Search for dissertations about: "pre school children development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words pre school children development.

2. 1. Occupational performance in school settings : evaluation and intervention using the school AMPS

   Author : Michaela Munkholm; Anne G. Fisher; Britta Löfgren; Curt Hagquist; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Occupational therapy; Assessment; Rasch measurement; Children; schoolwork performance; Differential item functioning; Differential test funktioning; Outcomes; Efficacy of intervention; school-based practice; instrument development; Occupational therapy; Arbetsterapi; Occupational therapy; arbetsterapi;

   Abstract : Background: This thesis is was designed to evaluate aspects of reliability and validity of the School Version of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (School AMPS) (Fisher, Bryze, Hume, & Griswold, 2007), an observation-based evaluation of quality of occupational performance when children perform schoolwork tasks in school settings. The long term goal was to contribute to knowledge about children at risk or with mild disabilities who experience difficulties with occupational performance in school settings, and describe how the School AMPS can be used when a true top−down process of planning and implementing school-based occupational therapy services is implemented in a Swedish context. READ MORE

4. 2. Muscle function and physical activity in pre-pubertal school children

   Author : Susanna Stenevi Lundgren; Ortopedi - klinisk och molekylär osteoporosforskning; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; children; physical activity; exercise; isokinetic muscle strength; vertical jump height; normative; intervention; school transport; DXA; anthropometry; fat mass; lean mass; weight; height; body mass index; girls; boys; pre-pubertal;

   Abstract : Background: Regular participation in physical activity or organized exercise is regarded as one important lifestyle factor that could improve musculoskeletal health, fitness and body composition. For children and adolescents physical activity is important not only in training of the neuromuscular system, coordination and balance, but in a wider perspective, for adopting a lifestyle that possibly reduces the risk of coronary artery disease, obesity, osteoporosis and other contributors to morbidity and mortality in the population. READ MORE

5. 3. Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Narration : Discourse Strategies and Narrative Styles

   Author : Ingrid Andersson; Karin Aronsson; Shoshanna Blum-Kulka; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bilingual pre-school children; co-narration; repairs; cultural dispositions; participation; Children; Barn;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates twenty bilingual and twenty monolingual 6-year-old preschool children's discourse strategies and narrative styles. It is theoretically based on an interdiciplinary framework combining theories of narration with discourse theories. READ MORE

6. 4. Transformation through Integration : An Activity Theoretical Analysis of School Development as Integration of Child Care Institutions and the Elementary School

   Author : Monica Nilsson; Institutionen för ekonomi och samhällsvetenskap Blekinge Tekniska Högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Integration; pre-school teacher; recreation pedagogue; schoolteacher; contradiction; expansive learning; mediation; and tool;

   Abstract : This study analyzes an attempt at integration of a pre-school class, a leisure-time center and an elementary school in Sweden. The integration was organized in the form of Vertical Track which implies a successive development of groups comprising children between six and twelve years old, pre-school teachers, recreation pedagogues, and schoolteachers. READ MORE

7. 5. Spatial accuracy and temporal efficiency in children's tracing with a pencil

   Author : Lone Hyldgaard; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Children; pencil tracing; hand precision; spatial accuracy; temporal efficiency; hand movements; wrist angle; pencil grip; visuomotor coordination; school subjects; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : The aim of the present dissertation was to develop a method for studying children's tine-motor development. The children were to trace a dotted line with a pencil. READ MORE