scholarly journals Playworlds and Narratives as a Tool of Developmental Early Childhood Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-50
Author(s):  
P. Hakkarainen ◽  
M. Bredikyte
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Design Systems ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Research Collective

We shortly introduce some main ideas of a project of scientific research collective “School” (Shkola) led by academic V.V. Davydov. The collective elaborated a new project — “Concept of preschool education” [9] that would better meet the developmental and educational needs of young children and create the basis for learning activity at school. The project has inspired development of playworld pedagogy in Sweden and Finland. Now 30 years later, attempts to design systems of developmental early childhood education try to concretize central concepts of Davydov’s project. This article presents interpretation and elaboration of the main ideas of the project in playworld pedagogy developed in Scandinavian early childhood education. We propose a systematic transition from joint adult — children play, to independent children initiated play. Children’s personality development presupposes esthetic reaction and contradictory unity of affect and intellect in narrative role play. We have concluded that present attempts to design new developmental early childhood education programs cannot forget the ideas of the collective from the 1990’s.

Social Investment and Childcare Expansion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita León
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Perfect Match ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Education And Care

The chapter first examines at a conceptual level the links between theories of social investment and childcare expansion. Although ‘the perfect match’ between the two is often taken for granted in the specialized literature as well as in policy papers, it is here argued that a more nuance approach that ‘unpacks’ this relationship is needed. The chapter will then look for elements of variation in early childhood education and care (ECEC) expansion. Despite an increase in spending over the last two decades in many European and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, wide variation still exists in the way in which ECEC develops. A trade-off is often observed between coverage and quality of provision. A crucial dividing line that determines, to a large extent, the quality of provision in ECEC is the increasing differentiation between preschool education for children aged 3 and above and childcare for younger children.

Beyond uniform reproduction: Exploring children’s imaginative play through the lenses of their teacher

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Torunn Grindheim
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Imaginative Play ◽  
Children's Development

The voices of both early childhood education teachers and children tend to be weak in the choir of agents that constitute the aims and practices of early childhood education. In this article, a video that a teacher made of four children playing dragons, followed by open-ended interviews exploring why she found this particular activity of interest and then open-ended interviews with the involved children while watching and commenting on the video, forms the basic material for discussing how children’s imaginative play can inform what might be valuable activities in early childhood education. The theoretical framework and concepts for analysis draw on an understanding of cultural formation and a cultural-historical approach that outlines children’s development through participation in activities framed by contextual conditions. By tracing conflicts caused by differences in the involved children’s values and motives while meeting conditions and demands in their context, at the personal, institutional and societal levels, the exploration of friendship, danger, space, institutional rooms and what good play ‘is’ are depicted in children’s imaginative role play. From this, imaginative play is seen as being endowed with valuable activities in early childhood education and forms a contrast to the emphasis on future academic competences that are far removed from the children’s experiences.

scholarly journals Socioenvironmental Educommunication as a pedagogical strategy in early childhood education

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-72
Author(s):  
José Vicente de FREITAS ◽  
Felipe Nóbrega FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Audiovisual Material ◽  
Pedagogical Strategy ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This article discusses the concept of Socioenvironmental Educommunicationin the context of preschool education. An interface that emerges from the relationship between Educommunication and Environmental Education, this concept will be exposed based on a bibliographic systematization, when it becomes possible to find the contemporary intersections that arise from the use of audiovisual technology as mediation in the teaching-learning process. Such analysis will be done taking into consideration the documentary 1,2,3 Playing –Reinventing School Spaces, produced by the city of Joinville, Santa Catarina, which brings an audiovisual material made by the students. Using a quanti-qualitative approach, emerges the pedagogical power of Socioenvironmental Education, which ends up bringing to the scene language and content that project another way of thinking the school. Finally, there is a reflection on how, based on particularities, it is possible to create educational policies that contemplate the audiovisual tool in early childhood education.

scholarly journals PROVIDING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION WITH PROGRAMS: UKRAINIAN AND EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-235
Author(s):  
Olena Litichenko ◽  
Olena Kovalenko
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Normative Documents ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
European Experience ◽  
The Individual

The article presents the results of theoretical study of normative documents of early childhood education of Ukraine and European Union countries; the opinion of authoritative scientists on the issue of providing early childhood education of Ukraine is examined. Attention is focused on the fact that the qualitative development of preschool children depends on the ability of teachers to ensure the individual development of each child, so the issue of creating a quality education program is especially relevant. Based on the analysis of discussion issues related to the providing early childhood educational institutions with programs, an empirical study of the awareness of preschool teachers and practitioners with the variety of educational programs for preschool institutions in Ukraine, their right to choose and create their own. Experience of Bulgaria, Lithuania, Great Britain, Switzerland is considered. The results of the analysis of state standards and programs for preschool education shows that there are common views on the education of preschool children in the European education. Іn this article, the authors prove the importance and necessity opportunity for teachers to create their own programs for the development of preschool children.

The morning news genre

1987 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Christie
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Classroom Discourse ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Childhood Education

Abstract This paper aims to demonstrate how Halliday’s Functional Grammar (1985) may be used to illuminate educational questions, more specifically to illuminate the study of classroom discourse. Portion of a text from the lower primary school is examined. It is in fact drawn from a Morning News learning activity. It is argued that we can identify a “curriculum genre” in such a text, and that this has certain characteristic elements, giving it a particular schematic structure. These elements are identified, and two aspects of the functional grammar – namely, Theme and transitivity – are used with a view to proving the presence of the schematic structure. Through the examination, it is argued that the meanings children are constrained to make in the Morning News situation are of a limited kind, revealing a great deal about the limitations of much early childhood education.

scholarly journals Academic Motivation And Approaches To Learning In Predicting College Students' Academic Achievement: Findings From Turkish And US Samples

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baris Cetin
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
School Education ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Us

The aim of this study is to determine if approaches to learning and academic motivation together predict grade point averages (GPAs) of students who study at Primary School Education and Preschool Education in Turkey and of students who study at Early Childhood Education in the US. The first group of participants included 166 third- and fourth-year students at Georgia Southern University’s Early Childhood Education Department during the 2014 spring semester. The second group of participants included 455 third- and fourth-year students who study at Canakkale 18 Mart University’s Primary School Education and Preschool Education Departments during the 2013 spring semester. It was found that approaches to learning and academic motivation together did not predict GPA of students who studied in Turkey or the US.

Building Epistemic Awareness in the Early Childhood Classroom

2010 ◽  
pp. 177-216
Author(s):  
Denise L. Winsor ◽  
Sally Blake
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Early Childhood Classroom ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The World ◽  
New Thinking

It is evident from the information in the previous chapters in this book that there is much to be learned about how technology fits into the world of early childhood education (ECE). This chapter discusses some exciting new thinking about epistemology and how children and teachers learn and how this could relate to technology and all learning with young children and their teachers. The new understanding of preschool education potential demands new approaches to these vital years of schooling if we are to prepare our children to succeed in the increasingly demanding academic environments.

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