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Twenty-First-Century Skills and Learning Capacities and the Physical Environment of Cypriot Preschool Settings
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The need to support children develop the capacities required for the twenty-first century is inseparably linked to the provision of twenty-first-century learning environments. Exploring ECEC teachers' (N = 34) assessment of their classroom's physical environment, the present study aimed at exploring whether the physical environment of Cypriot…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, Physical Environment, Educational Environment, Preschools
A Cross-Cultural Study on Technology Use in Preschool Classrooms: Early Childhood Teacher's Preferences, Time-Use, Impact and Association with Children's Play
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Slutsky, Ruslan; Kragh-Müller, Grethe; Rentzou, Konstantina; Tuul, Maire; Gol Guven, Mine; Foerch, Daniela; Paz-Albo, Jesús – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Technology plays a large role in the daily experiences of young children. Presently, technology is used both to support and enhance 'educational' activities and in the context of children's play. The aim of the present study is to understand how much time teachers in early childhood centres across 8 countries implemented technology into their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Teachers
The Long Way towards Abandoning ECEC Dichotomy in Greece
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Although Greece has a dichotomous system both in terms of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and in terms of ECEC workers' preparation programmes, in 2016 Greek government's Organization for ECEC organized an open colloquy about the adoption of a 'Unified National Framework for Early Childhood Education and Care', causing a heated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Researcher's and Parents' Perspectives on Quality of Care and Education
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Rentzou, Konstantina; Sakellariou, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
Based on arguments according to which the concept of quality is multifaceted, difficult to be defined and defined differently by various stakeholders, it has been suggested that the quality of care and education be evaluated from different perspectives if one aims to create a global picture of the early childhood education and care programmes. The…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Child Care, Foreign Countries
Quality of Care and Education Provided by Greek Day-Care Centres: An Approach from Researcher's and Early Childhood Educators' Perspective
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Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The present study is aimed at examining the level of quality and care provided by Greek preschool programmes, from the researcher's and early childhood educators' perspectives and verify whether they evaluate with the same way. Research results indicate that according to the researcher's assessment both preschool and infant/toddler classrooms…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Early Childhood Education, Researchers
Cypriot Pre-Service Kindergarten Teachers' Beliefs about and Practices of Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Education
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Sakellariou, Maria; Rentzou, Konstantina – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
Beliefs are said to affect the pedagogical practice one employs. Considering the potentially important influence of teachers' beliefs on their practices, the level of early childhood teachers' beliefs about developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) and the relationship between their beliefs and practices are regarded as important topics of study…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Developmentally Appropriate Practices