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Lewisetta Monii Perkins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Early childhood education leaders were challenged to assist K-3 teachers with transitioning to online teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore early childhood education leaders' challenges to assist K-3 teachers with transitioning to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten
Mustafa Çetin; Altay Eren; Güler Çetin; H. Özlen Demircan – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
Adopting an integrative grounded theory approach, this study aimed to uncover parents' perceptions of instrumentality regarding early childhood education within the scope of their children's academic skills, social-emotional development, and occupational aspirations. A total of 32 parents, each with at least one child enrolled in a preschool for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Parent Attitudes, Futures (of Society), Expectation
Melinda Brooker; Tamara Cumming; Helen Logan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
Typically, leadership is identified as a key to constructing high-quality early childhood education services and creating provisions to promote children's successful outcomes. However, leadership does not occur in isolation. Organisational management scholars point out that success in organisations is mostly reliant on effective followers. Despite…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Leadership, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Girma Moti Geletu – Education 3-13, 2025
The study examined conceptualisation and implementation of play-based curriculum and pedagogy in early childhood education in preschools in Oromia Regional State. The study employed mixed research method with concurrent triangulation design. A researcher selected the samples of the study by using purposive, availability, stratified and simple…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Play, Instruction
Nataly Pincheira; Ángel Alsina – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
This study analyzes the mathematical knowledge to teach early algebra exhibited by pre-service early childhood education teachers, from the perspective of the Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT) model. The research adopts a mixed exploratory-descriptive methodological approach, based on the application of the MKT-early algebra questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Diana Sousa; Peter Moss – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Starting and finishing with the words of Sally Lubeck, one of the founders of RECE, this article locates early childhood education, all education, in conditions of polycrisis, conditions that are extremely dangerous but offer a glimmer of hope by making transformative change more possible. The article argues that such change calls for re-thinking,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Political Attitudes
Katie Sloan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
At a time when national discourse in the USA centers the need for professionalization, regulation, and surveillance, this article emphasizes the ways in which neoliberal logics harm those working in early childhood education in the USA. While stakeholders at every level debate proposed solutions to the early childhood education crisis, largely…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Teacher Salaries
Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo; Oscar David Marcenaro-Gutierrez – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
Parents have the option of enrolling their children in the first stage of early childhood education (from 0 to 3 years of age). However, not all parents decide to do so, waiting until the second stage of early childhood education to enrol them in the education system (from 3 to 5 years of age), or even until compulsory education when their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Influences, Parent Role, Decision Making
National Center for Homeless Education, 2024
This brief spotlights state coordination for early childhood education of young children experiencing homelessness. The content includes information about the rights and services afforded by the McKinney-Vento and Head Start Acts, spotlights early childhood education for students experiencing homelessness in North Carolina and Nevada, and…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Legislation
Oliver Curbelo-González; Paula Hernández-Dionis; Cristina Martín Sanz; David Pérez-Jorge – International Journal of Music Education, 2025
Numerous studies have demonstrated the substantial advantages of integrating music education into the overall development of students, particularly in early childhood education. This integration allows for combining music education with various curriculum areas, utilizing its playful and motivating nature as a practical methodological tool for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Music Education, Program Implementation, Music Teachers
Davies, Adam W. J. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023
In this article, the author forwards the importance of mad autobiographical poetic writing to challenge and disrupt epistemic injustice within pre-service early childhood education and care. They explore their own mad autobiographical poetic writing as a queer, non-binary, mad early childhood educator and pre-service early childhood education and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Poetry, Social Justice
Maria Fusté Forné – Journal of Museum Education, 2024
The relationships between museums and schools have been strengthened in recent years but little previous research has studied the activities that museums offer for children from 0 to 6. The present article analyses the role of early childhood education in museums' programs in Catalonia. A total of 118 museums and 296 activities have been analyzed…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Museums, Young Children, Foreign Countries
Karianne Franck; Monica Seland; Johanne Rimul; Anne H. Sivertsen; Margaret Kernan – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
In this article, the authors illustrate some of the challenges and dilemmas that Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers experienced when completing a global screening tool (UPSI-5: Universal Psychosocial Indicator for 5 Year Old Boys and Girls) concerning the psychosocial well-being of five-year-olds as part of an international…
Descriptors: Well Being, Mental Health, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers
Jamie Huff Sisson; Martha Lash; Anne-Marie Shin; Victoria Whitington – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Early childhood education contexts are complex and diverse and thus require leadership approaches that connect with the values and beliefs of that field. Currently the research on leadership in early childhood education is limited and it would benefit from research into innovative approaches employed in very different but comparable locations.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, Democratic Values
Anne Grethe Sønsthagen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
Early childhood education and care in Norway have a broad mission and are, among other things, mandated through legislation and frameworks to remedy social injustice and emphasise inclusion. Nevertheless, research illustrates that symbolic power tends to be present in early childhood education and care institutions. In this conceptual paper, it is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Social Justice