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Children's Evaluation of the Physical Environment Quality in Kindergarten: A Case Study from China
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Chen, Huan; Wang, Xiaoying – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2018
The quality of the physical environment is an important factor to assess in evaluating programs in early childhood education (ECE). However, children's evaluation of the quality of their physical environments in ECE has been rarely explored. Across two kindergartens, 32 children, aged 5 years, were interviewed to rate photographs of features in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Physical Environment
Free-Labeling Facial Expressions and Emotional Situations in Children Aged 3-7 Years: Developmental Trajectory and a Face Inferiority Effect
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Wang, Zhenhong; Lü, Wei; Zhang, Hui; Surina, Alyssa – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
Chinese children (N = 185, aged 3-7 years) were assessed on their abilities to freely label facial expressions and emotional situations. Results indicated that the overall accuracy of free-labeling facial expressions increased relatively quickly in children aged 3-5 years, but slowed down in children aged 5-7 years. In contrast, the overall…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Nonverbal Communication, Emotional Response
Research Dilemmas Associated with Photo Elicitation in Comparative Early Childhood Education Research
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Birkeland, Asta – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Photo elicitation has become an important method to produce data in qualitative research. There is quite an extensive literature indicating the benefits of photo elicitation in order to facilitate collaboration in meaning making between researcher and the interviewee. This article addresses dilemmas associated with using photo elicitation in a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies, Photography
An Emergent Curriculum in China: Collaborative Tolerance
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Farrell, Lynn – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
The concept for the piloting of a contemporary early childhood kindergarten in China was visualised by the chief executive officer of TMC Academy, Dr Chin, in July 2002 when he participated in a Singaporean-led mission to Liaoning Province in China. Shenyang Creative Kindergarten is the result of that concept. It opened for children in September…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Administrators