NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 1 to 15 of 5,169 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Aparna Prasanna; Malavika Anakkathil Anil; Gagan Bajaj; Jayashree S. Bhat – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2024
Stories constitute a significant part of the Indian preschool curriculum due to their various benefits in preschool child development. However, the teachers' practice of stories and their perception regarding the influence of stories on preschool child development are vital determining factors in the benefit preschoolers receive from stories. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Story Telling
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Güven, Gülhan – International Education Studies, 2019
This research was carried to identify characteristics of the master dissertations completed in the field of preschool education, between the years of 2015-2019 in Turkey. The sampling of the study consisted of master dissertations in preschool education, child development and education/home economics department registered to National Dissertations…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Masters Theses, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Suchitporn Lersilp; Supawadee Putthinoi; Napalai Chaimaha – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Introduction: Learning environment is an important factor in the development of preschool children. However, those who have different learning styles and sensory behaviors might not reach the same achievements in the same learning environments. The objective of this study aimed to develop a guideline program that considers learning environments,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Diversity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Richards, Ben; Umayahara, Mami; Mirpuri, Sheena; Rao, Nirmala – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
The association between five indicators of inequality (geo-ethnicity, height-for-age, socioeconomic status (SES), gender, and preschool participation) and child development was examined among 1498 3- to 5-year olds from the Khmer and Phnong ethnic groups in Cambodia. Children were directly assessed using the East Asia-Pacific Early Child…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Justice, Social Class
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Elena Yudina – American Journal of Play, 2023
The author contends that, although most early childhood educators agree about the value of play for child development, preschools and kindergartens often do not reflect this belief, and she discusses this anomaly in the adult notion of play and how it manifests in classroom practices. She argues that it produces schoolroom practices in which…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
En Xie; Shaw-chiang Wong; Ying Bai – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Psychology originally defined parent-child conflict in terms of interpersonal relationships, where parent-child conflict is a process of inconsistent attitudes between parents and children that occurs in a family setting. For this end, we aims to investigate the influence of parental awareness on preschoolers' perception of parent-child conflict…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Simulation, Parent Child Relationship, Cooperation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Whitaker, Anamarie Auger; Nguyen, Tutrang; Yu, Winnie – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
Public preschool programs require the use of a research-based, whole-child curriculum, yet limited research examines whether curricula influence classroom experiences and children's development. We use five samples of preschool children to examine differences in classroom processes and children's school readiness by classroom curricular status…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Child Development, Meta Analysis, School Readiness
Jenkins, Jade Marcus; Whitaker, Anamarie Auger; Nguyen, Tutrang; Yu, Winnie – Grantee Submission, 2019
Public preschool programs require the use of a research-based, whole-child curriculum, yet limited research examines whether curricula influence classroom experiences and children's development. We use five samples of preschool children to examine differences in classroom processes and children's school readiness by classroom curricular status…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, School Readiness
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Jarrett, Olga; French-Lee, Stacey; Bulunuz, Nermin; Bulunuz, Mizrap – American Journal of Play, 2010
Sand play commonly occupies children at preschools, child-development centers, and school and park playgrounds. The authors review the research on sand play and present a small study on outdoor sand play conducted at a university-based, child-development center using a method they call "facilitated-action research." This study had four…
Descriptors: Action Research, Playgrounds, Play, Preschool Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Wolf, Sharon; Aber, J. Lawrence; Behrman, Jere R.; Peele, Morgan – Developmental Science, 2019
Preschool programs have expanded rapidly in low- and middle-income countries, but there are widespread concerns about whether they are of sufficient quality to promote children's learning and development. We conducted a large school-randomized control trial ('Quality Preschool for Ghana' -- QP4G) of a one-year teacher training and coaching…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Melhuish, Edward; Quinn, Louise; Sylva, Kathy; Sammons, Pam; Siraj-Blatchford, Iram; Taggart, Brenda – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
The Effective Pre-school Provision in Northern Ireland (EPPNI) project is a longitudinal study of child development from 3 to 11 years. It is one of the first large-scale UK projects to investigate the effects of different kinds of preschool provision, and to relate experience in preschool to child development. In EPPNI, 683 children were randomly…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Child Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Wai Leng, Anna Phang; Hui-Shen, Carynne Loh; Dhamotharan, Mogana; Che Mustafa, Mazlina – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
Preschool education is an essential early learning experience in the world of education. It has been recognized as the most critical period in child development as quality preschool education makes significant contribution for the development of the whole child. Malaysia preschool education is always emphasizing on the holistic approach with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Freeman, Greta Griffin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
Bullying behaviors among young children are taking place in preschool classrooms and child-development centers. The author makes a case, based on bullying themes in children's literature and both qualitative and quantitative data collection with young children, for the use of children's picture books to teach character as bullying…
Descriptors: Action Research, Bullying, Young Children, Preschool Children
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Belfield, Clive; Garcia, Emma – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The authors examined school readiness from the parental perspective, focusing on parents' efforts and expectations for kindergarten in conjunction with their child's academic development. Using self-reported survey data from two waves of the National Household Education Surveys, the authors tested for changes in school readiness between 1993 and…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, School Readiness, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Õun, Tiia; Tuul, Maire; Tera, Signe; Sagen, Kelli; Mägi, Helena – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Various factors of the quality of preschool child care institutions influence the development of children and their future success in school. The activities of preschool child care institutions in Estonia are based on the national curriculum. Several indicators of structural quality have been determined on the national level. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods, Child Care Centers
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  345