Pub Date : 2022-07-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2086949
Iris Galili
ABSTRACT This article addresses the interplay between motherhood and working as a professional educator. It focuses on female educators’ relationships in the public sphere and private sphere, and how these two spheres inform and impact one another. The research aims to establish the degree and extent to which societal dictates affect women’s identities in each of these roles (mother and educator), and how these women, in turn, affect society and challenge traditional perceptions in the private (home) and public spheres. The study employed qualitative methodology; semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 female early childhood educators. The findings reveal the interviewees’ desire to take part in the broader public sphere and apply their professional skills beyond the confines of the workplace, for example, by counseling parents on issues that have only an indirect connection with the educational framework. The educators need to establish their professional status, which at times conflicts with their role as mothers; at the same time, they utilize their mothering skills with young pupils and disadvantaged mothers in ways that may go beyond the boundaries of their professional role.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-27DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2065390
Xanthippi Tsortanidou, T. Daradoumis, E. Barberá
ABSTRACT This article examines how a multidimensional, skill-driven curricular framework plays out in diverse primary school settings toward a holistic K-6 curriculum framework. Particularly, it explored how unplugged tasks involve imaginative pedagogies, computational thinking skills, new media literacy skills, and social-emotional skills across three different primary schools by fulfilling two learning conditions, without coding/programming and without using digital devices. Within-case and cross-case analyses were conducted by following the qualitative multiple-case study research design. The evidence stems from lesson analysis, observation field notes, and interview transcripts with 152 participants. We collected 94 lessons from the three schools and we analyzed the data by using a predefined coding scheme grounded upon four frameworks. We conclude that the detected teaching practices uncover promising trajectories by demonstrating a great potential to consider the proposed framework as an effective and age-appropriate pedagogical approach applicable to low-technology and coding-free learning environments. The study highlights the need of teacher professional development, especially on computational thinking in reference to cognitive/intellectual, emotional/affective, social, creative/imaginative, and material dimensions for conscious computational thinking practice implementation. Given the paucity of research on unplugged and, especially, non-programming/coding methods at primary education level, this study can open up prominent issues for further examination and validation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-24DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2064013
Amy Schmidtke
ABSTRACT Despite numerous research findings that support play’s positive impact on children’s learning, pressure to pass high-stakes tests later in the elementary years has prompted a decrease in the amount of time for kindergarten play. While play proponents work to prioritize play in kindergarten, there is a dilemma. How can educators respond to the academic demands placed on today’s kindergartners without compromising essential play practices? There is limited research on how to build kindergarten teachers’ capacity to organize and facilitate play in ways that are both developmentally appropriate and effective at accelerating academic outcomes. This investigation reports findings from interviews with seven kindergarten teachers recommended for a play leadership cohort by administrators because of their instructional and leadership skills. Participants engaged in a two-year series of connected professional learning experiences influencing them to expand time and enhance quality of play in their classrooms. Findings from this study extend existing knowledge outlining four dimensions of effective professional learning: cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, social engagement with students, and social engagement with colleagues. This study sheds light on how these dimensions of professional learning are effective in developing kindergarten teachers’ capacity for implementing guided play practices. Implications and recommendations for future research are included.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-22DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2053005
L. Lucero, Wenjie Wang, Mary L. Fahrenbruck, Lynette Bagwell, Blanca Araujo
ABSTRACT In response to the need for explicitly linking field-based experiences with theoretical knowledge of pedagogy to effectively prepare teacher candidates, teacher educators are increasingly rethinking the opportunities they provide in their teacher education programs. In this action research article, we describe our efforts as teacher educators to connect pedagogical theories and strategies with practical experiences through a back-to-back integrated teaching approach. We explore how this experience provided early childhood teacher candidates with opportunities to engage with culturally appropriate practices in an authentic classroom setting. During this experience, teacher candidates were responsible for planning, teaching, and assessing children over a series of consecutive days. Using community of practice theory rooted in sociocultural perspectives, we provide a discussion of the themes that emerged as 13 early childhood teacher candidates navigated the organizational structures of this assignment. We focus on lessons we learned as well as teacher candidates’ strengths that developed because of this assignment. The findings reveal the importance of providing teacher candidates with opportunities to learn how to build relationships with their students, preparing them to become culturally and linguistically responsive teachers, and providing opportunities for teacher candidates to learn about various assessments. Finally, we share the assignment protocol, reflection questions, and outcomes.
