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Havu-Nuutinen, Sari; Kewalramani, Sarika; Veresov, Nikolai; Pöntinen, Susanna; Kontkanen, Sini – Research in Science Education, 2022
This research is a comparative study of Finnish and Australian science curricula in early childhood education (EC). The study aims to figure out the constructivist components of the science curriculum in two countries as well as locate the similarities and differences in the rationale and aims, contents, learning outcomes, learning activities,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Comparative Education, Outcomes of Education
Kewalramani, Sarika; Phillipson, Sivanes; Belford, Nish – Research in Science Education, 2022
Parents' beliefs, values and associated everyday practices can play an influential role in their children's educational environment. This paper reports on a subsection of data from a larger qualitative study on how immigrant parents' cultural beliefs, values and everyday practices contributed to shaping their young children's early engagement in…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Influence, Young Children, Science Education
Ng, Andrea; Kewalramani, Sarika; Kidman, Gillian – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2022
In early childhood education, the integration of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) are advocated as contemporary educational goals. However, integration of STEAM is not defined in the early childhood context. We claim to 'integrate' and 'devise integration pedagogies', but there is still no clear-cut message on what…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Early Childhood Education, Integrated Curriculum
Kewalramani, Sarika; Havu-Nuutinen, Sari – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019
This paper presents findings from an on-going international study (Australia and Finland) of preschool teachers' beliefs and pedagogical practices in the integration of technology to engage young children in learning science. Scarcely used in early childhood education research, this study is framed using Mishra and Koehler's (2006) Technological…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Beliefs, Technology Integration, Preschool Children
Kewalramani, Sarika; Veresov, Nikolay – Research in Science Education, 2022
This paper discusses how multimodal creative inquiry might be conceptualised and implemented for children's meaning-making in science. We consider Halliday's (1978) and Vygotsky's (1987, 2016) theoretical ideas for showing how the most important characteristics of social semiotics are connected to imagination, play-based and creative inquiry for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Creative Thinking, Inquiry, Semiotics