• Guided play: From instruction to creativity when constructing automata 

      Bidarra, Graça; Vaz-Rebelo, Piedade; Thiel, Oliver; Alferes, Valentim; Silva, Isabel; Barreira, Carlos; Santos, A.; Almeida, Jorge; Machado, I; Conceição, A.; Bartolleti, Corinna; Ferrini, Francesca; Josephson, Joel; Kostova, Nelly (Journal article, 2020)
      Play is a very important activity for children development and there are evidences that it can be an added value when used for educational purposes. Research about how to integrate play in education points to the importance ...
    • Heads-on, hands-on, hearts-on: Educators' perceptions on ViduKids contributions to integral education 

      Vaz-Rebelo, Piedade; Bidarra, Graça; Costa, Conceição; de Almeida Evangelista, Simone; Santos, Vanda; Thiel, Oliver (Journal article, 2022)
      The integral development of the child is nowadays one of the goals of education, which implies the use of activities and strategies that involve the various dimensions of the human being in a comprehensive way. This paper ...
    • Mapping Spontaneous Cooperation between Children in Automata Construction Workshops 

      Bidarra, Graça; Santos, Anália; Vaz-Rebelo, Piedade; Thiel, Oliver; Barreira, Carlos; Alferes, Valentim; Almeida, Joana; Machado, Ines; Bartoletti, Corinna; Ferrini, Francesca; Hanssen, Signe Marie; Lundheim, Rolv Sigmund; Moe, Jørgen; Josephson, Joel; Velkova, Veneta; Kostova, Nelly (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This work analyzes spontaneous cooperation between children who participated in Automata for STEM, European Union-funded Erasmus+ project workshops. Taking into account the characteristics of automata, that involve a ...
    • Using self-made automata to teach STEM in early childhood teacher education 

      Thiel, Oliver; Lundheim, Rolv Sigmund; Hanssen, Signe Marie; Moe, Jørgen; Vaz-Rebelo, Piedade (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In recent decades, an increasing number of countries have integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) into their curricula for early childhood education and care (ECEC). In contrast to this trend, ...