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Ballam, Nadine; Sturgess, Anne – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2019
In February 2018, a full-time provider of gifted education opened in New Zealand with its initial cohort of children. This provider catered for learners from ages 1-15 years who did not 'fit' in mainstream education settings. This paper reports on a research project that focused on the effectiveness of the learning approach at this school in its…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Student Needs, Parent Attitudes
Fenech, Marianne; Lotz, Mianna – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2018
Dominant constructions of professionalism in early childhood education can diminish early childhood teachers' and educators' undertaking of advocacy at the systems or political level. In this paper, we propose an ethically grounded construction of professionalism that provides space for professional practice to move beyond the classroom and into…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Early Childhood Education, Professionalism, Ethics
Brooks, Elspeth; Murray, Jane – Education 3-13, 2018
Internationally, school readiness is increasingly the rationale for early childhood education and care (ECEC). This is the case in England, yet the statutory English Early Years Foundation Stage framework for children 0-5 years also requires practitioners to listen to children's voices: discourse indicates dissonance between school readiness and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children
The Role of Computer Technology in Supporting Children's Learning in Jordanian Early Years Education
Alkhawaldeh, Mustafa; Hyassat, Mizyed; Al-Zboon, Eman; Ahmad, Jamal – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
The current research investigated early years teachers' perspectives regarding the role of computer technology in supporting children's learning in Jordanian kindergartens. Thirty semistructured interviews were conducted with preschool teachers. The sample of kindergartens in this study was purposefully selected from the targeted population of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education
Ward, Ute – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
This study deepens the understanding of the interactions between early childhood practitioners and the parents of young children in English day care settings, nurseries and pre-schools. Using a phenomenological approach and semi-structured interviews with 17 experienced practitioners the study highlights practitioners' lived experiences and their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Phenomenology, Interaction, Preschool Teachers
Sönmez, Sibel; Erkul, Raziye – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
The goal of this study was to identify pre-school teacher candidates' beliefs and conditioned judgments regarding children's body image. The exploratory research pattern was used in this study. The sample group included final year B.A. students from the Pre-School Education departments in two state universities in Izmir. The qualitative part of…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Tsai, Chia-Yen – International Education Studies, 2017
In this research I investigated the views preschool educators in Taiwan on play and the role of play in the curriculum. Adopting a qualitative methodology, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 educators at preschools affiliated with elementary schools. The results indicate that preschool educators generally agree that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Play, Teaching Methods
Saçkes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe – Research in Science Education, 2017
This longitudinal study examined the role of metaconceptual awareness in the change and the durability of preservice teachers' conceptual understandings over the course of several months. Sixteen preservice early childhood teachers participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to reveal the participants' conceptual…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Metacognition, Preservice Teachers, Concept Formation
Yilmaz, Zuhal – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2017
Children start to develop number sense even well before they start the school. Developing number sense serves as an intermediate tool for learning conventional mathematics taught in schools. This number sense has three key areas: number knowledge, counting and arithmetic operations. As a result, the aim of this study was to examine aged related…
Descriptors: Numbers, Young Children, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Lund, Ingrid; Omdal, Heidi – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2017
This study explores the possibility that the concept of learning environment (LE) is understood and interpreted differently by various users, depending on their relative positions in the educational system, institutional affiliation, and cultural heritage. The study employs a qualitative approach and is based on 14 semistructured separate…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Cultural Background
Hermida, M. J.; Segretin, M. S.; Soni García, A.; Lipina, S. J. – Educational Research, 2016
Background: Teachers' conceptions and misconceptions about neuroscience are crucial in establishing a proper dialogue between neuroscience and education. In recent years, studies in different countries have examined primary and secondary school teachers' conceptions. However, although preschool education has proved its importance to later academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Preschool Teachers, Knowledge Level
Scheuer, Nora; Santamaria, Flavia Irene; Echenique, Mónica Haydée – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The aim of this study is to achieve a deeper understanding of the repertoire of cognitive resources children can display in the process of learning numbers. Forty-two children attending Age 4 Kindergarten Class or Year-One in Argentina were individually interviewed, based on a semi-structured script requiring them to represent definite and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Kindergarten
Heikkilä, Mia; Hellman, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The overall interest is to understand how men who study preschool teaching negotiate masculinities. Earlier research shows how male teachers negotiate masculinities when being in and entering a predominantly feminine work area, such as early childhood education [see, for example, Brody, D. L. (2015). The construction of masculine identity among…
Descriptors: Males, Preschool Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Masculinity
Al-Adwan, Fatima Eid Zaid; Al-Khayat, Majed Mohammad – International Education Studies, 2017
The primary education plays an important role in the life of an individual as well as the nation as a whole. This study aims at investigating the level of psychological burnout in early childhood female teachers at public and private kindergarten schools. It also aims to prove whether these burnout levels differ according to the type of school,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Burnout, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
O'Rourke, Claire; O'Farrelly, Christine; Booth, Ailbhe; Doyle, Orla – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2017
Research shows that children facing socioeconomic risk often have poorer skills at school entry, greater difficulty adjusting to school, more negative school experiences, and lower scholastic achievement, relative to their peers. However, the promotion of positive early school experiences is constrained by a lack of insight into disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Student Experience