NDLI: Multilingual Affordances in a Swedish Preschool: An Action Research Project

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ljunggren, Åsa
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This article summarizes the work and the main findings of an action research project that was conducted in an early childhood education and care setting in the city of Malmö, Sweden in the autumn of 2013 and spring 2014. Rönnerman’s model (Aktionsforskning i praktiken: förskola och skola på vetenskaplig grund [Action research in practice: preschools and schools on scientific basis]. Studentlitteratur, Lund, 2012) for action research was applied, and the article responds to the research question What happens when parents are involved in constructing a multilingual environment through the use of digital tools in the daily activities in preschool? The analysis was performed collectively by a researcher from the Swedish Research Schools for Preschool Teachers; a teacher with graduate diploma in special needs education, specialized in children’s language development and the staff from the participating preschool. The children were aged from 1 to 3 years and had different first languages. By following, documenting, and analyzing the children’s encounters with digital tools that recorded parents’ verbal monologues, three main themes were identified: Moving from a question–answer pedagogy to new ways of interaction, children’s awareness of the different languages in preschool, parents’ and teachers’ feeling of togetherness.
Starting Page	605
Ending Page	612
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10823301
Journal	Early Childhood Education Journal
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	6
e-ISSN	15731707
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-10-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Action research Affordance Early childhood Multilingual Learning & Instruction Education Sociology of Education Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Developmental and Educational Psychology

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