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Little, Helen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
This article presents data from a survey of Early Childhood Education and Care services in Australia. The study investigated outdoor play provision in terms of space, resources and planning for risk-taking in play. Overall, the results indicate that the participating centres are well-resourced to promote physical play, but vary in terms of…
Descriptors: Risk, Early Childhood Education, Play, Preschool Teachers
Schriever, Vicki – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
Young children use, engage with, and experience digital technologies in their home and early childhood settings, yet their presence and use can be fraught with tensions and uncertainties. This paper reports on an Australian study focusing on how early childhood teachers perceive and manage parental concerns about their child's digital technology…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Family School Relationship, Technology Uses in Education
Edwards, Susan; Bird, Jo – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
Early childhood education settings are characterized by the use of play-based learning and the assessment of children's play by teachers to promote further learning. A problem with technology use in early childhood settings is that little is known about how children learn to use technologies through play. This lack of knowledge makes it difficult…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Play, Teaching Methods
Stanley, Maree; Allen, Penny; Tunks, Terry-Ann; Davenport, Melinda; Cartmel, Jennifer – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
Intergenerational playgroups purposively bring older people, young children and their caregivers together to engage in play and develop reciprocal relationships. Intergenerational research focuses on the benefits for participants, with much less known about how these programmes sustain. This paper discusses and explores programme sustainability…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Young Children, Caregivers, Play
Salamon, Andi; Sumsion, Jennifer; Press, Frances; Harrison, Linda – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
This article proposes utilising the theory of practice architectures to uncover and make explicit the beliefs and implicit theories of early childhood educators, as well as to examine the conditions out of which they have emerged. The beliefs and implicit theories of early childhood educators influence many early childhood practices and play a…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education
Manassakis, Evangeline Smaree – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
Recent research indicates that teachers have the predominant role in organising early childhood classrooms in Australia. Not much is known about the involvement of children in organising the kindergarten classroom in Queensland, Australia. There is even less research that considers how the play equipment, utensils, resources and the classroom…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Student Participation, Preschool Children
Stagnitti, Karen; Bailey, Alison; Hudspeth Stevenson, Edwina; Reynolds, Emily; Kidd, Evan – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
The current study investigated the influence of a play-based curriculum on the development of pretend play skills and oral language in children attending their first year of formal schooling. In this quasi-experimental design, two groups of children were followed longitudinally across the first 6 months of their first year at school. The children…
Descriptors: Investigations, Play, Oral Language, Foreign Countries
Educators' Understandings Of, and Support For, Infant Peer Relationships in Early Childhood Settings
Davis, Belinda; Degotardi, Sheila – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
This research adopted a qualitative methodology to investigate the reported beliefs and pedagogical practices relating to infant peer relationships held by three early childhood infant educators. Thematic analysis was used to derive commonalties and differences that reflected these educators' views and practices about children's early peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Infants
Morrissey, Anne-Marie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
As part of a longitudinal study, infant/toddler pretend play development and maternal play modelling were investigated in dyadic context. A total of 21 children were videotaped in monthly play sessions with their mothers, from age 8 to 17 months. Child and mother pretend play frequencies and levels were measured using Brown's Pretend Play…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Toddlers, Mothers, Play
Knaus, Marianne – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
Many Western countries around the world have been reviewing policy and practice aimed at enhancing the quality and professional practice of early childhood education. The response has been to establish government-sanctioned curriculum frameworks based on current research and the dominant discourses of educational provision. The successful…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Curriculum Design, Educational Philosophy
Hoyte, Frances; Torr, Jane; Degotardi, Sheila – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
This article presents findings of a pilot project for a study investigating the language of preschool-aged peers, with particular attention to differences in genre that were evident in the dyadic play of children who self-identified as being "very best friends" as opposed to "just a little bit" friends. Participants were three…
Descriptors: Friendship, Preschool Children, Peer Relationship, Play
Kelly, Clare – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
This article discusses a small-scale study that explores how members of one family based in Australia and the United Kingdom use remote technology to develop and maintain family relationships across generations and distance. Of particular interest was the manner in which Skype computer software was mediated to develop intersubjectivity between a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software, Family Relationship
Little, Helen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
Learning how to respond appropriately in risk situations comes not only from the child's direct experiences but also through the guidance of those around them. The role of parent practices in guiding children's decision-making in risky situations has mainly been investigated in experimental contexts. The present study examined children's…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Role, Playgrounds, Parent Attitudes