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Showing 1 to 20 of 210 for “"Education--Early Childhood"”.
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Creating a Curriculum for Preschool Educators in Asia: How to Teach Kindergarteners Speaking and Listening Skills in English through Games
… are beginning to pay more attention to English education, especially early childhood English education. However, most Asian kindergarten teachers prefer to pay more attention to teaching English reading and writing skills, while ignoring the teaching and practices of English listening and …
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Ask Again: A Novel Experiment in Early Childhood Knowledge Relations through a Phenomenological Study of Claims on the Thinking Child's Words and Development
Early childhood, and the wild and tender moments of its care and education, has been depicted by those who love it. Thus, in a profession inscribed by the throngs of love surrounding the work of care and education, early childhood presents an urgent problem for knowledge. The significance of the …
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Examining the Effectiveness of an Orthographic-Based Intervention for Children with Reading Disabilities
It has been well-documented that combined phonological awareness and word-identification training provide the most effective way of strengthening reading ability in children with Reading Disabilities (RDs). With that said, these findings are based on the assumption that all children with RDs …
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Child Care Subsidy Policy After the 1996 Federal Welfare Reform: A Case Study of State Policy Formation in Illinois
With the repeal of federal programs by the 1996 welfare reform law (PL 104-193), state governments have been given new responsibility for creating child care subsidy (CCS) policy. This study examines the CCS policy-formation process in Illinois, analyzing the influence of several key factors on …
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Factors Influencing Low-Income Working Mother's Child Care Arrangements Under Different Neighborhood and State Policy Contexts
Findings from these analyses are useful in furthering our knowledge regarding the child care arrangements of working mothers. In addition to filling gaps in current knowledge, study findings are useful in informing social policies and interventions related to child care arrangements for working …
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Parent-Childcare Provider Partnerships: Exploring Beliefs About Overlap
… are related to various factors such as paternal education, number of hours mother works outside the home, and child characteristics. The interviews revealed three major themes in parents' beliefs: parents' beliefs regarding the appropriate overlap between the home and daycare environments, the …
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"""Making Special"": Child -Centered, Meaningful, and Artistically Authentic Early Childhood Art Education"
… observations of children and teachers in an early childhood classroom.
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How Four- and Five -Year -Old Korean Children Learn to Draw
This study, which uncovered significant characteristics in the process of learning to draw, will promote a broader understanding and support current research on cultural influences that affect young children's artistic development to find important implications for art educators.
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You Gotta Have Friends: An Analysis of Social Relations in Preschool Children With Speech and Language Impairment
This study explored various dimensions of peer relations in a total of 67 children in one of three groups: typically developing children, children with language impairment, and children with speech and language impairments. Specifically, this study investigated peer acceptance, friendship quantity, …
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TV Guide: Learning to Use Video as a Source of Information
To gain information from a symbol, one must recognize the relation between the symbol and what it stands for. Although the relation between a live video image and a real, current event seems obvious to adults, this is not true of very young children: In a series of previous studies, 2-year-olds did …
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An Empirical Study of a District-Wide K--2 Performance Assessment Program: Teacher Practices, Information Gained, and Use of Assessment Results
The present study suggests further research on low-performing schools. It is also important to explore the impact of assessment results on teaching where in-service on direct questioning, portfolio, student self-assessments, and/or repertories of pedagogy are provided.
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Traditions and Trends: Two Icelandic Preschool Teachers' Practices, Goals, and Beliefs About Early Childhood Education
… presented in the contemporary literature on early childhood education, especially coming from the United States. Kristin's goals, on the other hand, are more global and related to the Scandinavian and Icelandic preschool tradition, focusing on freedom and creativity, and on less structured …
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Play in a Working -Class Taiwanese Preschool
… Taiwan is currently rethinking the direction of early childhood education, it is timely to look closely at play in a preschool setting. Since recent debates in the U.S. have led some American schools to sacrifice free-play time in order to increase time for teaching academic subjects, …
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Children's Construction of Musical Knowledge in Early School
Third, musical learning and development proved to be domain-specific rather than domain-general. The construction of musical knowledge depended on accessibility of and familiarity with the specific musical repertoire rather than general physical or cognitive constraints. The children's domain …
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Teachers' Beliefs About Socializing Children's Emotional Development in Preschool
… children should build emotional competence as early as possible. However, emotional competence was most often defined narrowly and in terms of control. Teachers paid little attention to developing better educational practices for children's optimal development of their emotions. Teachers' …
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Situated Teaching: Personal, Cultural, and Contextual Early Childhood Schooling
These findings suggest the following implications for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and reformers. With growing interest in teacher collaboration within already over-burdened systems, understanding school identity is becoming more important to educators. Understanding schools as …
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Evaluation Working Within and Challenging Performance Measurement Systems: An Example With the National Reporting System and on -Going Child Assessments in a Local Head Start Program
… but did not view vocabulary, letter naming and early math skills as the most important child outcomes. All stakeholder groups emphasized social and emotional development as the most important and also placed a high importance on literacy development. At the same time, stakeholders emphasized the …
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Professional Development Providers: Addressing Social Emotional Development and Challenging Behavior
… Priority areas most frequently requested by early childhood teachers and barriers and supports that providers face in providing professional development activities also were explored. The results indicated that both professional development providers and in-service participants believed that …
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Examining the Relationships Between Behavior Policies and Procedures, Teachers' Perceptions of Efficacy and Job Satisfaction, and Children's Social Skills and Challenging Behaviors in Head Start Settings
Due to an increase in the number of young children who are beginning their school experiences without the emotional, social, behavioral, and academic skills necessary for school success; educators, researchers, and policy makers have begun to recognize the importance and interconnectedness of these …
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Young Children's Experiences With Literacy
This interpretive classroom-based research explored literacy experiences of a small group of good and poor readers from a broad perspective. Data were collected in 2004 over two academic semesters in two different public elementary schools in two cities in the Midwest. Data sources include …
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