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Early Childhood Education and Care Teachers' Gaze Behavior Across Pedagogical Episodes in Toddler Groups in Finland

Publiceringsår

2025

Upphovspersoner

Isotalo, Susanna; Ukkonen-Mikkola, Tuulikki; Lämsä, Joni; Rutanen, Niina

Abstrakt

Teacher–child interaction is central in pedagogical activities in early childhood education and care (ECEC). In these activities, teachers’ visual gaze is a valuable tool for communication, but this has received little attention in ECEC research. Recent technological advancements in eye-tracking provide an approach to take a deeper look at how teachers focus their visual gaze during activities. Our study focused on three ECEC teachers’ visual gaze behavior during pedagogical activities in a group of children under three years of age (later toddlers) in Finland, to gain understanding of how teachers use their gaze to facilitate interactions and pedagogy. The data were collected using eye-tracking glasses in two types of activities: play and guided activity. From these eye-tracking recordings, we identified pedagogical episodes (e.g., guidance). To analyze teachers’ visual gaze behavior, we also coded the fixations to the different areas of interest (e.g., teaching materials). The findings showed that the teachers’ aim for interaction with children was associated with their visual gaze behavior on teacher- and child-initiated episodes. Moreover, the activity's structure and the teacher's position also played a role in how teachers focus their visual gaze. In this article, we also discuss the potential of eye-tracking technology in reflection of practices implemented in ECEC and we argue that the use of eye-tracking technology is an area that merits further exploration.
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Organisationer och upphovspersoner

Jyväskylä universitet

Rutanen Niina Orcid -palvelun logo

Isotalo Susanna Orcid -palvelun logo

Ukkonen-Mikkola Tuulikki Orcid -palvelun logo

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Publikationsform

Artikel

Moderpublikationens typ

Tidning

Artikelstyp

En originalartikel

Målgrupp

Vetenskaplig

Kollegialt utvärderad

Kollegialt utvärderad

UKM:s publikationstyp

A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

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Förläggare

Springer

Volym

57

Nummer

1

Artikelnummer

102179

Sidor

1-23

Publikationsforum

58387

Publikationsforumsnivå

1

Öppen tillgång

Öppen tillgänglighet i förläggarens tjänst

Ja

Öppen tillgång till publikationskanalen

Delvis öppen publikationskanal

Parallellsparad

Ja

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Vetenskapsområden

Pedagogik

Nyckelord

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Publiceringsland

Nederländerna

Förlagets internationalitet

Internationell

Språk

engelska

Internationell sampublikation

Nej

Sampublikation med ett företag

Nej

DOI

10.1007/s13158-023-00387-6

Publikationen ingår i undervisnings- och kulturministeriets datainsamling

Ja