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Direct linkYan, Kunyu – International Journal of Music Education, 2023
This research asks the question: "How and why does "musicking" occur throughout the day in kindergartens in Qingdao city, Shandong Province, China?' This study was carried out in 12 kindergartens, of which 6 were public and 6 were private. Two data collection methods were utilised: semi-structured interviews with teachers, as well…
Descriptors: Music Education, Kindergarten, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods
Wenxuan Zhang; Liang Li; Leigh Disney – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Following the increasing impacts on the value of Western play-based pedagogy, early childhood (EC) teachers in China face developmental challenges related to understanding and implementing play-based mathematical education. The purpose of this paper is to explore Chinese EC teachers' perspectives on play-based mathematics teaching. In this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
Bernstorff, Benedicte – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
From a child-centered perspective, this article explores the practices of children's self-organized play-communities in institutional everyday life in Danish early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, based on a phenomenological non-participant-observational study with a duration of 16 months involving two kindergartens (Bernstorff,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Play, Group Activities
Yuan, Chengan; Chen, Liqi – Exceptional Children, 2020
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often have difficulties initiating and maintaining reciprocal conversations with others. In this study, we examined if an interdependent group contingency would improve reciprocal conversation of children with ASD when they were paired as conversational partners. We also assessed children's social…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication, Group Activities
Karasu, Halise Pelin – Educational Studies, 2020
This longitudinal case study aimed to investigate the development of emergent literacy skills of a child with hearing loss was carried out in a research and application centre which provides full-time day education using an auditory-oral approach for children with hearing loss. The study focuses on a child with profound hearing loss who started…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Timmons, Kristy; Pelletier, Janette; Corter, Carl – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
In this study, children's self-regulation was observed, along with other social and academic activities in kindergarten classrooms during whole group, small group, transition and play contexts. We examined how children's self-regulation and engagement differed among classroom grouping, play and transition contexts. Results showed that students…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Kindergarten, Self Control, Play
Download full textHoel, Trude; Tønnessen, Elise Seip – AERA Open, 2019
Children develop their language when they explore and talk about literary texts. In this study, we explore the design of shared digital reading as a basis for critical reflection on the reading situation in an institutional context with its given opportunities and limitations. We examine six videotaped readings of one specific picture book app,…
Descriptors: Affordances, Young Children, Group Activities, Picture Books
Hegde, Archana V.; Sugita, Chisato; Crane-Mitchell, Linda; Averett, Paige – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This study explored Japanese day nursery and kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices regarding developmentally appropriate practices. Data were collected using in-depth interviews. Teacher interviews provided insights into the merger of the childcare and education systems of Japan. Six themes emerged from the analysis of the day nursery and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Role Models
Teaching Preschool Children about Nature: A Project to Provide Soil Education for Children in Turkey
Ogelman, Hulya Gulay – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2012
In terms of gaining environmental awareness and sensitivity, preschool is the most important period in an individual's life. Preschool education enables lasting steps to be taken towards sustainable development, which has become widespread issue of increasing importance in recent years, and whose importance continues to increase. There is a need…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Group Activities, Kindergarten
Tal, Clodie; Fares, Eshtiak; Azmi, Rim; Waab, Waffa – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
This article describes a group of Druze preschool and kindergarten teachers from Northern Israel who participated in an in-service course in their community. The focus of the training experience was to improve the social climate of the classroom by implementing a life-world approach. Analysis of their reports shows that the children's meaningful…
Descriptors: Play, Group Activities, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Vasinda, Sheri, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Johnson, Robin D., Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2015
The theme for the 58th annual conference of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) was Bridging Cultures Through Literacy. In the first section of the Yearbook, Parker Fawson's presidential address captures the unique nature of ALER and its role in his professional development, and then moved beyond to capture the changing…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Comprehension, Common Core State Standards
Aram, Dorit; Shlak, Maya – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: The study evaluated the "safe kindergarten" program designed to promote kindergartners' communication and social skills based on principles of Imago marital and family counseling (H. Hendrix, 1990). Participants were 92 kindergartners from 4 kindergartens (intervention = 46; comparison = 46). Teachers in intervention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Conflict, Kindergarten, Family Counseling
