated, culturally framed activities. Our study draws on data comprising 85 hours of video…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, STEM Education, Art Education, Video Technology
Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2021
In this empirical study, we analyse how five-year-old children are socialised into particular interpretive practices indicative of a literate mind. The data come from translation activities where children with their teacher listen to and then talk about how to understand the lyrics to a popular children's song. The setting is a Finnish-Swedish…
Descriptors: Socialization, Translation, Immersion Programs, Finno Ugric Languages
Paavola-Ruotsalainen, Leila; Lehtosaari, Jaana; Palomäki, Josefina; Tervo, Immi – Journal of Child Language, 2018
Maternal responsive and directive speech to children at ages 0;10 and 2;0 was investigated by applying a procedure frst introduced by Flynn and Masur (2007) to a new language community (Finnish). The issues examined were consistency and stability over time, and also the role of responsiveness and directiveness in child linguistic development at…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Prediction
Zachrisen, Berit – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2016
Developing a sense of belonging and experiences about the value of community are important democratic values that children may learn during play in preschool. Through the different ways that teachers' interact with children during play, children can learn about democratic values. This study is part of a Nordic project on values education in early…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Play, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Bjorklund, Camilla – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2010
The aim of this study is to analyse and discuss those strategies for learning that are essential for toddlers' development of an understanding of basic aspects of mathematics. Analysis focuses on authentic episodes where toddlers aged one to three are interacting with other people. The settings chosen for the qualitative analysis emanate from a…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Qualitative Research, Toddlers, Mathematics Achievement
Koskela, Inka; Palukka, Hannele – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to identify methods of guidance and supervision used in air traffic control training. It also aims to show how these methods facilitate trainee participation in core work activities. Design/methodology/approach: The paper applies the tools of conversation analysis and ethnomethodology to explore the ways in which trainers…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Simulation
Vehvilainen, Sanna – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
The paper focuses on a routine activity of academic supervision: Giving and receiving feedback based on the student's master's thesis manuscript. Two case analyses are presented on fundamentally critical feedback. Such feedback constitutes a recommendation to the student to seriously rethink the thesis, but there are various interactional…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Research Problems, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship
Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Aksela, Maija; Meisalo, Veijo – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This paper analyses the use of various communication channels in science teachers' professional development project aiming to develop versatile uses for ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in science teaching. A teacher network was created specifically for this project, and the researchers facilitated three forms of communication…
Descriptors: Interaction, Science Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Peer reviewedLipponen, L.; Rahikainen, M.; Hakkarainen, K.; Palonen, T. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2002
This study analyzed how students and teachers of one Finnish elementary class participated in and communicated through the Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environment (CSILE) during 1997-1998. The density of the interaction within class, students' participation rates, students' position in the CSILE mediated network of interaction, and the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Distance Education
Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Kaartinen, Sinikka – Journal of Experimental Education, 2003
The authors investigated the microlevel processes of collaborative reasoning in heterogeneous peer dyads working on an open-design task in elementary geometry. Special attention was paid to the nature of student social interaction, problem-solving strategies, and mathematical language and how they shape collaborative problem-solving processes.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Communication, Problem Based Learning
