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Understanding pre-service teachers' approaches to preschool education
Title Understanding pre-service teachers' approaches to preschool education Subtitle findings in the Czech Republic Author info Peter Gavora, Adriana Wiegerová Author Gavora Peter (50%)
Co-authors Wiegerová Adriana (50%)
Source document ICEEPSY 2016 : The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS, 7th international conference on education and educational psychology, Rhodos, Greece, 10-15 October 2016. Vol. 16 (2016), pp. 566-573. - Nicosia, Cyprus : Future Acad, 2016 ; ICEEPSY 2016 international conference on education and educational psychology Keywords materské školy - kindergartens - kindergardens učiteľky children's concepts učitelia materských škôl - preschool teachers - kindergarten teachers didactic strategies deti predškolského veku - predškoláci - preschool children - preschool-age children Language English Country Cyprus systematics 37 Annotation This qualitative study aimed to answer two broad questions: (1) How do pre-service teachers at the beginning of their pre-graduate university programme conceptualise the purposes and aims of preschool? (2) How do they view the essence of a teacher's work with children in preschool? In-depth interviews were conducted to gather data about the participants' conceptualisations. Open coding and thematic analysis were performed to process the interview data. The participants were 34 students in the first semester of the bachelor of preschool pedagogy programme at a university in the Czech Republic, and had no direct teaching experience in preschool education. The participants indicated that the primary function of preschool is to provide space for a child's socialisation into the peer group and preparation for entry into primary school. The core task of the preschool teacher was conceptualised as the establishing safe environment, the exercising of (mild) authority, the expression of emotion Public work category AFC No. of Archival Copy E4207 Catal.org. BB301 - Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici Database xpca - PUBLIKAČNÁ ČINNOSŤ 
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