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Gabriele Russo; Andrea Ceciliani – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This study investigated the involvement of Italian preschool and primary school teachers in outdoor education and scouting activities and their association with student cooperation and personal care. While outdoor education has various psychophysiological, psychosocial, social, and pedagogical benefits, some teachers express concerns about their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Outdoor Education, Teacher Participation
Claudio Longobardi; Laura Elvira Prino; Michele Settanni; Matteo Angelo Fabris – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Attendance at preschool represents an important transition, as it is often here that children have their first experience with unfamiliar adults. In this context, several factors can affect children's adjustment. Two important protective factors are the attachment relationship with the teacher and the level of executive functions. We investigate…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Executive Function, Behavior Problems
Albanesi, Cinzia; Prati, Gabriele; Guarino, Antonella; Cicognani, Elvira – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2023
The aim of this study was to assess the quality of the processes of a Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) citizenship education project by examining a 2-year intervention that involved 43 Italian high school students. We collected qualitative data (focus groups with students and interviews with teachers) to capture participants'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Citizenship Education
Prino, Laura Elvira; Longobardi, Claudio; Fabris, Matteo Angelo; Settanni, Michele – Early Education and Development, 2023
According to the perspective of multiple attachments, children establish significant relationships with individuals outside their family, such as teachers and peers. The aim of this research was to observe which dimensions of attachment behaviors that preschoolers show toward their teachers are associated with greater social preference and social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Attachment Behavior, Child Behavior
Messineo, Linda; Tosto, Crispino – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a source of stress for teachers by adding new challenges. The objective of this study was to assess the association between emotion regulation and coping strategies, on the one hand, and perceived stress and affective experience on the other among teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. A sample of 1178 of…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics
Urbani, Chiara – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Context: European policies describe the key role of teachers' Vocational Education and Training (VET) in improving students' learning outcomes. In order to improve teacher education, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) policies identify competency models as the main framework for understanding teacher professionalism and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Professional Continuing Education
Stringher, Cristina; Brito Rivera, Hugo Armando; Patera, Salvatore; Silva Silva, Irene; Castro Zubizarreta, Ana; Davis Leme, Claudia; Torti, Daniela; Huerta, María del Carmen; Scrocca, Francesca – Educational Research, 2021
Background: 'Learning to Learn' (L2L) is considered a key skill for the twenty-first century. It is understood here as a hyper-competence, which mobilises resources of the individual and/or groups in a sense-making effort to improve or update one's own learning. By means of classroom assessment during the teaching-learning cycle, teachers can…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Eva Pölzl-Stefanec; Mailina Barta; Catherine Walter-Laager – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In recent years, there has been considerable investment at the European Union level in expanding early childhood education and care (ECEC) facilities. In line with this quantitative substantial initiative, research and social policies are increasingly focusing on the quality of such facilities. High quality depends, among other things, on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Blended Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Pisanti, Renato; Soraci, Paolo; Schwarzer, Ralf – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The present study aimed to adapt the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale (TSES) developed by Schwarzer et al. (1999) into Italian and to test its validity and reliability. In a group of teachers (N = 683; 83% female), the factor structure (Confirmatory Factor Analyses), construct validity (latent relations with burnout variables), measurement invariance…
Descriptors: Italian, Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Self Efficacy
Scacchi, Valeria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on doctoral research which contributed to my understanding of early years professional development and learning grounded in Froebelian principles. Through two freestanding but related case studies in London and San Miniato, the article explores the current professional learning and development for educators working with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Faculty Development
Denham, Susanne A.; Mortari, Luigina; Silva, Roberta – Early Education and Development, 2022
In this study we investigated how early childhood teachers' emotion socialization behaviors contribute to children's social-emotional competence (SEC), as well as whether these contributions differ by culture. Participants included 117 teachers and 381 preschoolers in US or Italian classrooms. Teachers' and children's emotions and reactions to…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Socialization, Social Development, Emotional Development
Nadja Thoma; Verena Platzgummer – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Linguistic minority spaces tend to have a long history of language-ideological struggles that are often fought on the terrain of education, which is further complexified in the light of more recent migration. The northernmost Italian province of South Tyrol is such a space, in which German-language preschools are increasingly attended by children…
Descriptors: German, Italian, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers
Ornaghi, Veronica; Conte, Elisabetta; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
We investigated early-childhood teachers' emotion socialization practices via a multi-method study that combined self-report measures and structured observational situations at day care centre. Eighty-nine teachers (M[subscript age] = 38.29 years; SD = 11.06) completed two questionnaires about their emotion socialization style and beliefs about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Socialization, Emotional Response
Alesi, Marianna; Costa, Sebastiano; Bianco, Antonino; Pepi, Annamaria – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Structured motor tasks may affect cognitive development by creating a cognitively challenging "enriched environment', giving opportunity for social cooperation, increasing the joy to learn through play, improving the sense of mastery and competence. The study investigated the association between motor and cognitive exercises, through a…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Kindergarten, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
Carbonara, Valentina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families' school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Preschool Education