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Peer reviewedTerrisse, Bernard; Dansereau, Stephanie – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1988
Describes an early intervention project set up in day care centers for 85 children aged three to five years with and without special needs. The project was based on objectives which would ensure the choice of structured interventions and suit them to individual needs. Intervention effects are considered positive on a short term basis. Text in…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Individual Needs, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum
Parent Cooperative Preschools International, Indianapolis, IN. – 1985
This compilation of materials and information serves as a step-by-step how-to guide to creating and building a parent cooperative preschool. After brief sections discussing where to begin and how cooperatives originated, contents explore basic considerations in planning, planning for community meetings, and the permanent organizational structure…
Descriptors: Committees, Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Parents
Peer reviewedKrasnor, Linda Rose; Rubin, Kenneth H. – Child Development, 1983
The frequency and distribution of social problem-solving strategies, goals, targets, and outcomes were coded during preschoolers' free play. Flexibility and persistence in problem-solving sequences were examined, and the relative importance of strategies, goals, targets, and the identity of the problem solver in predicting social problem-solving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedO'Sullivan, Julia T. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1993
Two experiments investigated four year olds' beliefs about the effect of effort and performance incentives on recall and the relationship of these beliefs to memory and performance. Children accurately represented the effect of performance incentives on effort but were unrealistic about the power of effort to influence recall. (PAM)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Foreign Countries, Incentives, Memory
Kennedy, Ann E. C. – Hearing and Speech Action, 1975
Described briefly is a 3-month pilot project in Nova Scotia in which hearing children participated in preschool classes at a residential school for the deaf. (LS)
Descriptors: Deafness, Demonstration Programs, Exceptional Child Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textDicaire, Nicole; Cameron, Catherine Ann – 1981
The purpose of this study was to identify the nature of the information which preschool-age children must attend to and maintain within problems in order to solve a series of two-choice simultaneous discrimination problems. Twenty-four preschool children participated in the experiment. The stimuli used in these problems consisted of planometric…
Descriptors: Cues, Discrimination Learning, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Tarr, Patricia – 2001
This article compares the messages contained in the physical environments of early childhood classrooms in Reggio Emilia, Italy, with typical early childhood settings in Canada and the United States. The article examines the classroom's "aesthetic code"; i.e., the social construction created, consciously or unconsciously, by the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Preschool Education
Hewes, Dorothy W. – 1998
Early childhood professional organizations in Canada and the United States have evolved since leaders of the Kindergarten Department of the National Educational Association (NEA) met in Toronto in 1891. This meeting led to the creation of the International Kindergarten Union (IKU), now known as the Association for Childhood Education International…
Descriptors: Educational History, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Organizational Development
Morrongiello, Barbara A.; Roes, Caroline – 1987
Toddlers (2 to 3 years) and preschool children (5 to 6 years) were repeatedly presented with a six-tone melody, then tested for their discrimination of a variety of pattern features, including the specific component frequencies, successive intervals, and general melodic contour. To manipulate the information-processing demands of the task, the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries
Alberta Learning, Edmonton. Direction de l'education francaise. – 2003
This guide, written in French, is for use by administrators, counselors, teachers, and other parties involved in the delivery of quality basic education. It contains policies, procedures, and organizational information required to operate schools, or provides directions for obtaining this information. It addresses the following issues: the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedDoyle, Anna-Beth; And Others – Child Development, 1980
The effects of peer familiarity on social interactions were studied by observing pairs of preschool children who were either familiar or unfamiliar with each other in 50-minute free-play sessions. (CM)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Peer Relationship, Play
Peer reviewedDenholm, Carey J. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1990
The attitudes of British Columbia directors (N=205) of early childhood education centers toward the integration of handicapped children were assessed. The moderate support for integration was explained by directors' low assessment of their skills with handicapped children, a perception of inadequate accessibility of support staff, and inadequate…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Peskin, Joan – 1991
A total of 48 Canadian, middle-class 3-year-olds participated in a study of their abilities to predict the actions of a story character with a false belief and a story character engaged in pretence. In the experimental situation, a red puppet with pen-markers for legs left an "inky trail" to the location of a hidden treasure in one of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Ditchburn, Susan J. – 1985
This paper analyzes a conversational episode from a study of children's play in an educational setting to demonstrate conversational analysis as a research methodology. The analysis reveals the interactional means by which a dramatic play sequence is orchestrated. Children are seen to be sophisticated in their use of talk to create and shape the…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dramatic Play, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics
Mickelson, Norma I.; Galloway, Charles G. – Except Children, 1969
Descriptors: American Indians, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
