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Direct linkLotherington, Heather, Ed.; Paige, Cheryl, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2017
This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington's "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" (2011), this volume picks up after…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Teaching Methods, Student Diversity, Elementary School Teachers
Cassano, Christina M., Ed.; Dougherty, Susan M., Ed. – Guilford Press, 2018
This reader-friendly text examines the key foundational studies in early literacy. It addresses such essential questions as how research informs current practices and where the field still needs to go to provide the best learning opportunities for all children. Each chapter describes the methods and findings of one to five seminal studies,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Irby, Beverly, Ed.; Brown, Genevieve H., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments. Finding after the publication of Gender and Schooling in the Early Years, the second book in the series, that there was and is a paucity of published literature on early childhood…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Kame'enui, Edward J., Ed.; Baumann, James F., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2012
This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Play, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies
Meyer, Richard J., Ed.; Whitmore, Kathryn F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Inviting teachers back to the role of reflective advocates for thoughtful reading instruction, this book presents theory and pedagogical possibilities to reclaim and build upon the knowledge base that was growing when government mandates, scripted commercial programs, and high stakes tests took over as the dominant agenda for reading instruction…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Social Action, Politics, Learning
van Oers, Bert, Ed.; Wardekker, Wim, Ed.; Elbers, Ed, Ed.; van der Veer, Rene, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
Learning is a changing phenomenon, depending on the advances in theory and research. This book presents a relatively new approach to learning, based on meaningful human activities in cultural practices and in collaboration with others. It draws extensively from the ideas of Lev Vygotsky and his recent followers. The book presents ideas that…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Play, Informal Education, Distance Education
Williams, R. Ann, Ed.; Beeson, Betty Spillers, Ed. – 1982
The research summaries in this monograph provide a discussion of play in young children as well as examinations of differences, values, and interventions associated with children's play. Following an introduction to the topic, four articles examine differences in children's play: two articles focus on sex stereotyping in preschoolers'…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students
Middlebrooks, Sally – 1998
This study of six urban children ages 8-12 years challenges the prevailing misconception that poor city children are troubled, passive, and unintelligent. The research involved interviewing children about how and what they played and having them discuss drawings that they made about play. Guided by these children, who live in New York's East…
Descriptors: Black Students, Childrens Games, Coping, Elementary Education
Download full textSwick, Kevin J., Ed. – 1987
This document presents eight scholarly articles on the multicultural milieu in which children grow and develop. Readings address the following questions: (1) What is culture and how is it formed? (2) How do people develop their cultural orientation? (3) What are some major insights about culture that are critical to the early childhood educator's…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Nevin, Ann I., Ed. – Online Submission, 2004
The authors of this collection of research reviews studied how single subject research designs might be a useful method to apply as part of being accountable to clients. The single subject research studies were evaluated in accordance with the following criteria: Was the study applied, behavioral, reliable, analytic, effective, and generalizable?…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, School Psychology, Behavior Change, Student Participation
