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Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Rajendram, Shakina; Eisazadeh, Nazila – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
This research explores young Indigenous children's multimodal meaning-making to carry out social intentions in dramatic and construction/materials play settings. The participants are two teachers and 21 children from two Northern Canadian Indigenous communities. Underpinned by social semiotic theory, the research involves inductive analyses of six…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Drama, Play
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
Language planning and policy has evolved from considering policy as one of states' affairs at its early stages to how policy actors exercise their agency to appropriate and enact policy in micro and local contexts. Ethnography of language policy is predominantly used today to explore why policies are enacted in a certain way and not otherwise,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Policy Analysis, Ethnography, Social Theories
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Albaiz, Najla Essa; Ernest, James M. – Childhood Education, 2015
Discipline and behavior modification in schools is a culturally dependent and sensitive subject. Despite research demonstrating that corporal punishment is not effective, it remains a common practice in over 70 countries worldwide. School discipline practices vary widely around the world and even within national borders. While physical punishment…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Moral Development, Moral Values, Child Development
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Wickerd, Garry; Hulac, David – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2017
Accurate and rapid identification of students displaying behavioral problems requires instrumentation that is user friendly and reliable. The purpose of the study was to evaluate a multi-item direct behavior rating scale called the Direct Behavior Rating-Multiple Item Scale (DBR-MIS) for disruptive behavior to determine the number of…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Kindergarten, Behavior Problems, Young Children
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Storkel, Holly L.; Komesidou, Rouzana; Pezold, Mollee J.; Pitt, Adrienne R.; Fleming, Kandace K.; Romine, Rebecca Swineburn – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The goal was to determine whether interactive book reading outcomes for children with developmental language disorder (DLD) were affected by manipulation of dose (i.e., the number of exposures to the target word during a book reading session) and dose frequency (i.e., the number of repeated book reading sessions) and whether pretreatment…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Definitions, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments
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Call, Andrea; Domenech Rodríguez, Melanie M.; Vázquez, Alejandro L.; Corralejo, Samantha M. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2018
Dual language immersion programs are increasing in popularity. Yet little is known about what motivates parents to enroll their children in dual language immersion. The theory of planned behavior posits that behavior is based on attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control. The current study was an exploratory evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Behavior Theories, Attitudes, Self Control
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White, Julia M.; Ferri, Beth; Ashby, Christine E.; Bern, Paul H.; Ashby, Lauren – Educational Forum, 2020
Using a DisCrit intersectional lens and statistical and spatial methods, we trace how the creation of K-8 schools functioned to create pockets of privilege in one urban U.S. school district. K-8 schools were both whiter and wealthier than district averages, serving as "enclave" schools. Although far fewer students with disabilities were…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Urban Schools
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Waite, Shannon R. – Journal of Educational Supervision, 2021
COVID-19 and the demand for racial justice caused the dark underbelly of white supremacy to be laid bare during 2020. These events call for a reexamination of the ontological and epistemological frameworks in academe and specifically within the field of educational leadership. The legacy of white supremacist ideology prevails as the existing and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration, Educational History
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
First-order and advanced theory of mind (ToM and AToM), and their structures and relations were investigated in 229 children aged 5-8 years. ToM was assessed using 6 tasks from the first-order ToM scale, while AToM was measured using an 18-item battery (higher-order false-belief understanding; strange stories; faux pas test; eyes test;…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Kindergarten, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
James, Syretta R.; Liu, Shihching Jessica; Maina, Nyambura; Wade, Julie; Wang, Helen; Wilson, Heather; Wolanin, Natalie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2021
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to overwhelm the functioning and outcomes of educational systems throughout the nation. The public education system is under particular scrutiny given that students, families, and educators are under considerable stress to maintain academic progress. Since the beginning of the crisis, school-systems…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
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Matthews, Nicole L.; Goldberg, Wendy A. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
The two prior studies that have examined associations between the sibling constellation and theory of mind in autism spectrum disorder yielded discrepant findings. Thus, efforts to better understand the sibling-theory of mind link in autism spectrum disorder are necessary. This study examined a sample of prekindergarten- and kindergarten-aged…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Yeh, Stuart S. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Value-added modeling (VAM) has been used to rank teachers and assess teacher and school quality. The apparent relationship between value-added teacher rankings and gains in student performance provide a foundation for the view that the contribution of teachers to student performance is the largest factor influencing student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Myhre, Cecilie Ottersland; Myrvold, Hanne Berit; Joramo, Unn-Wenche; Thoresen, Marianne – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
This article draws on new materialism, especially the work of Karen Barad, in order to explore curious encounters and intra-actions within the context of a Norwegian kindergarten. The article argues that intra-actions between both human and non-human agents can potentiate forms of learning as well as forms of knowledge that can be neither…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Workplace Learning, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
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Burgin, Ximena D.; Daniel, Mayra C.; Riley, Carolyn F. – TESL-EJ, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled educational communities across the world into emergency remote models of instruction. This study documented the perceptions of 11 teachers from the State of Illinois regarding the quality of online instruction in their schools and their unexpected challenges from March of 2019-2020 academic year. Three points of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Educational Change
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Fu, Shuang; Harman, Ruth; Aubain, Yamileth – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
This paper examines how two language educators of color developed critical multilingual language awareness (CMLA) in a combined youth participatory action research and teacher education program. Specifically, as a multilingual and diverse group of educators, we chose to use Latin@/o Critical Theory (LatCrit) as our methodology to align with the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Minority Group Teachers, Action Research, Participatory Research
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