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Parents' Discourses about Language Strategies for Their Children's Preschool Bilingual Development
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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2011
The study focused on immigrant parents' discourses about strategies for their children's preschool bilingual development and education. The article investigated how immigrant parents described and explained these strategies. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with 4 families. The 8 parents were Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel…
Descriptors: Interviews, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
The Effect of a Handwashing Intervention on Preschool Educator Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge and Self-Efficacy
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Rosen, L.; Zucker, D.; Brody, D.; Engelhard, D.; Manor, O. – Health Education Research, 2009
This paper describes the effect of a preschool hygiene intervention program on psychosocial measures of educators regarding handwashing and communicable pediatric disease. A cluster-randomized trial, with randomization at the level of the preschool, was run in 40 Jerusalem preschool classrooms. Eighty preschool educators participated. The program…
Descriptors: Intervention, Teacher Attitudes, Printed Materials, Self Efficacy
Interactive Book Reading in Early Education: A Tool to Stimulate Print Knowledge as Well as Oral Language
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Mol, Suzanne E.; Bus, Adriana G.; de Jong, Maria T. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This meta-analysis examines to what extent interactive storybook reading stimulates two pillars of learning to read: vocabulary and print knowledge. The authors quantitatively reviewed 31 (quasi) experiments (n = 2,049 children) in which educators were trained to encourage children to be actively involved before, during, and after joint book…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Early Reading
Parents' Attitudes and Children's Deprivation: Child-Rearing Attitudes of Parents as a Key to the Advantaged-Disadvantaged Distinction in Pre-School Children.
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Scheintuch, G.; Lewin, G. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1981
Israeli kindergarten children were ranked on an advantaged-disadvantaged scale, and parent child- rearing attitudes were measured by means of a questionnaire. A strong positive relationship was found between rigid parental attitudes and disadvantaged rankings. Parent attitudes correlated with sociocultural factors, educational level, and national…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Disadvantaged Environment
Priorities in Education: Pre-School; Evidence and Conclusions. World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 323.
Smilansky, M. – 1979
This paper presents and evaluates the broad results of pre-school intervention experiments and programs aimed at fostering the intellectual and social development of "disadvantaged" groups. Among the general findings discussed are (1) there is a "sensitive," or even "critical," period in child development, an age at…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Early Intervention: Effectiveness on Children with Special Needs.
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Shulman, Schmuel; Rubinroit, Carl – International Journal of Special Education, 1988
A program was designed for early detection and treatment of cognitive and emotional disabilities of preschool children in day care centers in low-income areas of two cities in Israel. After 10 months of treatment, the 53 children showed improvement in social emotional functioning, cognitive functioning, and competence. (JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Competence, Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities