Sökning: "early childhood play"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 54 avhandlingar innehållade orden early childhood play.
1. What keeps play alive? : A Dynamic Systems approach to playing interactions of young newcomer children in Sweden
Sammanfattning : The study is a theoretically driven research project with the intention to apply the Dynamic Systems (DS) approach to play in relation to the time of transition of newcomer children to Swedish Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). The aim of the study is first to contribute to knowledge about how play emerges and how to understand its dynamics, and second to explore the possibilities of the DS approach in connection to empirical investigations in the field of ECEC. LÄS MER
2. Digital play in preschools : understandings from educational use and professional learning
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to improve knowledge on preschool teachers’ educational use of digital play and their professional learning about it. The thesis is focused on three questions; How can preschool teacher educational use of digital play be understood? How can the professional learning context of preschool teachers using digital play for educational purposes be understood? And, How can preschool teacher knowledge needs concerning educational use of digital play be understood? The participants were preschool teachers who had started to introduce tablets and digital play in educational practice. LÄS MER
3. Play, Culture and Learning : Studies of Second-Language and Conceptual Development in Swedish Preschools
Sammanfattning : This dissertation studies how second-language and conceptual development emerge through interactions in Swedish preschool environments. It studies how types of interaction, such as play, can scaffold children toward such developments. LÄS MER
4. Musical play: Children interacting with and around music technology
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores young children and music learning in the ecology of music technologies. The research is a part of an EU project called MIROR (Musical Interaction Relying on Reflection) that had the intention to develop software for music learning designed to promote specific cognitive abilities in the field of music improvisation. LÄS MER
5. Parent-child feeding dynamics and childhood obesity : The importance of foreign background and effects of early obesity treatment
Sammanfattning : Childhood obesity is often characterised as a global epidemic. Yet, little progress has been made in addressing its increasing levels, especially among certain populations. LÄS MER
