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Rebecca Slotkin; Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh – Prevention Science, 2024
The Research-based Developmentally Informed (REDI) program enriched Head Start classrooms with teacher-delivered curriculum components designed to enhance child social-emotional learning and language-literacy skills. Parents received information about the program via backpack express, including weekly handouts about program topics and three DVDs…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Parent Child Relationship, Intervention, Parent Participation
Christine Fisher Vail – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Usage-based theories of language development underscore the importance of children using language to learn language. Few investigations have applied usage-based theories to dual language learners (DLLs), who comprise a growing share of children attending early education programs in the U.S. Three studies were carried out to investigate the role of…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Usage, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Patricia Eadie; Penny Levickis; Jane Page; Jane Hunt; Simon Kent; Yi-Ping Tseng; Guyonne Kalb; Jon Quach; Hannah Bryson; Laura McFarland; Hannah Stark – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
This paper describes the research protocol for the Educational and Developmental Gains in Early Childhood (EDGE) Study, which will examine the implementation of two years of funded kindergarten prior to the first year of school in Victoria, Australia. EDGE will examine whether children's language, cognitive, social-emotional, and behavioural…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Language Skills
Vakkas Yalcin – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
A supportive environment is critical for individuals to protect their developmentally bio-psycho-socio-emotional health. This research was carried out to determine the possible causes of "desire for rapid growth", which is frequently seen in childhood, and the emotional states caused by "desire for rapid growth" in children,…
Descriptors: Participant Characteristics, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education
Julia Honoroff – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: The United States does not have a comprehensive, publicly funded early care and education (ECE) system. As a result, disparities in access and participation in quality ECE in the U.S. are well-documented. Low and middle-income families participate less frequently in ECE compared with higher-income families, often due to conflicts with…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Public Education
Hooven, Jenn; Kissling, Mark; Woods, Misty – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2021
Jenn Hooven, Mark Kissling, and Misty Woods show how children between the ages of 3 and 5 learn to be ecological citizens at the Child Care Center at Hort Woods on Penn State's University Park campus. The authors demonstrate how the curriculum provides a learning focus on animals, insects, plants, weather, and nature-at-large and includes both…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Ecology, Environmental Education, Natural Resources
Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan Hemdan; Hassan, Abdulhameed Said; Al-Qaryouti, Ibrahim; Al-Hashimi, Abdullah; Al-Kalbani, Zuwaina – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The phonological awareness (PA) skills represent a major milestone in the development of reading abilities for preschool children. The purpose of this research study was to examine the developmental trajectories of preschoolers' PA. A related purpose was to explore gender differences in PA. Participants in this study were 767 preschool children…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Preschool Children, Gender Differences, Preschool Education
Resor, Jessica; Hegde, Archana V.; Stage, Virginia C. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Barriers and supports to nutrition education in the early childhood classroom are most often presented from in-service teachers' perspective. Little work has been done to understand pre-service early childhood educators' perceptions of barriers and supports before entering the classroom. The purpose of this study was to identify early childhood…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Barriers, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
Alharthi, Maryam J.; Lebeau, Yann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2021
Parental choices in non-compulsory pre-primary education are typically analysed in relation to dispositions influenced by class-related cultural capital. In Saudi Arabia, where early childhood education is yet to be fully institutionalised, other local socio-cultural dynamics enter in the formulation and approval of choice. This article focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
Leland, Andrew S. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2021
Purpose: This qualitative, phenomenological study explores gay fatherhood visibility in schools. The study was guided by prior research on families headed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) parents, as well as the theoretical exploration of "doing family" for LGBTQ-headed households and queer families. Data Collection…
Descriptors: Fathers, Homosexuality, LGBTQ People, Place of Residence
Enochsson, Ann-Britt; Ribaeus, Katarina – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which curriculum goals on digitalisation are viewed in relation to the overarching democratic mission of Swedish preschools. Groups of preschool staff from three preschools located in different areas were interviewed with the focus on how they discuss democracy and the democratic aspects of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preschool Teachers
Ozgun, Songul Yasemin; Capri, Burhan – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
Purpose: In the pre-school period, an active sense of curiosity, the most important developmental feature of children, is directed toward sexuality. In this context, it was aimed to develop a questionnaire to measure the sexual knowledge of children and to develop a sexuality education program based on the information level on sexual issues, and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Readiness, Knowledge Level
Nilsen, Malin; Lundin, Mona; Wallerstedt, Cecilia; Pramling, Niklas – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The use of apps in preschool has increased considerably during the last few years. Studies have shown that digital technologies are sometimes used to replace analogue artefacts in educational settings. This calls for studies on how the use of apps transforms preschool activities. This study empirically investigates how preschool children play…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology
Brifkani, Isra – Religious Education, 2021
In light of calls for renewal in Islamic schooling in the West, this study reconceptualizes the notion that Islamic education promotes wholeness through "tarbiyah." The author conducted interviews with twenty principals of Islamic schools in the United States to understand these principals' perspectives regarding wholeness in education.…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
de Jongh, Marguerite; Wium, Anna-Marie – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: Preschool learners with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may develop problems with emergent literacy and more explicitly, phonological awareness necessary for the development of reading and writing. A need for support of Grade R teachers in inclusive schools was identified, and a programme developed. Aim: The main aim of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder