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Velten, Katrin – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
This paper discusses self-efficacy as a key factor in children managing the transition to primary school, the threshold to formal education and further learning processes. In presenting results of a qualitative-longitudinal interview study of German preschool and primary school children's perspectives on their self-efficacy experiences, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy
Braswell, Gregory S. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
The present study examined representational and non-representational activities in which children in a Head Start classroom participated. This was an investigation from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory of how components (e.g. artifacts and division of labour) of classroom activities vary across and within types of activities.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Low Income Students
Cologon, Kathy; Cologon, Timothy; Mevawalla, Zinnia; Niland, Amanda – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
While the importance of inclusive approaches to research has been identified, much childhood research is still done 'to' not 'with' young children, with research focusing on the experiences of children who experience disability commonly involving data from parents/families/practitioners, rather than from children themselves. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Social Isolation, Disabilities, Participatory Research
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
Miller Marsh, Monica; Mariyam, Mustary; Durant, Kathleen; Zhulamanova, Ilfa – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
Preschool teachers have a responsibility to create a sense of belonging for all children and families in their classroom community. Utilizing a funds of identity approach, this study examines how one preschool teacher uncovered the resources emergent bilingual children brought with them from home into school. She used this knowledge to…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Bilingual Students, Sense of Community, Preschool Teachers
Woodfield, Lorayne; Tatton, Allison; Myers, Tony; Powell, Emma – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
The physical activity (PA) of young children is critical to their future activity, health and development, however, little is known about how the organisation of early years foundation stage (EYFS) settings impacts upon children's PA. This study aimed to measure the PA of children in Nursery and Reception classes and to explore their PA according…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Child Development, Foreign Countries, Preschool Children
Thomas, Amanda – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
This paper explores one child's use of their schema to construct their knowledge and understanding within the early years curriculum for Wales -- the Foundation Phase (FP). It considers how a knowledge of schemas can facilitate practitioners in supporting children along their learning continuum and inform classroom pedagogy. This paper explores…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Children
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
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Altidor-Brooks, Alison – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
The goal of this study is to inform teachers' practice by identifying specific language strategies that young children use in their play and suggesting ways that teachers can build on our findings to support students' language and literacy. Deductive analyses of video-recordings of 5-year old children playing at the sand center revealed that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Language Usage, Peer Relationship
"Professional Feeling": One Early Childhood Educator's Emotional Discomfort as a Teacher and Learner
Madrid, Samara; Baldwin, Nikki; Frye, Eleanor – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
Using feminist and poststructuralist accounts of teacher emotion, the analysis presented in this article examines one teacher's emotion as she participated in a 6-month ethnographic study of emotion in her preschool classroom while enrolled in an online graduate course focused on the sociology of childhood and socially just curriculum.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Ethnography
Edwards, Susan – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2014
This article introduces the notion of "contemporary" play in relation to existing ideas about children's play, learning and development from a sociocultural perspective. The need to think about the nature of contemporary play is considered in response to arguments suggesting that the quality of children's play has declined in…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Play, Consumer Economics, Electronic Equipment
Brayfield, April; Korintus, Marta – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
This article examines the socio-cultural context of early childhood socialization in Hungary. Using a macroscopic lens, we describe the national demographic situation and the social organization of early childhood education and care. Our analysis then shifts to a microscopic focus on parental values and beliefs about the substance of what young…
Descriptors: Socialization, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Social Organizations
Matthews, Douglas R; Ubbes, Valerie A; Freysinger, Valeria J – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
Rhythm has been found to enhance not only biological functioning (e.g. balance, timing and coordination), but also to facilitate learning across sociocultural contexts. That is, rhythm may be a method of supporting child development and well-being. Hence, to the extent that children are not exposed to or engaged with rhythm, their development or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology, Elementary School Teachers
Baroody, Alison E.; Diamond, Karen E. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
This study examines the relations among the classroom literacy environment, children's interest and engagement in literacy activities, and children's early reading skills in a sample of 167 children aged 4 and 5 years enrolled in 31 Head Start classrooms. Researchers rated the classroom literacy environment. Teachers reported on children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Brierley, Julie – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2018
The findings from this study suggest that 2-year-old children regularly use mark making as a tool to further support their emergent thoughts and understanding of the world. The qualitative study of three 2-year-old children uses observations and informal interviews to construct narrative stories of their explorations and play both at nursery and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Futures (of Society), Teaching Methods, Play