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Ocal, Erdinc; Karademir, Abdulhamit; Saatcioglu, Ozkan; Demirel, Beyza – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
This paper investigated how puppetry could be used to improve the standards of early childhood science education. This study determined the effect of a puppet-making and puppetry workshop on preservice preschool teachers' beliefs and attitudes towards science education and looked into their experiences during and after puppet-making. Although…
Descriptors: Puppetry, Teacher Education Programs, Standards, Early Childhood Education
Larimore, Rachel A. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2020
Reforms in K-12 science education and their implications for PreK teaching, make this a critical time for developing a unified vision for early childhood science education. The goal of this essay is to provide a vision of what it might look like to leverage the best of both early childhood and K-12 science education reform efforts for meaningful…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Education, Educational Change, Preschool Education
Vartiainen, Jenni; Kumpulainen, Kristiina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
Drawing on sociocultural theorizing, this case study investigates and unpacks the qualities of "scientific play" during children's inquiry-based science activities framed by imagination and play (i.e. Poetry Science). The data were gathered in Finnish preschool groups with children aged five to six years old (N: 31) over a five-week…
Descriptors: Science Education, Play, Inquiry, Active Learning
Aktas, Idris – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to identify research trends from 2011 to 2020 through bibliometric mapping and content analysis of articles on the use of technology in early childhood science education. Articles published between 2011 and 2020, identified through the Web of Science database, constituted the data for the research. For bibliometric…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Instruction, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Barenthien, Julia; Oppermann, Elisa; Steffensky, Mirjam; Anders, Yvonne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Science is an important domain in early childhood education. Though, initial results indicate that preschool teachers rarely offer science activities. Against this background professional development aims to encourage preschool teachers to provide science activities more frequently. In Germany, professional development is often offered as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Taverna, Andrea S.; Medin, Douglas L.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Across the world, people form folkbiological categories to capture their commonsense organization of the natural world. Structured in accordance with universal principles, folkbiological categories are also shaped by experience. Here we provide new evidence from the Wichi--an understudied indigenous community who live in the Chaco rainforest and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Folk Culture, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Uludag, Gonca; Erkan, Nefise Semra – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
Young children's instinctive curiosity is essential in early childhood science education. Efficacious science education is associated with the characteristics of a qualified science program and an effective learning environment. The out-of-school learning environments make it easier to achieve the aims of science education in early childhood with…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Science Activities, Informal Education
Campbell, Coral, Ed.; Jobling, Wendy, Ed.; Howitt, Christine, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2018
Science education is crucial to young children's discovery and understanding of the world around them. This third edition of Science in Early Childhood has been substantially updated to include the most current research, bringing together an author team of respected science education researchers from across Australia. New chapters address changing…
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, STEM Education, Culturally Relevant Education
Campbell, Coral, Ed.; Jobling, Wendy, Ed.; Howitt, Christine, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2021
It is widely recognised that science explorations is vital in children's lives as they make sense of the world. Now in its fourth edition, Science in Early Childhood provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to science in the early years. Each chapter has been updated to include current research and to address changing priorities in early…
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Inquiry
Luis Miguel Briseno Sandoval – ProQuest LLC, 2021
School readiness is often defined as being at an expected developmental level across domains such as social and emotional, language and literacy, math, and science (Office of Head Start, 2015; Washington State Department of Early Learning, 2012; Teaching Strategies, 2001). Suppose children start without the foundation and identity in early science…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Science Education
Gerde, Hope K.; Pierce, Steven J.; Lee, Kyungsook; Van Egeren, Laurie A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Quality early science education is important for addressing the low science achievement, compared to international peers, of elementary students in the United States. Teachers' beliefs about their skills in a content area, that is, their content self-efficacy is important because it has implications for teaching practice and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Science Instruction
Havu-Nuutinen, Sari; Kewalramani, Sarika; Veresov, Nikolai; Pöntinen, Susanna; Kontkanen, Sini – Research in Science Education, 2022
This research is a comparative study of Finnish and Australian science curricula in early childhood education (EC). The study aims to figure out the constructivist components of the science curriculum in two countries as well as locate the similarities and differences in the rationale and aims, contents, learning outcomes, learning activities,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Comparative Education, Outcomes of Education
Watts, Mike; Salehjee, Saima; Essex, Jane – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Early years science education is not science, but a curricular construction designed to induct young children into a range of ideas and practices related to the natural world. While inquiry-based learning is an important approach to this, it is not of itself unique to science and there are a range of logico-mathematical constructions that come…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Young Children, Questioning Techniques
Baruch, Yael Kesner; Spektor-Levy, Ornit; Mashal, Nira – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
Today, early science education is a well-accepted view. Enhancing children's curiosity about the natural world and fostering positive attitudes toward science are primary goals of science education. However, questions remain regarding the appropriate ways to identify, nurture, and study these emotional states in pre-schoolers. This study examines…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Science Education, Responses
Hansson, Lena; Leden, Lotta; Thulin, Susanne – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
This article focuses on the need for increased attention to content issues and working methods for science teaching in Early Childhood Education (ECE). Science education research emphasises the importance of not only focusing on specific phenomena, but also on the Nature of Science (NOS). NOS teaching deals with questions about what science is,…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Picture Books, Reading Aloud to Others, Teaching Methods