Early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is regarded as crucial for swift access to early intervention and, subsequently, better outcomes later in life. However, current instruments miss large proportions of children who later go on to be diagnosed with ASD, raising a question of what these instruments measure. The present study utilized data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child ...

In the last decade, in particular, understanding technology use within children’s play-based experiences has been an important concern for early childhood education researchers and practitioners (Danby et al. 2018; Stephen and Edwards 2018). The World Economic Forum (2019) has highlighted the pressing issue of the twenty-first-century skills gap related to the digital revolution and ways that educators ...

Education for sustainable development (ESD) provides crucial opportunities for young people to be involved in complex sustainability issues. This study contributes to existing knowledge about primary school teachers’ approaches to ESD across a range of subjects. Norwegian schools can join the Sustainable Backpack programme (SBP), which supports teachers to develop projects that promote a holistic ...

<i>Objective</i> - Previous studies of the consequences of unilateral hearing loss (UHL) on the functional-structural organization of the brain has included subjects with various degrees of UHL. We suggest that the consequences of a total loss of hearing in one ear might differ from those seen in subjects with residual hearing in the affected ear. Thus, the main aim of the present study was to compare ...

Children and adolescents who have experienced traumatic events demonstrate a variety of posttraumatic symptoms, including recurrent nightmares, as well as adverse reactions in the school setting. The current study examined nightmare symptoms, posttraumatic stress, sleep disturbance, and self- and teacher-reported school functioning of 64 youths in the Gaza Strip, ages 12 to 16, who have lived through ...

This paper explores what place means for early childhood education at a time of global environmental precarity. We draw on fieldwork in Arctic Norway, where kindergarten children spend time with snow for more than half of the year. Children’s movement attunes to the nuances and diversity of the snow, as seasons, temperature, light, wind and weather change the consistency of snow and the possibilities ...

Formålet med studien er å analysere FoU-veiledning for å få innsikt i samhandlingen som skjer når flere lærerutdannere veileder de samme studentene. FoU-veiledning er en veiledningssituasjon i grunnskolelærerutdanningen som er lite forsket på. Studiens primærdatamateriale er lydopptak av veiledningssamtaler hvor en gruppe lærerstudenter får FoU-veiledning fra tre lærerutdannere fra skolen og ...

This paper presents findings from an on-going international study of Early Childhood(EC) teachers’ and children’s use of internet-connected toys (IoToys) to understand possibilities for developing children’s cognitive capacities (e.g., creativity, inquiry, engineering design thinking). The study employed a Design Based Research (DBR) method, where teachers intentionally plan and deliver technologically ...

I dette kapitlet presenterer og diskuterer vi hvordan kulturhistorisk aktivitetsteori kan fungere som tenkeredskap i aksjonsforskningsprosjekter. Nærmere bestemt så undersøker vi hvordan introduksjon av sentrale prinsipper i aktivitetsteori blir oppfattet og anvendt av deltagere på et doktorgradskurs om aksjonsforskning ved OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet. Det empiriske materialet er hentet fra ...

This article presents a study of 8th grade students working in groups to solve a task about generalizing patterns. The study aimed to openly explore how progress in mathematical thinking might relate to the discourse. To do this, we first studied both separately. The progress in mathematical thinking was studied by inspecting how the groups progressed through different levels of generalization. The ...