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Palmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This paper reports on a combined research-development project conducted in collaboration between researchers and preschool teachers in three Swedish preschools. The aim is to investigate how ongoing preschool activities may become the starting point for mathematics teaching in which toddlers are given the opportunity to distinguish necessary…
Descriptors: Numbers, Preschool Curriculum, Mathematics Activities, Foreign Countries
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Nasiopoulou, Panagiota; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article aims to explore the conditions for children's language and literacy learning in 153 Swedish preschools with children one to five years. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) is used to evaluate preschool quality, focusing on the subscale of Language and literacy activities. The study draws on Bronfenbrenner's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
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Forsling, Karin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article focuses on preschool teachers' collegial learning in relation to children's use of digital learning tools in preschool. The aim of the study was to investigate how preschool teachers understand, change, and improve learning situations when digital tools are used, under the supervision of a film educator, a preschool colleague, and a…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Collegiality, Preschool Education, Technological Literacy
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Alkhede, Maria; Holmqvist, Mona – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study analysed how preschool teachers differently enacted the same mathematical activity for preschool children to discern numbers, and how this affected the children's learning opportunities during the activity. The analysis was based on variation theory and Chi's taxonomy of learning activities. Two Swedish preschool teachers' enactment of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Opportunities
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Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Ribaeus, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which curriculum goals on digitalisation are viewed in relation to the overarching democratic mission of Swedish preschools. Groups of preschool staff from three preschools located in different areas were interviewed with the focus on how they discuss democracy and the democratic aspects of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preschool Teachers
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Ojala, Maria; Ekman Ladru, Danielle; Gustafson, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Due to the emergence of new forms of preschools and parents' increased freedom of choice regarding early childhood education, more research on parental preschool preferences is needed. Although preschool offers a seedbed for the development of knowledge and competencies, this development matures through interaction with parents. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Choice, Preschools, Mobile Educational Services