Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners' Perceptions of Children's Risky Play; Examining the Influence of Personality and Gender

Autor/in	Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen
Titel	Early Childhood Education and Care Practitioners' Perceptions of Children's Risky Play; Examining the Influence of Personality and Gender
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 184 (2014) 3, S.434-449 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2013.794797
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Risk; Child Behavior; Play; Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Preschool Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Personality; Kindergarten; Norway; NEO Personality Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Risiko; Spiel; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Lehrerverhalten; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Personalität; Norwegen
Abstract	While there is a growing interest in children's risk-taking behaviours and their safety when at play, there is also a focus on the need to balance the hazards of risks with the benefits of risk. This is also a growing concern among researchers of early childhood education and care (ECEC). The research conducted thus far on ECEC practitioners' perceptions of children's risky play has been qualitative. The aim of this study takes a quantitative approach to ECEC practitioners' perceptions of children's risky play with an aim to reveal how the perception is related to the practitioner's age, gender, and personality. Questionnaires, including a personality test, were administered to 116 Norwegian ECEC practitioners (20% male practitioners). The results indicate that male practitioners score higher on excitement-seeking scales than female practitioners, have a more liberal attitude towards children's risky play, and allow children to engage in greater risky play than women. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10