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Drew, Christopher – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
Neoliberal rationalities predicated on consumer choice and market forces have increasingly positioned parents as consumers in early childhood and care markets. In this context, providers jostle to attract clientele by providing pathways through and around a milieu of parental anxieties and ambitions for their children. This article examines a…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Child Care, Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration
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Kewalramani, Sarika; Palaiologou, Ioanna; Dardanou, Maria – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This paper presents findings from an on-going international study of Early Childhood (EC) teachers' and children's use of Internet of Toys (IoToys) to understand possibilities for developing children's cognitive capacities (e.g., creativity, inquiry, engineering design thinking). The study employed a Design Based Research (DBR) method, where…
Descriptors: Engineering, Design, Robotics, Electronics
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Kroeker, Julia – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of this study was to explain children's indoor and outdoor play in preschool programs in terms of teacher interaction, peer interaction and task orientation. Children's indoor and outdoor play behaviors were compared using the Individualized Classroom Assessment Scoring System (inCLASS). Findings included significant differences on…
Descriptors: Play, Outdoor Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Ólafsdóttir, Sara Margrét; Danby, Susan; Einarsdóttir, Jóhanna; Theobald, Maryanne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
In preschool settings, children challenge the adult-initiated rules in many ways during their play activities with peers. This ethnographic study with children aged 3-5 years was built on Corsaro's sociology of childhood construct that views children as agents and active participants in preschool society. The study is conducted in two preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Standards, Ethnography
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Disney, Leigh; Barnes, Alan; Ey, Lesley; Geng, Gretchen – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Advances in technology have seen a proliferation of touch-screen interfaces available to young children. These screens have changed the way in which young children engage with digital technology; with increased exposure and use, it raises debates about the suitability of integrating digital technology within early childhood settings. There are…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Numeracy, Young Children
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Coelho, Vera; Cadima, Joana; Pinto, Ana Isabel – Early Education and Development, 2019
Preschool process quality and activity setting are considered important aspects influencing child engagement. As such, it is important to understand how educational settings can promote engagement, particularly for children with disabilities and/or at risk. This observational study describes process quality and activity setting in inclusive…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities
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Baker, Megina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
An increase in the Dual Language Learner (DLL) population has led to a critical need for early childhood educators to understand how to best serve DLL children and their families. This article describes a qualitative multiple-case study that investigated specific teaching practices for DLLs in six community-nominated exemplary preschool classrooms…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Teaching Methods, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Millei, Zsuzsa – Journal of Pedagogy, 2018
Global flows and their geopolitical power relations powerfully shape the environments in which children lead their everyday lives. Children's images, imaginations and ideas of distant places are part of these global flows and the everyday activities children perform in preschool. Research explores how through curricula young children are moulded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Sensory Experience, Imagination, Ethnography
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Danby, Susan; Evaldsson, Ann-Carita; Melander, Helen; Aarsand, Pål – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Collaboration is an important aspect of social activity associated with young children's digital gameplay. Children organise their participation as they communicate with and support one another, through sharing knowledge and problem-solving strategies, displaying their expertise, encouraging others and creatively exploring possibilities for…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Video Games, Young Children, Play
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Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; Nakajima, Nozomi; Pradhan, Menno – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
This paper examines the child development outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time. One cohort was eligible to access playgroups during the first year of a five-year project cycle, beginning at age four. The other cohort became eligible to access these services during the third year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Li, Yan; Li, Jiacheng; Devlieghere, Jochen; Vandenbroeck, Michel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
A growing body of literature refers to the potential of parental involvement (PI) as a critical educational remedy and solution for a diversity of issues in ECEC. However, the reflection of mainstream values and assumptions and the lack of attention to cultural differences in this existing body of literature has been criticized. In this article,…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, Family School Relationship
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Williams, Suzanne E.; Pickett, Andrew C.; McGill, Craig M. – Action in Teacher Education, 2019
Despite the documented role of physical activity (PA) in the overall health and links to academic achievement for young children, students' recess time has decreased nationally over the last several decades. Accordingly, teacher education programs largely overlook the importance of PA and related pedagogy, including oversight of recess by academic…
Descriptors: Play, Physical Activities, Recess Breaks, Experiential Learning
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Haywood-Bird, Eden – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
In this ethnographic research, discovery of how preschool-aged children use play to wield their individual power in the outdoors is documented in a single classroom. Embedded as a participant-researcher and working from constructivist and critical theory orientations, the researcher seeks to understand how children use their play to construct the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Outdoor Education, Power Structure, Preschool Children
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Veiga, Guida; de Leng, Wendy; Cachucho, Ricardo; Ketelaar, Lizet; Kok, Joost N.; Knobbe, Arno; Neto, Carlos; Rieffe, Carolien – Infant and Child Development, 2017
Social interactions at the playground have been represented as a rich learning opportunity to hone and master social skills at preschool years. Specifically, all forms of social play (fantasy, role, exercise or rough-and-tumble) have been related to children's social competence. The main goal of this study was to examine whether it is a certain…
Descriptors: Interaction, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Nel, Anca; Joubert, Ina; Hartell, Cycil – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017
This qualitative study makes recommendations to help teachers understand how an outdoor learning environment could be designed and used to enrich perceptual development through sensory and motor stimulation for the Grade R learner. This was done by establishing design principles that create better teaching and learning environments from the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Outdoor Education, Motor Development, Sensory Experience
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