The European Journal of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Online ISSN: 2301-2218
European Publisher
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 |