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Having Their Song Heard: Tracking Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions and Confidence in Their Singing Skills
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Neokleous, Rania – Music Education Research, 2013
This paper reports a study investigating pre-service kindergarten teachers' confidence levels and perceptions regarding their singing skills, and the impact of a music methods course on these self-perceptions. The course incorporated singing instruction in 24 lectures and two 10-minute private singing tutorials at the beginning and middle of the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Music Education
Maya the Bee, Scooby Doo and Other Stories: How the Public and Private Distinction Is Depicted in Children's Bidialectal Interactions in Kindergarten
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Sophocleous, Andry – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The complex notion of the public/private distinction of social spheres has not been systematically investigated in sociolinguistics; particularly in the case of bidialectal kindergarten age children and how they construct their social lives around this distinction in a public environment such as that of school. No simple continuum can clearly…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage, Language Variation
Comparing Beliefs and Intentions about the Importance of Teacher-Child Interactions among Greek and Cypriot Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers
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Sakellariou, Maria; Rentzou, Konstantina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
Though a host of research has explored the association between beliefs and practices, limited research has been undertaken exploring the association between beliefs and intentions. Considering the potentially important influence of teachers' beliefs on their practices, the present study aimed to examine what, if anything, Greek and Cypriot…
Descriptors: Correlation, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Cypriot Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers' Beliefs and Intensions about the Importance of Teacher/Child Interactions
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Sakellariou, Maria; Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
Although a host of research has explored the association between beliefs and practices, limited research has been conducted exploring the association between beliefs and intensions. The present study aimed to explore Cypriot pre-service kindergarten teachers' self-reported beliefs and intensions about the importance of teacher/child interactions…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Beliefs
Cypriot Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers' Beliefs about and Practices of Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Education
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Sakellariou, Maria; Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Beliefs are said to affect the pedagogical practice one employs. Considering the potentially important influence of teachers' beliefs on their practices, the level of early childhood teachers' beliefs about developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) and the relationship between their beliefs and practices are regarded as important topics of study…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Developmentally Appropriate Practices