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Aoife Roche; Clare Carroll; Mary-Pat O'Malley – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
In the Republic of Ireland, the Department of Children and Youth Affairs recommends implementing play-based learning in early education curricula. This research study set out to explore the following research question: What are pre-school teachers' beliefs, understandings and uses of play-based approaches to develop language and literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Marie-Helene Zimmerman Nilsson; Ylva Holmberg – Music Education Research, 2024
In recent years, Swedish preschool has been subjected to significant changes. As there is a lack of studies examining how teachers in music rhetorically position themselves within this context, the aim is to study subject positions that are constructed in conversations between preschool music teachers (PMTs) and to discuss these positions in…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Music Education
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Joy Dangora Erickson; Winston C. Thompson – Educational Theory, 2024
Amid efforts to limit "divisive concepts" in educational settings, this article investigates the obstruction of a civic-focused early childhood curriculum. Joy Dangora Erickson and Winston Thompson analyze the challenges faced by a resourceful kindergarten teacher striving to uphold curriculum goals despite constraints imposed by the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
Yuenjung Joo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Children's peer-related social skills in early childhood set the stage for school readiness, social competence, and lifelong well-being. Preschoolers spend most of their classroom time in free choice, offering substantial opportunities for learning experiences that facilitate peer interactions that support social development. Yet, little is known…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Peer Influence, Social Behavior
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Courtney E. O'Grady; Michaelene M. Ostrosky – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2024
We explored how teachers perceived challenging behavior in contrast to behaviors that exemplify social-emotional competence, and how descriptions of behavior varied based on child demographics such as gender, race/ethnicity, and disability status. Using a DisCrit lens, we conducted this study under the assumption that perceptions of behavior may…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Child Behavior
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Mirka Kivimäki; Kirsti Karila; Maarit Alasuutari – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Parents` significance in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is emphasized in the research, but primarily from the perspective of ECEC professionals. Drawing on discursive institutionalism, we analysed what parents of young children in Finland constructed as essential in ECEC from the child`s point of view in their discussions concerning the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Parent Attitudes, Enrichment
Krista Lyons Maddox – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research recognized the current perception of preschool ministry and First Sarasota Baptist Church in Sarasota, Florida. In order to motivate and equip members to contribute to the spiritual formation of children ages two to six, an eight-week training course was developed for forty participants. Their progress was determined using a pre-test…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Christianity, Preschool Education, Religious Education
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Moa Frid; Susanne Westman – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
In this article, a collaborative Deleuze-Guattarian-inspired cartography is produced with preschool practitioners to explore the assemblages of teaching in preschool. The aim is to map how teaching comes into being in preschool planning and reflection practices following the movements of territorialisation and re-/de-territorialisation. Unwinding…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Planning
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Nilgün Cevher Kalburan – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2024
This study aims to understand the experiences of preschool teachers' outdoor education experiences in their curriculum after taking the Outdoor Education in Early Childhood Course. In this qualitative study, grounded theory was applied to analyzing data that were collected through an open-ended form and individual and focus group interviews.…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Outdoor Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Education
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Ju-Yeon Park; Haesung Im; Sung-Ae Kim – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
Although research has demonstrated that introducing computational thinking (CT) benefits young children, there has been a lack of systematic professional development (PD) opportunities for preschool teachers. The current study investigated the impact of Teaching through Interaction-Plus (TTI-P) on preschool teachers' self-efficacy in teaching CT…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Professional Development, Computation, Mental Computation
Beverly Goodman Sparks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study aimed to uncover kindergarten teachers' experiences and viewpoints concerning the challenge of integrating sufficient play into their classrooms amidst academic demands. This approach explored kindergarten teachers' experiences and perspectives to understand the complex dynamics between play and academics in early childhood education.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Play, Early Childhood Education
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Ester Catucci; Benita Berg; Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines five preschool teachers' narratives about using the outdoor environment as a pedagogical resource for children's play, learning and experiences in Swedish preschools. Participants were asked to reflect on both opportunities and challenges in outdoor play and learning. The present study responds to the need for further research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Preschools
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Berat Ahi; Gökhan Kaya; Deniz Kahriman-Pamuk – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This research aims to understand Turkish children's views on why protecting the environment is important and to identify the role of schools in the rationales that underlie these views. The research was conducted with 18 preschoolers from two schools, one a state school providing traditional education and the other a private school blended with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum
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Yong-Hwee Nah; Pauline Sok-Ping Tan – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
This study investigated the effects of labels on preschool teachers' attitudes (i.e. openness) towards the strengths and difficulties of autistic preschool students in the mainstream setting. It also examined the differential effect of disclosure of a specific or a generic label, and the teacher-related factors influencing their attitude. Sample…
Descriptors: Labeling (of Persons), Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Children
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Lia Sandilos; Priscilla Goble; Pond Ezra; Codie Kane – School Psychology, 2024
Theoretical models of job stress suggest that teachers' experience with burnout occurs, in part, because of an imbalance between job demands and the resources available to meet those demands. Using a diverse sample of 230 Head Start educators, the present study explored how school-based demands (i.e., class size, behavioral challenges) and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Teaching Assistants
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