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Kindergarten space and autonomy in construction - Explorations during team ethnography in a Finnish kindergarten
2018
Abstract Children’s autonomy is a cultural ideal in Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC). In this article we examine autonomy in spatial terms. The theoretical background is developed by applying spatial sociology. Our starting point is that space is relationally produced, thus, we understand space as continuously negotiated, reconstructed and reorganized phenomena. In this article, we investigate the production of space by different actors in ECEC and seek to show how autonomy is also continuously produced and re-produced in the negotiation of space. For this investigation we use data collected as part of a team ethnographic project in a Finnish kindergarten. The project inclu…
Language orientations in early childhood education policy in Finland and Norway
2021
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/),which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article investigates the language orientations in education policy documents for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Finland and Norway. Finland, an officially bilingual country, and Norway, a predominantly monolingual country, share similar views on ECEC. However, the ECEC field in both c…
Values of well-being and togetherness in the early childhood education of younger children
2017
This chapter illustrates the younger children’s expressions of the values of well-being and togetherness in day-care groups and the educators’ role in communicating these values. The values of well-being and togetherness were closely interconnected. The children expressed these values by bodily gestures, laughter and enthusiasm in their activities and by mutual interest, physical closeness, and playing together. The educators communicated the values by a caring attitude and emotional warmth. They were present to the children and assured that the atmosphere was supportive and joyful. The educators encouraged the children to engage in shared endeavors and, above all, played with them. Final D…
Experimenting with the senses: a science corner in Pre-School Education
2020
Desde la Didáctica de las Ciencias se señala la idoneidad y necesidad de trabajar ciencias desde las edades más tempranas. Bajo esa premisa, se plantea una propuesta didáctica para trabajar la temática de los sentidos basada en el constructivismo que adopta la metodología de rincones. Se detallan las 5 actividades de carácter libre que conforman este rincón, una por cada sentido. La intervención se desarrolló en un centro de Educación Infantil de la provincia de Sevilla. La experiencia ha resultado atractiva para el alumnado por la multitud y diversidad de materiales usados y por las cuestiones planteadas. La dinámica de las actividades les ha dotado de mayor autonomía en su proceso de expe…
A study on the didactic, content and narrative characteristics of the audiovisual products available on YouTube Kids
2022
This article analyzes the characteristics of a selection of audiovisual products aimed at children from 0 to 4 years old, hosted on the YouTube Kids platform. On the one hand, the platform itself is analyzed; its structure, design, usability and interactivity. On the other hand, the most popular resources in each of the categories established on the platform itself are analyzed, namely: programs, music, learning and exploring. A total of 29 videos were evaluated, using an analysis tool developed ad-hoc, which is structured in the following areas of analysis: didactic, content and narrative. The results obtained show that the platform is based on a structure similar to that of YouTube, but i…
La educación y atención de la primera infancia en la Unión Europea : un estudio comparado
2010
An Inspiring School Day : An Effort to Transform Research Findings into Policy
2016
This paper is a description of a report that the author prepared in the winter of 2015 at the request of the Minister of Education in the previous government of Finland. The purpose of the report was to collect information based on research and effective practices on the impacts on student well-being of a flexible school day and to make development proposals concerning an appropriate structure for a school day that would encompass lessons, club activities, and morning and afternoon activities. The report found indications of strong pressures to modify the school day. Research results concerning the significance to student well-being of activities organized at school outside the actual lesso…
Análisis de contenido de la representación del cuerpo en un libro de texto de Educación Preescolar
2012
La construccion social y cultural del cuerpo influye en el conocimiento personal y de los otros. Los libros de texto transmiten el capital cultural de una sociedad a sus ciudadanos mas pequenos. El objetivo del estudio consiste en describir la forma en que se representa el cuerpo en las imagenes de un libro de texto de educacion preescolar. Se realizo un analisis de contenido de las imagenes a traves de un codigo elaborado en estudios previos. Las ninas y ninos son representados con gran diferencia respecto a otros sectores poblacionales y se observo igualdad de presencia de mujeres y hombres independientemente de su edad. Con gran diferencia se representa un cuerpo entero vestido con ropa …
Knowledge gaps and future directions in cognitive functions in children and adolescents with primary arterial hypertension: A systematic review
2022
Arterial hypertension (AH) among adults is known to be associated with worse cognitive outcomes. Similarly, children and adolescents with AH could be expected to underperform during neuropsychological evaluations when compared with healthy peers. Our aims were to review the existing literature on cognitive functioning among children and adolescents with primary AH and to identify what additional evidence may be needed to substantiate the impact of hypertension on poor cognitive outcomes in this population. We conducted a systematic review of articles in PubMed and Web of Science published before 17 January 2022, reporting on cognitive testing among children and adolescents with primary AH. …
Juegos de niñas y juegos de niños: Estudio sobre la representación del juego infantil a través del dibujo
2016
Resumen:El objetivo del estudio consistió en describir la forma en que niños y niñas de primer ciclo de educación primaria representan el juego infantil a través del dibujo. La recolección de datos se realizó en dos sesiones separadas por una semana, acompañada de narraciones orales de los participantes para cada dibujo. Una vez transcritas las entrevistas se codificaron las categorías más importantes a saber: Tipo de juego, dominio de actividad física, edad, género, dimensión social y lugar. Los dibujos de niños representan actividades deportivas y competitivas en espacios al aire libre en compañía de niños. Por el contrario, los dibujos de niñas representan actividades sedentarias o de ba…