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Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study considered the influences of socioeconomic status (SES), home learning environment, and age of enrollment in early childhood education and care (ECEC) on early literacy and numeracy development of 5-year-olds in England (N = 2,577), Estonia (N = 2,110), and the United States (N = 2,234) by leveraging data from the International Early…
Descriptors: Literacy, Numeracy, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Influence
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Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen; Cordovil, Rita; Hagen, Trond Løge; Lopes, Frederico – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Risk aversive perceptions and practices among ECEC practitioners and parents have proven to be an important reason for the decline of young children's opportunities for free outdoor play. Yet, there are also cultural differences in the perception of children's risky play. This study aims at examining the factors that ECEC practitioners and parents…
Descriptors: Barriers, Play, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Tamm, Anni; Tõugu, Pirko; Tulviste, Tiia – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of individual and situational factors on nursery school children's conflict management strategies. This observational study of triadic interaction was carried out among 69 children whose mean age was 48 months. The video-recorded data were coded for the type of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Conflict Resolution, Video Technology
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Ugaste, Aino; Tuul, Maire; Niglas, Katrin; Neudorf, Evelyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
As in many Western countries, children's learning in the curriculum of Estonian Early Childhood Education is seen as a lifelong process, wherein the teacher is primarily a guide to children's active learning. Thus, a child-centred approach to learning is valued in the national curriculum, but our interest was whether this approach is fixed in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children