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The Effect of Three Interactive Reading Approaches on Language Ability: An Exploratory Study in Early Childhood Education
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van der Wilt, Femke; Boerma, Inouk; van Oers, Bert; van der Veen, Chiel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Language ability plays a major role in children's future development. In the present study, the effect of three interactive reading approaches on children's language ability was investigated through a pre-posttest design. Participants were N = 73 children (aged 4-6) from three early childhood education classrooms. Classrooms were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, Pretests Posttests, Child Development
Pretend Play and the Cultural Foundations of Mathematics
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Worthington, Maulfry; van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The aim of this study is to uncover the emergence of cultural mathematical understandings and communications in young children's spontaneous pretend play. It is based on Vygotskian cultural-historical perspectives and social-semiotic theory, informed by research into "funds of knowledge" and considers how children's informal knowledge of…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Instruction, Longitudinal Studies, Semiotics
Educational Innovation between Freedom and Fixation: The Cultural-Political Construction of Innovations in Early Childhood Education in the Netherlands
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van Oers, Bert – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2013
As in many countries, in the Netherlands, governmental policy regulates the decisions of schools and care providers that concern and the control of the quality of education and care. Article 23 of the Dutch Constitution defines a fundamental right of freedom in matters of education within the context of institutions such as schools and other…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Child Development