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Marinsek, Miha; Kovac, Marjeta – European Physical Education Review, 2019
This cross-sectional study was designed to identify Slovenian early childhood educators' beliefs concerning the importance of the competencies required to carry out physical education (PE), to identify which of those competencies early childhood educators might lack and to identify which competencies should be developed in the process of…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Early Childhood Teachers, Physical Education, Teacher Competencies
Herbst, Mikolaj; Sitek, Michal – European Journal of Education, 2023
Following the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine since February 2022, Poland adopted institutional solutions and policies to facilitate the inclusion of Ukrainian refugees in the schooling system. We analyse geographical patterns and local determinants of the participation of children and young people from Ukraine in education in Poland.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Young Children, Refugees
Pitzalis, Marco; Spanò, Emanuela – European Journal of Education, 2021
This article focuses on the educational practices and strategies mobilised by Italian families with children aged six years and younger, during the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, in 2020. Specifically, we analyse practices and strategies mobilised by families from different social milieus living in rural or urban contexts.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children
Natalia Kucirkova; Ida Bruheim Jensen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study extends the research on shared book reading (SBR) by specifically examining the role of smell in parent-child SBR sessions observed at home. Drawing on qualitative methods, we analysed the verbal engagement of ten Norwegian families and their three to five-year-olds reading an olfactory book (the scratch-and-sniff book "Peter…
Descriptors: Books, Olfactory Perception, Foreign Countries, Young Children
Aada Heikkilä; Jyrki Reunamo – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This quantitative study examines the connection between the years that children spent in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and their social orientations and main objects of attention. The data were collected within the Progressive Feedback project by observing children: 20,457 observations of 972 six-year-olds from 360 child groups in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Ahmet Sami Konca; Burcu Izci; Ahmet Simsar – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has received widespread attention worldwide and technology companies designed educational applications (apps) focusing on STEM. Young children have access to tablets and smartphones and they engage with a variety of apps every day. Prior research showed that young children learn from…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Anna Ekström; Asta Cekaite – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study explores children's peer touch in a Swedish preschool using video observations. Two main aspects of children's touch in focus: (1) to what extent do children use touch within the peer group and with whom and (2) in what ways do children touch each other (i.e. what touch forms are used and what areas of other children's bodies are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Young Children, Child Behavior
Gravestones, Zombies and Dead Siblings: Graveyards as Artefacts for Children's Existential Questions
Fauske, Ragnhild Heidi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
This article builds on a qualitative study of interactions and negotiations with respect to existential questions in an ECEC department with children from 3 to 6 years of age, as part of a larger empirical study on the same topic. In the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research's 2017 curriculum for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC),…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Philosophy
Erol, Ahmet; Erol, Mustafa; Basaran, Mustafa – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The study aims at examining the effects of Engineering Design Process Based STEAM activities applied with tales on the creativity and problem-solving skills of 6-6.5 year-old students. The research was carried out with a pre-test, post-test, and quasi-experimental design with the control group. The research participants consisted of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, STEM Education, Creativity
Pollarolo, Enrico; Størksen, Ingunn; Skarstein, Tuula H.; Kucirkova, Natalia – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The significance of learning to think critically from a young age is well documented. Early childhood educators play an essential role in children's critical skills development. Therefore, it is crucial to understand their perceptions of this concept. This qualitative study explored Norwegian early childhood educators' perceptions of critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Young Children, Thinking Skills
Nikiforidou, Zoi; Doni, Eleni – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Children, like everyone, have been affected in multiple ways by the changes the pandemic has caused. This study aims to explore how 4-6-year-olds (N = 50) express through drawings and narrations their meanings and feelings around coronavirus. From a rights-based approach and in particular, children's rights to access information, to express their…
Descriptors: Young Children, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns, COVID-19
Orr, Edna; Caspi, Rinat – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The study's objective was to explore media consumption among children and its association with play as well as motor, social, and emotion recognition skills. The participants were 200 children between the ages of four and eight (M = 5.53), their mothers, and their teachers. Media consumption and play tendencies (frequency and playmates) were…
Descriptors: Teachers, Mothers, Mass Media Use, Play
Kim, Juhu; Jeon, Yooyoung; Kwak, Seungju – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate fathers' online involvement in parenting focusing on the process of promoting and supporting children's lives using computers or smart devices. For this purpose, 411 Korean fathers raising young children participated in a survey. The results showed a marginally low level of online involvement in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fathers, Parent Role, Parent Participation
Nordmo, Bente G. Kvitvaer; Meland, Aud Torill – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Research demonstrates that physical activity is essential for a child's well-being, learning and motor development. The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore how female and male kindergarten staff promote physical activity towards boys and girls in the outdoor playground of a Norwegian kindergarten consisting of fifty children…
Descriptors: Playgrounds, Play, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities
Fyssa, Aristea; Tsakiri, Maria; Mouroutsou, Stella – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Early childhood inclusion for disabled children is a priority area as jointly stated by United Nations' and European Commission's policies. Educators have a crucial role in supporting all children's learning by working cooperatively with parents. However, their internalized ableist/disablist beliefs and misconceptions can inhibit the process of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Inclusion