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How Do Activity Settings, Preschool Teachers' Activities, and Children's Activities Relate to the Quality of Children's Interactions in Preschool? Findings from Austria
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Smidt, Wilfried; Embacher, Eva-Maria – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Research on the predictivity of activity settings, preschool teachers' activities, and children's activities for interaction quality is inconsistent and cannot be transferred easily to specific national preschool contexts. The present study addresses this issue by assessing the interaction quality of 185 children aged 3-5 years attending 61…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
What Functions Do the Austrian Kindergarten Teachers Ascribe to the Kindergarten in the Present Socioeconomic Conditions?
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Hartmann, Waltraut; Stoll, Martina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1997
Surveyed Austrian kindergarten teachers about their perceptions of the function of kindergarten in the context of current socioeconomic conditions. Found that teachers no longer see kindergarten as merely an education-providing institution: one-fourth considered kindergarten's main task to be substituting for family care; one-fifth claimed that…
Descriptors: Day Care, Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Foreign Countries