Educational Encounters: Nordic Studies in Early Childhood Didactics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pramling, Niklas (Editor), Pramling Samuelsson, Ingrid (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: International perspectives on early childhood education and development ; 4
• Subjects: Education.; Art education.; Language and education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Child development.; Childhood Education.; Arts Education.; Language Education.; Mathematics Education.

Qualitative analyses of young children’s learning in natural settings are rare, so this new book will make educators sit up and pay attention. It lays out a Nordic, or continental European teaching and learning paradigm whose didactic framework is distinct from the Anglo-American system. This analys...