Children and Young People in School and in Society

$230.00

Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
BISAC: EDU026000

This is a book for everyone trying to improve early childhood education and special needs education. The main goal with this book is to describe theoretical and empirical research on early childhood education and special needs education that focuses on children and students’ learning conditions. This book is dominated by a research tradition which stays close to practice. The chapters focus on research pertaining to preschool, school and its participants in different social contexts, and studying ways in which preschool and other schools offer pedagogical challenges to children with different abilities and experiences.

The chapters include children’s encounters with language, entrepreneurial learning, music education and indoor environments in preschool. Some chapters highlight transitions between preschool, and school, as well as the processes of social interaction and identity. The chapters also deal with questions about inclusion and special educational needs. Children and Young People in School and in Society offers an insight into children and students’ learning conditions of Twenty-first century early childhood education and special needs education. It provides an informative reading experience for students, researchers and policy makers, and even parents that are interested in this subject.
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
Children and Young People in School and in Society – An Introduction
(Anders Garpelin, Anette Sandberg, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 2
The Social Language Environment in Preschool – Theoretical Foundations and Didactic Implications
(Martina Norling, Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 3
Entrepreneurial Learning in Preschool and School
(Anette Sandberg, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 4
Music Education for all Pupils – Implications from a Case Study at a Primary and Upper Primary School in Sweden
(Anna EhrliN, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 5
Places and Spaces in Preschool – Positions and Representations of Children, Gender and Age in the Indoor Environment
(Mia Heikkilä, Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 6
Teachers’ Perceptions of Children’s Diversity in Different Educational Settings – Some Issues to Discuss from a Research Study
(Tina Hellblom-Thibblin and Gunilla Sandberg, Malardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 7
Swedish Classroom Communities Including Learners with Mild Intellectual Disabilities – Lower Secondary School
(Anna-Lena Andersson and Jenny Wilder, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 8
Same Same But different? Educational Transitions of Young Children with Intellectual Disabilities
(Anne Lillvist and Jenny Wilder, Mälardalen University, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 9
Starting School – From the Perspective of Different Children
(Gunilla Sandberg, Tina Hellblom-Thibblin, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Chapter 10
Quality and Ethics in Inductive Research
(Tuula Vuorinen, Mälardalen Univeristy, School of Education, Culture and Communication, Västerås, Sweden)

Index

Audience: For researchers in the Early Childhood Education area, teachers, preschool teachers and special teachers

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