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Stevens, Harvey; Santos, Rob; Jonasson, Shelley; Young, Carolyn; Mann, Sandy; Sass, Carly; Sanderson, Jan; Jamieson, Janet; D'Souza, Melanie; Meunier, Kimberly; Sparling, Joseph – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Despite the best efforts, persistent educational gaps remain between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children when they begin school. This evaluation explores the impact of the Abecedarian Approach for early education on the language development of First Nations and non-First Nations children, living in a low-resource, urban neighborhood in Canada.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Urban Areas, Canada Natives
Lemire, Colombe; Dionne, Carmen; Rousseau, Michel – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Despite the recognized effectiveness of naturalistic intervention practices, including activity-based intervention (ABI), challenges remain regarding their implementation. Assessing implementation fidelity can help understand factors that may influence their implementation. This study aims to document the evolution of ABI implementation fidelity…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Child Care Centers
McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D.; Kelly, Erin; Turner, Joan C.; Kirk, Sara F. L. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Providing the best start for our youngest generation is a growing priority internationally. Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) offers an approach to address complex system challenges and improve access to early childhood public services for young children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to use the Integrative Framework for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Delivery Systems, Governance, Young Children
Bouchard, Caroline; Sylvestre, Audette; Forget-Dubois, Nadine – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examined the moderating role of pragmatic language skills in the relationship between perceived prosociality and gender among children in two different educational contexts and age groups (n = 108 children in childcare centres, age 4-5; n = 113 children in kindergarten, age 5-6). In line with many other studies, the results showed that…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Males, Prosocial Behavior, Preschool Teachers
Boucher, Helene; Gaudette-Leblanc, Aimee; Raymond, Julie; Peters, Valerie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Research has shown that young children's socio-emotional development may benefit from participating in a music programme. In this study, we explored the association between participation in a general music programme and the development of socio-emotional skills in relation to the duration of the programme. Children aged 4 and 5 (N=50), from a low…
Descriptors: Music Education, Emotional Development, Social Development, Preschool Children
Omidvar, Nazanin; Wright, Tarah; Beazley, Karen; Seguin, Daniel – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2019
The importance of spending time in nature is undeniable for child development, yet from an early age most children's time in nature is restricted. Beginning in preschool, the range and quality of a child's nature experience is restricted by accessibility to nature experiences and pedagogical approaches. This is a problem for building a sustainable…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Environmental Education, Child Care Centers
Zhang, Zhiguang; Kuzik, Nicholas; Adamo, Kristi B.; Ogden, Nancy; Goldfield, Gary S.; Okely, Anthony D.; Crozier, Mitchell; Hunter, Stephen; Predy, Madison; Carson, Valerie – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Child care centers are important for children's behaviors. Aims: To examine the cross-sectional associations between child care environmental characteristics and physical activity and sedentary time in children. Methods: Participants were 124 toddlers and 118 preschoolers from 19 centers in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, in the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Child Care, Educational Environment, Rating Scales
Jones, Anne E.; Henzi, S. P.; Barrett, Louise – Journal of Montessori Research, 2019
The purpose of this study was to understand typically developing children's repetitive behavior in a freeplay, daycare setting. By studying repetition in a non-Montessori setting, we tested the assumption that repetition is a characteristic behavior of all young children and not limited to the Montessori environment. Although Maria Montessori…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Repetition, Play, Child Care
Stone, Michelle R.; Webber, Natasha; Cawley, Jane; Houser, Natalie E.; Kirk, Sara F. L. – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Purpose: To explore whether parental perceptions of risk and attitudes toward risk-taking during play are associated with preschoolers' physical activity (PA) and physical literacy (PL). Methods: Nova Scotia preschoolers (35 boys, 17 girls; mean age = 3.8 years, range = 3-5 years) and parents (n=52 pairs) provided data. Linear regressions assessed…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Risk, Play, Preschool Children
Bigras, Nathalie; Lemay, Lise; Lehrer, Joanne; Charron, Annie; Duval, Stéphanie; Robert-Mazaye, Christelle; Laurin, et Isabelle – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This article presents a study about the impact of COVID-19 on childcare center educators in Quebec (Canada). Regulated childcare services were closed due to the pandemic between March 16 and May 31, 2020, in areas considered "hot" (highly affected by the pandemic). During this time, some centers were transformed into "emergency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Child Care Centers
Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle; Bégin, Vincent – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined the longitudinal contribution of four different childcare arrangements attended during the preschool years to social behaviors and academic achievement up to age 15 years. Children participating in a Canadian longitudinal survey with available information on childcare attendance between ages 3 and 5 years (N = 6,852) were…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Caregivers, Attendance, Correlation
Sims, Margaret; Calder, Pamela; Moloney, Mary; Rothe, Antje; Rogers, Marg; Doan, Laura; Kakana, Domna; Georgiadou, Sofia – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity to examine the initial policies developed by Australian, Canadian, English, German, Greek and Irish governments to limit the spread of the virus. This has revealed governments' conceptualisation of the early childhood sector and its workforce. This paper argues that neoliberal ideology and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
Soderstrom, Melanie; Grauer, Elizabeth; Dufault, Brenden; McDivitt, Karmen – First Language, 2018
New approaches to examining the language environment are putting greater emphasis on the use of highly naturalistic audio recordings and questions about cross-cultural differences in children's real-world language experiences. These new approaches and questions require careful examination of different kinds of variables that may influence…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Care, Family Environment, Child Care Centers
van Rhijn, Tricia; Maich, Kimberly; Lero, Donna S.; Irwin, Sharon Hope – Exceptionality Education International, 2019
Recent advances in policy development and professional practice in the field of early learning and child care have led to the expectation that it is appropriate and advantageous to include children with disabilities and extra support needs in early child care and learning programs. Yet, to date, evidence-based research on the effects of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs
Niblett, Blair; Hiscott, Kim; Power, Marlene; McFarlane, Hanah – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
This case study examines the policy significance of a partnership between two organizations committed to improving children's learning and well-being through the delivery of a forest and nature school (FNS) program offered in the context of a licensed childcare program in the province of Ontario, Canada. The notion of the Anthropocene is taken as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Play, Natural Resources