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Marilyn Fleer; Sue March; Anne Suryani – Science Education, 2024
Calls to bring more equity into science education research (McWayne and Melzi, 2023) are most notable for early childhood. We know very little about the teaching of science to infants and toddlers, yet this is where science education begins. To address the dearth in research, we undertook an in-depth intervention study in an Australian early…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Science Education, Early Childhood Education
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Saltmarsh, Sue; Lee, I-Fang – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2021
Play is a central discourse in policy and practice pertaining to young children's learning, development and well-being in many countries around the world. Dominant ways of understanding and advocating for play often construct universalising notions of children and childhood, overlooking that play is always-already culturally situated and…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Development, Psychological Patterns
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Needham, Martin; Jackson, Dianne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
There are an increasing number of international sociocultural studies exploring how variances of practice and environment impact upon childhoods. This article is intended to inform the process of selecting settings for comparative study by reflecting on two separate studies of groups which initially appear to be examples of similar services…
Descriptors: Play, Groups, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
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Coley, Rebekah Levine; Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran; Sims, Jacqueline – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Using nationally representative data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC; N = 5,107), this study assessed prospective connections between children's early education and care (EEC) experiences from infancy through preschool and their cognitive and behavioral functioning in 1st grade. Incorporating 6 waves of data, analyses…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Child Behavior, Grade 1