Search for dissertations about: "Preschool Teachers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the words Preschool Teachers.

2. 1. Digital technologies in preschool education : The interplay between interactive whiteboards and teachers' teaching practices

   Author : Maryam Bourbour; Ann Quennerstedt; Gunilla Lindqvist; Sören Högberg; Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Preschool Teachers; Digital Technologies; IWB; Teaching; Children; Preschools; Scaffolding; Mediational Means and Mediated Actions; Utbildning och lärande; Education and Learning;

   Abstract : This thesis is aimed at exploring the ways in which a digital technology, the interactive whiteboard (IWB), interplays with preschool teachers’ teaching practices. In the literature and ongoing debates there are different claims about if and how digital technologies can contribute to children’s development and solving preschool educational challenges. READ MORE

4. 2. Autism in preschoolers - assessment, diagnostic and gender aspects

   Author : Gunilla Westman Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; autism; early diagnosis; gender; preschool; parents; teachers;

   Abstract : Background: Very early assessment of young boys and girls with suspected autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is widely advocated, but knowledge is limited. Aims: Evaluate methods used in assessment of young children with suspected ASD, identify possible gender differences in clinical presentation, and examine parent/teacher experiences of the diagnostic process. READ MORE

5. 3. Digital play in preschools : understandings from educational use and professional learning

   Author : Leif Marklund; Elza Dunkels; Kenneth Ekström; Åsa Bartholdsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; digital play; preschool; digitalisation; tablets; professional learning; professional development; early years; digital competence; literacy; workplace learning; preschool teachers; early childhood education; technology integration; pedagogiskt arbete; educational work;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to improve knowledge on preschool teachers’ educational use of digital play and their professional learning about it. The thesis is focused on three questions; How can preschool teacher educational use of digital play be understood? How can the professional learning context of preschool teachers using digital play for educational purposes be understood? And, How can preschool teacher knowledge needs concerning educational use of digital play be understood?  The participants were preschool teachers who had started to introduce tablets and digital play in educational practice. READ MORE

6. 4. Production and Products of Preschool Documentation : Entanglements of children, things, and templates

   Author : Katarina Elfström Pettersson; Eva Reimers; Susanne Severinsson; Maria Simonsson; Mathias Martinsson; Annica Löfdahl Hultman; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early childhood education; preschool practice; preschool documentation; systematic quality development work; agential realism; posthumanism; Förskola; förskolepraktik; dokumentation i förskolan; systematiskt kvalitetsarbete; agentisk realism; posthumanism;

   Abstract : The objective of the present study is to produce knowledge about how children, things, documents, computers, teachers, templates and other entities take part in and produce documentation in preschool systematic quality development work. The thesis asks questions about how and what is produced as quality in preschool documentation. READ MORE

7. 5. Playing a part in preschool documentation : A study of how participation is enacted in preschool documentation practices and how it is affected by material agents

   Author : Katarina Elfström Pettersson; Eva Reimers; Mathias Martinsson; Ann-Christine Vallberg-Roth; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early childhood education; children’s participation; pedagogical documentation; preschool practice; power relations; agential realism.; Förskola; barns delaktighet; pedagogisk dokumentation; förskolepraktik; maktrelationer; agentisk realism;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study is to explore how children’s participation is constructed and enacted in preschool documentation and what kinds of activities evolve between teachers, children and material objects in preschool documentation practices. The study is based on videorecorded observations of teachers and children documenting different preschool activities in two preschool groups. READ MORE