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Direct linkYsaaca Axelrod – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
This article examines young children's perceptions and ideas about their emergent bilingualism drawing on data from an ethnographic case study of the language development of a Head Start classroom. The purpose of this study was to examine the language practices of 4-year-olds in a bilingual (Spanish/English) classroom. The findings discussed in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Young Children
Beasley, Jennifer; Smith, Nina; Scott-Little, Catherine – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The transition to kindergarten is a critical developmental marker for young children. While the early childhood literature includes several established best practices to ensure a smooth and positive transition for both children and their families, less is known about transitional experiences of Mexican immigrants. Using a qualitative approach,…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Immigrants, School Readiness, Kindergarten
Exploring Links between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children's Preschool Adjustment
Federica Zava; Stefania Sette; Giovanni Maria Vecchio; Fiorenzo Laghi; Emma Baumgartner; Robert J. Coplan – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: In the present study, we investigated the roles of children's social competence and immigrant background in the prediction of the quality of children's relationships with peers and teachers and school adjustment. Participants were N = 212 children (M[subscript age] = 58.32 months, SD = 10.72; n = 98 with an immigrant background)…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Immigrants, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship
Lijuan Wang; Katri Jokikokko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study adopts a sociocultural approach to examine the language socialisation of a lower age novice-newcomer recently arrived in a Finnish open day care centre. A mixed method approach combining ethnographic analysis and quantitative analysis has been used to analyse video-recordings. The results suggest that when educators recognise language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Child Care Centers, Second Language Learning
Chan, Angel – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This paper highlights the complex relations between public and private spaces with regard to young children's bilingual learning, and the importance of developing a pedagogy that allows for the interaction of learning across the two spaces. It uses findings from a qualitative study to illustrate nuanced (mis)alignments between dominant language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Aspiration, Bilingual Education
Download full textMark Nagasawa, Editor; Cristina Medellin-Paz, Editor; Helen Frazier, Contributor; Virginia Dearani, Contributor; Charis-Ann Sole, Contributor; M. Nalani Mattox-Primacio, Contributor; Shin Ae Han, Contributor; Soyoung Park, Contributor; Sunmin Lee, Contributor; Nnenna Odim, Contributor; Jennifer Keys Adair, Contributor; Angie Zapata, Contributor; Mary Adu-Gyamfi, Contributor; Adrianna González Ybarra, Contributor; Seung Eun McDevitt, Contributor; Louella Sween, Contributor; Vanessa Rodriguez, Contributor – Bank Street College of Education, 2024
Issue 51 of the Bank Street Occasional Papers Series "Reconceptualizing Quality Early Care and Education with Equity at the Center" is a response to Gunilla Dahlberg, Peter Moss, and Alan Pence's 25-year interrogation of the concept of quality in early childhood education (ECE) (Dahlberg et al., 1999, 2013, 2023). Their groundbreaking…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Equal Education, Teaching Methods
Alexis Fintland; Margie McHugh; Maki Park – Migration Policy Institute, 2024
Demand for early childhood education and care (ECEC) is on the rise across the United States, driven by strong public support and research showing the value of high-quality ECEC services. However, persistent difficulties recruiting and retaining qualified workers, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts, have raised concerns about the field's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Certification, Immigrants
Souto-Manning, Mariana; Malik, Karina; Martell, Jessica; Pión, Patricia – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2021
In this article, four Latina educators of Color trouble the neutrality of belonging, exploring its politics. They collectively revisit and reflect on their memories and lived experiences as immigrant children of Color and as young children of immigrants and migrants of Color in the United States. They employed pláticas as method to prompt the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Minority Group Students, Inclusion, Racial Bias
Linda Mitchell; Bronwen Cowie; Raella Kahuroa; Hoana McMillan – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2024
Walking, reading, and storying the land has been embedded in Indigenous ways of knowing for generations (Bang & Marin 2015; Durie, 2004; Penetito, 2009). In formal education settings, these processes have been used to generate children's understandings about history, science, and the natural world (e.g., Bang & Marin, 2015) and to foster…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Story Telling, Kindergarten, Indigenous Populations
Mitchell, Linda; Bateman, Amanda; Kahuroa, Raella; Khoo, Elaine; Rameka, Lesley – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2020
The global refugee crisis is affecting many young children (UNCHR, 2019). Refugee families face challenges of dealing with trauma and language barriers, and with different patterns of childrearing, gender roles, and social values (Broome & Kindon, 2008; Deng & Marlowe, 2013; McMillan & Gray, 2009; Mitchell & Ouko, 2012). The…
Descriptors: Refugees, Immigrants, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
Stephens, Samuel A. – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2017
This Research-to-Policy Resource List focuses on resources in the Research Connections collection published in 2010 or later that focus on access to early care and education for children in immigrant families. The resources on this list are organized into the following categories: research reviews, research based on large-scale national datasets,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Immigrants
Aguiar, Cecília; Silva, Carla S.; Guerra, Rita; Rodrigues, Ricardo B.; Ribeiro, Luísa A.; Pastori, Giulia; Leseman, Paul – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
We analysed effective and promising interventions, within the classroom and school microsystems, aiming to promote equality and belongingness for immigrant, Roma, and low-income children attending early childhood education and care (ECEC) and primary education in eight European countries. Over 500 interventions were identified, and 78…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Equal Education, Low Income Students, Early Childhood Education
Wolf, Katrin M.; Broekhuizen, Martine L.; Moser, Thomas; Ereky-Stevens, Katharina; Anders, Yvonne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Research has demonstrated educational inequalities for children with migrant background. This article focuses specifically on children and families with a Turkish immigration background in four European countries. Because of the great potential of high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for decreasing educational disparities, we…
Descriptors: Attendance, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
Kohl, Katharina; Bihler, Lilly-Marlen; Willard, Jessica A.; Agache, Alexandru; Leyendecker, Birgit – Early Education and Development, 2020
This study examined how quantity and quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC) are related to the socio-emotional adjustment of children born in Germany (30-48 months old, N = 395). Previous research focused on a small set of ECEC features, used broad measures, and yielded inconclusive results. We assessed ECEC quantity (age at entry,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Social Development
Smith, Julia – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2019
This study is an ethnographic case study that focuses on three family members from Mexican migrant farmworker households (a father, a grandmother, and mother), their discussions around the topic of educating their children, and their engagement in the seasonal early childcare programs that serve farmworker children. This study takes a…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Migrant Workers, Agricultural Occupations, Young Children
