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Direct linkFarewell, Charlotte V.; Maiurro, Emily; Powers, Jamie; Puma, Jini – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objective: The Healthy Environment Project (HEP) was designed to improve familiarity with attitudes, confidence and knowledge related to health-promoting best practices, as well as the implementation of health-promoting policy, system and environment best practice change in diverse early childhood education settings. Design: Pre-post study design…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Best Practices, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education
Howe, Nina; Perlman, Michal; Bergeron, Catherine; Burns, Samantha – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: The Scottish government is in the process of transforming their early childhood learning and care landscape by doubling the number of free hours of childcare for families and by requiring that all children in care spend a significant portion of each day outdoors. Thus, the government is promoting outdoor play programs. We…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Play, Physical Environment, Educational Policy
McGuire, Julianne; Irvine, Susan; Smith, Julie; Gallegos, Danielle – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services are vital in the establishment of optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices and long-term health. This qualitative study, informed by Social Cognitive Theory, aimed to describe ECEC infant feeding environments. Nineteen formal long day care and family day care ECEC services and 124…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Infants
Gau, Bih-Shya; Hung, Chao-Chia – Journal of School Health, 2014
Background: The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of a questionnaire that assesses preschool teachers' self-efficacy in providing asthma care. Methods: A total of 407 teachers from 54 preschools in Taiwan participated in the study by completing the asthma management self-efficacy scale. We assessed validity…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Psychometrics, Foreign Countries, Diseases
Askell-Williams, Helen; Murray-Harvey, Rosalind – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
New policy initiatives, such as those concerned with promoting young children's positive mental health, highlight the need for good quality professional education in the early childhood education and care sector. However, although a wealth of literature exists from the school sector, little is known about professional education in early childhood…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Mental Health, Health Promotion
Derscheid, Linda E.; Kim, So-Yeun; Zittel, Lauriece L.; Umoren, Josephine; Henry, Beverly W. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Childhood obesity remains a problem in the United States. Preschool teachers can help to attenuate it but need to have the confidence or self-efficacy to provide healthy practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to (a) develop and validate a preschool teacher self-efficacy tool to examine teachers' confidence in addressing the nutrition…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Child Health
Download full textLouisiana Department of Education, 2013
Over the course of the past decade, the state of Louisiana has developed several documents to articulate expectations for children's learning and development and provide guidance for early childhood educators. The experiences and skills that children develop during the early years are critically important to their success later in school. What…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Child Development, Infants
Shriver, Lenka H.; Hildebrand, Deana; Austin, Heidi – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: Determine relationships between self-efficacy, decisional balance, and processes of change and Stages of Change (SOC) related to fruit and vegetable (FV) availability among Hispanic Head Start parents. Design: A 2-phase descriptive study with mixed methodology. Setting: Two Head Start sites in a city in the midwestern United States.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Focus Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Predictor Variables
Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010
This report presents a revision of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework (2000), renamed The Head Start Child Development and Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old. The Framework outlines the essential areas of development and learning that are to be used by Head Start programs…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
