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Grant M. Mwinsa; Murunwa Dagada – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2024
Background: The most effective indigenous games well known to pre-schoolers must be used in schools, given the significance of literacy and numeracy abilities in children's future educational prospects and successes. Aim: The goal of this article was to determine the efficacy of indigenous games in promoting literacy and numeracy skills among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Game Based Learning, Indigenous Knowledge, Literacy Education
UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Children begin learning about gender stereotypes as early as age two. The pre-primary education system does not always deliver on its potential to tackle and address harmful gender stereotypes while they are being absorbed by the youngest learners. All components of the pre-primary system have a role to play in breaking down these stereotypes.…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Sex Stereotypes, Gender Differences, Preschool Teachers
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Hill, Pixita del Prado; McMillen, Susan; Paterson, Wendy; Sepulveda, Tamara Irupe Alvarrez; Suriel, Patricia Thorndike; Ross, Sarah Ludwig; Kupper, Manfred; Ayala, Karen Alejandra Zuniga; Hicks, Richelle; Kaleba, Maina – School-University Partnerships, 2018
The SUNY Buffalo State Professional Development Schools Consortium is honored to have been selected as one of the recipients of the 2018 Award for Exemplary Professional Development Schools Achievement for its international PDS partnerships. Beginning with one school partner in 1991 in Western New York, the SUNY Buffalo State PDS Consortium has…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Consortia, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
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Gove, Amber; Dombrowski, Eileen; Pressley, Jennifer; King, Simon; Weatherholt, Tara – Global Education Review, 2018
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 marked a new milestone for early childhood education, care, and development. For the first time in the framework of global goals, preschool education was described as integral to children's school readiness. Yet with few exceptions, much of the research on the impact of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, School Readiness
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Kalinde, Bibian; Vermeulen, Dorette – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
The influence that the use of a familiar language has on learning has long been explored with suggestions that a child's mother tongue is the most suited initial language of instruction in school. In Zambia, however, this is not the case as the majority of people think that young children should learn to speak in English as soon as possible…
Descriptors: Native Language, Music Education, African Languages, Singing
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Sakyi, Kwesi Atta – African Educational Research Journal, 2017
Early childhood education has received attention from philosophers, educationists and psycho-analysts such as Plato, Avicenna, Locke, Pestalozzi, Whitehead, Carl Jung, Binet, Piaget, Montessori, Sigmund Freund, Howard Gardner, among others. In Africa, the backdrop of poverty, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in strife-torn countries, among…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Governance, Intervention