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Direct linkGrindheim, Liv Torunn – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
The voices of both early childhood education teachers and children tend to be weak in the choir of agents that constitute the aims and practices of early childhood education. In this article, a video that a teacher made of four children playing dragons, followed by open-ended interviews exploring why she found this particular activity of interest…
Descriptors: Imagination, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Teachers, Video Technology
Grindheim, Liv Torunn – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2014
This article calls into question the idyllic picture of Norwegian kindergartens where harmonious and joyful interaction is the preferred and normal way to participate. If taking children's right to democratic participation and freedom of expression seriously, anger can also be seen as a legitimate way of participating. Conflicts of interest,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response, Kindergarten
Sandvik, Ninni – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2012
Inspired by a Deleuzian focus on a-personal machineries, this discussion focuses on a challenge to conventional pedagogical relationships and presents the possibility to think about pedagogical control differently. The work of Deleuze also underpins the methodological approach. Drawing on an extract constructed from the author's doctoral project…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Student Teachers, Instruction, Foreign Countries
Wyver, Shirley; Tranter, Paul; Naughton, Geraldine; Little, Helen; Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Bundy, Anita – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
Play and playgrounds provide essential experiences for young children's growth, development and enjoyment of life. However, such play experiences are now limited for many children due to excessive fear of risk, or "surplus safety". In this article, the authors examine the pervasiveness of surplus safety in the lives of young children.…
Descriptors: Play, Safety, Young Children, Playgrounds
Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
Children naturally seek and conduct exciting forms of play that involve a risk of physical injury (risky play). Even though several prior studies give descriptions of risky play, none of them deeply explore children's expressions of how they experience different kinds of risky play. This study aims to do that. The results from video observations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Play, Physical Activity Level
Knudsen, Jan Sverre – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
The intention of this article is to explore, challenge and expand our understandings of children's improvised vocalisations, a fundamentally human form of expression. Based on selected examples from observation and recording in non-institutional settings, the article outlines how this phenomenon can be understood as learning and as communication.…
Descriptors: Singing, Creative Activities, Young Children, Learning
