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Albin-Clark, Jo; Shirley, Ian; Webster, Maggie; Woolhouse, Clare – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The dyadic nature of the teacher-child relationship is recognized as a significant factor in young children's learning experiences. However understandings about how teachers' own personal and professional identities and experiences influence their construction of teacher-child relationships are under researched. This article extends upon earlier…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Interpersonal Relationship
Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This qualitative study is grounded in phenomenology. Using 28 early childhood teachers from six Caribbean islands as research participants, the following study sought to elicit their perceptions of what it takes to be successful in the early childhood classroom and to understand how other early childhood teachers can achieve this. Thematic…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Lewis-Fokum, Yewande; Thomas, Joan – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This paper presents preliminary findings about how literacy is taught at the elementary level in three grade-one classrooms in Jamaica. While this might seem rudimentary, there is a dearth of information in Jamaica about how teachers teach reading and writing. We attempted to fill this gap by conducting an exploratory small-scale qualitative case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Wood, Peter – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This paper raises questions about social and emotional learning (SEL) as a facilitator of all children's social, emotional and behavioural skills. Drawing on qualitative data, in the form of group and individual interviews with a range of primary school and early years staff members across four case studies, the findings indicate that children's…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Gender Differences, Ethnicity
Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Children's transition to primary school is affected by numerous factors. Many teachers, expect that children will have the academic and socioemotional competencies to negotiate and deal with new experiences they may encounter in a new learning environment. With an aim of contextualising our understanding of the transitory period from pre-primary…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, School Readiness, Preschool Children
de Medeiros Silva, Suzana Cinthia Gomes; de Oliveira, Maria Marly; de Oliveira, Gilvaneide Ferreira – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study is part of a dissertation which aims to explore and understand the role of play in the teaching-learning process at elementary level in a public school at Pernambuco, Brazil. We opted for a qualitative approach, using the interactive methodology, interviews by the technique of hermeneutic-dialectical circle, observations of science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
Sahin Sak, Ikbal Tuba – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study compares the views of the concept of school readiness held by 50 pre-service preschool teachers and 50 pre-service primary teachers. Data were collected through a semi-structured interview protocol, and the word-list and key-words-in-context techniques were used for qualitative data analysis. Findings show that pre-service preschool…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Semi Structured Interviews, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna Teresa – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The goal of this study is to investigate early childhood teachers' perspective of teaching foster and adopted children. The main purpose is to seek suggestions how teachers can nurture the development of foster and adopted children. A 6 question survey was sent to 44 teachers pursuing graduate studies in early childhood education. Of this 50%…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foster Care, Adoption, Early Childhood Education
Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška; Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The aim of this qualitative study was to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) and tablet computers use in the first grade of primary school from the perspectives of three groups of evaluators, namely the teachers, the pupils and an independent observer. The sample included three first grade classes with…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interactive Video, Educational Technology, Laptop Computers
Bosacki, Sandra; Rose-Krasnor, Linda; Coplan, Robert J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Research suggests that social communication (verbal and non-verbal) plays a key role in students' and teachers' elementary-school experiences. Within the framework of sociocognitive developmental theory, this qualitative study investigates teachers' experiences and perceptions of children's talking and listening habits within the elementary-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Experience
Tzuo, Pei-Wen; Tan, Liang See; Yang, Chien-Hui – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
In the age of globalisation, it has been understood that teachers' beliefs revolve between old--new and local--foreign ideas of teaching and learning. The purpose of this study is to identify the domains of the various ideas that influence teachers' beliefs in globalisation, compare them to the strengths of influence, and explore the meanings of…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teacher Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Mixed Methods Research