Pre-school Classroom Environment: Significant upon Childrens’ Play Behaviour?

Children’s vocal behaviour in a pre-school environment and resulting vocal function

This study aims to shed some light onto the relationship between the degree of hoarseness in children’s voices observed at different times during a day in pre-school and different aspects of their speech behaviour. Behavioural aspects include speech activity, phonation time, F0 variation, speech intensity and the relationship between speech intensity and background noise intensity. The results ...

Children, play, and computers in pre-school education

The paper reports a study designed to inform the development of an information and communication technology strategy for the pre-school years of education. The main methods of collecting evidence were observations at seven pre-school settings and interviews with at least two practitioners and a number of children at each site. Practitioners generally referred to children “playing with the compu...

The Virtual School: An integrated collaborative environment for the classroom

A significant opportunity presented by the availability of high-speed network access in the classroom is the ability to collaborate with remote students and mentors. To be successful, however, the design of tools to support collaborative activities must consider the unique constraints of the classroom. In this paper we discuss these constraints and overview the Virtual School, a collaborative e...

Play in pre-school centres--I. Play measures and their relation to age, sex and I.Q.

The Natural Environment as a Playground for Children: The Impact of Outdoor Play Activities in Pre-Primary School Children

in natural environments, but only a few studies have Norwegian studies have revealed a disquieting tenbeen done in this field (Bang et al., 1989; Fjørtoft, 1999; dency that children are becoming more sedentary in Grahn et al., 1997). We know far too little about how their adolescence. They spend more time, approximately the natural environment functions as a playground for three hours a day, on...