Agentic playful pre-service teachers: positionings from teacher-initiated playful teacher to community-shared playful teacher

Play and playfulness are understood as basic and vital elements of early childhood education (ECE), and together with playful pedagogies, they perform a central role in Finnish ECE. In multidisciplinary research, children’s learning is generally understood through the inquiring process of play. Howe...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Education
Main Authors:	Anitta Melasalmi, Signe Siklander, Marjaana Kangas, Tarja-Riitta Hurme
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-01
Subjects:	playful teacher agency pre-service teacher pedagogy early childhood teacher education teacher education
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1102901/full