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Nesrin Arslan; Fatma Nevin Sisman – Health Education Journal, 2025
Objectives: The habit of recycling should be acquired at an early age in order to promote the sustainable use of natural resources. The limited number of studies carried out with early-years children highlights the need for more research with members of this age group. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the 'Don't Waste! -- Recycle'…
Descriptors: Recycling, Sanitation, Preschool Children, Intervention
María Inés Susperreguy; Valentina Aguilera Roco; Carolina Jiménez Lira; Elia Verónica Benavides Pando – Infant and Child Development, 2025
The home math environment is a context where children develop early mathematics skills, which are key for their future learning. Most of the research in the field, however, comes from North American and European countries and is largely based on self-report questionnaires. This qualitative study describes the beliefs, attitudes and experiences of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Ensar Yildiz; Özge Koca; Senel Elaldi – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
Early intervention includes approaches to responding to young children may profit from targeted services. This study aims to synthesize recent evaluations of intervention programs of Big Math for Little Kids, Building Blocks, and Prekindergarten Mathematics Intervention Program in preschool and kindergarten children to determine the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Andre Nickow; Philip Oreopoulos; Vincent Quan – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Tutoring ranks among the most versatile and potentially transformative educational tools available. Dozens of randomized experiments have evaluated preK-12 tutoring programs, varying widely in approaches, contexts, and costs. This article presents results from a systematic review and meta-analysis of tutoring field experiments. We develop a…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Outcomes of Education
Kerstin Löf Catini; Susanne Westman; Eva Alerby – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Public pressure on evaluation has influenced educational projects and national evaluation systems for many decades. This article extends the ongoing discussions in the field, offering a problematising exploration of evaluation as an educational policy phenomenon, thinking with the notion of rhythm in the analysis. Approaching educational…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Lori Bruner – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
In this study, I examined preschool storybook apps for the affordances they may provide for young children's vocabulary development. Specifically, I sought to understand (a) the degree to which storybook apps introduce new words, (b) the types of words children can learn, and (c) the degree to which digital enhancements align with new words in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Young Children, Childrens Literature, Vocabulary Development
Marie Therese Farrugia – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study is based on qualitative research carried out with four 4-year-old children attending a kindergarten in Malta. The aim of the study was to first observe children playing without adult intervention to see if, and how, they would engage with mathematical ideas as they played. In the second part of the study, I interacted with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play
Jose Pérez-Navarro; Marie Lallier – Child Development, 2025
This study examined the influence of linguistic input on the development of productive and receptive skills across three fundamental language domains: lexico-semantics, syntax, and phonology. Seventy-one (35 female) Basque-Spanish bilingual children were assessed at three time points (Fall 2018, Summer 2019, Winter 2021), between 4 and 6 years of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students
Joohi Lee; Sham'ah Yunus; Joo Ok Lee – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Robotics has emerged as a popular interdisciplinary pedagogical approach in the field of education to teach children STEM concepts. By providing playful learning experiences, the use of robots engages children in an active learning process, making it an effective tool to promote their targeted knowledge, skills, and disposition towards STEM,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Programming, Skill Development
Teresa Elkin Postila; Christine Eriksson – Gender and Education, 2025
This article aims to problematize knowledge production as merely an academic researcher endeavour by investigating how research can invite preschool-aged children to activate knowledge "in situ." Informed by Isabelle Stengers' theoretical framework, we developed the research methodology of Research prACTivisms through three propositions:…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Activism
Ipek Ozbay Ozdemir – Pedagogical Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the professional identity development of preservice preschool teachers. In this research, currere method, which is an educational autobiography creation technique, was used. A total of 20 Turkish female preservice preschool teachers participated in the study. The data of research was collected via…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education, Professional Identity, Foreign Countries
Tracy M. Zehner; Tanya M. Paes; Brianna L. Devlin; Elyssa A. Geer; Germán Posada; Robert J. Duncan; David J. Purpura; Sara A. Schmitt – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study examined the association between preschool children's social-emotional competence (SEC), defined by their social skills and problem behaviors, and numeracy skills. It also examined if any subdomains of SEC predicted preschool numeracy above and beyond latent social skills or problem behaviors variables. Data came from…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Interpersonal Competence, Predictor Variables, Correlation
Asha Rudrabhatla; Lindee Morgan; Michael Siller – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2024
To make inclusive learning environments accessible, it is critical that parents of children without disability select inclusive alternatives when making decisions about their child's preschool placement. This study examined attitudes toward inclusive education among parents of children without disability across 18 state-funded pre-kindergarten…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Parent Attitudes, Students with Disabilities
Play Affordances of Natural and Non-Natural Materials in Preschool Children's Playful Learning Tasks
Hanadi A. Chookah; Joseph S. Agbenyega; Ieda M. Santos; Claudine Habak – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
The use of natural and non-natural play materials in early childhood education is a critical facilitator to children's learning and development. Different materials vary in their affordances for sophisticated play, imagination, and creativity, which contribute to children's complex thinking; with the current focus on technology, it has been…
Descriptors: Play, Affordances, Toys, Preschool Children
Christopher P. Brown; Pedro Reyes; Lauren C. McKenzie; David E. DeMatthews; Sarah L. Woulfin – AERA Open, 2024
In states that fund public prekindergarten and kindergarten in elementary schools, principals are central to ensuring these programs support children's learning and development. Yet few studies explore how principals position these programs within their instructional leadership and what they perceive should be done by district leaders to support…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Preschool Education, Kindergarten