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Download full textMacDonald, Beth L. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
This proposal explores relationships between young children's unit development/coordination and young children's subitizing. In particular, this theoretical commentary considers students' degrees of abstraction, students' development of actions on units, and students' operations with units when subitizing. As a result of this commentary, this…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Number Concepts, Numeracy
Direct linkAlhosani, Najwa – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose: This article provides an overview of how childhood curriculum in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is designed to serve cultural values. Design/Approach/Methods: The framework of kindergarten curriculum adopts the uniqueness of children laying the foundation for their cultural identity. This paper provides a description of how this is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Cultural Influences, Social Values
Lu, Jinjin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
Social media web 2.0 technologies can be adopted as an inclusive method to assist children in enhancing their quality of education for the Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. SDGs 4 and 17). Social media technologies have been documented as low-cost, synchronous, and convenient methods to assist young children, parents, and early childhood (EC)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Web 2.0 Technologies, Sustainable Development
Kusumawardhani, Prita Nurmalia – Education Economics, 2022
This paper estimates spillover effects of investing in new early childhood education centers on the outcomes of children that did not attend those centers. I find positive and economically significant spillover effects in the EDI domain of communication skills and general knowledge. Furthermore, never-enrolled children have also experienced an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Child Care Centers
Bredikyte, Milda – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Playing is an activity that affects significantly the psychological development and learning in preschool age. Opinions among researchers and practitioners are divided about adults' role in children's play. Despite being a children's activity, high-level, complex social play hardly appears without adult mediation. According to the narrative play…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Creative Activities, Teacher Student Relationship
Bryan, Nathaniel; McMillian, Rachel; LaMar, Keith – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2022
The prison abolition movement has brought attention to the American carceral crisis, or better yet, the mass incarceration and disproportionate criminalization of Black people in America. It has also led to and fomented recent calls to defund prison systems, the police, and to remove police from schools. While discussions of prison abolition have…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, African Americans, Racism
Alkouri, Zaid – Cogent Education, 2022
Spatial ability is a form of intelligence where a person demonstrates the capacity to mentally generate, transform, and rotate a visual image and thus understand and recall spatial relationships between real and imagined objects. The aim of this paper is three-fold: (1) to review related empirical studies on spatial abilities for young children…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Spatial Ability, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
Mark 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
Edwards, Susan – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
Young children aged birth to 5 years are known users of the internet, both unsupervised and in collaboration with adults. Adults also use the internet to share details of children's lives with others, via sharenting and educational apps. During COVID-19 internet use by children and families rose significantly during periods of enforced stay-home.…
Descriptors: Internet, Young Children, Risk, Privacy
Nurnberger-Haag, Julie; Alexander, Anita N.; Powell, Sarah R. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2021
Although the complexity of children's number learning is recognized, trade books about number have been treated as a simple, undifferentiated set. This analysis of 186 children's books, however, categorized a distinct subset of books about number as "counting books." These counting books were complex with regard to portrayal of counting…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Books, Computation, Numeracy
Veraksa, Nikolay; Airapetyan, Zlata; Krasheninnikov-Khait, Evgenii; Gavrilova, Margarita – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
Emotional scaffolding by the teachers of kindergarten children facilitates children's emotional well-being and contributes to their achievements in school. Our aim was to analyze the association between emotional scaffolding, dialectical thinking support and classroom quality. We used the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-R),…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Young Children, Early Childhood Education
Mwaipopo, Christina; Maundeni, Tapologo; Seetso, Grace; Jacques, Gloria – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Quality Early Childhood Care and Education programs are beneficial to children in numerous ways. Consequently, from time immemorial, various stakeholders not only in Botswana, but the world over, has embarked on various efforts to try to provide such services. However, several challenges in the provision of Early Childhood Care and Education…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Young Children, Rural Areas
Syrjämäki, Marja; Pihlaja, Päivi; Sajaniemi, Nina K. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
This article focuses on the initiatives taken by children and the responses given by professional adults with regard to the pedagogy of enhancing peer interaction among diverse learners. The study took place in four integrated special groups of public early childhood education. In groups of this kind, typically developing children and those with…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Interaction, Early Childhood Education, Special Education
Boyd, Diane – Education 3-13, 2019
The aim of this research was to consider how young children could develop an education for sustainable mind-set, through place-based learning within a local context. This research built upon the development of an Early Childhood Education for Sustainable (ECEfS) framework (Boyd, D., H. Hirst, and C. McNeill. 2016. "Early Childhood Education…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Change Agents, Early Childhood Education, Sustainable Development
Beneke, Margaret R.; Newton, Jennifer R.; Vinh, Megan; Blanchard, Sheresa Boone; Kemp, Peggy – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
The implicit and explicit messages early childhood practitioners send about disability have important consequences for young children's developing identities and sense of belonging. The authors discuss how practitioners can cultivate early learning communities in which the identities of all young children, with and without disabilities, are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inclusion, Young Children, Child Development
