This paper reports on a case study which explores the co-creation of a zone of proximal development (ZPD) in a mathematics teaching-learning activity in a Norwegian kindergarten. To capture the complexity of teaching and learning mathematics in kindergarten the study uses qualitative methods within an interpretative paradigm. The findings illustrate how a five-year-old girl and a kindergarten teacher co-create a ZPD by expanding each other’s action possibilities, and how the co-creation is fundamentally based on mutual trust and responsibility. The results give insights into how mathematical learning possibilities may be promoted in kindergarten. The study illustrates the importance of being receptive to children’s contributions and, above all, to trust children’s abilities to take responsibility for moving mathematical teaching-learning activities forward.
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2014, 9
p. 54–59
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In Russian psychology main components of the role-playing game are described: an imaginary situation, role, playing action, usage of the substitute objects. Since it is a leading activity of the preschoolers, the presence of the same components is needed for didactic games (especially when children are 3–5 years old). Didactic games should become role-playing. For many preschool children problems in reading are not associated with laziness or intellectual deficits – is the inability to “jump” through the intermediate links of the learning process. The task of the teacher in this regard is to build the process of learning to read in a creative way: to find solutions for each pedagogical task in a role-playing didactic game which turns learning into
a joyful fascinating process.
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