Search results for "Childhood education"

I bambini e l'arte, l'arte dei bambini. Riflessioni sulla creatività

2020

In cosa consiste l’arte dei bambini? Che rapporti ha con lo sviluppo ma anche con il pensiero creativo in senso stretto e cosa ci dice, quindi, delle radici ontogenetiche della creatività umana e cosa delle sue caratteristiche? Le modalità di conoscenza e di espressione infantili ci riportano anche alla fascinazione degli adulti nei confronti dei processi creativi e di pensiero dei bambini. Ma quali sono le ragioni di un tale fascino? Cosa, simbolicamente, l’adulto vede, desidera, rimpiange? Tracciare, in questa prospettiva, una continuità tra le prime fasi della vita e lo sviluppo successivo può aiutare a riflettere sui modi di funzionare degli esseri umani, ma comporta, parallelamente, la…

Epistemic governance in local policy debates : The case of entitlement to early childhood education and care in Finland

2019

In Finland, children below school age have enjoyed the right to attend subsidised full-time early childhood education and care (ECEC). However, the attendance rate in Finland is low in comparison to other Nordic countries. Furthermore, the entitlement was restricted to 20 h per week in 2016 unless the child’s parents work or study full-time or unless it is believed that the child will benefit from full-time ECEC. The debates concerning restrictions in ECEC entitlement in three municipal councils serve as the data for this study. By using the framework of epistemic governance, we identify three differing constructions of the ECEC’s societal functions in the municipal policy debates. The simi…

La pedagogia liberante

2018

In questo breve articolo viene presentata la pedagogia della liberazione messa in campo da Danilo Dolci nella Sicilia del secondo ‘900. Il Centro educativo di Mirto a Partinico, fondato da Dolci nel 1974, divenne un laboratorio maieutico che accoglieva i bambini dai 4 ai 6 anni di età per avviare in loro un processo di auto-apprendimento creativo e incentrato sul comunicare in vista della costruzione di una nuova società democratica. This short paper presents the Danilo Dolci’s pedagogy of freedom in Sicily in the Seventies of the twentieth century. The Educational Center of Mirto in Partinico, founded by Dolci in 1974, became a maieutic laboratory where children from 4 to 6 years of age st…

Comparing Aspects Of The Process Quality In Six European Early Childhood Educational Settings

2013

The European project ‘Early Change’ (http://earlychange.teithe.gr) attempts to evaluate the quality of early childhood education (ECE) environments of six European countries, Greece, Portugal, Finland, Denmark, Cyprus and Romania. The purpose of this paper is to compare the level of two dimensions of the process quality of these environments a) Space & Furnishings, and b) Personal Care Routines. Theorists, practitioners and researchers agree that in order to provide qualitative education to young children, one of the basic needs of all children must be met; that need is the protection of their health and their safety. A high quality early childhood education program must contain a safe and …

2021

Children’s preference for fruit and vegetables must emerge during childhood. At children’s homes, mothers and fathers influence children’s developing food preferences with their own preferences and actions. The purpose of the study was to reveal the association parents have with their children’s fruit and vegetable preferences. The study was conducted in a sample of Finnish mothers and fathers of 3–5-year-old children. The participants were recruited, and questionnaires distributed through early childhood education and care centers in 2014 and 2015. The results showed considerable variance in the children’s preferences, and were more similar with their father’s, than their mother’s preferen…

2018

The article critically discusses the practice of describing children’s special educational needs (SEN) in early childhood education and care (ECEC) pedagogical documents. Documentation is understoo...

Bodies in the early childhood education classroom: a Bourdieusian analysis of curricular materials

2019

To our knowledge, no studies have used Bourdieu's theoretical contributions to frame investigations on how early childhood education (ECE) teaching materials construct body differences in a way that justifies gender inequality. For Bourdieu, the power to classify and grant properties and signs to subjects, does not reside only in the power to impose, but also in the degree to which the vision is anchored within reality. Therefore, the aims of this study is to assess the representation of the body in the curricular materials of ECE classrooms in 10 public centers, by means of quantitative content analysis and to provide, using Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework on the construction of th…

When texts become action. The institutional circuit of early childhood intervention

2017

Building on ideals of social cohesion, equality of opportunities and socio-economic benefits, there has been an increasing awareness in Norway of kindergarten employees’ responsibility to initiate ...

The Early Bird gets the Word

2019

Success in an increasingly globalized world sets requirements for versatile communication skills and understanding about other cultures. One of the keys to success is versatile language skills, on which the European Commission spoke out as early as in 1995, recommending that every European citizen should learn two foreign languages in addition to their mother tongue. Now, more than twenty years later, the launch of early A1 language teaching that is to begin in the first grade in Finland, in January 2020, is a significant step towards this goal. Studies show that early foreign language learning needs to be carefully carried out in order to achieve positive effects and the effects that have …

Core numerical skills for learning mathematics in children aged five to eight years – a working model for educators

2015

The aim of this study was to model the most crucial numerical factors to the development of mathematical skills among children aged five to eight years (i.e. kindergarten, preschool, first and second graders). We categorised numerical skills into four main groups based on the results of longitudinal studies. A series of analyses of test batteries designed to measure the development of mathematical skills in children yielded results in support of this construct. Based on our findings we propose a working model for teachers of core numerical skills that focuses on four major factors: (1) symbolic and non-symbolic number sense; (2) understanding mathematical relations (early mathematical-logic…