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Direct linkGreve, Anne; Garnier, Pascale; Ulvik, Oddbjørg Skjaer; Øien, Ingvil; Chantseva, Victoria; Fallang, Bjørg; Gulbrandsen, Liv Mette; Rayna, Sylvie – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Food practices are culturally and historically situated, and so are conceptions of 'risk'. Comparative studies of food practices can highlight these cultural norms and conceptions. In this article we will present results from a study that investigated food practices in Norwegian and French kindergartens with a particular focus on constructions of…
Descriptors: Food, Risk, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background
Barley, Ruth; Bath, Caroline – Ethnography and Education, 2014
Becoming familiar with "the field" location and its inhabitants is a natural and important part of ethnographic research. However, little has been written about how operationalising a "familiarisation period" within an ethnography can form the foundation on which fieldwork can be built. By reflecting on the experience of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Young Children, Research Skills, Ethnography
Szarko, Julia E.; Brown, Alec J.; Watkins, Marley W. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2013
The authors examined the difference in standardized test performance when familiar versus unfamiliar examiners tested 26 preschool and elementary-aged children with autism. The children were matched by age, severity, and developmental level and then randomly placed into familiar and unfamiliar examiner groups. Familiarity with the examiner was…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Standardized Tests, Autism, Examiners
Download full textHatcher, Beth; Nuner, Joyce; Paulsel, Jean – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2012
This qualitative interview-based study compares beliefs about kindergarten readiness and about the roles of preschools in readiness among parents and preschool teachers in three early childhood programs in the northeastern and southwestern United States. Interviews focused on beliefs concerning meanings of kindergarten readiness and the role of…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Familiarity, Literacy, Emotional Development
Han, Ru; Li, Shu; Shi, Jian-Nong – Environment and Behavior, 2009
Research on territorial behavior has focused on animal populations, and relatively little has dealt with territoriality in humans, except in the area of human sports. This study was an investigation of the prior-residence effect on children's behavior in social dilemmas. The analysis was carried out by means of research designed for preschool…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Preschool Children, Social Behavior, Place of Residence
Moschovaki, Eleni; Meadows, Sara – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2005
This study examined young children's cognitive engagement during classroom book reading with different types of books in Greek kindergarten schools. Twenty teachers read four books--two fiction (familiar/unfamiliar story format) and two information books (expository/narrative text). As expected, children's and teachers' cognitive engagement was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Books
