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Marloes Hoencamp; John Exalto; Abraham de Muynck; Doret de Ruyter – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2025
Two of the greatest Dutch educationalists of the twentieth century, Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm (1875-1951) and Martinus Jan Langeveld (1905-1989), believed that education meant, above all, the formation of a conscience. They developed their ideas in a time full of developments within Europe: the rise of fascism, two world wars, and pioneering…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Values Education, Educational Theories
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Susan Grieshaber; Kate Highfield; Adam Duncan; Cathrine Neilsen-Hewett – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This article considers the realm of knowledge in early childhood education (ECE); what knowledge is valued, and how different types of knowledge position children and educators. To this end, two different examples of practice informed by different types of knowledge are provided: one from an educator working in a long day care service (Duncan) and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
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Clarice Martins; Nadia C. Valentini; Arja Sääkslahti; Eileen K. Africa; E. Kipling Webster; Glauber Nobre; Leah E. Robinson; Michael Duncan; Patrizia Tortella; Paulo F. Bandeira; Lisa M. Barnett – Journal of Motor Learning and Development, 2024
The first years of life are an optimal time for developing motor competence. However, the evidence regarding motor competence in early childhood is fragmented and needs to be clearly synthesized and presented. To establish effective evidence-based decision making in research, practice, and policy for the early years, this expert statement, on…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Child Development, Motor Development, Child Health
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Tracy Charlotte Young; Pauliina Rautio – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
This article bewilders dominant discourses about child-animal relations by acknowledging and challenging the work of Gail Melson who positions animals as providing emotional, social and pedagogical support for children. Melson's psychological approach rests upon implicit assumptions that shape and support anthropocentrism whilst also critiquing a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Child Development, Relationship
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Winkler, Martina – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This article takes a close look at the Czech children's magazine "Materídouška" from 1945 to 1989 and analyses it as a historical source for children's subjectivities in a socialist society. "Materídouška's" promotion of happy socialist childhoods employed aesthetic strategies and narratives that combined strict norms with…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Periodicals, Aesthetics, Foreign Countries
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Valerie Critten; Hannah Hagon; Melike Aslan Unlu – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
In light of current developments, there is an increasing effort to integrate computing-oriented activities into the education of children as young as two years old. Although the computing strand is not officially addressed in the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (DfES, 2024), a small number of early years teachers in England…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Computation, Problem Solving
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Xiong, Heping; Xie, Bangxiu – Frontiers of Education in China, 2020
The practice of integrating songs into educational research is seen as an emerging phenomenon, focusing on students' existential situation from the perspective of culture. This paper explores the connections between the songs selected and children's life experiences in different periods between the 1950s and the present. There exist numerous songs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Singing, Resources
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Suriamurthee M. Maistry; Petro Du Preez – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: Recent attempts to rekindle the decolonisation of education project in South Africa, is a reaction to perceptions that there are fundamental frailties in the existing curriculum. Childhood education is yet to take up the challenge in any substantive way. Aim: To explore the insights critical posthumanism might offer in attempting to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Decolonization, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Curriculum
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Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2023
The history of education is, and can be, many things. In this article, I argue that the history of education in the Nordic countries is marked by three phases, based on its institutional setting. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the history of education was written by schoolmen for schoolmen. In the post-war era, the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Educational Sociology
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Utami, Ade Dwi; Fleer, Marilyn; Li, Liang – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
This paper examines how teachers in the Indonesian context create motivating conditions for children's learning and development. Sixteen hours of digital visual observations on 38 children (mean age 4.4 years) were selected from a larger dataset of video observations, focus group discussions, and teacher interviews. Using the cultural-historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Child Development, Play
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Catherine E. Draper; Caylee J. Cook; Riedewhaan Allie; Steven J. Howard; Hleliwe Makaula; Rebecca Merkley; Mbulelo Mshudulu; Nafeesa Rahbeeni; Nosibusiso Tshetu; Gaia Scerif – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
The majority of the world's children live in low- and middle-income countries, yet the majority of early childhood cognitive research is done with a small proportion of high-income countries. These findings cannot be assumed to apply across all contexts. It is therefore necessary to confront entrenched systems of power and privilege in early…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Young Children, Child Development
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Andrea De Vincenti – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2025
This article discusses how a gender-historical perspective may still be productive in today's historiography of education. In doing so, it relies on theoretical approaches developed in feminist and gender-historical debates and in debates about the ontological turn in historiography. Categories are thus understood as "world-giving" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Sex, Sex Role
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Clive Hedges; Ewan Ingleby; Mervyn Martin – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2023
An examination into the origins of rights' discourse and contemporary debates around child labour in developing countries, illustrates some of the problems with the discursive uses that children's rights is put to, and its weakness as a means of addressing issues of social justice. Addressing the discourse around child labour, and how this is…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Labor, Social Change, Social Problems
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Barron, Ian; Taylor, Lisa; Macrae, Christina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
This paper explores haptic, affective, sensory and relational interconnections between a child (Erik) and objects, materials and a researcher-practitioner (Christina) at a nursery school in Manchester, United Kingdom (UK). In doing so, it draws upon a Post-humanist theoretical framework. Observational material was collected over the period of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschools, Preschool Children, Childrens Attitudes
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Marín Murcia, José Pedro; Martínez Ruiz-Funes, María José – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This contribution looks at the garden that Friedrich Froebel (1782--1852) founded in Bad Blankenburg in 1838 in order to understand the proposal presented at the Kindergarten Model School of Madrid for training teachers in 1879 (the Schools introduced new teaching methods or systems and, at the same time, trained the teachers in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Gardening
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