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Ji Hyun Oh – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
This study explored preschool teachers' beliefs about the benefits of young children's outdoor play and play in naturalized play environments. Three face-to-face in-depth, semi-structured individual interviews were administered. For data analysis, Charmaz's (2006) constructivist grounded theory was employed using two steps of coding, initial and…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Preschool Teachers
Amélie Desmeules; Christine Hamel; Anabelle Viau-Guay; Caroline Bouchard – Teacher Development, 2024
Make-believe play (MBP) provides kindergarteners with an authentic form of engagement that is particularly favourable to the development of oral and written language. As part of an action research study, an activity-oriented professional development (PD) program incorporating video was established to provide kindergarten teachers with guidance on…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Faculty Development, Play
Anna Henriksson; Lotta Leden; Marie Fridberg; Susanne Thulin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This article attempts to address the challenge that preschool teachers face, when integrating a specific content area, science, with play. The study builds on the theoretical framework of Play-Responsive Early Childhood Education and Care (PRECEC), in which teaching, and play are understood as a mutual activity. In this mutual activity, teachers…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Young Children
Junqing Zhai; Simone Miranda Blom; Justin Dillon; Shanghao Wu; Xiaomei Yan – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Engagement with nature is crucial for child development and kindergarten educators' pedagogical beliefs about nature play significantly affect children's access to and experiences of nature in kindergarten. This study examines the role of nature play in children's holistic development, engaging 12 Chinese kindergarten educators through in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Erica Collette Dinnocenzo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Preschool teachers are an essential part of the education system in the United Sates. The problem is that research and data about the development of literacy skills exist for kindergarten and upper grades, but there is minimal research on preschool teachers' perceptions on the development of literacy skills in a play-based learning environment.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Best Practices
Sara Eliasson; Louise Peterson; Annika Lantz-Andersson – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study on technology education in preschool aims to explore how technology activities in preschool are enacted and what knowledge, related to the five dimensions of the nature of technology, is made possible for the children to learn when intersubjectivity is established in the interaction between the participants. The empirical data encompass…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship
Sally Wiggins; Annerose Willemsen; Jakob Cromdal – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Play has long been understood as an important pedagogical practice, particularly in early childhood education and care settings. Playing with food, however, has typically been overlooked, and very little is known about food play during mealtimes. The apparent dichotomy between rule-following and playfulness at mealtimes has led to a paucity of…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Food, Imagination
Andrea Sanchez – Reading Teacher, 2024
While research consistently demonstrates that young children learn best through play and social interactions, this developmental insight is not often reflected in current classroom curricula. Through action research, I examined how a play-based kindergarten environment could impact student writing and writing engagement. This article specifically…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Preschool Teachers, Play
Yuejiu Wang; Liang Li; Marilyn Fleer; Yuwen Ma – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Although Chinese early childhood education policies have high expectations for kindergarten teachers' play pedagogy, teaching and play are still discussed as a bifurcation in Chinese kindergartens' daily practice. To support Chinese kindergarten teachers' development of play pedagogy, this study conducted an educational experiment (EE) framed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Faculty Development
Danniels, Erica; Pyle, Angela – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Policies related to the inclusion of children with disabilities in mainstream classrooms have led to questions regarding how teachers can help cultivate inclusive learning communities where all children are supported and valued. In play-based kindergarten programs, teachers are tasked with ensuring goals for children's learning and development are…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Play, Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers
Vi-Nhuan Le; Diana Schaack; Michael Gottfried – Elementary School Journal, 2024
There is currently a debate as to whether academic content at kindergarten crowds out time spent in creative arts, free play, and physical activity. Analyzing kindergarten teachers' reports of their instruction from the ECLS-K:2011, this study examined whether core academic content or advanced academic content in math or English language arts…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Creative Activities, Art Activities
Sadamatsu, Joe – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Despite the widespread recognition of the significance of outdoor play in early childhood development, centers for early childhood education (ECE) face the challenge of striking a balance between active play activities and safety concerns. Thus, the visual attention of teachers is critical. Studies that compare the visual attention of novice and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teaching Experience, Eye Movements, Play
Devi Pratami; Nor Hasrul Akhmal; Muhd Ikmal Isyraf Mohd Maulana; Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
The Merdeka Belajar curriculum is the current curriculum developed by the Indonesian Ministry of Education, which should be implemented thoroughly in 2024. Project-based learning is identically engaged with this curriculum, which offers many advantages to enrich the quality of education. This method has been promoted and implemented in several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Preschool Education
Magdalena Hulth; Anne-Li Lindgren; Anna Westberg Broström – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2024
This paper provides a discourse analysis of 12 Swedish sexuality education texts intended for preschool practitioners and published between 1969 and 2021. Using Fairclough's framework, we identify three discourses about children's sexual play in relation to children's sexual agency in the texts: child sexuality as encouraged and entangled with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Sexuality, Personal Autonomy
Saber Abdolmalaki; Mahboubeh Khosravi; Noushin Nouri; Mostafa Ghaderi – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
This phenomenological study aimed to develop a framework integrating play into preschool curriculum based on educators' lived experiences using play-based methods. Fifteen educators from 12 centers were interviewed using theoretical sampling. Data analysis revealed nine pathways linking play types, educator roles, and learning objectives. Results…
Descriptors: Models, Preschool Education, Play, Phenomenology