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Esinam Ami Avornyo; Sara Baker – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study adopted a qualitative approach and analysed interviews from seven parents with children enrolled in nursery and kindergarten in Ghana. The interviews examined parents' descriptions of play and learning and how they perceive the value of play in children's learning. The findings revealed that the parents generally have doubts about the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Parents, Parent Attitudes
Brooks, Clare; Kitto, Eleanor – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Reform initiatives are common throughout the Chinese early years education sector. This paper proposes a conceptual framework of a folk pedagogy of change as a perspective on the systemic barriers to the development of practice which foregrounds some of the tensions within and across these barriers. Our analysis is based on three commissioned…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Teaching Methods
Gao, Jie; Xu, Yuwei; Kitto, Eleanor; Bradford, Helen; Brooks, Clare – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2022
As increasingly more Chinese kindergarten teachers attend continuing professional development (CPD) based on pedagogies of international early childhood education and care (ECEC), it is imperative to explore how to address the well-documented rhetoric/practice dissonance that teachers fail to enact what they learn from CPD to enhance their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development
Wolf, Kristin Danielsen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
The theme for this article is parents' and centre leaders' opinions regarding what makes a good kindergarten. Both stakeholder groups agree on statements expressing child-centred values as indicators of a good kindergarten. However, their opinions differ regarding children's learning and work with letters and numbers; more parents than centre…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
Jensen, Hanne; Pyle, Angela; Alaca, Betül; Fesseha, Ellen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
Guided play, a balanced approach to involvement in play that includes child- and adult-direction in learning activities, holds great promise for children's effective and engaged learning in education. Recent studies in laboratory settings show benefits for academic and socio-emotional outcomes, while retaining a focus on child-centred exploration.…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role, Cultural Differences
Reese, Elaine; Gunn, Alex; Bateman, Amanda; Carr, Margaret – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2021
Researchers and teachers explored a new form of teacher-child interactions in two early childhood settings as a means of eliciting complex language. The primary mode of assessment in New Zealand early childhood education takes the form of 'learning stories' that teachers write, with photos, and that are collected into a portfolio book. Eight…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Teachers, Language Acquisition, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Jensen, Bryant; Pérez Martínez, María Guadalupe; García Medina, Adán Moisés; Martínez, José Felipe; Benito Cox, Carolina; Larsen, Ross – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
Measures of teaching are used internationally to understand and improve quality in early education with little consideration for ecological validity. In this study, we analyze videos gathered in 58 K-1 classrooms in Central Mexico to evaluate the validity and reliability of scores from an observational tool developed in the U.S. and used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Stagg Peterson, Shelley; Rajendram, Shakina; Eisazadeh, Nazila – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
This research explores young Indigenous children's multimodal meaning-making to carry out social intentions in dramatic and construction/materials play settings. The participants are two teachers and 21 children from two Northern Canadian Indigenous communities. Underpinned by social semiotic theory, the research involves inductive analyses of six…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Drama, Play
Ferholt, Beth; Rainio, Anna Pauliina – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2016
Ambivalence is a relatively little advanced concept for studying young people's engagement in education. We present a case study in which a teacher of a kindergarten-first-grade classroom works within an activity called a "playworld" to engage a child who had been excluded from certain classroom practices, after having been perceived by…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Teacher Student Relationship
Hu, Bi Ying; Vong, Keang-Ieng; Mak, Miranda Chi Kuan – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
This study examined the effectiveness of one province's Kindergarten Quality Rating System in differentiating quality levels using the Chinese Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (CECERS). Results confirmed that, except for the difference between the Standard and Level-3 Kindergartens, the CECERS was successful in detecting the differences…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Asians, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education
Knauf, Helen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
The pedagogical documentation of educational processes in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centres is an important concern of early childhood education. Its purpose is to make learning visible and to stimulate discussion between educators and parents. In the academic discourse, however, pedagogical documentation is subject to differing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Documentation, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Vong, Keang-Ieng – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Play, as an educational concept, has entered many kindergartens in China; yet it has not become a core idea, or been prioritised in the teaching and learning process. An ongoing trans-provincial study started in 2008, using observation, interviews and document analyses. Based on findings from nine kindergartens in three provinces, this article…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Tompkins, Renarta Hutchinson; Ratcliff, Nancy; Jones, Cathy; Vaden, Samuel Russell; Hunt, Gilbert; Sheehan, Heather Chase – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
This study examined the implementation of a scripted phonics program taught by paraprofessionals in kindergarten classrooms in a local school district. Two research questions were investigated: (a) Can paraprofessionals with no prior training in phonics effectively implement a scripted phonics program for struggling kindergartners? and (b) Did…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Phonics, Fidelity, Misconceptions
Dalli, Carmen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
Thematic analysis of a continuous video record of a day in the life of a New Zealand kindergarten teacher, and of a narrative reconstruction of the day during a follow-up interview, yielded a view of early childhood professional practice as focused on a "curriculum of open possibilities". This paper discusses elements of the teacher's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Video Technology
Li, Hui; Rao, Nirmala; Tse, Shek Kam – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2011
This longitudinal study examined the relationship between pedagogical continuity in literacy education and early literacy development by comparing Chinese children in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Stratified random sampling was used to select 24 preschool and Primary 1 classes in four communities catering to middle-class families in each city. The 24…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Literacy Education, Holistic Approach, Educational Change
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