o:27931 Prolonged engagement with a boy, a 35-cm length of spaghetti, and a 35-second video en There is nothing unusual when mothers film their adorable children, but when the mother is also an art teacher, she can capture remarkable moments in her child’s play with materials. There is nothing extraordinary when students studying early childhood education (ECE) analyze videos. However, when one 20- to 60-second video replaces 10 days (270,000 seconds) of practical training in a nursery school, the opportunity for slow and repetitive analysis of a child’s play with materials could facilitate deep connections through “prolonged engagement” (Bresler, 2006, p. 56) and new insights into explorative material play. There is nothing new about teacher educators collaborating across Europe, but when the surging pandemic required extraordinary creativity in the spring of 2020, we—two art teachers in ECE in Serbia and Norway—improvised by teaching with what we had on hand: short videos of the first author’s son that simulated what might take place in a nursery school. 1552099 10.1080/00043125.2021.2009280 2023-01-19T12:30:43.580Z 44 yes 46 Ана Сарвановић Универзитет у Београду Учитељски факултет 0000-0003-1910-163X application/pdf 1393249 https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:27931 no yes 18 70 1552253 11A42 Art Education 75 50 52 Taylor and Francis Group 2022