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Sandholm, Ditte; Simonsen, Julia; Ström, Kristina; Fagerlund, Åse – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2023
Positive education is the teaching of both traditional school skills and skills for enhancing well-being. This study examines teachers' (N = 72) experiences with training in positive education.Qualitative content analysis was used to provide an in-depth understanding of the experiences, and quantitative measures investigated teachers' well-being.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Burnett, Cathy; Merchant, Guy; Neumann, Michelle M. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
This conceptual article examines how ready-made assumptions about literacy both frame and limit understandings of new communicative practices in educational contexts. Proposing a tripartite heuristic that interrogates the appearance of literacy in terms of emergence, semblance and performance, it uses stories from a study of touchscreen tablets in…
Descriptors: Literacy, Interpersonal Communication, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Asare-Nuamah, Peter; Nketsia, William; Asibey, Benedict Osei; Arinaitwe, Gilbert – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
Access to education for children living in rural communities is widely known to be hampered by inequitable teacher deployment to rural schools. While much is known about the barriers encountered by teachers in Ghana, little is known about the factors that enhance teacher retention in rural schools. In this study, the four-capital teacher retention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Persistence, Rural Schools, Social Capital
Grant, Sandra; Comber, Barbara; Danby, Susan; Theobald, Maryanne; Thorpe, Karen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
The increased regulation of teachers' work is a global phenomenon across education sectors. In Australia the governance of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) embeds international priorities for quality improvement in educational programmes. The implementation of a National Quality Framework (NQF) for the assessment of ECEC services has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Governance, Educational Quality
Kucirkova, Natalia; Cremin, Teresa – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2018
This paper discusses the pedagogical practice of developing reading for pleasure in pre- schools and primary phase settings through the lens of one key dimension of twenty-first-century reading: personalisation. It draws on a series of studies and examples to identify, address and problematise human- and digitally mediated personalised reading for…
Descriptors: Recreational Reading, Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Electronic Publishing
Wright, Hazel R. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2012
Empirical research focused on women studying childcare in an English further education college found the participants strangely contented despite demanding lifestyles. They were intent on integrating their family, work and educational commitments rather than actively seeking future gain, an understanding that led to the development of an original…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Adult Education, Females
Edwards, Susan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
This paper examines Vygotsky's conception of play as a leading activity in the contexts of children's contemporary play worlds. Commencing with an examination of the relationship between leading activities and the development of psychological functions, the paper moves into a consideration of the relationship between imagination and reality as a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Role, Early Childhood Education
Wolfe, Sylvia; Flewitt, Rosie – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2010
This paper discusses concepts of learning through "collaborative multimodal dialogue". It draws on an ESRC-funded study (RES-000-22-2451) investigating 3- and 4-year-old children's encounters with literacy as they engage with a range of printed and digital technologies at home and in a nursery. The study goes beyond analysis of spoken language,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Learning Processes, Emergent Literacy, Metacognition
Plowman, Lydia; McPake, Joanna; Stephen, Christine – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
We describe a two year empirical investigation of three- and four-year-old children's uses of technology at home, based on a survey of 346 families and 24 case studies. Using a socio-cultural approach, we discuss the range of technologies children encounter in the home, the different forms their learning takes, the roles of adults and other…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Technology, Informal Education, Parents
Siraj-Blatchford, Iram; Taggart, Brenda; Sylva, Kathy; Sammons, Pamela; Melhuish, Edward – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2008
The introduction of the Foundation Stage and its associated legislation has constituted a radical innovation that is transforming early childhood education. In this paper we show how the Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) research programme continues to contribute towards achieving these improvements in practice. In focusing upon…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Rating Scales, Educational Practices