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Preschools and Their Graduates
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Montessori and Religious Education in Western Cape Preschools
The debate about whether or not religious education should be included in early childhood education is a longstanding one. Even those who believe that Religious Education should be included in early childhood programs cannot agree about the content or method for including it. The phenomenon of …
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Teaching and Learning Early Year’s Mathematics in Irish Preschools
The aim of this thesis was to find ways that I, as curriculum leader, could enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics for preschool children. The children involved attend the Irish Government funded Early Childhood Care and Education scheme at my Early Year’s Care and Education setting. …
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Preschool teachers' beliefs and practices: Emergent literacy in inclusive preschools
<p>This study examines preschool teachers' beliefs and practices related to emergent literacy learning for both children who are typically developing as well as those with identified disabilities. The sixty-eight teachers who worked in preschool programs that enrolled children with and without …
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Teacher Practice, Curriculum, and Children's Moral Development in Buddhist Temple Preschools in Thailand
… a moral development program in Buddhist temple preschools in Thailand. The researcher employed three qualitative methods: structured, in-depth interviews, observations of teachers' instruction, and document analysis of curriculum guides. Four Buddhist temple preschools were selected as the …
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Physiological Correlates of Maternal Responsivity In Mothers of Preschools With Fragile X Syndrome
<p>Maternal responsivity is comprised of warm, nurturing, and stable parenting behaviors and has been found to be associated with increased cognitive, social, emotional, and language development in typically developing children and children with disabilities. Recent research in typically developing …
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The Similarities and Differences Between Lower Primary and Preschools Syllabi in Tanzanian Classrooms
This study assessed the similarities and differences between lower primary and pre-schools syllabi in Tanzanian classrooms. More specifically, the study examined the skills provided to learners and availability of teaching resources, qualifications of teachers and presence of pre-primary classes …
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Literacy practices at home and in preschools settings in the Khomas education region in Namibia
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pre-school children came from homes to pre-schools already exposed to writing and reading skills and whether there was a gap between the home and pre-school literacy events and practices. The study used a mixed methodology, qualitative and …
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The journey to Paths to Quality : a case study of two rural Indiana public preschools
… criteria of a Level 3 or 4 PTQ classroom. Two preschools were studied to understand how preschool programming for PTQ was implemented. Two kinds of data were collected: interviews with school staff and documentation of curriculum and program standards. A document analysis of curriculum and …
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DEVELOPING CREATIVITY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO CASE STUDIES IN PRESCHOOLS IN THAILAND
… this is influenced by cultural context in two preschools in Thailand. The Four Ps model (Rhodes, 1961) is employed as a theoretical framework for the study and is based on the notion that creativity is the confluence of environment-centred variables and person-centred variables in developing …
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The Perseverance of Play: An Archaeological Analysis of Residential Blocks with Preschools at the Amache National Historic Site
… blocks within Amache that had designated preschools. I then compared these blocks with preschools to residential blocks without preschools to determine if there are any patterns and discernable differences between the two study areas. The findings of this research provide insight into how …
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A Survey of Preschool Preparation Programs in Northern California
… and analyzed what curricula and practices preschools in Petaluma are using to prepare children for kindergarten. A closed ended survey design was used to collect data from the preschools about their daily routines and practices. The survey provides survey results from nine preschool …
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Environmental justice education and atmospheric particulate analysis in urban environmental health policy development : indoor airborne particulate concentrations in preschools of asthmatic children in Newark
… and implementation of pollution abatement in the preschools. The specific target communities are identified as the East and the South Wards because preliminary demographic research has shown that the East and South Wards of Newark are two old, densely populated communities of over 56,000 people …
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Exploring the perceptions of teachers and parents on the use of play-based pedagogy in early childhood education. A case study of preschools in Kenya.
Despite the increased global focus on play and play-based learning in recent years, its acceptance in preschool classrooms remains rather controversial among educational stakeholders in different regions. Since parents and teachers are essential in determining the experiences of children in …
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Sedentary Behavior In Preschool Children: Studies of Reliability, Level, and Effect of Objectively Measured Sedentary Behavior
… in children attending Montessori and traditional preschools, and 3) to determine if sedentary behavior is associated with BMI z-score in preschool children. All three studies employed accelerometry as an objective measure of sedentary behavior. </p> <p> In study one, the accelerometry-derived …
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Learning (contexts) environments of young children in Zambia: daily experiences, quality of care and developmental outcomes in day care centres in Lusaka.
… care pre-schools. A total number of six preschools and 53 pre-schoolers participated in the study. Using the ZamCAT, structured questionnaire and observations, qualitative and quantitative data was collected. The results indicate that pre-schools that service children from the majority …
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Success For Life in Thailand: Educational and Cultural Implementation
… information provided in the questionnaires. Two preschools implemented Success For Life in November 2000. Another 6 preschools implemented Success For Life in June 2001. Participating teachers in the preschools where Success For Life was implemented in November 2000 were also asked to write …
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Essays on education and labor market outcomes in Indonesia
… potentially be mitigated by the availability of preschools, where preschools represent one form of childcare services. I exploit spatial and temporal variations in the access to public preschools and age-eligibility to implement a difference-in-difference-in-differences strategy and to infer the …
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Vaikų iš socialiai remtinų šeimų ankstyvoji adaptacija ikimokyklinio ugdymo įstaigose /
… 87 parents and 18 preschool teachers from the preschools of Kaunas Dainava district; who monitored and evaluated the behavior of 80 children.
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Parental reading beliefs, home literacy practices, and children's development: Examination of a parental reading beliefs model in China
… to four-year-old children attending Level A preschools in Shanghai. Participants were recruited through teachers in preschools, and data were collected via an online surveytool (SurveyMonkey ® ). Multiple regression analysis was used as the main statistical method to examine the associations …
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