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Stålberg, Anna; Sandberg, Anette; Söderbäck, Maja – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Younger children are common users of health-care services. Their perspective on a health-care situation and their ways of communication differ from that of adults. There is a shortness of research of younger children's perceptions of health-care situations. The knowledge that exists indicates the importance of involving the child's perspective to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Health Services, Childhood Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
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Insulander, Eva; Ehrlin, Anna; Sandberg, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The website of the Swedish National Agency for Education states that preschools are to promote entrepreneurial learning. Many Swedish preschools, therefore, have started to work consciously with entrepreneurial learning as a way of fostering pupils' creativity and ability to make their own decisions. This article investigates whether and how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Active Learning, Student Participation
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Broström, Stig; Sandberg, Anette; Johansson, Inge; Margetts, Kay; Nyland, Berenice; Frøkjaer, Thorleif; Kieferle, Christa; Seifert, Anja; Roth, Angela; Ugaste, Aino; Vrinioti, Kalliope – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This comparative study investigated the perspectives of preschool teachers in Australia, Denmark, Estonia, German, Greece and Sweden about learning and participation in preschool. A structured survey questionnaire investigated four main questions: What situations can be characterised as learning? What activities are important for learning? What…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
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Vuorinen, Tuula; Sandberg, Anette; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The purpose of this article is to analyse and discuss preschool teachers' views regarding competence within their profession in the context of home and preschool collaboration. The question addressed is as follows: In what situations do preschool teachers perceive that their competence becomes visible for parents? The results, based on interviews…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Family School Relationship, Parent Teacher Cooperation
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Johansson, Inge; Sandberg, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
In Swedish teacher education, all preschool teacher students have to include a school-based element and to take part in a local educational practice, in a preschool or in another form of educational setting, such as a preschool class or after-school recreation centre. In this study, we have asked a group of supervisors about their perception of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Interaction, Preschool Teachers, Educational Practices
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Sandberg, Anette; Eriksson, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate, analyse and describe preschool staff's concepts of children's participation in everyday preschool life, as well as preschool staff's experiences and concepts of what characterises the children who participate. Furthermore, it addresses the conditions that preschool staff consider as crucial in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Content Analysis, Interviews, Questionnaires