Children and researchers have similar orientations!

In Reunamo’s and Pipere’s new article “Education for Sustainable Development Research from the Researchers’ Point of View” the theoretic principles of Orientation project are applied to researchers. Researchers from eleven countries evaluate their relations to the environment they study. The same orientations can be found for both young children and researchers! Researchers’ way of considering the environment they were studying was reflected both in the important aspects of the research and the way the researchers did their research. The wide application of children’s orientations to scientific research is exciting. the article is published in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. The journal home pages are at http://jsd.sagepub.com/. The article can be found, for example, with a keyword Reunamo.

 

The article on Role play published

In the European Early Childhood Education and Research Journal an article about “Perceiving change in role play” has just been published. The authors are Reunamo, Lee, Wang, Wu, Mau & Lin. The article is based on the 2010 research results. The article can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1350293X.2013.789193#.UcLMTawrgqI

Similar orientations for researchers and day care children!

A new article on research orientations has been published by Reunamo and Pipere in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development. The article title is  “Education for Sustainable Development Research from the Researchers’ Point of View” . In the article the model of children’s orientations is applied to researchers orientations. Researchers from 19 countries described their orientations. Similar orientations can be found for researchers and day care children! The wide applicability of the orientations is mindbending. The journal home page is at http://jsd.sagepub.com. The article can be found by the search word Reunamo.

Children’s orientations and Learning Environment qualities

Dr. Doris Cheng Pui-wah from the Hong Kong Institute of Education has applied the Orientation project interview instrument to compare two different types of learning environment. The preliminary results show for example that in academic-oriented pre-schools children have more uncertain and adaptive views which are related to uncertain relationships with teachers and peers. On the other hand in a more child-centered kindergarten children have more agentive and open views describing more harmonic interaction with teachers and peers. These preliminary results reveal exciting possibilities for building a nourishing social LE, for analyzing social interaction and for evaluating social interaction. The  first glimpses of the mind-blowing research can be found here.

Chang Gung seminar 10th May 2013 presentations

The seminar on Children’s Living and Learning at the Department of Child Education and Care at Chang Gung University of Science and Technology presentations are now available!

Dong Hwa University Conference in 18th May

The 2013 International Conference on Early Childhood Education Pro-Development and Agentive Practice in Dong Hwa University in Hualien was rich both intellectually and emotionally. Both Finnish and Taiwanese developers presented their development models based on the research results. The presenters themselves were best examples of ECEC developers who were aware of the difficulties but also saw the value of their work and presented their results with pride and respect. Thank you all who made it possible! The conference handbook can be retrieved here.

Chang Gung University seminar May 10, 2013

The Department of Child Education and Care at Chang Gung University of Science and Technology organized a seminar on Children’s Living and Learning ~ from children’s perspectives in May 10th 2013. The seminar was an unusually succesful sharing of research findings. We also found mutual interests and seek to collaborate in the near future. The seminar outlook can be retrieved in here. The presentations will be published in the blog soon.

NAER conference presentations

2013 International Conference on Agency and learning took place 14-15 May 2013. The conference was thought-provoking and fruitful. The conference handbook can be retrieved here. Thank you all at the National Academy of Educational Research and especially Rosalind Wu. It was amazing to see tentative ideas from 2008 becoming reality in 2013.

The Finnish presentations at the NAER conference on 14th and 15th May.

The National Academy of Educational Research in Taiwan organizes the second symposium on Agency and Learning in May 2013. The conference has four presentations from Finland:

  • Lasse Lipponen (keynote): From participation to agency: searching for children’ perspective
  • Marja-Liisa Akselin: Teaching and development tasks to support children’s agency and learning in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC)
  • Leila Saros: Physical activity in direct education in Finland and Taiwan
  • Jyrki Reunamo: Reconstructive feedback in inner and environmental changes  

 

 

Finnish presentations at theDong Hwa University

The fruits of the development work are presented in the International Conference at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien Taiwan at 18th May. The Finnish presentations are below:

  • Hyvinkää: Kivistö Merja: Play, social relations and drama
  • Hämeenlinna: Akselin, Marja-Liisa: Children’s choises
  • Järvenpää: Pölkki, Taija: Outdoors, physical activity and safety
  • Kerava: Söderqvist, Heli: Information technology, open simulations
  • Kerava: Timo, Kati:  Information technology, open simulations
  • Nurmijärvi: Käyhkö, Marita: Supporting play
  • Sipoo: Keski-Oja, Mervi: Supporting language development
  • Sipoo: Salomaa, Petra: Supporting language development
  • Tuusula: Joronen, Vesa: Quality and quality evaluation
  • Jyrki Reunamo: Everyone has to participate
  • Jyrki Reunamo: Planning models for ECEC teachers” (The importance of feedback in ECEC development)