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Kazamias, David – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2023
Play and playfulness have been central to progressive pedagogies since the birth of the kindergarten. Yet their position in many contemporary education discourses is often ambivalent and at times fragile. In the Global North, many critics warn of a 'play crisis' and 'play deficit'. This essay attempts to trace a cultural and intellectual history…
Descriptors: Play, Reflection, Kindergarten, Young Children
Mesture Kayhan Altay; Çigdem Alkas Ulusoy; Ayse Özer; Aysun Umay – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study aimed to examine kindergarten children's performance and strategies when answering different types of numerosity estimation questions. To this end, interviews were conducted with 44 children (aged 61-80 months) in an online setting, during which they were asked nine estimation questions of three types. These questions (open-ended,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Numbers, Knowledge Level
Aglaia Nikolopoulou; Sofia Fili; Magdalini Founta; Ioannis Starakis – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The present research investigates the perceptions of kindergarten students, and pre-service teachers from the Early Childhood Education Department at the University of Athens, concerning the frequency of the Moon's appearance in the night sky. ?he sample consisted of 15 people from each population group. Semi-structured interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Young Children, Kindergarten, Student Attitudes
Suzannie K. Y. Leung; Joseph Wu; Jenny Wanyi Li – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study investigated the development of computational thinking (CT) in young children within the specific context of Hong Kong. The researchers utilized an unplugged digital arts activity to explore the CT knowledge exhibited by children and document their developmental trajectories. A sample of 23 children aged 3 to 6 years participated in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Play, Computational Linguistics
Jorunn Spord Borgen; Gunn Engelsrud – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
In this article, the authors address some of the scientific challenges associated with using observation as a research method. The authors ask how researchers contextualise and understand observation in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and how it is conducted. Using a vignette in the kindergarten context, the authors explore how observation…
Descriptors: Observation, Research Problems, Kindergarten, Young Children
Sybil V. Rivers – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although the formal definition of kindergarten readiness includes cognitive and social skills, the prerequisite skills tested during the first 30 days of kindergarten by the State of Florida are the academic benchmarks and competencies from the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) curriculum. Student readiness rates for VPK facilities include…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, School Readiness
Mun Wong; Thomas G. Power – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Research shows that young children's understanding of death varies considerably by culture. The purpose of this study was to examine the concepts of death held by Chinese kindergarten children in Hong Kong. Eighty-three 4- to 5-year-olds were interviewed about their understanding of six death sub-concepts: inevitability, universality,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Death
David C. Mallinson; Felix Elwert; Deborah B. Ehrenthal – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Adverse health events within families can harm children's development, including their early literacy. Using data from a longitudinal Wisconsin birth cohort, we estimated the spillover effect of younger siblings' gestational ages on older siblings' kindergarten-level literacy. We sampled 20,014 sibling pairs born during 2007-2010 who took…
Descriptors: Age, Siblings, Young Children, Kindergarten
Zhenhua Wu; Li'an Huang; Yu- Kuang Liu; Feng-Kuang Chiang – Research in Science Education, 2024
STEM literacy is a desired principal outcome of STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. With the increasing popularity of Early STEM learning, it is believed that STEM literacy could be developed in the early years. However, relatively few studies have examined STEM literacy in young children. This study utilized the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Kindergarten, Young Children, Literacy
Michel Fayol; Céline Darnon; Ingrid Claracq; Mickaël Jury – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Prior research highlights the role of number manipulation activities in fostering the early mathematical development of children. This study (N = 1,491) explored the effect of a bear-themed intervention on enhancing arithmetic abilities in kindergarten students. Utilizing a pre- and post-test design, the study compared the advancements of children…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Elementary School Mathematics, Early Intervention
Pilonieta, Paola; Hathaway, Jennifer I. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article describes academic conversations in kindergarten classrooms and how they vary across two different instructional activities: teacher-led and student-led book conversations. Conversations about texts have been recommended to improve the comprehension of kindergarten through third graders. The research was conducted in a K-8 urban,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Learner Engagement, Classroom Communication
Doré R. LaForett; Elizabeth Villegas; Zipi Diamond; Cassie Simons Gerson – Child Trends, 2023
In recent years, North Carolina has engaged in efforts to improve the transition to kindergarten process for children, families, and teachers across the state. These efforts include the launch of North Carolina's Transition to Kindergarten Pilot project in 2018 and activities funded by the state's Preschool Development Grant Birth to Age 5 (NC's…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Kindergarten, Young Children, State Programs
Zuofei Geng; Bei Zeng; A. Y. M. Atiquil Islam; Xuanyi Zhang; Jin Huang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) is widely recognized as a fundamental skill in the information age. However, within the context of Chinese early childhood education (ECE), CT remains underrepresented, with a notable gap in the availability of developmentally appropriate and rigorously validated assessment tools designed specifically for…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Test Validity, Kindergarten, Young Children
Kaichun Liu; Haoping Qu; Yawei Yang; Xiujie Yang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Recent studies have revealed the association between mapping and arithmetic (Ferres-Forga et al., "J. Numer. Cogn.", 8, 2022, 123; LeFevre et al., "J. Numer. Cogn.", 8, 2022, 1). Aim: The underlying mechanism remains unclear. Materials & Methods: The current study recruited 118 kindergarten children and followed…
Descriptors: Map Skills, Arithmetic, Numeracy, Inhibition
Marianne Rice; Florina Erbeli; Adrea Truckenmiller; Jill Morris – School Psychology, 2024
Universal screening in reading is a common, and often required, practice in early elementary school. Computer-adaptive screening tools, such as "Istation's Indicators of Progress-Early Reading" (ISIP-ER), are often chosen for this purpose in schools. In our present study, we examine the validity evidence between the ISIP-ER in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Screening Tests, Reading Ability