Många elever i lågstadiet behöver extra stöd i matematik. Men det går att stärka deras matematiska tänkande redan från tidig ålder. Mullsjö kommun och Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation (HLK) samarbetar nu i ett nytt projekt.

Hur kan undervisningen i matematik bli ännu bättre för de yngsta eleverna? Det är en fråga som står i fokus i projektet Talrelationer i Fokus, ett samarbete mellan Mullsjö kommun och Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation (HLK) vid Jönköping University.

This study explores the factors influencing the adoption of Digital Educational Resources (DER) among Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers in Spain.

The qualitative study examines the discourses that preservice teachers of early education utilize when negotiating their teacher identity. The study has found three discourses: therapeutic, entrepreneurial, and crisis.

Using children’s literature in different formats is a well-established pedagogical approach for discussing existential questions with young children. This study analyses two books: Goodbye, Mr. Muffin and The Visit from Little Death. The linguistic and visual analyses shed light on the narrative structures, participant roles, and various semiotic elements in these books.

This study investigates young children’s embodied, emplaced, and experienced learning in the context of sacred spaces. In the study, a group of 5–7-year-old Finnish preschoolers participated in four site visits to churches and mosques. 

This study investigates the types of questions pre-service early childhood teachers propose for eliciting children’s ideas about science topics. 

K-12 remote teaching is a growing phenomenon worldwide, a pedagogic practice characterised by the teachers’ spatial separation, digital technology usage, and often the involvement of a facilitator. However, little is known about how these characteristics impact the modalities of pedagogic practice. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse K-12 remote teaching in Sweden as a pedagogic…

This article explores how teaching and play are conceptualised in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). It draws upon previous research to highlight a linguistic challenge related to “the talk of” and the prevalent logic of distinction. (pdf).

While the transition from preschool to primary school has been extensively researched, less attention has been paid to the initial period of school, where children face new expectations and demands, academic and social, and become pupils. Following an observational approach, this study explores how teachers support school starters with the social aspect of becoming pupils…

This study aims to analyse how children’s right to participate is conceptualised and contextualised in Brazilian and Norwegian legal early childhood education (ECE) documents. This is a cross-cultural comparative study in which we conducted a qualitative content analysis of the similarities and differences in the two countries’ legal ECE documents.