Search results for "children’s"
showing 10 items of 71 documents
The Playful Affordances of Picture Book Apps for Children
2021
The tradition of children’s literature has evolved side by side with the market of children’s entertainment, games, and toys. The selection of contemporary print products includes a wide variety of materially or technologically enhanced picture books. This background is rarely considered in the examination of children’s book applications that have attracted scholarly interest after the arrival of smartphones and tablets during the early 2010s.The relationship between picture book apps, mobile games, and digital playthings requires further examination that considers the specific affordances of the mobile platform. Leaning on five case studies, this article examines how picture book apps affo…
How to Become an Author: The Poet Isa Asp and Her Childhood Fascination with Writing for Magazines
2021
In this article the author explores the early development of the identity as a writer of a Finnish-speaking poet Lovisa (or Isa) Asp (1853–1872). She wrote her lyrics in the Finnish language in the 1870s, and she is regarded as the first 19th-century female Finnish poet (whose works were published in Finnish). She began writing poetry (initially in Swedish) as a teenager and started her literary career as a contributor to children’s magazines. Asp began her studies at the Teacher Training College in Jyväskylä in autumn 1871 with the aim of working as an elementary school teacher, but she also dreamt of becoming an established writer someday. Unfortunately, her early death meant that most of…
Educazione del carattere, letteratura per l’infanzia e stile di vita digitale. Un percorso di formazione iniziale degli insegnanti
2017
L’assunto teorico di partenza è stata l’importanza che i futuri insegnanti di scuola primaria siano in grado di sapersi orientare nel panorama contemporaneo della Letteratura per l’infanzia e acquisiscano le competenze metodologiche per progettare percorsi educativi per la formazione del carattere, centrati sulla lettura. Con la progettazione di pratiche innovative, attraverso l’uso delle tecnologie, ci siamo proposti di far individuare agli studenti i principi e le strategie per lo sviluppo del carattere negli alunni di scuola primaria attraverso la letteratura per l’infanzia, facendo riferimento in particolare al “Character Education Movement”. Il campione è composto da 170 studenti del I…
Associations of Children’s Close Reading Distance and Time Spent Indoors with Myopia, Based on Parental Questionnaire
2022
Purpose: To study the association of parents’ reports about their children’s near work and outdoor habits with myopia in their children. Methods: Data from a questionnaire study conducted in 1983 among Finnish schoolchildren were reanalyzed. Vision screening had been performed for all the schoolchildren (n = 4961) in the 1st, 5th, and 8th grades (7-, 11-, and 15-year-olds) in an area of Central Finland. The questionnaire, including information about myopia, was returned by 4305 (86.7%) participants. Items concerned parents’ estimates of their child’s habitual reading distance, time spent indoors as compared with age peers, daily near work, outdoors time, and parents&…
How Are Practice and Performance Related? Development of Reading From Age 5 to 15
2021
Does reading a lot lead to better reading skills, or does reading a lot follow from high initial reading skills? The authors present a longitudinal study of how much children choose to read and how well they decode and comprehend texts. This is the first study to examine the codevelopment of print exposure with both fluency and comprehension throughout childhood using autocorrelations. Print exposure was operationalized as children’s amount of independent reading for pleasure. Two hundred children were followed from age 5 to age 15. Print exposure was assessed at ages 5, 7, 8, 9, and 13. Prereading skills were tested at age 5 and reading skills at ages 7, 8, 9, 14, and 15 (the latter with t…
Mothers’ self-representations and representations of childhood on social media
2023
Funding Information: This work was supported by Kone Foundation, Academy of Finland (#320370), Strategic Research Council (#327237), Strategic Research Council (#327395), Intimacy in Data-driven Culture (IDA). The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Minna Kallioharju, Terhi-Anna Wilska and Annamari Vänskä. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine mothers’ social media accounts that focus on children’s fashion. The authors probed children’s fashion photo practices as representations of the mothers’ extended self and the kind of childhood representations produce…
Somatic Symptoms among Children and Adolescents in Poland: A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Study of the Children Somatization Inventory.
2013
The aim of the present study was to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the short version of the Children’s Somatization Inventory (CSI-24) in Poland. The CSI-24 is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess somatic symptoms in children and adolescents. A total of 733 children and adolescents, aged 12 to 17 years, participated in this research. The participants for this study were recruited from urban and suburban schools of Opole province in South Western Poland. In addition to the CSI-24, all participants completed the Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The bifactor model that included the three domain-…
6-7 gadīga bērna domāšanas prasmes pilnveidošanas iespējas pirmsskolā
2017
Darba autors: Evija Bērziņa Darba tēma: 6 – 7 gadīga bērna domāšanas prasmes pilnveidošanas iespējas pirmsskolā Darba veids: kvalifikācijas darbs Studiju programma: Pirmsskolas izglītības skolotājs Darba zinātniskais vadītājs: Mg. paed. Rasma Purmale Darba apjoms: 49. Lpp. Darba struktūra: kvalifikācijas darbu veido anotācija latviešu valodā, anotācija angļu valodā, ievads, divas daļas un apakšnodaļas, secinājumi, literatūras un avotu saraksts, pielikumi. Darbā ir iekļautas 4 tabulas, 4 shēmas, 13 diagrammas, literatūras un avotu sarakstā ir 37 vienības latviešu, 2 krievu valodā. Kvalifikācijas darbam ir pievienoti 8 pielikumi. Atslēgas vārdi: domāšana un to veidi, pirmsskolas vecums (6 – 7…
Can we increase children’s rights endorsement and knowledge?: A pilot study based on the reference framework of competences for democratic culture
2022
This pilot study is the first to examine whether a novel curriculum based on the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC) could increase children’s endorsement and knowledge of children’s rights. We conducted a pre-test-post-test design with an intervention and a comparison school. Pupils (n = 172) from Bulgaria, Italy, Norway, Romania, and Spain attended schools in which the curriculum was taught, whereas pupils in the comparison group (n = 120) attended schools in the same city where the curriculum was not taught. Both groups were tested on their endorsement and knowledge of rights before and at the end of the intervention. Children in the intervention group incre…
Constructing relational space in early childhood education
2014
This paper examines early childhood education (ECE) by applying and developing relational-spatial perspectives on everyday life in educational institutions for young children. The aim is to investigate the dynamic process of construction of space and to illustrate with selected empirical episodes how this process occurs in ECE. Drawing on authors such as Soja and Bourdieu, the starting point for the analysis is that space is socially produced in everyday interactions in a process that intertwines the physical environment and concrete objects, personal interpretations of physical and cultural space, and cultural and collective views about space in ECE. We illustrate this process with ethnogr…