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Direct linkSands, Lorraine; Carr, Margaret; Lee, Wendy – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
The Centre of Innovation Research at Greerton Early Childhood Centre was characterised as a dispositional milieu where working theories were explored through a narrative research methodology. As the research progressed, the teachers at Greerton strengthened the way we were listening to, and watching out for young children's questions to enable…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Inquiry
Whalley, Margy; Arnold, Cath; Lawrence, Penny; Peerless, Sally – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
The Pen Green Tracer Study questions the difference we may or may not have made to children's lives. An initial cohort of young people, now aged between 11-20, revisited their nursery in 2010. Their stories prompted discussion on parental involvement and advocacy within the education system, key worker attachment, and children's sense of self. Our…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Gjems, Liv – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study is to focus on interactionally developed explanations in everyday conversations as important pedagogical contexts. The research question is: "How do teachers invite children to participate in co-constructions of explanations in everyday conversations and what may children learn from this?" Learning to explain…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Speech Communication, Teacher Student Relationship, Discourse Analysis
Araujo, Sara Barros – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
The present study intends to deepen the understanding of processes of praxeological transformation in education and care contexts for children under three. This prime purpose is associated with evidence concerning these contexts in Portugal, namely the strong social need around them, some results from research that show their low level of quality…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Effectiveness, Action Research, Foreign Countries
Brennan, Margaret – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This paper discusses insights arising from a recent doctoral study in a New Zealand early childhood setting. I was interested in how young children learn to be part of the group and drawing on a socio-cultural framework carried out a qualitative case study to investigate the enculturation of young children into childcare settings. The particular…
Descriptors: Young Children, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Child Care
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
Rogers, Sue; Evans, Julie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
There has been little research on play undertaken in the UK from the child's perspective. This article is based on a year long ethnographic study of children's role play in school. It draws on two main sources of data. First, data from the children concerning their perceptions of role play, what they liked and disliked about it, and secondly…
Descriptors: Play, Ethnography, Interpersonal Competence, Role Playing
Muller, Burkhard – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
This Paper argues that the learning opportunities needed by pre-school children and adolescents beyond school have much in common: both confront what the pioneer of youth work Josephine Brew (1943) named the key problem of the "whole man": combining "social fellowship, recreation and education in one organisation". For both…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Early Childhood Education, Participant Observation, Adolescents
Fleer, Marilyn; Raban, Bridie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
The work of Vygotsky (1987) on everyday and scientific concept formation has provided a useful theoretical framework for considering the nature and connectedness of learning between the home and the early childhood centre. This paper will present the findings of an investigation which sought to examine the potential connections made between home…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Investigations
Brownlee, Joanne; Berthelsen, Donna; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2004
In the present study, the personal epistemological beliefs of group leaders in toddler child care programmes are investigated. Epistemological beliefs are beliefs about knowing and learning. It is considered that the quality of these beliefs is influenced by educational experiences. In this study, such beliefs are assumed to be mediating factors…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Constructivism (Learning), Caregivers, Toddlers
