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Krystyna Nowak-Fabrykowski – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
Building on the idea that the culture of an organisation has an extremely deep influence on the personalities, minds and identities of people who participate in it (Hofstede 2015) -- we reflected on how the US and Polish cultures' specific values and beliefs were represented and symbolised in the early childhood settings. We focused our analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
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Yoon, Jiyoon; Martin, Leisa A. – Research in Science Education, 2019
Previous research studies in early childhood teacher education have indicated that teacher candidates are not adequately prepared to demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to teach science to all children including culturally and linguistically diverse students. To address this issue, the researchers provided 31 early childhood teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Culturally Relevant Education
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Atiles, Julia T.; Almodóvar, Mayra; Chavarría Vargas, Aleida; Dias, Maria J. A.; Zúñiga León, Irma M. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a world crisis of an unprecedented nature. In March 2020, due to closing of non-essential private and public educational institutions, early childhood professionals had to quickly adapt and respond to the demands for social distancing, hygiene, new protocols and transition to online education. Alternatively,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, School Closing
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LaForett, Doré R.; Mendez, Julia L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study examined associations between parents' developmentally appropriate beliefs about young children's play and responsive parenting. Low-income parents and their children enrolled in Head Start programmes (n = 231) in the United States participated in the study. Responsive parenting skills (characterized by high levels of warmth and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Play, Preschool Children, Mother Attitudes
Gube, Maren; Shore, Bruce M. – Online Submission, 2018
From the 1990s until 2017 the High Ability and Inquiry Research Group (HAIR) at McGill University in Montreal, received C$1.3M in research funds from Canadian, Quebec, and US agencies to support its research and graduate training in education and educational psychology. Their research encompassed two principal areas, Inquiry in Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Educational Objectives, Academic Ability
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Guo, Ying; Justice, Laura M.; Sawyer, Brook; Tompkins, Virginia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This study examined how teacher (teaching experience, perceptions of teacher collaboration and teacher influence) and classroom (children's engagement) characteristics predicted teacher self-efficacy for 48 preschool teachers in the U.S. Results showed a significant interaction effect between teachers' perceptions of collaboration and children's…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Influence, Preschool Teachers
Trivette, Carol M.; Dunst, Carl J.; Hamby, Deborah W.; Meter, Diana – Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, 2012
Meta-analyses of the findings from 29 studies including 4,194 early childhood practitioners showed that different practitioner belief appraisals (endorsement, importance, self-efficacy) were related to the intent to use and the adoption and use of different kinds of early childhood practices (developmentally appropriate practices, curricular…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Beliefs
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Suzuki, Sawako; Holloway, Susan D.; Yamamoto, Yoko; Mindnich, Jessica D. – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
To understand the conditions that give rise to parenting self-efficacy in Japan and the United States, the authors have investigated its relation to the perceptions of support available to mothers of children in the final year of preschool (N = 235; n = 121 in United States, n = 114 in Japan). Hierarchical regression analysis indicates that in…
Descriptors: Mothers, Self Efficacy, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries