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Miller, Nicole C.; Kumar, Saravana; Pearce, Karma L.; Baldock, Katherine L. – Environmental Education Research, 2021
The time children spend in nature has severely decreased. While nature-based learning at school is considered an important strategy in addressing this, numerous knowledge gaps continue to remain. To address these, a systematic review was undertaken. Nine commonly used health and education databases were searched from inception to January 2019. To…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Natural Resources, Outdoor Education, Teaching Methods
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Ladru, Danielle Ekman; Gustafson, Katarina – Journal of Pedagogy, 2018
In the field of early childhood research children's mobility is usually discussed only in terms of physical activity in the preschool yard. More seldom is it discussed in terms of mobility practices and how young children move in public spaces. With unique detailed video-ethnographic data on mobile preschools and a new combination of theories on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mobility, Space Utilization, Learning Activities
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Aspelin, Jonas – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
A rapidly growing body of research reveals that teachers' abilities to build positive relationships with students play a vital role in education. However, there is a lack of research regarding teacher education. This article aims to contribute by reporting from a project focusing on pre-service teachers' relational competence. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Video Technology, Intervention
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Loinaz, Edurne Scott – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
The central motive for conducting this research was to investigate how Greece, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom treat social and emotional education (SEE) within pedagogical practice. The study used a sequential quantitative-qualitative analysis with a comparative design, with 750 teachers in the initial quantitative phase participating in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Social Development, Emotional Development
Ashokan, Varun; Gurjar, Monu Singh – Online Submission, 2020
This paper explains various good practices and perspectives of Early Childhood Education across the nation. A good number of reviews across the globe has collected from various sources, research projects, PhD thesis and so on which put categorized as knowledge base, developmentally appropriate practice, observation and assessment, positive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Cross Cultural Studies, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Sundqvist, Annette; Holmer, Emil; Koch, Felix-Sebastian; Heimann, Mikael – Infant and Child Development, 2018
This study explored the development of theory of mind (ToM) in 80 Swedish-speaking 3- to 5-year-olds, a previously unstudied language and culture. The ToM scale was translated and tested in a Swedish context. The results show that the ToM abilities improve significantly with age. In addition, a gender difference was observed for the whole sample,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Bartholdsson, Åsa; Gustafsson-Lundberg, Johanna; Hultin, Eva – Critical Studies in Education, 2014
Social emotional learning (SEL) is common in preschools and schools both in Europe and North America today. Programmes for socio-emotional training and the rise of what is labelled therapeutic education have dramatically increased during the first decade of the millennium. In this article, a manual-based programme used for SEL in a Swedish school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Development, Emotional Development, Preschool Education
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Georgii-Hemming, Eva; Westvall, Maria – British Journal of Music Education, 2010
The embedding of informal practices in music education in school relates to significant issues concerning students' engagement, participation, inclusion and the role of the teacher. This article addresses these issues by presenting and discussing current music education in compulsory comprehensive schooling in Sweden. It does so by drawing upon…
Descriptors: Music Education, Informal Education, Music, Foreign Countries
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Ljusberg, Anna-Lena – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to highlight the organisation of the remedial classroom. The data were collected from observations and semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers in remedial classes for children seen and treated as having concentration deficits. The teachers use primarily compensatory language that places the deficits in the pupils.…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Interviews, Remedial Instruction, Observation
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Alexandersson, Ulla – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
The aim of this article is to present findings from a study (Alexandersson, 2007) about how one student--called Sofia--with intellectual disability interacts and communicates with her classmates and her teachers in an inclusive setting. Furthermore, the aim is also to analyse in what way the interaction contributes to Sofia's social participation…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mental Retardation, Interaction, Teaching Methods
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Lillvist, Anne; Sandberg, Anette; Bjorck-Akesson, Eva; Granlund, Mats – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2009
Preschool teachers share their environment with young children on a daily basis and interventions promoting social competence are generally carried out in the preschool setting. The aim was to find out if and how preschool teachers' definitions of social competence are related to factors in the preschool environment like: a) the number of children…
Descriptors: Definitions, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence
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Ekholm, Mats – 1976
This report summarized studies and discussions of social development in school, presented in two previous reports in Swedish. In addition to reporting on those two basic works, the report also contains direct excerpts and more detailed summations taking up activities and experiences from a research project, Studies in the Socialization Process in…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Psychology
Gothenburg School of Education (Sweden). – 1971
The original objective of the nursery school was that acting in cooperation with the home, it should develop children motorically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A comparison of objectives with effects reveals many to be non-existent. A 1966 study of nursery school effects on child development revealed the following breakdown: (1)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed.; Keogh, Barbara K., Ed. – 2001
To honor the founder of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, William M. Cruickshank, this collection of essays reflects a range of perspectives on the "state of the art" in learning disabilities, documenting both commonalties and differences across countries. After an introduction, essays include: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Attention Deficit Disorders, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Evertson, Carolyn M., Ed.; Weinstein, Carol S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Classroom Communication, Critical Theory