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Arriaga-Sanz, Cristina; Riaño-Galán, María-Elena; Cabedo-Mas, Alberto; Berbel-Gómez, Noemy – Music Education Research, 2017
This study analyses the musical preferences of children in early childhood education. It also strives to determine the learning environment where these preferences develop, as well as to identify both teachers' and families' degree of knowledge of these preferences. The study was conducted in four Spanish autonomous communities: the Basque…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preferences, Young Children, Music Activities
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Ilari, Beatriz – Research Studies in Music Education, 2013
"Concerted cultivation" has been described as a common, urban middle-class practice concerning the enrollment of children in a variety of age-specific activities that may promote the learning of valuable life skills as well as the development of individual abilities (Lareau, 2003). Music is one such activity. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Music Activities
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Villarroel, José Domingo; Infante, Guillermo – Journal of Biological Education, 2014
This paper looks at the drawings of a sample of 118 children aged between 4 and 7 years old on the topic of plant life and relates the content to their knowledge of the concept of living things. The research project uses two types of tests: a task to analyse the level of understanding of the concept of living things and a free drawing activity.…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Young Children, Plants (Botany)
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Kutnick, Peter; Brighi, Antonella; Avgitidou, Sofia; Genta, Maria Luisa; Hannikainen, Maritta; Karlsson-Lohmander, Maelis; Ruiz, Rosario Ortega; Rautamies, Erja; Colwell, Jennifer; Tsalagiorgou, Eleni; Mazzanti, Chiara; Nicoletti, Sandra; Sansavini, Alessandra; Guarini, Annalisa; Romera, Eva; Monks, Claire; Lofqvist, Monica – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
This study sought to identify and compare the characteristics of the social pedagogic context of cognitive activities in a sample of early education settings in six European countries (England, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain and Sweden). Previous research concerning the social context within which cognitive/learning activities take place has…
Descriptors: Young Children, Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Social Development