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Bentley, Dana Frantz; Souto-Manning, Mariana – Teachers College Press, 2019
"Pre-K Stories" offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday stories, readers are invited to witness and engage with classroom practices that honor young children's brilliance and build on their questions, interests, and strengths. Weaving together…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Authors, Writing (Composition)
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Sigurdardottir, Ingibjorg; Mork, Svava B. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
As the first level of schooling, preschools are part of the educational system in Iceland. All preschools operate according to Preschool Act. No. 90/2008 and the National Curriculum Guidelines, where the emphasis is on children's learning through play and high-quality practice. The aim of this study was to shed light on how the first wave of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hong, Soo-Young; Eum, Jungwon; Long, Yanjie; Wu, Chaorong; Welch, Greg – Journal of Early Intervention, 2020
This study aimed to investigate typically developing preschoolers' behavior toward peers with disabilities in inclusive classrooms, focusing on the co-occurrence of the interactions between children with and without disabilities with various classroom contexts. Behaviors of 22 typically developing preschoolers were observed and coded on two…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Peer Relationship, Inclusion, Classroom Environment
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Wilinski, Bethany; Machumu, Maregesi; Sharma, Amit – Childhood Education, 2021
Efforts to improve education should not neglect to provide the rich play opportunities that benefit children in so many ways. In Tanzania, the pre-primary curriculum, for example, guides teachers to use play as the primary method of teaching and learning. Despite this policy mandate for play, however, abundant evidence indicates that Tanzanian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Child Development, Skill Development
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Dominguez, Stefanie; Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2018
Little research has been conducted on the play of children of very low English proficiency within English-speaking preschool classrooms. In the present investigation, we recorded and described the naturalistic free play of four dual language learners (DLLs) and compared their interactions to those of four English-speaking children. Units of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, English (Second Language)
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Nieuwmeijer, Christiane; Marshall, Nigel; van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4-5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the content of the music education taking place…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Education, Play, Preservice Teacher Education
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Fleer, Marilyn; Adams, Megan; Gunstone, Richard – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
As increasing numbers of families migrate from a range of countries into communities where Western science is viewed as valued curriculum content, a need for understanding the cultural nature of teaching Western science has become more urgent. The study reported in this paper sought to investigate pedagogical responses to everyday and scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, Preschool Children
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Theodotou, Evgenia – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Literacy is one of the most important areas of development. Several pieces of research examine the positive impact of the arts on children's literacy development. However, most of them focus on specific literacy skills and not in providing a holistic examination of literacy. Also, they adapt a structured methodology, with pre-decided lesson plans,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Art Education, Lesson Plans
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Limlingan, Maria Cristina; McWayne, Christine; Hassairi, Nail – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Preschool is a critical period during which children's development and learning exert a long-lasting impact on their school adjustment and academic outcomes. Although research on monolingual English-speaking children has identified elements of high-quality preschool experiences that can serve as the foundation for teaching all…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingual Students, English Language Learners
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Panganiban, Jonathan L.; Shire, Stephanie Y.; Williams, Justin; Kasari, Connie – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Schools are the portal through which many children with autism spectrum disorder access early intervention. Collaborating with teachers can be an effective way to implement evidence-based practices. In this study, teachers learned to embed strategies from the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation intervention into the standard…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Preschool Children
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Hu, Xiaoyi; Zheng, Qunshan; Lee, Gabrielle T. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a peer-mediated LEGO® play intervention on improving social skills for children with ASD in an inclusive preschool in China. Three boys with ASD and 13 typically developing children participated in this study. A multiple-probe across participants design was used. The intervention consisted of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention, Toys
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Gejard, Gabriella; Melander, Helen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
This study explores preschool children's mathematizing in everyday block play activities. Building on an ethnomethodological and multimodal conversation analytic framework, we explore how geometry (i.e. spatiality, shape, and symmetry) is actualized in children's verbal and embodied interaction with their peers, pedagogues, and material…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play
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Fleer, Marilyn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
There is increasing recognition of digital childhoods [Danby, S., Fleer, M., Davidson, C., & Hatzigianni, M. (Eds.). (2018). "Digital childhood." Amsterdam: Springer] and a corresponding body of research into young child's engagement with digital devices across a broad range of contexts [Marsh, J. A., Plowman, L., Yamada-Rice, D.,…
Descriptors: Animation, Information Technology, Computer Oriented Programs, Play
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Sumpter, Lovisa; Hedefalk, Maria – European Journal of STEM Education, 2018
The aim of this paper is to study teachers' roles in preschool children's mathematical reasoning using analysis of epistemological moves. Three moves were identified: instructional moves, confirming move and a new move, concluding move. There were no generative moves encouraging the children to produce different arguments for choice of strategy or…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Preschool Children, Mathematical Logic, Foreign Countries
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Dickinson, David K.; Collins, Molly F.; Nesbitt, Kimberly; Toub, Tamara Spiewak; Hassinger-Das, Brenna; Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2019
There is a need for empirically based educational practices shown to support learning, yet validation tends to require a high degree of experimental control that can limit ecological validity and translation to classrooms. We describe our iterative intervention design to support preschoolers' vocabulary through book reading coupled with playful…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Intervention, Low Income Students, Vocabulary Development
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