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Improving the Quality of Adaptive Learning Support Provided by Kindergarten Teachers in Play-Based Mathematical Learning Situations
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Wullschleger, Andrea; Lindmeier, Anke; Heinze, Aiso; Meier-Wyder, Anuschka; Leuchter, Miriam; Vogt, Franziska; Opitz, Elisabeth Moser – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Adaptive learning support is a key element of high quality preschool education and includes the planning of learning situations and teacher-child interactions. The provision of effective adaptive learning support in kindergarten is challenging. This longitudinal experimental study examined the impact of two professional development programs on 132…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
Maths Is Not Dangerous--Attitudes of People Working in German Kindergarten about Mathematics in Kindergarten
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Benz, Christiane – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2012
This article deals with the results of a questionnaire survey, in which attitudes and beliefs of people working in German kindergarten about "mathematics," "teaching and learning of mathematics" and "mathematics in the early years" were evaluated. After a quantitative analysis it can be stated that a schematic view of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Educational Objectives
Teachers' Views on Organizational and Pedagogical Approaches to Early Bilingual Education: A Case Study of Bilingual Kindergartens in Germany and Israel
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Moin, Victor; Breitkopf, Anna; Schwartz, Mila – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The article focuses on bilingual kindergartens in Germany and Israel offering education in both host (German or Hebrew) and immigrant (Russian) languages. The main questions are how teachers of bilingual kindergartens understand and explain the organizational and pedagogical principles of the kindergartens and how they negotiate home and host…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Educational Principles
French Nursery Schools and German Kindergartens: Effects of Individual and Contextual Variables on Early Learning
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Tazouti, Youssef; Viriot-Goeldel, Caroline; Matter, Cornelie; Geiger-Jaillet, Anemone; Carol, Rita; Deviterne, Dominique – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2011
The present article investigates the effects of individual and contextual variables on children's early learning in French nursery schools and German kindergartens. Our study of 552 children at preschools in France (299 children from French nursery schools) and Germany (253 children from German kindergartens) measured skills that facilitate the…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Foreign Countries, French, German
A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
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Prochner, Larry – University of British Columbia Press, 2009
In the early nineteenth century, governments began to develop specialized educational programs--kindergartens and infant or nursery schools--to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in England and Europe, but what happened when they were transported to the colonies? This book unwinds…
Descriptors: Nursery Schools, Early Childhood Education, Integrity, Foreign Countries