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Download full textPalmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Designs for Learning, 2022
This paper reports on a design oriented study conducted in close collaboration between two researchers and three preschool teachers. Within this study, a play-based interview script was designed in accordance with theoretically driven principles. Based on this script, the preschool teachers conducted interviews with children from three preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Interviews
Direct linkSinger, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
This paper, based on interviews conducted for the "Early Childhood Oral History Project," draws on oral life-history interviews with 14 prominent early childhood researchers who have been active since the 1970s within diverse European countries. A common theme across the interviews is the key role that collaborative research between…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Oral History, Researchers
Achituv, Sigal; Manzura, Shulamit – Journal of Jewish Education, 2016
This article summarizes a study of the viewpoints of Bible lecturers in the Kindergarten Education Department while teaching content related to the biblical "other." The study, by two researchers themselves part of the study population, was conducted according to the qualitative approach and included interviews with participants from a…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Student Characteristics, Kindergarten, Qualitative Research
Mevorach, Miriam; Miron, Mordechai – Journal of Educational Issues, 2015
This study examined the professional and personal transition undergone by eight experienced early childhood (EC) teachers after completing their graduate studies. The data were collected through interviews and online communication. Three main categories arose in the qualitative content analysis of the text: (1) personal process of change; (2)…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Graduate Study, Interviews
Castle, Kathryn – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
What is early childhood teacher research and why is it important? How does a teacher researcher formulate a research question and a plan for doing research? How do teachers apply research results to effect change? "Early Childhood Teacher Research" is an exciting new resource that will address the sorts of questions and concerns that pre- and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Teacher Researchers, Researchers, Early Childhood Education
McClure, Elisabeth R.; Guernsey, Lisa; Clements, Douglas H.; Bales, Susan Nall; Nichols, Jennifer; Kendall-Taylor, Nat; Levine, Michael H. – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2017
Tomorrow's inventors and scientists are today's curious young children--as long as those children are given ample chances to explore and are guided by adults equipped to support them. "STEM Starts Early" is the culmination of a deep inquiry by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and New America embarked on an exploratory…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Teacher Educators
STEM Starts Early: Grounding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Early Childhood
McClure, Elisabeth R.; Guernsey, Lisa; Clements, Douglas H.; Bales, Susan Nall; Nichols, Jennifer; Kendall-Taylor, Nat; Levine, Michael H. – Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, 2017
Tomorrow's inventors and scientists are today's curious young children--as long as those children are given ample chances to explore and are guided by adults equipped to support them. "STEM Starts Early" is the culmination of a deep inquiry by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and New America embarked on an exploratory…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Teacher Educators
Murphy, Debra G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teacher research has been included in university and graduate teacher education programs for the past 2 decades. Recently, associate degree programs have also begun to engage their students in teacher research. What happens when community college early childhood students conduct teacher research as a course assignment? This study involved 8 former…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Two Year College Students, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Birkeland, Asta – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
Photo elicitation has become an important method to produce data in qualitative research. There is quite an extensive literature indicating the benefits of photo elicitation in order to facilitate collaboration in meaning making between researcher and the interviewee. This article addresses dilemmas associated with using photo elicitation in a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Interviews, Cross Cultural Studies, Photography
Lifting Kindergarteners' Writing to Meet the Common Core Learning Standards: A Collaborative Inquiry
Heskial, Joyce; Wamba, Nathalis G. – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2013
The advent of Common Core Standards in New York State has forced a revisitation of past practices. With a goal of ensuring that all students are college and career-ready by the end of high school these standards call for increased rigor and higher expectations at all grade levels. The purpose of this study was to analyze through collaborative…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Kindergarten, Young Children
Baumgartner, Jennifer; Burnett, Lauren; DiCarlo, Cynthia F.; Buchanan, Teresa – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2012
Background: Children receive support for their learning and development from multiple sources and within various developmental contexts. The extant literature investigating children's social supports has uncovered multiple benefits to positive and complex social support system. However, the measurement of children's social supports has largely…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Maps, Young Children, Preschool Teachers
Fitzgerald, Meghan M.; Theilheimer, Rachel – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
This qualitative study of three Head Start Centers analyzed surveys, interviews, and focus group data to determine how education coordinators, teachers, and teacher assistants believed professional development activities could support teamwork at their centers. The researchers sorted data related to teamwork into four categories: knowledge and…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Johansson, Inge; Sandberg, Anette; Vuorinen, Tuula – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2007
The aim of this study was to analyse how a model for practitioner-oriented research can be used as a tool for professional development in the preschool. The focus of interest is the type of knowledge that is formed when researchers and preschool staff cooperate on local projects, and what this new knowledge means for the images of professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Researchers, Questionnaires, Interviews
