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Participação das crianças: Dos direitos às práticas
Barros, Sílvia; Pessanha, Manuela; Guimarães, Cristiana
A focus group study on participatory practices in Early Childhood Education and...
Barros, Sílvia; Coelho, Vera; Wysłowska, Olga; Penderi, Efthymia; Taelman, Helena; Araújo, Sara Barros; Correia, Nadine; Markowska-Manista, UrszulaParticipation in educational settings is a universal right of every child, consigned by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This right encompasses the need to protect and encourage young children´s active participation and decision-making in early childhood education and care. Research Findings: This qualitative study, inspired by the Lundy model (2007), examined ECEC teachers’ (n = 25) an...
Exploring teacher-family partnerships in infant center-based care: A comparativ...
Coelho, Vera; Barros, Sílvia; Peixoto, Carla; Pessanha, Manuela; Cadima, Joana; Bryant, DonnaTeacher-family partnership are elements of high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC). Nevertheless, the need for better understanding such partnerships and factors influencing it particularly for children under three is underlined. This study compares teachers’ and mothers’ reports regarding real and ideal partnership practices, exploring child, ECEC and family level predictors of partnership. Moth...
Children's voices in Early Childhood Education and Care
Correia, Nadine; Aguiar, Cecília; Taelman, Helena; Wyslowska, Olga; Barros, Sílvia; Correia, Isabel; Markowska-Manista, Ursula; Araújo, Sara BarrosListening to and considering children’s voices shows respectful regard for children’s needs, interests and experiences, and helps discern what is meaningful for them in a particular subject or situation. Creating opportunities for the expression of children’s voices implies child-centred practice: recognising children as active agents, with evolving competences and capacity to understand, think and choose with ...
Variations of Quality of Teacher–infant Interactions Across Play and Care Routi...
Cadima, Joana; Barros, Sílvia; Bryant, Donna M.; Peixoto, Carla; Coelho, Vera; Pessanha, ManuelaThis study examined the extent to which the quality of teacher-infant interactions varies across play and routine care activities. In addition, the effects of the quantity of adult involvement in the quality of teacher-infant interactions were investigated. Participants were teachers and infants from 90 infant classrooms in Portugal. Classrooms had, on average, six infants enrolled (M = 6.38, SD = 2.34), with t...