Search for dissertations about: "quality in early childhood education"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words quality in early childhood education.

2. 1. Educational pathways and transitions in the early school years : Special educational needs, support provisions and inclusive education

   Author : Johanna Lundqvist; Mara Westling Allodi; Eva Siljehag; Susan Sandall; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; bioecological model; children’s views; disability; drawings; first grade; inclusive education; leisure-time centre; longitudinal; mixed method; multiple-case study; preschool; preschool-class; special education; support; transitions; specialpedagogik; Special Education;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this research is to describe and analyse the educational pathways from preschool to school of a group of children with and without special educational needs. The aim is also to describe and analyse children’s views and experiences of early years education, and how these can be obtained. READ MORE

4. 2. The early childhood environment rating scale (ECERS) as a tool in evaluating and improving quality in preschools

   Author : Mona Andersson; Siv Fischbein; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; pedagogik; Education;

   Abstract : Author and title: Andersson Mona: The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) as a Tool in Evaluating and Improving Quality in Preschools. Key words: Preschool, preschool classroom, environmental quality, consciousness, process quality, self evaluation, standardization, validity, reliability, quasi-experiment. READ MORE

5. 3. Disease, Death, and Displacement : The long-term effects of early-life conditions on income, education, and health in Sweden, 1937-2011

   Author : Luis Serratos-Sotelo; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; vaccine; polio; migration; forced migration; Yugoslavia; refugees; parental death; Early-life; income; education; health; Sweden;

   Abstract : How are people’s lives shaped by what they experience during infancy, childhood, and adolescence? How are their adult lives impacted by a sudden improvement or worsening in their early-life conditions?This dissertation aims at providing some insights about how specific changes in early-life conditions can affect individuals’ lives in the long-term. It focuses on three very different shocks to early-life conditions: (1) exposure to disease and vaccination, studied through the case of polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years. READ MORE

6. 4. Everyday life in preschool – Swedish and international approaches

   Author : Frida Åström; Eva Björck; Mats Granlund; Lena Almqvist; Thomas Moser; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early Childhood Education and Care ECEC ; preschool practices; participation; engagement; inclusion; environment; free play; systematic observation; behavior count; person-oriented; quality;

   Abstract : Background: The ultimate outcome of inclusive Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), with the focus on everyday life in preschool in this dissertation, is child participation, i.e., being there and being engaged while being there. READ MORE

7. 5. 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