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Fletcher, Janice W.; Price, Beth A.; Branen, Laurel J. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2010
With increasing accessibility to quality video recording technology, researchers and trainers can create data sets that are rich in content and application. Practical and ethical aspects of videotaping children and staff for research and teaching purposes are critical to successful use of videotaping. Taping and equipment strategies for achieving…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Video Technology, Educational Technology, Protocol Materials
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Pence, Alan; Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
This article contextualizes the authors' work on a project entitled "Investigating Quality in Early Learning Environments (IQ)," conducted in British Columbia (BC), Canada, within national and international contexts. One of the project's primary objectives has been to engage in discussions that situate British Columbia's promotion of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Quotient, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Ajayi, Hannah O. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
Education is the right of every child and must not be denied it for any reason. This has been the assertion of the World Summit on the state of global children, which has led to the inclusion and expansion of early childhood care and education in the global Education for All programme (EFA). As Nigeria has pledged its commitment to this, with the…
Descriptors: Global Education, Early Childhood Education, Children, Foreign Countries
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Olesen, Mavis L. – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
In 1997, twelve Karen Burmese teachers brought a Vision Paper to the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand. The teachers had recently written this Paper after much consultation with their Mergui-Tavoy villagers, students, leaders, and school dropouts. Over the following five years teams developed a project outlining 10 steps to educational reform,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, Educational Change
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Juma, Audrey – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
This article focuses on an early childhood programme that has been initiated by the Institute for Educational Development at the Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. The programme is a Certificate in Education and involves training teachers so as to enable them to understand early childhood education and development, and to become effective…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Preschool Education, Program Content, Integrated Curriculum
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Borhan, Lihanna – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Although required to use the National Preschool Curriculum for the five- to six-year-old age group, preschools in Malaysia can add to this curriculum to suit their individual purposes. Thus, preschools with religious emphasis are common in Malaysia. Parents send their children to the religiously affiliated preschools in the hope of inculcating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islam, Preschool Education, National Curriculum