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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
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Yumin Zhang; Miao Chen; Xiaoyan Li – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Men are traditionally portrayed as being successful in sports, and male teachers in physical activities are portrayed as successful teachers. How do female teachers perceive the gender role of kindergarten teachers in early childhood physical activities? Using hegemonic masculinity theory as an analytical tool, semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Davoud Masoumi; Maryam Bourbour – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Developing children's abilities to act safely, respectfully, and responsibly in digital environments has been an essential component of educational systems for all ages. This study aims to explore what adequate digital competence is in early childhood education and how preschool teachers characterise young children's adequate digital competence.…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Maria Mavrides Calderon – School Community Journal, 2024
Uncertified teachers are the foundation of early childhood systems across the nation. As states and districts move into professionalizing early childhood education, experienced but uncertified teachers are facing the need to enroll in teacher preparation programs to receive certification and retain their jobs. This article investigates the effects…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification, Preschool Teachers, Educational Policy
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Kristín Dýrfjörð – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This article critically analyses the dynamic role of the Preschool Teachers' Union in Iceland, tracing its strategic moves within the educational and political spheres from inception to the present. The union's formative years were marked by a fight to become a fully fledged union and active participation in foundational negotiations that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Teachers
Donita Sinone Kirkland – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to focus on teachers' perceptions regarding professional development training for early childhood education. The problem addressed in this study was the inadequate amount of professional development training available for early childhood teachers to address children with challenging…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development
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Ryan E. Fink; Katarina Suwak; Gwendolyn M. Lawson; Abigail Gray; A. Brooks Bowden – Grantee Submission, 2024
Teachers play a critical role in deciding what curricula are used in their classrooms. We examine the factors that teachers describe influencing their sustainment or discontinuation of a literacy curriculum, "Zoology One," following their participation in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) examining the curriculum's efficacy. This study…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Preschool Teachers
Jennifer Chan Jimenez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological qualitative study explores how public school pre-kindergarten teachers in Florida perceive their principals' understanding of early learning standards and developmentally appropriate practices. The problem addressed is that prekindergarten teachers are evaluated by their principals using state-approved evaluation rubrics…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Teacher Evaluation
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Shen, Kuan-Ming; Cheng, Yi-Wen; Lee, Min-Hsien – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
This study aimed to understand the relationship among conceptions of teaching and learning (COLT), classroom management self-efficacy (CMSE), and pedagogical content knowledge self-efficacy (PCKSE). A total of 485 in-service Taiwanese preschool teachers participating in this study completed three questionnaires, viz. the Conceptions of Teaching…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Classroom Techniques, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Wan Izani Wan Idris; Desi Hermawati; Riyan Hidayat; Nurihan Nasir – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
Teacher well-being is a stimulating topic frequently appearing in studies over long periods. Teachers are typically exposed to stress that, when addressed, can lead to low morale and positively impact their work. This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and well-being among preschool teachers in Selangor. We used a…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Preschool Teachers, Correlation, Well Being
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Fatih Dereli; Tugba Türk Kurtça – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
Family engagement contributes greatly to families, children, teachers, and classrooms succeed. The purpose of this research is to examine in detail the views and activities of preschool teachers about family engagement activities. To this end, phenomenology was employed as one of the qualitative research methods. There are 35 preschool teachers in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Eva Koželuhová; Ondrej Koželuh – Reading Psychology, 2025
The level of reading competency in children makes a difference in their academic progress, and subsequently such progress influences their quality of life. The excellence of pre-primary education is based on curricular and procedural quality. The aim of the research was to find out how preschool teachers develop reading literacy in preschool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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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
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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
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Cathy Little; Olivia Karaolis – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
Early childhood education is a sector often mis-represented in the media and public domain, depicting a sector beleaguered by low salaries, lack of professional recognition and inadequate working conditions. Missing from this depiction is the fullness of the everyday teaching and learning experiences of early childhood educators, and subsequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Child Caregivers
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