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Jorunn Spord Borgen; Gunn Engelsrud – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
In this article, the authors address some of the scientific challenges associated with using observation as a research method. The authors ask how researchers contextualise and understand observation in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and how it is conducted. Using a vignette in the kindergarten context, the authors explore how observation…
Descriptors: Observation, Research Problems, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Teresa Elkin Postila; Christine Eriksson – Gender and Education, 2025
This article aims to problematize knowledge production as merely an academic researcher endeavour by investigating how research can invite preschool-aged children to activate knowledge "in situ." Informed by Isabelle Stengers' theoretical framework, we developed the research methodology of Research prACTivisms through three propositions:…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Activism
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Ling Zhang; Richard Allen Carter; Jeffrey A. Greene; Matthew L. Bernacki – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Educators and instructional designers have used the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide their design of inclusive instruction for students with and without disabilities. Despite UDL having entered its 4th decade of development and research, there have been ongoing critiques of UDL for lacking clarity in definition, challenges…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Implementation, Barriers, Preschool Education
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Debbie Stott; Chronoula Voutsina – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
This paper aims to contribute to the advancement of methodological practice for phenomenographic research by introducing the notion of a "lens of awareness," as a device that can enable researchers to zoom into the detail of the research process (the parts of the whole) and out again to the related context of a phenomenographic study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Preschool Children, Numbers
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Elizabeth Y. S. Boileau – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
Though there has been a marked increase in research driven by posthumanist theory and inspired by the common worlds research approach, practical approaches to conducting this type of research have not been well documented and shared within the literature. This article explores the process of navigating the planning and conducting of research that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Young Children, Outdoor Education, Place Based Education
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Youmi Suk – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs have gained significant popularity as a quasi-experimental device for evaluating education programs and policies. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of RD designs, focusing on the continuity-based framework, the most widely adopted RD framework. We first review the fundamental aspects of RD…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Education, Regression (Statistics), Test Validity
Vanessa Wintoneak; Mindy Blaise – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses responsive walking methods from a yearlong river-child-walking project situated in early childhood education. Grounded by feminist anti-colonialism, this project reconfigured children's relations with a local river and challenged dominant, extractive methods of discovery. A behind-the-scenes approach is taken in this case…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Place Based Education, Decision Making, Case Studies
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Han Qin; Konstanze Schoeps; Hongbiao Yin – European Journal of Education, 2024
Early childhood teachers' emotions have increasingly received the attention of researchers in the past decades. The present study conducted a systematic review of the research on early childhood teachers' emotions published in English up to 2022. Based on evidence from 103 empirical studies, the results presented the significant roles of early…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Characteristics, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
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Mirela Scortescu; Simona Sava – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
The initial training of future teachers in pre-primary and primary education is of major importance for the quality of education of pre-school and early school-age children. It involves preparing students, for a teaching career and involves both theoretical training and practical introduction to teaching. The practical part of training is done…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Coordinators
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Avi Feller; Maia C. Connors; Christina Weiland; John Q. Easton; Stacy B. Ehrlich; John Francis; Sarah E. Kabourek; Diana Leyva; Anna Shapiro; Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado – Grantee Submission, 2024
One part of COVID-19's staggering impact on education has been to suspend or fundamentally alter ongoing education research projects. This article addresses how to analyze the simple but fundamental example of a multi-cohort study in which student assessment data for the final cohort are missing because schools were closed, learning was virtual,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Kindergarten, Preschool Children
Marianne Nikolov, Editor; Stela Letica Krevelj, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Over the past six decades, the field of teaching modern foreign languages to young learners has come a long way, from the early surmises about the advantages of a young start to today's widespread integration of foreign languages into curricula in public and private schools. The chapters in this book bring together internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, FLES
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Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – AERA Open, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
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Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Grantee Submission, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
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Shauna Schechtel; Amanda Bongers – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
A goal in chemistry education research and teaching is to make chemistry education inclusive to our diverse students. Ethnography is one approach that can support this goal, because it supports researchers and educators in questioning what is considered ordinary by exploring chemistry as a culture. By exploring chemistry as a culture, we can…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Inclusion, Student Diversity
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Antonia Petropoulou; Konstantinos Lavidas; Stamatis Papadakis – Educational Process: International Journal, 2024
Background/purpose: Awareness of the mathematical skills and knowledge children possess in their early years is widely accepted. This includes various common positive aspects, not only for educators but also for researchers and policymakers. This study presents a systematic review conducted to meticulously identify empirical studies published in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Young Children, Mathematical Concepts
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