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Direct linkBecher, Aslaug Andreassen – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
"Minority children" experience a lot of shifts in their cultural contexts. The author's work as a professional teacher in multicultural classes enabled her to focus on the research questions presented in this article. These questions concern the need for some minority children to achieve equal opportunities in the Norwegian…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Context, Minority Group Students, Multicultural Education
Lam, Stella Wai Man; Wright, Susan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This article examines the multifaceted nature of pre-primary music teachers' and supervisors' beliefs and practices in music education. It focuses on the general process of creativity (particularly as applied to music education); the classroom setting and how it influences the way music educators approach teaching and learning; and the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Creative Activities, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Erwin, Eric J.; DeLair, Heather A. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
The authors present the results of a multi-year qualitative study of play-based teachers in the USA. These teachers were often under pressure to alter their curricula in order to conform to more rigid and traditional educational approaches, pressure which has only increased under the present federal administration. The contextual factors…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Public Schools, Qualitative Research, Educational Opportunities
Choi, Hyewon Park; Won, Young Mee; Lee, Kwee-Ock – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
The purpose of this study was to explore the extent of children's access to media and the relation between the use of media and language development, including its determinants, among Korean-Chinese bilingual children in Yanji, China. Questionnaires were answered by 258 grade four students and their parents. The results indicated that these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism
Chan, Christine Mei Sheung – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This article is concerned with parental involvement and participation in preschool education in Hong Kong. Based on the experience gained from a parental education programme, it is argued that three issues are crucial in the development of parental education: (1) an ecological approach to recognise the nature of parental education; (2) parental…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parent Education, Preschool Education, Parent Participation
Ebbeck, Marjory; Gokhale, Neelima – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This article reports on a study based on interviews with 40 parents in Singapore. The study examined parents' views about their children's development and learning, and how these were or were not congruent with the views and practices of the childcare centre the children were attending. Findings showed that, although there were some…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Care, Interviews, Parent Attitudes
Kaur, Baljit – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Contrary to the widely accepted belief that no early childhood education provision was evident until the twentieth century, archives date the advent of infant schools in India to the 1830s in Bengal, contemporaneous with developments in England. The Church Missionary Society's infant schools aimed to educate children (and women) from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Early Childhood Education, Educational History
MacFarlane, Kim; Lewis, Trish – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This article examines the implications of a "problem of the present". It explores the potential conflicts and fragmentation that may arise as a result of divisions in the interpretation of the metanarrative of child development within the two disciplines of education and human services. Childcare in Australia is strongly driven by this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Development, Academic Discourse
Lee, Kenneth Siu Woo; Na, Anna Yeung On; Yee, Wong Shuk – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Hong Kong's most recent education reform proposal is the "Consultation Document of the Working Party on Harmonisation of Pre-primary Services" ("Consultation Document".) This examines the feasibility of combining kindergarten and childcare centres and having one single body regulating them. It has stimulated great…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Consultation Programs, Position Papers
