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Hatcher, Beth; Squibb, Betsy – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
The exploratory study focused on describing typical routines of preparing for winter outdoor play with preschool children and their teachers. Naturalistic observations, interviews and photographs resulted in extensive examples of children's development in cognitive understanding of winter and winter-related concepts. Observations of teachers and…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation, Dress Codes
Cohen, Lynn; Uhry, Joanna – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2011
This study describes symbolic representation in block play in a culturally diverse suburban preschool classroom. Block play is "multimodal" and can allow children to experiment with materials to represent the world in many forms of literacy. Combined qualitative and quantitative data from seventy-seven block structures were collected and analyzed.…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Play, Early Childhood Education, Literary Styles
de Groot Kim, Sonja – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
This study traces patterns of attendance, times of arrival and departure, and policies and practices surrounding enrollment and moving children from classroom to classroom in a child care center. It appears that children's efforts to acquire competence in developing friendships with their peers not only depends on their own capacities, but is also…
Descriptors: Play, Attendance Patterns, Young Children, Friendship
Ivrendi, Asiye; Isikoglu, Nesrin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine fathers' participation in and views about play. This study was conducted in the southwestern part of Turkey and its sample consisted of 97 fathers who had a child attending randomly chosen public early childhood institutions. The Parents' Participation and Views on Play instrument was developed and used to…
Descriptors: Play, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Fathers
Cheng, Mei-Fang; Johnson, James E. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Our review examined four early childhood journals ("Early Child Development and Care," "Early Childhood Education Journal," "Journal of Research in Childhood Education," and "Early Childhood Research Quarterly") and four developmental science journals ("Child Development," "Developmental Psychology," "Journal of Applied Developmental…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Journal Articles
Rushton, Stephen; Juola-Rushton, Anne; Larkin, Elizabeth – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Paralleling the works of Cambourne's Conditions of Literacy Learning ("The Reading Teacher, 54"(4), 414-429, 2001), Copple and Bredekamp's ("Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth though age." National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, 2009)…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Reading Teachers
Sandseter, Ellen Beate Hansen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
The purpose of this article is to qualitatively explore the affordances for risky play in two different preschool outdoor environments, an ordinary preschool playground and a nature playground, based on Gibson ("The ecological approach to visual perception," 1979) theory of affordances and Heft's and Kyttea's (Heft in "Children's…
Descriptors: Play, Playgrounds, Visual Perception, At Risk Students
Soundy, Cathleen S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2009
The main purpose of this article is to describe the nature of imaginary play in Montessori classrooms. A transcript from a train ride shows how young children imagine and recreate ideas from their real world experiences and weave them into original new accounts. The author discusses how the play-like action of dramatizing "The Caboose Who Got…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Young Children, Montessori Schools
Wheeler, Barbara L.; Stultz, Sylvia – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
This article illustrates some ways in which observations of typically-developing infants can inform music therapy and other work with children with disabilities. The research project that is described examines typical infant development with special attention to musical relatedness and communication. Videotapes of sessions centering on musical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Infants, Music Therapy, Psychological Patterns
Appl, Dolores J.; Brown, Shannon; Stone, Michael – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
In this article a university professor, former student, and father describe the father's interactions with his toddler-age son within a parent-child playgroup. The authors discuss the important role of fathers, what they learned from observing the father interact with his son, and implications for teachers and other professionals.
Descriptors: Toddlers, Sons, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Tal, Clodie; Fares, Eshtiak; Azmi, Rim; Waab, Waffa – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
This article describes a group of Druze preschool and kindergarten teachers from Northern Israel who participated in an in-service course in their community. The focus of the training experience was to improve the social climate of the classroom by implementing a life-world approach. Analysis of their reports shows that the children's meaningful…
Descriptors: Play, Group Activities, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Terpstra, Judith E.; Tamura, Ronald – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
Many strategies and interventions exist in the education of young children with disabilities. One area of intervention is that of social interaction, including social skills instruction, peer interaction strategies, and play skills. Interaction and social skill strategies for use with children with and without disabilities for the purpose of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Children, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Breslin, Casey Marie; Morton, Jane R.; Rudisill, Mary E. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
In Fall 2006, North Carolina kindergarten teachers were charged with the task of meeting the NASPE guidelines for providing daily physical activity to their kindergarten students. In turn, the teachers researched resources and consulted experts to design and develop a developmentally appropriate physical activity and physical play environment for…
Descriptors: Play, Physical Activities, Program Implementation, Kindergarten
Tannock, Michelle T. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2008
This research investigated rough and tumble (R&T) play in two early childhood settings. Participants included 11 educators and 17 children (5 years old). The study focused on gaining an understanding of how early childhood educators and young children interpret R&T play. The results indicate that while there is perceived value in R&T related to…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Teachers, Young Children
Ahn, Jiryung; Filipenko, Margot – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
This study documented the ways in which the spontaneous narratives of a focus group of young children reflected the ways in which these children constructed meaning about their world and their place in it. Participants were six kindergartners who engaged in extended episodes of imaginary, dramatic play and produced complex descriptive narratives…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Young Children, Personal Narratives