In this article, the authors illustrate some of the challenges and dilemmas that Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers experienced when completing a global screening tool (UPSI-5: Universal Psychosocial ...

Nature play with young children has been criticized for lacking the transformative power necessary for meaningfully contributing to sustainability issues. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify outcomes ...

Research indicates that risky play has positive effects on children’s development, learning and health, and ability to assess and manage risk, but there is a lack of knowledge on how toddlers engage in risky play. This ...

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 ...

Artikkelen diskuterer det teoretiske grunnlaget for å relatere begrepene ledelse og læring til hverandre i en barnehagesammenheng, og presenterer noen sentrale funn fra forskningsprosjektet Ledelse for læring – utfordringer ...

Research on children’s risky play and young children’s risk taking is a relatively new research area that has drawn the attention of many researchers in the last decades. Nevertheless, to our knowledge, no earlier studies ...

This research investigates the significance of the physical environment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions as a facilitator of deep-level learning. Building upon Laevers’ concept of deep-level learning, ...

When the responsibility for ECEC institutions was placed under Ministry of Education and Research in 2006, the ECEC institution as a learning area was brought in to the foreground in early education and care policy. Norwegian ...