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Attending childcare for the first time can be extra challenging for shy children. To support shy children's well-being as best as possible, the staff needs to recognize children’s needs in different situations. A good collaboration between parents and childcare staff is extra important when there are shy children in the group.
In this selection of video abstracts, we provide a glimpse into exciting and important research topics about early childhood education, school, and learning, based on articles written by researchers at the Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment.
Odors change as the weather changes. Rain or sunshine, there are interesting smells, both outside and inside, to discover, explore and talk about together with children. All you need is your nose. Let your fantasy lead the way and discover the magic of smell together with the children.
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Four editors representing four countries to helm flagship journal.
FILIORUM - Center for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care leads and participates in a number of projects, both nationally and internationally. Here you will find an overview of completed and ongoing projects that FILIORUM is involved in.
A creative process with digital technology is a complex process consisting of traditional non-digital and new digital activities. It is important that educators use different pedagogical strategies when involving young children in the process. However, it is not enough to focus merely on the process – the finished product is also important to the children.
A selection of research articles from the Centre. Use the DOI-link to read abstract.
Is there a common Nordic model or a characteristic Nordic approach to evaluation and assessment of quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC)? A new study conducted by FILIORUM – Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care, together with Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University (DCU ECRC), has examined this.
The DiCoTe project aims to increase digital competence in Norwegian kindergartens by developing resources that can be used in Early Childhood Education Training.
To read books together with young children is a common activity – both in early childhood settings and at home. Many children are increasingly using digital books to access stories. You might wonder whether reading on paper and on screen is the same? Does it matter whether children turn pages in a book or swipe pages on an iPad?
This cutting-edge project researches the power of smells and scents to transform children’s reading.
Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research in Education and University of Stavanger host the digital conference with more than 190 researchers from 34 countries. Topic of the day will be «Bullying: What we know and what we can do.»
In SELMA, researchers and employees in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers will collaborate to develop resources to promote Social and Emotional development and Life Mastery. The five core themes of SELMA derive from the Framework plan for kindergartens:
Social interaction, Engagement, Love and joy, Mastery, and Acknowledgement.
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A comprehensive meta-analysis of prior research has found, overall, that children ages 1 to 8 were less likely to understand picture books when they read the digital, versus the printed version. However, when digital picture books contain the right enhancements that reinforce the story content, they outperform their print counterparts.
The research community Transforming Education – towards a sustainable future brings together researchers from different disciplines within the Faculty of Arts and Education to study transformative approaches to educational aspects of sustainable development.
Synapse Lab researchers have received funding for two projects as part of the Norwegian Research Council’s grant for addressing problems in society and business.
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FILIORUM-The Centre for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care at the University of Stavanger and the Early Childhood Research Centre at Dublin City University (DCU ECRC) have entered a collaboration on a new research project on Nordic Approaches to Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care.
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Professor Natalia Kucirkova from the Centre for Learning Environment is awarded the Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship for the period 2021-2023. She is the first Jacobs Fellow from a Norwegian University.
UiS researchers have developed and tested a structured play-based curriculum for children at their last year of preschool, to foster a more even and better foundation before school start through care, play and learning.
The Agder Project: An intervention to promote school readiness and human potential.
Aiming to help preschool teachers develop a more intentional and systematic practice stimulating skills that are critical for adjusting to school and for later-life success, and investigate how this change in practice affects child development.
The researchers in this project aim to create a scientifically based playful learning curriculum for 5-year-olds in daycare.
Can Norwegian daycare centers improve children's developmental trajectories by more systematically cultivate key school readiness skills known to promote future learning?
FILIORUM's vision is High quality in diverse Early Childhood Education and Care settings. The centre conducts excellent and practice-oriented early childhood education research at a high international level and is a key contributor to the ECEC sector.
According to a new study, there is a strong link between self-regulation and mathematical skills in Norwegian children. “Children need self-regulation in order to take advantage of existing learning opportunities”, says the researcher.
Researchers at the Norwegian Reading Centre will study the use of storybook apps and print picture books in language focused reading activities in kindergartens. The aim is to develop an app that kindergarten staff can use to consider to what extent specific features of e-books are appropriate for such activities.
The entanglement of choreographic and pedagogic practices is the theme of the PhD project of Mari Flønes at The Faculty of Performing Arts.
Bullying can have serious and long-lasting consequences for the victim. Children that have experienced being bullied can develop various difficulties. Even though the bullying has stopped, victims of bullying may struggle with the consequences for years afterwards.
FILIORUM– The Center for Research in Early Childhood Education and Care emphazises on high quality in the diverse ECEC within three research areas - belonging, play and communication.