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Argyropoulou, Eleftheria; Hatira, Kalliopi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This article introduces an alternative qualitative research tool: metaphor and drawing, as projections of personality features, to explore underlying concepts and values, thoughts and beliefs, fears and hesitations, aspirations and ambitions of the research subjects. These two projective tools are used to explore Greek state kindergarten head…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Research Tools, Qualitative Research
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Sanderson, Donna R. – School Community Journal, 2016
This article highlights how an existing university-school partnership between a university and a kindergarten center was restructured in an attempt to bring academic and practitioner knowledge together in a more synergistic way in support of preservice teacher learning. In an effort to more closely connect a campus-based course that had a small…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Kindergarten, Preservice Teacher Education
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Berger, Ronen; Lahad, Mooli – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This article presents a way in which the innovative Nature Therapy conceptual framework coupled with creative therapeutic methods can help children develop resilience and support their coping with uncertainty and stress. It refers to the Safe Place programme that took place in 110 Israeli kindergartens, helping over 6000 children after the Second…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Institutional Evaluation, Organizational Effectiveness, Kindergarten
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Gullickson, Janice – Learning Languages, 2009
Six years ago Project Starship MIR, the Russian language "shuttle," launched at Turnagain Elementary, one of the Anchorage School District's 65 elementary schools. The MIR "peace" mission originated with encouragement from the local business community to prepare students for Alaska's future economic, social and political ties…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Business, Second Languages, Foreign Countries
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Williams, Cheri; Phillips-Birdsong, Colleen; Hufnagel, Krissy; Hungler, Diane; Lundstrom, Ruth P. – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article describes nine tips for implementing a word study program in the K-2 classroom. These tips are based on the results of four classroom-based qualitative research projects collaboratively conducted by a university professor and four primary-grade teacher-researchers. The article suggests that through small-group word study instruction…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Spelling Instruction, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten
Daytner, Katrina M. – Online Submission, 2006
The construct of validity has received considerable attention in qualitative methods literature (Denzin, 1989; Erickson, 1986; Geertz, 1973; Goetz & LeCompte, 1984; Howe & Eisenhart, 1990; Maxwell, 1992; Smith & Glass, 1987). Much of the attention has been focused upon the issue of whether qualitative results and interpretations accurately reflect…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Validity, Methods, Case Studies