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ABSTRACT For decades, research has made children be known mostly through adults’ observations, powers, and narratives. However, during the last years, the recognition of children as social subjects with their own rights has led to the advent of child-centered research approaches that intend to grant relevance and validity to their voices. Some of those initiatives are the Mosaic approach, the creative-participative techniques, and the arts-based approach. This article offers a multimethod research proposal based on the draw-and-tell conversation technique and the principles of Mosaic approach, both applied to tackle children’s social representations toward childhood education. This is part of a research project aiming to explore the representations of childhood and education within different educational actors. This article presents the designed instruments, the protocol, and the results obtained from the application of the methodological proposal. It is concluded that this multimethod design is a valuable tool to carry out future studies on young children within the frame of recognition of children’s rights, as well as children’s agency and participation capacities in the social construction of reality.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2045399
Woonhee Sung, Junghyun Ahn, John B. Black
ABSTRACT Using robotics and programming, this study investigated the effects of different levels of embodied instruction on the problem-solving, debugging, programming proficiency, self-determination, and self-efficacy of students in ethnically diverse elementary classrooms. The first small-scale, quasi-experimental study involved 37 second-graders, who were randomly assigned to an embody or a non-embody group. Results showed that embodied planning activities benefited these young learners’ LEGO Robotics problem-solving and self-determination skills. Based on these findings, a second study implemented different types of embodied activities (full-embody, low-embody, and control condition) in a debugging problem-solving activity for 51 kindergarten and 1st-grade students, also from ethnically diverse populations. The findings from this study suggested that the embodied learning activities promoted students’ problem-solving skills in robotics and the use of debugging strategies in coding applications. However, different effects were found for groups by condition and the outcome variable. Based on these mixed results, the authors propose activities applicable in real-world elementary classrooms to introduce practical robotics and programming activities.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2042431
Taraneh Matloob, Rebecca Leigh
ABSTRACT The unprecedented onset and extensive spread of COVID‐19 has affected the lives of citizens around the globe. Children, in particular, have been thrust into modified and new learning environments. Although the global lockdown has confined so many, it also has connected people from different but shared experiences. One program that supported such connections is the International Youth Library’s (IYL) effort to invite children to visually respond to this challenging time in their themed call titled: “I-solation. Kids, paint yourself.” Young children from around the world, representing 42 countries, responded to this call with over 800 submissions. The purpose of this article is to share our exploration of how children used art elements and principles of design in their self-portraiture drawings to express their ideas and feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic. This exploration offers relevant curricular implications for teachers seeking to expand their literacy practices by inviting children to visually respond to how they are dealing with global and natural disasters, including difficult situations in their daily lives, that affect one’s sense of self, the home, and community.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2044415
Cassie Sorrells, Samara Madrid Akpovo
ABSTRACT This study represents a qualitative exploration of the emotional experiences of early care and education (ECE) teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research questions consisted of the following: 1) What were the emotional experiences of ECE teachers during COVID-19? 2) How do ECE teachers understand, contextualize, and/or negotiate these emotional experiences? Data were drawn from in-depth individual interviews and one focus group discussion with five white female ECE teachers from the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. Researchers engaged in thematic analysis of the data to develop the themes of duality in teachers’ emotional experiences during the pandemic, including connection/disconnection during school closures, yearning/dread in anticipation of school reopening, joy/fear in the return to in-person learning, and acceptance/resistance to their classroom practices in the “new normal” of teaching during COVID-19. These findings were interpreted through a dialectical theory of emotion to explore the inherent duality and complexity of ECE teachers’ lived emotional experiences during COVID-19. This work adds to the emerging research on the effect of COVID-19 on the field of early care and education. Further, it builds theoretical understandings surrounding the complex nature of early childhood teachers’ emotional experiences by offering an in-depth qualitative portrait of emotional duality.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2028944
Aijuan Cun
ABSTRACT Abundant research has explored interactive book reading and children’s literacy learning, but little is known about interactive digital book reading among families with refugee backgrounds. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives on social semiotics multimodality, this study investigates what happens when parents and children with a refugee background read digital children’s books multimodally. Data sources include ethnographic interviews, video recordings of family conversations, artifacts, and descriptive field notes based on observations. The findings present three common themes: selecting books, meaning making through semiotic resources, and discussing and learning in two languages. Implications include the importance of valuing digital multimodal and dual-language children’s books and acknowledging multiple interactions among parents, siblings, and young children of families with refugee backgrounds.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-14DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2022.2027582
L. H. Mjelve, Geir Nyborg, Anne‐Lise Arnesen, Gunnar Bjørnebekk, W. Crozier, R. Coplan
ABSTRACT The present study explored variations in the characteristics of teacher-nominated shy students. Participants were N = 329 teachers from 303 elementary schools across Norway. Teachers were first asked to select a current (or previously taught) student who was considered “shy,” and then rated different aspects of this child’s school adjustment. Among the results, teacher-nominated shy students were found to be a heterogeneous group, varying substantively across several domains of functioning at school. Teachers’ descriptions of shy students functioning did not vary significantly as a function of school characteristics (class/school size), teacher characteristics (gender/age/experience), or student grade. However, overall, teachers rated shy male students as evidencing more adjustment difficulties than shy female students. Results are discussed in terms of implications for educational practice.
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