The purpose of this study was to conduct a content validity analysis of the Teacher Impression Scale (TIS), which is an observer rating scale designed to assess preschool children peer social competence. The TIS was originally developed in the 1980s and used in research in the 1990s-2010s. The was the first step in an instrument development…

The increasing screen time and digital distractions in modern education have underscored the need for innovative approaches to early childhood learning that reconnect children with the natural world. This study investigates the integration of cooperative learning methods in nature within the "Mathematics and Environmental Exploration"…

This paper presents the development of a participatory digital platform designed to promote nature-based experiences for children aged 0 to 3 years. The project responds to the growing reduction of young children's opportunities to engage with nature in their daily lives, despite the critical role such experiences play in early development.…

Research on school recess has highlighted the need for more integrated and situated knowledge of students' recess experiences as a function of school and recess context. This study assessed differences in recess-specific negative affect; enjoyment and opportunities (indoors and outdoors), and physical activity and moderate-to-vigorous physical…

Background/Context: In early childhood, using play as a pedagogical tool can be a way to ensure children have access to an education that involves worthwhile opportunities to learn that are ripe with joy and aim toward fostering depth of knowledges. There are numerous possibilities for the types of play a classroom can offer children, so when a…

A long history of misinformation has led to anti-vaccine sentiment, risking everyone's health. Despite public health campaigns, vaccine hesitancy rates have not declined. In response, we created an educational board game to address the fundamental science of vaccine development. The cooperative game guides players through identifying a novel…

This paper presents findings from our project entitled 'Diversity in Unity: Developing an anti-racist framework within Froebelian pedagogy'. We apply an ethnography by proxy approach informed by the work of Jones and Okun on colonial and decolonial habits. Drawing from two nursery settings in England and Scotland, we engage with the methodological…

The family unit exerts a crucial influence on early childhood development across all domains: physical, cognitive, and emotional and social. Prior research consistently underscores the significant role of parental involvement in shaping early childhood developmental trajectories. However, in numerous countries, particularly within developing…

In this paper we make practical and theoretical contributions to feminist adult education. Practically, we provide an overview of a three-hour arts- and play-based research workshop with research activities/tools that readers can further research to adapt to their own contexts. Theoretically, we explore how these creative practices can contribute…

While much is known about transgender students' experiences of high school, less research has explored their experiences in primary/pre-schooling settings. This paper presents an analysis of parents' (N = 15) recounts of their transgender children's (N = 12) experiences in Australian early childhood education and care (ECEC) and primary schools.…

This article assesses Bernard Stiegler's critique of infantilization. Contemporary education--and society in general--would no longer develop children into adults, but would keep them in their childish state. Stiegler's critique is explicitly inspired by Enlightenment ideals, characterized by a positive notion of maturity and a negative notion of…

This article feeds on new materialisms, especially the work of Barad, while re-turning and exploring child/LEGO/pedagogue/(re)searcher intra-actions in kindergarten and drawing attention to both human and non-human organisms as agentic forces that produce diffractions, affects and effects when they clash. The article places a special focus on one…

This study focuses on the multimodal communication of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) compared to typically developing (TD) children. Eleven children with ASD (aged from 28 to 79 months) and 11 TD children (from 12 to 30 months) were matched by their productive vocabulary. We observed their communicative production in a…

According to data from the Norwegian Refugee Council, more than 70 million people are refugees today. Approximately half of these are children, and every five seconds a new child becomes a refugee. An increasing large number of children live parts of their childhood in a refugee camp with limited opportunities for play. This article highlights the…

This phenomenological study opens up the embodied nature of play, adding to the field's understanding of embodiment as it manifests in a non-standardized (outside formal education) realm of human experience. The location-aware, augmented reality mobile game, "Pokémon Go," provided a viable context to consider the ways the game/device,…