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Madison Predy; Valerie Carson – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Increasing amounts of screen time among young children has become a growing concern. Childcare centres maybe one important setting to intervene. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of screen time and screen time policies within childcare centres as well as the association between these policies and screen time among toddlers (19-35 months)…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Foreign Countries, Television Viewing, Recreational Activities
Keri Giordano; Carleigh S. Palmieri; Richard LaTourette; Kristina M. Godoy; Gabrielle Denicola; Henessys Paulino; Oscar Kosecki – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
With the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, safety regulations, such as face mask wearing, have become ubiquitous. Due to such regulations, many children's interpersonal interactions occurring outside of the home now involve face coverings. The present study examined young children's ability to identify emotions in an adult model wearing a face…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Hygiene, Disease Control
Juyoung Yoo – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Paternal involvement in household and childcare has increased over the past century, but global studies show that most mothers still remain responsible for a significantly higher proportion of total household care and childcare. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has further negatively impacted mothers, who take on the majority of childcare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
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
Natalia Kucirkova; Vibeke Grøver – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Parents' attitudes are an important indicator of whether and how parents engage in shared book reading (SBR) at home. This study analysed Norwegian parents' attitudes towards reading books with their children aged between 1-4.5 years. Thematic analysis of data from 24 interviews revealed two main themes in parents' accounts: agency (the child's…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Parent Participation, Foreign Countries
Amanda H. Passmore; Marie Tejero Hughes – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
A unique component of early childhood involves understanding how caregivers and educators promote children's developmental outcomes, with play opportunities being a key avenue for enhancing these skills. Targeted coaching is one type of support that can tap into active family engagement during playful learning. This collective case study examined…
Descriptors: Mothers, Play, Parent Child Relationship, Coaching (Performance)
Carolina Melo; Robert C. Pianta; Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch; Francisca Romo; M. Constanza Ayala – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The present study examined how the dosage and quality of the federal preschool program "Head Start" (HS) in the US related to children's self-regulation skills in kindergarten. Using Propensity Score Matching and multiple regression (OLS), this study explored how the number of years and hours a week of HS were related to self-regulation…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Incidence, Educational Quality, Social Services
Susana Beltrán-Grimm – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Drawing from a qualitative approach and through individual "pláticas" (processes of co-constructing knowledge through dialogue) as a linguistic and cultural framework, this work explored informal contextual factors valued by Spanish-speaking Latina mothers of children, three to five years of age and enrolled in a nonprofit California…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Preschool Children, Bilingualism, Spanish
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
Erin R. Baker; Cjersti J. Jensen – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early childhood aggression is a ubiquitous and developmentally normal behavior; however, different report sources (e.g., child self-report vs. teacher) often yield markedly different interpretations. The current study examined how typical demographic and cognitive factors that have been previously found to explain child behavior (e.g., SES,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Aggression, Socioeconomic Background, Child Behavior
Marilyn Gagnon; Mélanie Couture; Caroline Hui; Natasa Obradovic; Chantal Camden; Louise Lemay; Emmanuelle Jasmin – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Interventions are strongly recommended for preschoolers experiencing participation difficulties in their daily life, regardless of whether or not they have a diagnosis. Best practices recommend that interventions should include the child's significant adults and be delivered in the child's environments. Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) has…
Descriptors: Occupational Therapy, Coaching (Performance), Parents, Parent Education
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
Sara Eliasson; Louise Peterson; Annika Lantz-Andersson – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This study on technology education in preschool aims to explore how technology activities in preschool are enacted and what knowledge, related to the five dimensions of the nature of technology, is made possible for the children to learn when intersubjectivity is established in the interaction between the participants. The empirical data encompass…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Interpersonal Relationship
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