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Direct linkGoldhaber, Jeanne – Theory Into Practice, 2007
This article investigates young children's understanding of and relationships to their communities and the natural world. Inspired by the pedagogy of Reggio Emilia (Edwards, Gandini, & Forman, 1998) and guided by the concept of documentation as a cycle of inquiry (Gandini & Goldhaber, 2001), a group of early childhood educators from across…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Collaboration
Early, Diane M.; Maxwell, Kelly L.; Burchinal, Margaret; Alva, Soumya; Bender, Randall H.; Bryant, Donna; Cai, Karen; Clifford, Richard M.; Ebanks, Caroline; Griffin, James A.; Henry, Gary T.; Howes, Carollee; Iriondo-Perez, Jeniffer; Jeon, Hyun-Joo; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen; Pianta, Robert C.; Vandergrift, Nathan; Zill, Nicholas – Child Development, 2007
In an effort to provide high-quality preschool education, policymakers are increasingly requiring public preschool teachers to have at least a Bachelor's degree, preferably in early childhood education. Seven major studies of early care and education were used to predict classroom quality and children's academic outcomes from the educational…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Young Children, Educational Quality
Burchinal, Margaret; Howes, Carollee; Pianta, Robert; Bryant, Donna; Early, Diane; Clifford, Richard; Barbarin, Oscar – Applied Developmental Science, 2008
Publicly funded prekindergartens are programs that most states use to promote school readiness, especially of 4-year-old children at risk for academic problems due to poverty. Despite large public expenditures, these programs have not been widely evaluated. We examined 240 randomly selected pre-kindergarten programs in six states with mature…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Jeynes, William H. – Teachers College Record, 2006
The author argues that American educators rely on standardized tests at too early an age when administered in kindergarten, particularly given the original intent of kindergarten as envisioned by its founder, Friedrich Froebel. The author examines the current use of standardized tests in kindergarten and the Froebel model, including his emphasis…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Kindergarten, Models, Ethical Instruction
Malti, Tina; Gummerum, Michaela; Buchmann, Marlis – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2007
The authors investigated the contemporaneous and longitudinal relations of children's (M age = 6.4 years) prosocial behavior to sympathy and moral motivation. Mothers and kindergarten teachers rated children's prosocial behavior. The authors measured sympathy via self- and adult reports. Moral motivation was assessed by children's attribution of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Mother Attitudes, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Labeling, Affect, and Teachers' Hypothetical Approaches to Conflict Resolution: An Exploratory Study
Silver, Carrie; Harkins, Debra – Early Education and Development, 2007
The current study investigated how teachers would intervene in hypothetical conflicts experienced by students in the classroom and how informal labeling of students and affect relate to teachers' hypothetical interventions. Thirty-one teachers from various early childhood learning centers were recruited for participation. Teachers were presented…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Labeling (of Persons)
Download full textWert, Barbara Yingling; Bauman, Dona C.; Nottis, Katharyn Ellen Ketter – Online Submission, 2010
A growing body of evidence indicates that for some children, early incidences of challenging behaviors are predictors of later difficulties. These incidences of challenging behaviors may predict mental health issues, social adjustment issues and/or increased challenging behaviors that will impede school success and impact transition to adult life…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Social Adjustment
Perry, Bob; Dockett, Sue; Harley, Elspeth – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
The approaches to teaching and learning mathematics in Australian preschools and schools can be quite different. These differences arise from what can be termed different "cultures" within the prior-to-school and school settings. Even the first years of school can be characterized by teacher-centered, syllabus-driven lessons and written,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Fenech, M.; Robertson, G.; Sumsion, J.; Goodfellow, J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
The regulatory environment in which long daycare centres are required to operate plays a key role in determining what early childhood professionals do and how they go about doing it. This paper reports findings from a state-wide survey undertaken in New South Wales, Australia, which shows how early childhood professionals position themselves on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Young Children, Job Satisfaction
Bedel, Emine Ferda – Online Submission, 2008
The main purpose of this study was to examine early childhood education teachers' attitudes toward teaching, and their relationship to internal-external locus of control and sociotropy and autonomy orientations. The participants in this study were limited to 180 undergraduate students enrolled in early childhood education in three different…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Locus of Control, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Moon, Kyunghee; Reifel, Stuart – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
This study explores a teacher's understandings of the role of play and her use of play in literacy learning serving children from diverse language backgrounds. The participants in this study were a public pre-kindergarten teacher and her class. Data were collected from interviews, informal conversations, observations, and self-reflexive notes. The…
Descriptors: Play, Creative Activities, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Lim, Christina; Torr, Jane – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
Singaporean preschool teachers are responsible for preparing their young students for a formal education that is predominantly conducted in English. What these teachers believe about how young children learn English literacy skills is important to study, especially when much of the research is situated in very different contexts. Talking to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Preschool Teachers, Literacy, English (Second Language)
Yuejuan, Pan; Yan, Liu – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
China launched a top-down curriculum reform in kindergartens in the 1980s. In order to examine the influence of this reform, this study compared the similarities and differences in curricular practices in kindergartens with different sponsoring bodies in Shanxi province. Altogether, 26 principals and 95 teachers in 50 classrooms from 26…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Questionnaires
Birbili, Maria – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2006
Graphic organizers such as webs, time lines, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, and concept maps are well known and widely used instructional and learning tools. They help teachers and students not only to identify and visually represent their views and knowledge but also to recognize and depict relationships among concepts. This article discusses the use…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Spielberger, Julie; Baker, Stephen; Winje, Carolyn; Mayers, Leifa – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
Chapin Hall has been conducting an implementation and evaluability study of the ECCI (Early Childhood Cluster Initiative) project since the midway point of its first year. As described in the authors' first report (Spielberger & Goyette, 2006), the initiative made considerable progress in its initial year, particularly in implementing the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Counties
