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Buad Al Khales; Intisar Natsheh; Fathi Ihmeideh; Mina Kim – Education 3-13, 2024
This study aims to examine how five-year-old children demonstrate their learning through mathematical games in preschool settings in Palestine. It also explored the perspectives of children and teachers of different stages of play. The sample consisted of 90 children and 6 teachers. Children were guided to a wide range of mathematical games.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Educational Games, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
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Thorshag, Kristina; Holmqvist, Mona – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
Technology volition is the will to develop knowledge of, and use, the physical world to design products, processes and systems. The aim of this study was to contribute new knowledge of children's technology volition when they identify, build and improve technical constructions, and how teachers support this learning. Analysis focused on moments…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Video Technology, Design
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Serriere, Stephnie C.; Burroughs, Michael D.; Mitra, Dana L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
While cultivating "student voice" is more common in the adolescent years, the early years are an ideal and worthy time to listen and honor the voice of young people, before they are "schooled" in more formal practices of discussion and debate. Teachers can actively listen to young people, and support their capacity to be civic…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Empowerment, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Bjartveit, Carolyn; Panayotidis, E. Lisa – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
In an online graduate-level early childhood education course, the authors sought to playfully disrupt and transform educators' conceptions of children's "dark play," as provoked by contemporary popular culture. Embracing the imaginative potential of darkness and liminality, the course participants problematized and expanded their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Play, Popular Culture, Student Attitudes
Reifel, Stuart, Ed. – 1999
Providing a forum for current thinking related to early care and education, this book presents a wide range of views regarding research methodology, the nature of experience while teaching, teaching and program improvement, and conceptualizing play in the curriculum. The chapters are: (1) "Postmodern Research in Early Childhood Education" (Gaile…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Imagination, Play, Preschool Curriculum