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Download full textWheeler, Charlene; Blank, Jolyn – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2011
This article documents a first project undertaken by kindergarten children and their teacher in a public school in the southeastern United States. Images, work samples, records of children's comments, and the teacher's description tell the story of the project as it unfolds. The authors provide interpretation of the project events documented in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Field Trips
Direct linkKragh-Muller, Grethe; Isbell, Rebecca – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate young children's perspectives related to their experiences in child care. Researchers used individual interviews and drawings in an early childhood program in Denmark and one in the United States as the basis for examining children's perspectives on their everyday lives in child care. Observations…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Child Care
Ruzek, Erik; Burchinal, Margaret; Farkas, George; Duncan, Greg; Dang, Tran; Lee, Weilin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The authors use the ECLS-B, a nationally-representative study of children born in 2001 to report the child care arrangements and quality characteristics for 2-year olds in the United States and to estimate the effects of differing levels of child care quality on two-year old children's cognitive development. Their goal is to test whether high…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Infant Care, Child Care, Cognitive Development
Vesely, Colleen K.; Ginsberg, Mark R. – Young Children, 2011
This study explores how early childhood education programs engage immigrant families in their children's learning, how programs learn about these families and incorporate their cultures into the classrooms, and what programs are doing in terms of their staff's professional development related to working with immigrant children and families. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Kline, Lynn S. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2008
Observation and documentation are integral to the early childhood classroom. Observation provides the information necessary for adults to build meaningful relationships with individual children. Documentation panels including photographs, teacher's notes, transcriptions, and artifacts, artfully and prominently displayed, serve as a visual archive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Observation
de Guzman, Maria Rosario T.; Carlo, Gustavo; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This study examines the role of immediate social companions in the prosocial behaviors of children from two cultural communities from the USA and the Philippines. Materials for this study comprised behavioral observations drawn from the Six Cultures Study--with 612 five-minute observations of 23 children (12 girls, 11 boys) from Orchard Town, MA…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewedHatch, J. Amos; Grieshaber, Susan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2002
Describes the changing ways child observation is being used by preschool teachers in the United States and Australia in relation to the accountability movement pressuring young children and their teachers in both countries. Explores the costs of the accountability movement in early childhood education. Calls for genuine accountability based on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Observation
Tudge, Jonathan R. H.; Doucet, Fabienne; Odero, Dolphine; Sperb, Tania M.; Piccinini, Cesar A.; Lopes, Rita S. – Child Development, 2006
A powerful means to understand young children's normative development in context is to examine their everyday activities. The daily activities of 79 children (3 years old) were observed, for 20 hr each, in their usual settings. Children were selected from 4 cultural groups: European American and African American (Greensboro, United States), Luo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Social Development, Observation
