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Direct linkRiley, Shannon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study is to portray kindergarten teachers' developmentally appropriate practices in order to authenticate the essential component of play. Recently, student achievement has been the primary focus in Early Childhood Education, and play is seen as an action that precludes academic learning. This is a qualitative study of…
Descriptors: Play, Public Schools, Kindergarten, Educational History
Watts, Karen Young – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The field of early care and education of young children is changing rapidly and responding to forces from the national, state and local levels. Teachers of young children are being required to pursue higher education for employment in the field, and community colleges have stepped to the forefront to provide educational opportunities for teachers…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Preservice Teacher Education, Case Studies, Young Children
Werner, Michael J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation presents a historical case study of the Egg Harbor Township School District bond referendum that passed with an exceptionally high 92 percent of votes in January 2005. The methodology used in this study resulted in both an examination of the components of the New Jersey Public School District bond referendum process as well as an…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Educational History, Primary Education
Jerue, Gary A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There are a limited number of studies that examine the predictors of academic success in charter schools (Lawton, 2009). This study utilized a multiple regression analysis to identify the best predictors of academic success in language arts literacy (LAL) and math on state assessments in New Jersey charter schools. This study included four student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Language Arts, Literacy, Mathematics Achievement
Haigh, Karen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The study examined the professional development system of an early childhood education program which was influenced by the Reggio Emilia Approach to early learning. This multi-site program thrived within low-income, inner-city communities of Chicago. Literature connected to the program's historical context of the Settlement House and the Reggio…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Young Children, Adult Learning
Brian, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation explores the milieu in which children of Imperial Berlin were raised. When contemporaries in the rapidly expanding capital of the Second German Empire (1871-1918) looked at children, this milieu darkened. The city, they argued, threatened children's growing bodies, and such institutions as the home, the clinic, and the school…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Child Rearing
