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Sabahat Burak; Aysenur Bas – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of musical play on the social skill development of third-grade students and to investigate the opinions of classroom teachers on the effect of musical play on the social skill development of their students. The study sample consists of 60 students: 30 in the experimental group, and 30 in the…
Descriptors: Music Activities, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Elementary School Students
Kenneth Pettersen; Christian Ehret – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Today, digital media technologies are ubiquitous and mundane, making the relationship between digital and analog messy and porous. This postdigital condition prompts new analyses of how young children's local encounters with digital media technologies unfold, and how their relationships with digital media technologies carry on after they leave…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Friendship, Social Development, Foreign Countries
Sandra M. Linder; Leigh D'Amico; Xumei Fan – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
This article presents three cases of school districts/consortia in a southeastern state, where standardized measures focused on teacher/child interactions rather than student outcomes were implemented to guide decision-making. These three districts/consortia were funded annually for three years to implement innovative professional development…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Faculty Development, Social Development
Alaitz Martín-García; Markel Rico-González – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
The present article aims to systematically summarize the effects of free-play (FP) on preschool-aged children's physical activity (PA) level, and motor (MC), cognitive (CC), and socioemotional competence evaluated through randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. A systematic review of relevant articles was carried out using two electronic…
Descriptors: Play, Young Children, Physical Activity Level, Psychomotor Skills
Rebecca Horrace – American Journal of Play, 2024
The author investigates the imaginative play of children online as they seek a common, shared space with others, in which to play. She looks at components of children's online play experiences, including mediated actions, discourses, literacies, sense of belonging, and online restrictions as they moved between digital and nondigital realities. She…
Descriptors: Play, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Games
Patricia Donner; Siv Lundström; Mia Heikkilä – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study seeks to understand how children express themselves socially and emotionally in play negotiations in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. It addresses the following research questions: What strategies do children employ in play negotiations? How do these strategies manifest themselves socially and emotionally? The study…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Early Childhood Education, Peer Relationship
Harry Kipkemoi Bett – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had far-reaching effects on school-going children. With the indefinite closure of schools in many parts of the world, many children found themselves with limited avenues for play and interaction. The current qualitative study, anchored on social capital theory, aimed at investigating the informal learning that took place as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Rural Areas, COVID-19
Felicia Sprayberry – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
The development of social and emotional learning in children can directly impact overall learning, emotional skills, and socialization of young children (The Urban Child Institute, 2024). Equal emphasis on social and emotional learning should mirror the importance and impact of academic learning. A philosophy of integrated social and emotional…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Social Development
Isauro M Escamilla; Iliana Alanís; Daniel R Meier – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2024
This article focuses on elements of successful sociocultural inclusion and linguistic participation in a bilingual dual-language preschool for Latinx children. It presents a subset of findings from a three-year qualitative research project in which Latinx critical race theory and a translanguaging framework were used to illuminate critical…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Latin Americans, Code Switching (Language), Translation
Angela Pyle; Ruxandra Filip; Allison McCann; Nicole Larsen; Emily Cowan – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic impacted educational systems throughout the world. School closures, virtual schooling, and strict safety protocols for in-person learning changed instructional approaches to teaching. These changes were particularly disruptive in early childhood education which relies on play-based learning to support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Kindergarten
Johan Bundgaard Nielsen – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2025
This article argues for a reconceptualisation of early childhood education, where learning and development are not only valued by outcome, and aims to investigate how aesthetic processes are organised in ways for the children to be inspired, to compare, explore, and play. Inspired by a Vygotsky perspective and his theories of play, imagination,…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Child Care, Play, Early Childhood Education
Rica Ramírez; Lisa M. López; Olivia Hernandez Gonzalez; Marcela Galicia; Eugene Komaroff; Carol Scheffner Hammer – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: There is limited research regarding socio-emotional development in low-income Latino Dual Language Learner (DLL) children. A total of 14 studies have been identified in a comprehensive review of the literature (Halle et al. 2014). Within these studies the majority have focused on problem behaviors within this population. Through…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Hispanic American Students, Peer Relationship, Low Income Students
Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
Zachary S. Gold; Yasmina Bayoun; Nina Howe; Kristen A. Dunfield – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: There are sparse data on children's use of executive function (EF) and spatial skills in block play. However, there are important implications for studying EF and spatial skills with blocks across cultures, especially regarding best practices for supporting social-cognitive development in under-resourced populations and…
Descriptors: Toys, Cross Cultural Studies, Play, Preschool Children
Emily Pompan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Social-emotional development is foundational to learning and has been linked to long-term academic, behavioral and mental health outcomes for children (i.e., Jones et al., 2015). In early childhood, social-emotional development is encouraged primarily through familial relationships. Children with developmental delays and disabilities (DD) are more…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Parent Aspiration, Parent Child Relationship, Developmental Disabilities