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Yang, Weipeng; Xu, Peng; Liu, Haidan; Li, Hui – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Many governments have launched the top-down early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms to enhance the accountability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The present discourse analysis of latest ECC policies across four diverse but representative countries -- Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore -- aims to examine the…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education
Gilmore, Gwen; Truong, Thi My Dung; Reilly, Michelle – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
For preservice teachers in early childhood education, having a rich exposure to multiple forms of literacy in diverse communities is an essential dimension of their teacher education. In this study, 10 Australian preservice early childhood education students, in the first year of their course, visit two early childhood settings in a large city in…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers
Lee, Scott Weng Fai – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
The assessment of young children's thinking competence in task performances has typically followed the novice-to-expert regimen involving models of strategies that adults use when engaged in cognitive tasks such as problem-solving and decision-making. Socio-constructivists argue for a balanced pedagogical approach between the adult and child that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Task Analysis, Young Children, Cognitive Tests
McNair, Lynn J.; Powell, Sacha – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Friedrich Froebel is well-known for the invention of kindergarten and the pioneering educational philosophy he developed in the 1800s, which respected children's self activity and women's capabilities for the role of teacher, while promoting play as the primary medium for learning. His radical ideas and principled approach to early childhood…
Descriptors: Child Development, Learning Theories, Kindergarten, Educational Philosophy
Weaving RIE with "Te Whariki": Re-Thinking Family Involvement in Assessment of Learning Dispositions
Cooper, Maria; Hedges, Helen; Dixon, Helen – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Families play important roles in children's learning. Yet, teachers' values and beliefs may sway how families may participate in assessment of their child's learning within early childhood education. This paper reports on a qualitative case study in a New Zealand early childhood setting that explored teachers' views about involving families in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Mellgren, Elisabeth; Margrain, Valerie – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
A total of 659 photographs of text in early childhood environments were gathered by student teachers in New Zealand and Sweden, replicating an earlier Swedish study [Gustafsson, K., & Mellgren, E. (2002)." Using text in pre-school: A Learning Environment." "Early Child Development and Care", 172(6), 603-624]. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Young Children
Alcock, Sophie Jane – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Ethnographic methods are used to investigate infant--toddlers relationships in an early childhood setting. The metaphorical and emotionally based concepts of holding [Winnicott, D. W. (1960). "The theory of the parent-infant relationship." "International Journal of Psychoanalysis," 41, 585-595.] and container: contained [Bion,…
Descriptors: Play, Interpersonal Relationship, Ethnography, Infants
Keown, Louise J.; Palmer, Melanie – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This study compared father-son and mother-son involvement in two-parent families from early to middle childhood. Ninety-four families were recruited for a three-year follow-up study that began when the children were four years old. At each time point, in comparison to mothers, fathers were less accessible to their son on weekdays, and spent more…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Fathers, Mothers, Sons
Young-Loveridge, Jenny – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This paper provides an overview of assessment policy and practice in mathematics for early years classrooms in New Zealand between 1993 and the present day. It describes the introduction of school entry assessment for children starting school at age five. A numeracy initiative, the Numeracy Development Projects (NDP), for students in Years 1-10…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, National Standards, Numeracy, Foreign Countries
Boyd, Lynda – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The purpose of this article is to describe the New Zealand experience of second language acquisition as it applies to learning the Maori language and also to new immigrants learning English. The article describes the te kohanga reo movement and also outlines the government policy as it relates to the learning of English as an additional language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Malayo Polynesian Languages, English (Second Language)
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Ryburn, Murray – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
Considers the key elements of a permanence philosophy in child care and protection that has dominated thinking in the United Kingdom for 15 years. Highlights the fundamentally different stance taken in new children's legislation in New Zealand and argues that the preconditions have been more clearly established for collaboration and partnership…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children