9 research outputs found
Action Telling method : From storytelling to crafting the future
In this chapter, we describe the Action Telling method and how it supports young children in exploring their ideas for how to react in challenging social situations. Action Telling is an active storytelling method that focuses on childrenâs conceptions of their initiatives, interactions, decision-making, and the dilemmas they face in Early Childhood settings as it promotes childrenâs agency and meaningful problem-solving. In the Action Telling method, teachers facilitate childrenâs participation to bring out their ideas and describe their personal ways of solving issues in everyday social activity with peers and teachers. In this chapter, the Action Telling method practices are introduced for teachers who are interested in understanding childrenâs ideas and perspectives and supporting childrenâs participation and agency. The ways in which childrenâs participation enhances social and cognitive development are explored as well as childrenâs development of reasoning skills, logic, and reflection, which are essential for creating innovative ideas and knowledge, and in the end, new interaction.Peer reviewe
Distributed leadership as administrative practice in Finnish early childhood education and care
Childrenâs Self-Regulation in the Context of Participatory Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education
Educators' Perceptions of Facilitating Children's Participation in Early Childhood Education
How do early childhood practitioners define professionalism in their interactions with parents?
Steps Together: Childrenâs Experiences of Participation in Club Activities With the Elderly
Dynamics in Interaction in Bilingual Team Teaching : Examples from a Finnish Preschool Classroom
The current study aims to explore team teaching as it is manifested in bilingual interactional patterns in a
preschool classroom in Finland. The data was collected in a preschool classroom where a bilingual pedagogy in
Finnish (majority language) and Swedish (minority language) was implemented with monolingual Finnishspeaking
children. Video recordings were made while two teachers with different predefined language roles
were team teaching a class of 20 children during two circle times. A two-level analytic model was developed: on
the macro level activity types, participant roles (type of leadership) and language allocation (the teachersâ
relative use of Finnish and Swedish) were identified, and on the micro level teacher interaction was analysed in
detail in terms of turn-taking patterns and language use. The findings are analysed in relation to the predefined
roles of the two teachers â one as a Finnish speaker and the other as a bilingual Swedish/Finnish speaker. The
results show extensive dynamics in how the predefined participant and language roles were put into practice: all
three types of leadership (single, alternated and co-leadership) were identified in the data and both the teachers
communicated both monolingually and bilingually in the various circle time activities. When communicating
bilingually, the teachers applied strategies such as code-switching, avoidance of translation and the use of
scaffolding to support understanding. Separation strategies (separation by person, topic or purpose) also
appeared in the data, however. The two teachersâ cooperation was smooth and they supported and assisted each
other in various ways both academically and linguistically.peerReviewe