EjSBS - The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Online ISSN: 2301-2218
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Increasing Immigrant Children’s Participation in the Finnish Early Childhood Education Context

Table 1: The correlations between the immigrant children’s participative action and the other observed activities

Observed activity Correlation* Significance(two-tailed) df
Involvement in an activity 0.393 < 0.0005 308
Being attentive towards a group of children (two or more children. For example, toys can be included as objects of attention.) 0.381 < 0.0005 308
The observed emotion is surprise, alertness, curiosity or excitement. 0.297 < 0.0005 308
The observed emotion is happiness, joy or contentment. 0.289 < 0.0005 308
Role play (The child or the toy plays a role.) 0.285 < 0.0005 308
The amount of observed contacts with other children 0.267 < 0.0005 308
Children’s physical activity 0.255 < 0.0005 308
Being attentive towards another child (For example, toys can be included as objects of attention.) 0.21 < 0.0005 308
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