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Classroom (in) Discipline: Behaviour Management Practices of Greek Early Childhood Educators
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Iraklis, Grigoropoulos – Education 3-13, 2022
This study explored which restrictive and/or punitive behaviour management practices are most frequently used by Greek early childhood educators in an attempt to control children's inappropriate behaviours and the personal or professional characteristics that could affect Greek educators' use of such practices. The sample consisted of 105 early…
Descriptors: Discipline, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Foreign Countries
Teachers' Emotional Expressiveness and Coping Reactions to Students' Emotions: Associations with Students' Social-Emotional Competences and School Adjustment
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Poulou, Maria S.; Denham, Susanne A. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Beside research evidence on the importance of teachers' emotion socialization behaviors and students' social-emotional outcomes, there is less evidence on teachers' discrete emotion socialization behaviors and students' social and emotional outcomes. The current study investigated early childhood teachers' self-reported expression of emotions and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Coping, Social Emotional Learning
Early Childhood Educators' Experiences of Bullying Episodes: A Qualitative Approach
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Iraklis, Grigoropoulos – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
This study explored early childhood educators' experiences and understanding of bullying in early childhood. Fourteen early childhood educators were interviewed. All the interviews were transcribed and analyzed using Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).The results showed four themes: (1) Educators' emotional burden from children's…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Bullying, Young Children, Emotional Response
Using Digital Storytelling to Help First-Grade Students' Adjustment to School
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Fokides, Emmanuel – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016
When coming to school for the first time, children might face a number of adjustment problems. The study presents the results of a project which used digital storytelling for helping first-grade primary school students during this transitional period. It was examined whether, through the development of the digital stories, students could…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Student Adjustment, Story Telling
Primary Physical Education Perspective on Creativity: The Nature of Creativity and Creativity Fostering Classroom Environment
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Konstantinidou, Elisavet; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis; Michalopoulou, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
From the beginning of the twenty-first century, many authorities and educational policies had begun to campaign their curricula towards the promotion of creativity. Researchers' interest turned to teachers' perceptions, implicit theories and beliefs about creativity-related issues which reflect and influence their behaviours and actions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Questionnaires
"Bullying in Ages 4-7; Teachers & School Environment's Intervention in the Greek Context"
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Theodotou, Evgenia; Karachaliou, Angela – Online Submission, 2012
This piece of research is a case study that investigates the intervention of teachers and the school's environment as far as bullying is concerned. The children that were observed attend a multicultural school in Athens. A review of the current literature in Greece and in the United Kingdom formed the basis for the offered description and analysis…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Young Children, Bullying, Educational Environment