International Journal of Educational Research
Volume 47, Number 5
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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An ‘Ethics of resistance’ challenges taken-for-granted ideas in Swedish early childhood education
Hillevi Lenz Taguchi
In the present action-research project, three teachers and the researcher engaged in a series of meetings to analyze children's drawings from several different theoretical perspectives, or ... More
pp. 270-282
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Children's and parents’ perspectives on the purposes of playschool in Iceland
Johanna Einarsdottir
Twenty-two 5- and 6-year-old children and their parents in one playschool in Reykjavik participated in this study designed to shed light on children's and parents’ views about their early childhood... More
pp. 283-291
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The challenges and possibilities of a narrative learning approach in the Finnish early childhood education system
Pentti Hakkarainen
Finnish curriculum guidelines for early education emphasise play and creative activities as significant factors in healthy child development. Constructivist theory loosely frames the guidelines,... More
pp. 292-300
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Identity revealed through talk among young language-minority children in Norwegian classrooms
Veslemøy Rydland & Vibeke Grøver Aukrust
The study investigated the ethnic identity development of Turkish-speaking children in Norwegian preschool and first-grade classrooms, examining how they made their ethnicity interactionally... More
pp. 301-311
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Do anti-immigrant sentiments track into Danish classrooms? Ethnicity, ethnicity salience, and bias in children's peer preferences
Judith T. Wagner, Lorinda B. Camparo, Vera Tsenkova & James C. Camparo
Denmark's commitment to childhood characterized by equality, democracy, and social cooperation stands in stark contrast to public discourse about immigrant children, who are sometimes branded with ... More
pp. 312-322