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Nancy File Ed.; Nancy E. Barbour Ed.; Andrew J. Stremmel Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
Designed to spark an interchange of ideas, this book presents early childhood education as a nuanced, shifting, and complex field. Readers will bear witness to several decades of the lived experiences of influential leaders engaged in conversation about seven major topics: systems of early care and education, diversity and children's rights,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Preschool Curriculum, Play
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Tassanee Setraksa; Tharinthorn Namwan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This research aimed to: 1) investigate the components and performance indicators for organizing experiential activities that foster life skills among early childhood students, particularly those taught by teachers under the Office of the Basic Education Commission of Thailand; 2) examine the current state, desired state, and the needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Daily Living Skills, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
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Hansen, Ole Henrik – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2020
Interpersonal interactions during childhood form the foundation for development and learning (Tomasello, 2014; Vygotsky, 1962, 1978). Numerous studies have documented the impact of interactions between preschool teachers and preschool-aged children between 3 and 6 years of age (e.g., Denham et al., 2003; Hamre, Hatfield, Pianta & Jamil, 2013).…
Descriptors: Child Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Javier Leung – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2021
The EdHub Library is an online teacher professional development platform that serves 250 school districts as part of the Network for Educator Effectiveness in Missouri. It has a collection of more than 300 online activities. This design case describes the efforts of re-developing EdHub due to technical and usability issues of the first generation…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, School Districts, Electronic Libraries, Usability
Chavez, Kathryn J. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigated two questions: a) What is the relationship between reflection and professional development? and b) What is the role of reflection in teachers' instructional decision-making? Teachers are often conflicted by competing theories (e.g. behaviorist vs. constructivist) and principles (progressives vs. essentialists) at both…
Descriptors: Reflection, Faculty Development, Decision Making, Conflict
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Lunn Brownlee, Jo; Rowan, Leonie; Ryan, Mary; Walker, Sue; Bourke, Terri; Churchward, Peter – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
There is growing international concern about the extent to which teachers are prepared to work with an increasingly diverse student (and community) population. To date, research into the relationship between teacher preparation and preparedness to teach diverse learners has not focused on teacher educators' understandings about teaching to/about…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Epistemology, Teacher Education, Student Diversity
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Johnson, Daniel C.; Matthews, Wendy K. – International Journal of Music Education, 2017
The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore experienced general music teachers' decision-making processes. Participants included seven experienced, American general music teachers who contributed their views during two phases of data collection: (1) responses to three classroom scenarios; and (2) in-depth, semi-structured, follow-up…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Music Education, Music, Faculty Development
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Ryan, Mary – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2014
Writing is a complex and learned activity in that it requires us to shape our thoughts into words and texts that are appropriate for the purpose, audience and medium of a variety of communicative forms. Writers must constantly make decisions about how to represent their subject matter and themselves through language. In this way, writing can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creative Writing, Student Writing Models, Educational Strategies
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Nutbrown, Cathy – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2011
This paper emerges from a view that the growing body of self-reflective qualitative research designs elsewhere in education is insufficiently represented in early childhood enquiry. Research of this sort has a rich capacity to inform critical understanding with experiential data that reveal the remarkable within the quotidian; more specifically,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Young Children
McKenna, Devon E. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2005
In Sweden, governmental decision-making is based on a social-democratic ideology and a system of representative democracy. In citizens' meetings, the democratic values and norms, that are both a requirement and goal, at are formed. This concept of democracy, and the value system behind it, permeates Swedish culture, and its institutions and…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Early Childhood Education, Democracy, Young Children