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Karyn A. Allee; M. H. Clark; Haiyan Bai; Sherron Killingsworth Roberts – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs provide skills needed for successful kindergarten strides, especially for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. While Florida's Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) program currently serves most four-year-olds, some educators have questioned the program's quality. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Marla J. Lohmann; Samantha Riggleman; Johanna P. Higgins – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Over one-third of preschoolers with disabilities are fully included in the classroom with their typically developing peers and another large percentage receive some instruction in the inclusive classroom. In order to support young children and increase the likelihood of the desired learning and behavior outcomes, teachers must use individual data…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Early Childhood Education, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
Kyle DeMeo Cook; Kevin Ferreira van Leer; Jill Gandhi; Carolina Ayala; Lisa P. Kuh – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Families face challenging decisions about early care and education (ECE) for their children. Decisions about what is best for each child and family are constrained by family and contextual factors and are prone to disruptions. This study provides a descriptive look at patterns of ECE settings children were in the year prior to kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, COVID-19, Pandemics
Strooband, Karel F. B.; Howard, Steven J.; Okely, Anthony D.; Neilsen-Hewett, Cathrine; de Rosnay, Marc – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Due to the lack of tools that can be easily used by practitioners, there is a need to develop acceptable embedded ways to assess children's fine motor skill development within early childhood education and care settings. This study examined the validity and reliability of a brief and ecologically valid fine motor assessment tool for preschool-aged…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Motor Development
Wild, Norline R. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article highlights the "Picturebooks for Social Justice" approach which the author developed within her preschool program. "Picturebooks for Social Justice" was born of 2-year design-based qualitative research study exploring the intentional use of interactive read-alouds in early childhood education. This was not a…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Social Justice, Preschool Education, Reading Aloud to Others
Nasiopoulou, Panagiota; Mellgren, Elisabeth; Sheridan, Sonja; Williams, Pia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article aims to explore the conditions for children's language and literacy learning in 153 Swedish preschools with children one to five years. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS-3) is used to evaluate preschool quality, focusing on the subscale of Language and literacy activities. The study draws on Bronfenbrenner's…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education
Martínez-García, Lindsay; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Marcos; Virgós Sánchez, Marta – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The study presented investigates the understanding of feminist literature by preschool children in a Spanish school. To carry out the research, semi-structured interviews with 65 students were performed, in order to discuss the story, "The Paper Bag Princess." The data analysis was conducted under a poststructuralist lens, using the…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Feminism, Childrens Literature, Preschool Children
Jo, SeungJung; Son, Ji-Won – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Cooking is a powerful teaching activity that can be used as an integral part of an early childhood curriculum. In this study, we designed and implemented a cooking-infused program in order to investigate the ways that such a program supports preschoolers' math concepts and skills and their attitudes toward mathematics. Data were collected over…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Mathematical Concepts
Mavilidi, Myrto F.; Rigoutsos, Stylianos; Venetsanou, F. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Early childhood centres are important places for physical activity promotion in young children, considering the amount of time that children spend at childcare centres. The aim of this study was to train early childhood educators on physical activity promotion in children. Participants included 150 preschool children (75 female; M age =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Education
Giordano, Keri; Vega, Vanessa; Gubi, Aaron – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Suspension and expulsion, typically thought of as discipline practices for high school students, occur at the early childhood level. In fact, 3- and 4-year old children are suspended and expelled from school at a rate three times that of their teenage counterparts (Gilliam, Foundation for Child Development, 2005). In many states, legislation…
Descriptors: Expulsion, Suspension, Child Care, Child Care Centers
Ata-Aktürk, Aysun; Demircan, H. Özlen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study examines the development of a STEM-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and parent-involved engineering design curriculum for early childhood education and investigates its design principles and contributions to children's STEM-related learning. This research utilized a design-based research methodology broken into…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Parent Participation, Engineering, Design
Essien, Idara; Wood, J. Luke – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The study explored the experiences and perceptions of Black girls as conveyed through the narratives of their parents. In particular, this study focused on racial microaggressions in early childhood education (preschool through third grade). The study employed narratives written by 44 parents of Black children. Ultimately, their narratives…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Parents, Racial Bias
Toros, Karmen; Tart, Keidy; Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This paper examines the role of interprofessional collaboration in the identification and reporting of a child in need. Such collaboration is especially important in the context of the global pandemic caused by the novel Coronavirus disease of 2019, known as COVID-19. The child protection system must have the capacity and resources to respond to…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Child Welfare, Agency Cooperation, COVID-19
Tonge, Karen L.; Jones, Rachel A.; Okely, Anthony D. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Quality interactions are crucial for children's learning and development. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers have the opportunity to support children's learning and development, yet the quality of interactions and influences on the quality of interactions in outdoor environments is not known. Research findings: this study assessed…
Descriptors: Interaction, Early Childhood Education, Child Care Centers, Outdoor Education
Knauf, Helen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Although children's physical environments play an important role in their development, there have been few empirical studies on the interior design of early childhood centres. This is partly due to a lack of adequate methods and instruments for the systematic spatial investigation of educational environments. In light of this, the following paper…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Visual Stimuli, Preschool Children