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Direct linkJorunn Spord Borgen; Gunn Engelsrud – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
In this article, the authors address some of the scientific challenges associated with using observation as a research method. The authors ask how researchers contextualise and understand observation in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and how it is conducted. Using a vignette in the kindergarten context, the authors explore how observation…
Descriptors: Observation, Research Problems, Kindergarten, Young Children
Ling Zhang; Richard Allen Carter; Jeffrey A. Greene; Matthew L. Bernacki – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Educators and instructional designers have used the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide their design of inclusive instruction for students with and without disabilities. Despite UDL having entered its 4th decade of development and research, there have been ongoing critiques of UDL for lacking clarity in definition, challenges…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Implementation, Barriers, Preschool Education
Debbie Stott; Chronoula Voutsina – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
This paper aims to contribute to the advancement of methodological practice for phenomenographic research by introducing the notion of a "lens of awareness," as a device that can enable researchers to zoom into the detail of the research process (the parts of the whole) and out again to the related context of a phenomenographic study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Preschool Children, Numbers
Corr, Catherine; Chudzik, Mia; Oh, Jisun R.; Love, Hailey R.; Snodgrass, Melinda R. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
The goal of the journal review process is to ensure that published manuscripts are of high quality and address important topics. Technical criteria about methodology, rigor, and clarity can impact how a manuscript is reviewed. However, journal reviewers rely on accumulated wisdom about credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, timeliness, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Periodicals, Peer Evaluation
Vanessa Wintoneak; Mindy Blaise – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses responsive walking methods from a yearlong river-child-walking project situated in early childhood education. Grounded by feminist anti-colonialism, this project reconfigured children's relations with a local river and challenged dominant, extractive methods of discovery. A behind-the-scenes approach is taken in this case…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Place Based Education, Decision Making, Case Studies
Han Qin; Konstanze Schoeps; Hongbiao Yin – European Journal of Education, 2024
Early childhood teachers' emotions have increasingly received the attention of researchers in the past decades. The present study conducted a systematic review of the research on early childhood teachers' emotions published in English up to 2022. Based on evidence from 103 empirical studies, the results presented the significant roles of early…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Characteristics, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Jun Wang; Xue Wang; Qiyang Zhang; Hanhui Bao; Zhe Zhao; Amanda J. Neitzel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of interventions can provide critical evidence for educators and policymakers by providing insights into the effectiveness of related interventions. The quality of included studies builds the foundation for a high-quality review, while bias in the included studies increases the risks of unreliable…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews
Download full textPalmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Designs for Learning, 2022
This paper reports on a design oriented study conducted in close collaboration between two researchers and three preschool teachers. Within this study, a play-based interview script was designed in accordance with theoretically driven principles. Based on this script, the preschool teachers conducted interviews with children from three preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Interviews
Jørgensen, Hanne Hede – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
In Danish early childhood education and care (ECEC), pedagogues traditionally work in a child-centred manner, valuing the children's experiences. During the last 150 years pedagogues have developed expertise in framing everyday life for children while paying double attention to the children's perspectives, on one hand, and to their own pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Research Methodology
Baron, Franka; Linberg, Anja; Kuger, Susanne – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2023
Studies show that processes like teacher-child interactions are a key dimension of childcare quality and that global and domain-specific interactions seem to have different effects on child development. A variety of instruments have been used to assess quality in the field of early childhood research. The aim of this study was to identify and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction, Mathematics Education
Keary, Anne; Garvis, Susanne; Walsh, Lucas – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
Play is a place of diverse meaning-making for young children and often central to family life. This paper reports on a family study in which the authors analyse Author One's family photos of young children's play across four generations. The photo analysis shows continuity and transformations in the types of play activities the young children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Family Environment, Young Children
Pramling, Niklas – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2023
This book concisely explores the distinguishing features of scientific knowledge and research in early childhood education and care (ECEC). It has a dual-level focus of containing and relating the concrete practices of conducting research with the more fundamental conceptual discussions around research -- the Bildung of the researcher. The book…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Patton, Karen; Winter, Karen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2023
Research that uses innovative approaches to elicit the views of young children has grown hugely over the last 20 years. Against a backdrop of a greater acceptance of children's rights and sociological approaches to understanding children and childhood, with their combined emphasis on the competences and capacities of children, it is now accepted…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Childrens Rights, Interpersonal Relationship, Power Structure
Pyle, Angela; DeLuca, Christopher; Wickstrom, Hanna; Danniels, Erica; Fesseha, Ellen – Educational Research, 2023
Background: Teachers' perspectives provide crucial insights into classroom practice in early childhood education settings. Although many kindergarten programmes emphasise play "and" assessment to support children's learning and development, recent research suggests that there are some disparities between teachers' articulated role of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
