ERIC Number: EJ1038541
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-7476
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Introducing Life Events in Preschool Education: Future Educators' Attitudes and Perceptions
Brouskeli, Vasiliki
Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, v40 n4 p431-433 2014
In this study, we aimed to clarify future preschool teachers' attitudes and perceptions about introducing life events, such as chronic illness, hospitalisation, divorce and death to their pupils. We used semi-structured interviews for two different groups who had and had not attended relative to life events courses. Results indicated that future educators, who had not been trained in introducing life events to preschool children, were unable to perceive themselves as preventers. Furthermore, they underlined the importance of the periodic assistance of other professionals, while the group that had attended a relative course suggested that the course be compulsory and offered as a workshop. Neither group questioned the necessity of this kind of education, whereas both groups focused only on two life events, divorce and death.
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Experience, Semi Structured Interviews, Preschool Children, Chronic Illness, Hospitalized Children, Divorce, Death, Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Greece
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