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van Zandvoort, Melissa; Tucker, Patricia; Irwin, Jennifer D.; Burke, Shauna M. – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2010
This study sought to examine London, Ontario-based childcare providers' perspectives of the barriers and facilitators to physical activity participation among preschoolers (i.e. children aged 2.5-5 years) attending daycare. A heterogeneous sample of childcare providers (n = 54; response rate 47%) working at public daycare facilities in London,…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
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Wood, Eileen; Anderson, Alissa; Piquette-Tomei, Noella; Savage, Robert; Mueller, Julie – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2011
Support requests were documented for 10 teachers (4 kindergarten, 4 grade one, and 2 grade one/two teachers) who received just-in-time instructional support over a 2 1/2 month period while implementing a novel reading software program as part of their literacy instruction. In-class observations were made of each instructional session. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Reading Programs, Computer Software
Neugebauer, Roger – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
In this article, the author presents the challenges faced by early childhood education in 29 countries, according to the World Forum National Representatives and Global Leaders for Young Children. The countries represented in these responses include: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum
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Kannen, Victoria; Acker, Sandra – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2008
As attention to social, cultural and physical diversities among student populations is steadily increasing in elementary/primary classrooms, the way in which teaching about those diversities is done necessitates a critical discussion. As most of the research on teachers' responses to classroom diversity is conducted in big-city, multicultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, White Students, Teaching Methods
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Lynch, Jacqueline – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2009
Beliefs have often been considered important because of their relation to practice. Little is known about the literacy beliefs of preschool teachers, particularly their print literacy beliefs, even though young children's experiences with print have implications for formal schooling. Therefore, this study explored the print literacy beliefs of…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers
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Girolametto, Luigi; Weitzman, Elaine; Greenberg, Janice – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2012
Purpose: This study examined the efficacy of a professional development program for early childhood educators that facilitated emergent literacy skills in preschoolers. The program, led by a speech-language pathologist, focused on teaching alphabet knowledge, print concepts, sound awareness, and decontextualized oral language within naturally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Speech Language Pathology, Emergent Literacy
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Howe, Nina; Jacobs, Ellen; Vukelich, Goranka; Recchia, Holly – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to assess three methods of delivering in-service professional development regarding constructivist curriculum for early childhood educators. Educators in 44 not-for-profit child care centres in three Canadian cities were studied; 94 educators with formal preservice training participated. The three methods were (a) a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Rating Scales, Child Care
Langford, Rachel – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
Findings in this article indicate that training programs use a key pedagogical and ideological discourse of "teachers make a difference" to motivate female early childhood education students to enter and stay in the field. However, research in the area of workforce retention maintains that many graduates are not willing to enter and stay…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Labor Market, Motivation, Preschool Teachers
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Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2007
This article explores how child care acts as a zone of governance for immigrant young children, enacted through discourses of multiculturalism implied to be flexible and open. It draws on an analysis of early childhood educators' interpretations and understandings of their own practices when working with racialized young immigrant children and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Young Children, Cultural Pluralism, Immigrants
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Streelasky, Jodi – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
Makin and Jones Diaz (2002) suggest that young children's early literacy is most strongly supported when early childhood educators, children's families, and the wider community develop shared understandings about literacy--what counts, what is valued and validated, and whose voices are heard and whose voices are silent. Researchers such as Haas…
Descriptors: Written Language, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
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
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Hundert, Joel P. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2007
Four preschool supervisors were individually trained in a collaborative team approach in which classroom and resource teachers together developed a plan to increase the peer interactions of the entire class, including children with disabilities. The purpose of the research was to assess the generalization of effects to a new program target…
Descriptors: Supervisory Training, Disabilities, Resource Teachers, Preschool Teachers
Seifert, Kelvin; Atkinson, Laura – 1989
This study investigated the ways in which: (1) gender affects the balance of home and school life among teachers of young children; and (2) the balance of home and school life affects teachers' notion of professional commitment. Data were gathered through the observation of three experienced kindergarten teachers, one male and two female.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
New Brunswick Dept. of Education, Fredericton. Student Services Branch. – 1992
This booklet for parents explains the activities that take place in kindergarten and the characteristics of kindergarten staff. Also discussed is the manner in which the activities and staff help children develop. Activities considered center around dramatic play; children helping themselves and others; pets; cooking; snacks; exercise; reading and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Grusec, Joan E.; Abramovitch, Rona – Child Development, 1982
Events following children's imitation were observed. In the first study, immediate imitation of peers was observed during free play in four groups of preschoolers 23 months to 5 years of age. In the second study, immediate imitation of both peers and adults was observed in six groups of preschoolers 27 months to 5 years of age. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Imitation, Peer Relationship
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