The growing focus on how children in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) can learn more effectively overlooks the intrinsic value of children's play, their perspectives, experiences, and contributions. Thus, there is a need for the education that emphasises the unpredictable and transformative to meet the challenges in contemporary society, grounded in democratic and humanistic…

This study explores preservice teachers’ perceptions of the importance of children’s early approaches to learning. (pdf)

För lite fysisk aktivitet hos barn och ungdomar kan få oåterkalleliga konsekvenser senare i livet. Men räcker vardagsrörelsen om barnet inte går på någon organiserad aktivitet? Och hur mycket, och vilken typ av rörelse, behövs i olika åldrar? Experter i idrottsvetenskap ger svar.

Early childhood education and care providers play a key role in identifying and responding to child maltreatment. The Norwegian Stine Sofie’s Kindergarten Package is a train-the-trainer intervention designed to strengthen kindergarten educators’ ability in this regard. We evaluated its effectiveness on five self-reported individual-level outcomes related to knowledge, competence, and attitudes. Kindergartens were assigned to…

This study explores preservice teachers’ perceptions of the importance of children’s early approaches to learning. The study was conducted at a local university in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. (pdf)

Attending Forest School benefits children’s cognition and behaviour, but there is little research on preschool children. Our exploratory study investigated whether attending Forest School, compared to traditional nursery, helps preschool children’s developing nature connection, emotional regulation, social confidence and mood. (pdf)

While digital play remains a dominant pedagogical construct, it is unclear how digital learning is understood by teachers, beyond a reliance on theories of play. This paper reports on a two-year collaborative project conducted with teachers working in the early years of schooling alongside three university-based researchers. (pdf)