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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Early years education"”.
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Supporting the Learning of Computer Programming in an Early Years Education
… an enormous amount of money in primary school early years programming lessons. The ideology behind this push is to strengthen the link between the younger generation and the technological growth that will continue to have an ever-increasing impact on their lives and to fuel the pace of …
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Reconceptualising quality through pedagogical documentation in early years education in South Africa.
… quality through pedagogical documentation in early years education in South Africa. Children in South Africa are entangled in legacies of Western philosophical constructions of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology) and positioned according to the dominant discourses of the society of …
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"I definitely felt an exception" Discourse analysis : A father talks about his son’s transition to school
… might better engage fathers in their children's education. Women traditionally mediate early years education, and communication from schools to parents is directed to mothers. Some fathers are more involved in the day-to-day care of their children than others, but the predominant culture, both in …
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An exploratory study on the impact of an early years' preschool intervention programme in the Republic of Ireland
Early years’ education has increasingly been identified as a mechanism to alleviate educational disadvantage in areas of social exclusion. Early years’ intervention programmes are now a common government social policy for addressing social problems (Reynolds, Mann, Miedel, and Smokowski, 1997). In …
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Developing good practice in the provision of outdoor education in the early years
… use of the outdoor environment and the early years curriculum. An action research approach was used in which cycles of observation, reflection and intervention led to deeper understandings about children's learning and the way it can be facilitated through the use of outdoor learning …
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Public School Kindergarten in Ontario - A Historical Perspective
… provided kindergarten as part of a public education. In 2010, Ontario made another innovative policy decision and introduced a new model of kindergarten, the Full-Day Early Learning–Kindergarten program (FDELK), extended to a two-year, full day play-based program instructed by a team of …
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Expansion despite permanent austerity? Innovative aspects of social policy in Liberal welfare regimes
… an examination of social policy expansion in early years education and care (EYEC) in England and Canada/Ontario; two liberal welfare states. This thesis contends that EYEC policy, often neglected in comparative welfare literature, is an important social dimension of the welfare state which …
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Promoting children’s emotional well-being in pre-school settings: A grounded theory study exploring the views of early years practitioners
… with particular prominence in the new Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Code of Practice (DfE & DoH, 2014). In the context of early years education, the new legislation makes specific reference to the importance of early identification and provision in improving long-term …
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The role of playful practice for learning in the early years
… as essential to learning and development in early years education and underpins curriculum guidance despite there being limited empirical evidence to support this viewpoint. Play is traditionally defined from an adult perspective which focuses on the observable act of play. However, the …
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Research with children under three : their rights to participate in planning the curriculum in early years settings in Greece and England
… participate in the planning of the curriculum in early years’ settings. The persistent division between education and care has been an issue in many European countries for a long time (OECD, 2006). The thesis reports on the findings of a research project in both England and Greece. The research …
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Leaning into Love and Compassionate Care in my Early Years Practice.
‘What does education need now?’ My research suggests the violence children are subject to is at an all-time high. The need for children to experience Love and Compassionate Care within our early years education system is needed now more than ever. Our policies favour terminology such as ‘whole …
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THE PROVISION OF NURSERY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES TO 1967 WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NORTH - EAST ENGLAND
‘The Provision of Nursery Education in England and Wales to 1967 with special reference to North-East England’ by John R. Bell The startling title of the Nursery School Association’s ‘Forgotten Two Millions’ (1965) stimulated a determination to trace the origins of this tragedy, and to ascertain …
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The differences in the social competence of children who attend integrated junior infant classes and children who attend segregated learning environments
… Both of these relatives' experiences in our education system are interesting. My aunt was considered ineducable while her brother - my uncle - was sent to Dublin (from Cork) at six years of age to be educated by a religious order. My professional reasons, on the other hand, stemmed from my …
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Meaning and medium in young children's picture-making
Picture-making has a special role in early childhood. It is an activity that bridges the young child’s sensory exploration of the world around them and their later engagement with graphic symbolic practices. Psychological and sociological studies have focused on young children’s pictures as both …
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Enhancing the professionality of early years educators: a model of support for professional development
… an intervention-based study that aimed to enable early years educators to develop and enact a particularly agential mode of professionality, helping them to negotiate the challenges and constraints inherent in their work with young children and their families. A non-positional approach to teacher …
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The Play versus Formal Debate: A study of early years provision in Northern Ireland and Denmark
… as an example of play-based approaches to early years education.<br/><br/>In order to achieve the objectives of the study, data collection included observations of early years settings (in Northern Ireland and in Denmark), surveys of teachers’ and pedagogs’ attitudes in relation to early …
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The implementation of marketing in private early childhood education centres in Hong Kong: an investigation of the effect on marketing ethics
A neo-liberal premise underlies the early years education provision in Hong Kong where the market determines the form, promotion and quality of early years provision with little or no Government oversight. Such reliance and acceptance of the market mechanism especially where participants’ knowledge …
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Using diffractive activity to (re)configure parental choice of pre-compulsory education
… of children accessing alternatives to mainstream education, this research project was designed to investigate the activity of parents as they engaged in choosing different forms of education for their four-year-old child. The intention was to highlight the individual and entangled activity of …