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Direct linkFrancis, Becky – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
In spite of continuing patterning of curriculum subject preference and choice by gender, there has been little recent attention to the argument developed in the 1970s that children play with different toys according to their gender, and that these provide girls and boys with (different) curriculum-related skills. The article describes a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Toys, Role, Educational Games
McInnes, Karen; Howard, Justine; Miles, Gareth; Crowley, Kevin – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
This paper presents research that examines the links between practitioners' understanding of play and its relationship to learning, their pedagogic interactions with children and children's own perceptions of their play. Previous research has shown a mismatch between practitioners' understanding of play and their practice. This research identifies…
Descriptors: Play, Child Caregivers, Educational Practices, Individual Differences
From External Inspection to Self-Evaluation: A Study of Quality Assurance in Hong Kong Kindergartens
Wong, Margaret N. C.; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: Hong Kong launched the new mechanism of the Quality Assurance Inspection (QAI) in 2000 to enforce accountability and school improvement in the sector of early childhood education. The QAI comprises 3 stages: school self-evaluation, external inspection, and release of the QAI report to the public. To understand the roles of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Quality Control, Inspection, Kindergarten
Fiore, Lisa; Rosenquest, Barbara – Theory Into Practice, 2010
This article identifies a critical tension within the traditional higher education setting--specifically teacher education classrooms. Using the metaphor of a journey, the authors describe pedagogy and practice using inspirations from the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Participation in a monthly inquiry group is the catalyst…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Figurative Language, Reggio Emilia Approach, Teacher Education
Piburn, Don – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
The 2008 Working Forum on Men in Early Care in Education (WFMECE) was a first-of-its-kind event and is now part of the collective history. Sponsored by the World Forum Foundation in collaboration with the Hawai'i Association for the Education of Young Children and MenTeach.org, the event extended the international dialog on changing roles for men…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Early Childhood Education, Males, Child Care
Brown, Christopher P.; Feger, Beth Smith – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
Federal, state, and local policy makers' high-stakes standards-based accountability reforms are transforming the early childhood teacher education process. These reforms affect how early education teacher candidates figure their role as teachers. By employing Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain's conception of figured worlds to analyze the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role
Download full textCastaneda, Rosa Maria; Golden, Olivia – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2009
This report summarizes the roundtable "Infants and Toddlers in State and Federal Budgets: Yesterday's Choices, Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's Options" conducted by the Urban Institute, with support from the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, on March 30, 2009. The roundtable's focus grew out of the widely perceived mismatch between sharply limited…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Toddlers, Infants, Change Strategies
Thatcher, Karen; Fletcher, Kathryn – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
The purpose of the current study was to examine therapists' perceptions about literacy in early intervention services. Little effort has been devoted to the incorporation of literacy into therapy services for very young children with special needs. In an attempt to understand how therapy providers view the role of literacy in their services, 168…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Program Attitudes
Lyoka, Philemon A. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This paper interrogates the role children's indigenous games of Africa can play in the development of fundamental movement skills relevant in modernized sports. On a daily basis, children in Africa play varieties of traditional games that vary between tribes, communities and distances. However, the efficacy of these games in the development of…
Descriptors: Movement Education, Play, Foreign Countries, African Studies
Kalia, Vrinda – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
The goal of this study was to examine the role of Indian bilingual parents' book reading practices on the development of the children's oral language, narrative and literacy skills in English, their second language. About 24 bilingual children from two preschools in Bangalore, India were tested in schools in English on receptive vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Indians, Syntax, Oral Language, Phonological Awareness
Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development
Bagnato, Stephen J. – School Psychology Review, 2006
This article discusses the topic of early identification and intervention to accelerate learning for young children. It presents the author's reflections on issues and school psychology's role in early care childhood care and education. It focuses on four central themes or issues which require resolution about early childhood care and education…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, School Psychology, Early Intervention
Cutter-Mackenzie, Amy; Edwards, Suzy – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2006
In recent years discussions surrounding early childhood curriculum has focused on the movement from developmental to sociocultural theory. A further area worthy of investigation involves the role of content in early childhood education, specifically the relationship between content, context and pedagogy. The paper draws on teacher vignettes to…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Early Childhood Education, Course Content, Context Effect
Jones, Deborah – Early Child Development and Care, 2003
This article considers the issue of recruitment of men into primary teaching, with particular reference to the early years of schooling. The latest UK statistics reveal that there are 27,000 male primary teachers and 141,000 females. However there are disproportionately greater numbers of male head teachers. The presence of men in this environment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recruitment, Females, Role Models
