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Nicola A. Conners Edge; Khiela Holmes; Elissa H. Wilburn; Melissa Sutton – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Children with histories of trauma exposure experience a wide-range of developmental, social, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. The effects of traumatic life experiences can impact children's ability to learn and function within the school environment. Trauma-informed (TI) schools seek to create environments in which children with experiences of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Trauma, Child Care
Tracey K. Hoffman; Gerard H. Poll – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Childcare centers have faced many stressors both during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Building on stress and coping theories, this study explores how the pandemic affected childcare center practices and how center directors responded. Childcare directors were surveyed to explore their perspectives about the pandemic's effects on teachers and…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Pandemics, COVID-19, Stress Variables
Mary C. Seltzer; Lisa M. O'Brien – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
There is a critical need to disrupt the systemic racism that underlies educational inequities and support greater social justice (Croom, Journal of Literacy Research 52:530-552, 2020). One powerful way to do so is to foster racial literacy (i.e., the skill and practice of critically examining race and racism in teaching and in students' learning…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Racism, Early Childhood Education, Equal Education
Elizabeth A. Steed; Phil S. Strain; Alissa Rausch; Abby Hodges; Ellie Bold – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study utilized structured interviews with 23 preschool administrators to explore their beliefs about preschool inclusion and needed resources for providing high-quality preschool inclusion. Themes emerged regarding administrators' beliefs about inclusion, including divergent understandings of inclusion as…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Administrator Attitudes, Inclusion, Phenomenology
Ayala Raviv; Iris Galili – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study examines the attitudes of Israeli preschool teachers towards the teaching of science and technology (S&T) in preschools in general, and towards the Israeli Ministry of Education's S&T program in particular. It assesses the connection between the teachers' attitudes and their implementation of the program and examines the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
Kayla Murphy; Keri Giordano; Tanaysha Deloach – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a mandatory shift from in-person instruction to online learning for many young children. Teachers needed to adjust to virtual teaching, children were isolated from their peers, and parents played a bigger role in learning during the pandemic. In 2021, the shift back to in-person learning occurred. Research has…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
Einat Nevo – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Young children's language skills have a significant positive impact on their academic success throughout school, especially on reading and writing performance. The spread of COVID-19, which has resulted in lockdowns, fewer learning hours in kindergarten, and distance learning, might have affected children's exposure to learning opportunities. The…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics
Hsiu-Wen Yang; Michaelene M. Ostrosky – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
With intentional adult guidance, all children have opportunities to learn new skills across developmental domains during motor play. We collected and analyzed 501 written responses from 16 preschool teachers regarding their perceptions of intervention outcomes across domains, based on their observations during the CHildren in Action: Motor Program…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
The Association between Work as a Calling and Turnover among Early Childhood Education Professionals
Allison N. Herman; Tracy Dearth-Wesley; Robert C. Whitaker – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Turnover of early childhood education (ECE) professionals negatively impacts program costs, staff morale, and relationships with children. We determined whether the presence of work as a calling was associated with less intention to leave the ECE field. From an online survey administered to 265 ECE professionals in Pennsylvania, a calling score…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Work Attitudes, Career Choice, Faculty Mobility
Mesture Kayhan Altay; Çigdem Alkas Ulusoy; Ayse Özer; Aysun Umay – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study aimed to examine kindergarten children's performance and strategies when answering different types of numerosity estimation questions. To this end, interviews were conducted with 44 children (aged 61-80 months) in an online setting, during which they were asked nine estimation questions of three types. These questions (open-ended,…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Numbers, Knowledge Level
Cara L. Kelly; Gerilyn Slicker; Jason T. Hustedt – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Supportive early relationships are critical to young children's development. Previous research has focused primarily on aspects of specific parenting practices that impact infants' and toddlers' development. However, additional research is needed for a more nuanced understanding of the relationships among family experiences, parenting behaviors,…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers
Hayley J. Goldenthal; Karen Gouze; Tali Raviv; George Tragoudas; Carmen Holley; Colleen Cicchetti – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Children are at high risk of exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs) during early childhood. This developmental period, marked by rapid growth in fundamental skills, may render children particularly vulnerable to adverse developmental effects. Embedding universal trauma-informed supports within early childhood education (ECE) settings has…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Early Intervention, Young Children
Diane L. August; Coleen D. Carlson; Christopher D. Barr; Rebecca Bergey – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The goal of this pilot study was to test a bilingual interactive read-aloud intervention designed to develop the oral language proficiency of three-year-old dual language learners (DLLs). The eight-week intervention--Cultivating Oral Language and Literacy Talent in Students (COLLTS)--was aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Achievement, Reading Skills, Preschool Children
Maruša Laure; Katarina Habe – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This article examines the effects of Montessori music-movement activities on the development of the rhythmic abilities of 59 children from Montessori preschools, aged between 3 and 6 years. Children were deployed into two experimental groups (EG 1 (n = 20) & EG 2 (n = 22)) and a control group (CG) (n = 17). Our intervention consisted of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Montessori Schools
Cynthia A. Wiltshire – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The early childhood education teacher workforce is consistently relied upon to bolster children's academic and socioemotional development in preparation for kindergarten and long-term outcomes. This is especially true of children who, historically overlooked and marginalized, are labeled "at risk." While research has focused on pervasive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Labor Force, Social Development