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Direct linkVandenbroeck, Michel; Slot, Pauline; Hulpia, Hester – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Child care quality in general, and caregiver-child interactions in particular, are salient predictors of children's outcomes. While the importance of process quality is well known, the complex relations between structural quality and process quality are far less researched in family child care, compared to centre based child care. Flanders shows…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Environment, Educational Quality, Classroom Environment
Download full textKekesi, Divine Koku; Donkor, Simon Kormla; Torkonyo, Moses – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2019
The study investigated the perception of early childhood educators on the use of play as a teaching technique in the Afadjato South District. The study was a cross-sectional descriptive design using concurrent triangulation mixed method approach. A sample of 120 participants was used comprising100 kindergarten teachers, 10 basic school heads and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Pairman, Ann – Early Childhood Folio, 2018
The revised version of "Te Whariki" (2017) acknowledges children's rights to exercise some agency in their own lives. This article responds by drawing on the author's research in four spatially diverse early childhood education centres to consider how built environments can influence children's agency. It argues that spatial complexity…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Early Childhood Education, Space Utilization, Foreign Countries
McKendrick, John H. – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
The starting point of this paper is the Scottish School Grounds Survey of 2005, which provided nationwide insight into the extent to which school grounds were being used as learning environments for children in nursery, primary, secondary and special schools in Scotland. Reflecting specifically on provision for play and the way in which play…
Descriptors: Play, Playgrounds, School Space, Physical Environment
White, Jayne; Ranger, Gareth; Peter, Mira – Early Childhood Folio, 2016
A growing number of 2 year olds are now attending early childhood education (ECE) services nationally and internationally. However, New Zealand has been slow to address the specialist provision and needs for high quality ECE for 2 year olds. The current survey of 248 New Zealand ECE services examined the effect of this lacuna on practice and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Chancellor, Barbara; Hyndman, Brendon – Global Studies of Childhood, 2017
This article is informed by two studies in Australian primary school playgrounds and provides a critique of the interaction between adults and children during recess breaks in the school day. The study investigates the contours/lines of force that shape the moral geographies of playgrounds through management and supervision strategies. This…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Playgrounds, Moral Values, Supervision
Tackie-Ofosu, Vivian; Bentum, Kwesi – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2013
In the current study, the authors explored how early childhood educators used observation to support children in the learning environment. The objectives set were to find out the observation methods teachers used, ascertain their understanding of child observation, find out activities children undertook, and how teachers documented what children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Play, Group Discussion
Pearce, Gemma; Bailey, Richard P. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Playgrounds and play times offer valuable contexts for children to explore and learn about themselves and their social lives. This study sought to gather evidence of children's perceptions of their playgrounds and play times, specifically whether the playgrounds were seen positively or negatively and the types of activities in which they engaged.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Play, Physical Activities, Early Childhood Education
Smythe, Elizabeth Ann; MacCulloch, Tony; Charmley, Richard – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2009
The lived experience of professional supervision is complex and dynamic. Techne, the knowledge that informs the "know-how" of practice, offers guidance. Phronesis, the dynamic wisdom that trusts the "play" of relationship in the supervision encounter, recognises the spirit of the encounter. While it is hard to capture that…
Descriptors: Play, Supervision, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Supervisory Methods
Jarvis, Pam – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2007
This research was carried out during a study which focused upon the rough and tumble play of children in the early years department of a suburban primary school in northern England. The child sample's playtime activities were ethnographically observed over a period of 18 calendar months, during which time interviews were also carried out with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Playgrounds, Play
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2016
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2016, taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 30 of April to 2 of May, 2016. Psychology, nowadays, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
The present bulletin constitutes a complete author and subject index to the 2,312 entries contained in the 10 numbers of the Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications issued from February, 1919, to January, 1920, inclusive. The record was published each month during this period, with the exception of July and August. The references in the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Publications, Educational Administration, High Schools
