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Comparative Study of Preschool Children's Current Health Issues and Health Education in New Zealand and Japan
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Watanabe, Kanae; Dickinson, Annette – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
In New Zealand and Japan, despite health education on food, exercise, and hygiene, children's health is an important concern in preschools. This study investigated the relationship between children's health and health education in New Zealand and Japan using a qualitative interpretative descriptive design method and semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Preschool Children, Child Health
The Influence of Culture in Infant-Toddler Child Care Settings
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Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences
Measuring What Students Entering School Know and Can Do: PIPS Australia 2006-2007
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Wildy, Helen; Styles, Irene – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
This paper reports analysis of 2006-2007 on-entry assessment data from the Performance Indicators in Primary Schools Baseline Assessment (PIPS-BLA) of random samples of students in England, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. The analysis aimed, first, to investigate the validity and reliability of that instrument across countries and sexes, and,…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Comparative Education
Effects of Public Preschool Expenditures on the Test Scores of Fourth Graders: Evidence from TIMSS
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Waldfogel, Jane; Zhai, Fuhua – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
This study examines the effects of public preschool expenditures on the math and science scores of 4th graders, holding constant child, family, and school characteristics, other relevant social expenditures, and country and year effects, in 7 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries--Australia, Japan, the…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Comparative Education
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
"The Value is Enormous--It's Priceless I Think!": New Zealand Preschool Teachers' Understandings of the Early Childhood Curriculum in New Zealand--A Comparative Perspective
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Alvestad, Marit; Duncan, Judith – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article examines a group of New Zealand preschool teachers' perspectives on their early childhood curriculum--"Te Whariki: He Whariki Maatauranga mo ngaa Mokopuna o Aotearoa" (Ministry of Education, 1996). In this discussion we focus on the teachers' understandings of the meaning, value and focus of this curriculum document. This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Evaluation