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Lauren Brown Adams – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2025
In the Fall of 2018, the author embarked on her dissertation research, focusing on the critical issue of enhancing early childhood programs through the lens of early literacy development facilitated by play. At that time, many districts' early childhood curricula were heavily skewed towards academics, such as English/Language Arts (ELA) and Math,…
Descriptors: Play, Emergent Literacy, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
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Jessica Prioletta; Julia Srouji; Shannon Roy – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
In this paper, we draw on critical theorisations to examine kindergarten teachers' approaches to sexuality education. A qualitative study was carried out using semi-structured interviews with ten teachers and classroom observations in four classrooms in Quebec, Canada. Data analysis revealed that the teachers in the study agreed that sexuality…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Margaret F. Quinn; Lori A. Caudle; Frances K. Harper – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Computational thinking (CT) is an important twenty-first century skill that begins developing early. Recent interest in incorporating early CT experiences in early childhood education (i.e., preschool) has increased. In fact, the early years mark an important time during which initial competencies are acquired, interest and motivation begins to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Computation, STEM Education
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Nicole Land – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Drawing upon Ahmed's (2006) analysis of how institutional documents become nonperforming, this article argues that teacher education must create opportunities for emerging educators to grapple with the pedagogical consequences of understanding the fourth edition of "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs" (2022)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Mei B. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of how primary teachers (K-2) perceive and manage accountability pressures. Accountability pressures are the consequences of high-stakes and standardized testing. This can be overtly represented by inappropriately aligned standards or a fast-paced curriculum design to match tested…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Harju-Luukkainen, Heidi – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
The Finnish education system has garnered significant international interest due to its consistently high rankings for decades. However, the same level of interest has not been extended to the country's early childhood education system. In Finland, early childhood education and care are regarded as the cornerstones of the Finnish education system,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Early Experience
Krista Lunz – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purposeful play has many educational benefits that support the whole child. As academic rigor continues to rise, the need for developmentally appropriate practices that support both academic and social emotional learning increases. The purpose of this quantitative study was to understand principals' perceptions of the incorporation of purposeful…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Play, Educational Strategies, Preschool Education
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Nicole Larsen; Angela Pyle; Erica Danniels; Marsha Marzouca; Raadiyah Nazeem – Education Inquiry, 2025
Play occupies a critical role in the kindergarten classroom, and the expansion of formal play-based learning programmes have brought connections between play and learning to the forefront. With respect to social and emotional learning (SEL), child-directed play has been viewed as critical, while teacher direction has been framed as a potential…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Play
Rae Pica – Teachers College Press, 2024
In an age when play is often seen as frivolous or unproductive, this book explains the importance of play in early childhood education. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of play, includes suggestions for putting theory into practice, and offers recommendations for language and information educators can use to help parents understand that…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Misconceptions, Child Development
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Shirley Kessler; Daniel Castner – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The authors begin this article with an account of the crises in education in the US today. Curriculum theory is applied to the ideas in the 4th edition of NAEYC's 'developmentally appropriate practices,' and the relationship between the ideas in this edition to current issues is discussed. The authors also present a brief description of democratic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Democracy
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Ellen McKenzie – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2023
Around the world, on every continent, and in every country, children play. Though culturally contextualized, play is a global common childhood experience. There are cultural variations in children's play activities, and though play looks and sounds different across the world, there are also commonalities. Though scholars find it difficult to…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Young Children
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Erin G. Fox; Sarah N. Lang; Erin Tebben – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Despite evidence that play supports learning and development across a range of domains in early childhood, play time has been decreasing for many young children in recent years. Early care and education (ECE) teachers are in a unique position to promote developmentally appropriate play as a way to help young children learn, and ECE teachers'…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Classroom Techniques, Play, Educational Planning
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Yu-Hui Ching; Yu-Chang Hsu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Educational robotics has been adopted to create interactive and engaging learning environments to develop computational thinking (CT) in K-12 learners. This study systematically examined 22 peer-reviewed empirical research articles on the use of educational robotics to develop CT in young learners (pre-kindergarten to 6th grade) published between…
Descriptors: Robotics, Educational Technology, Preschool Education, Elementary Education
Dennis, Lynn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain understanding of how Midwestern kindergarten teachers use developmentally appropriate play-based practices to support the standards in their classrooms. Five participants were selected based on meeting the criteria of being a kindergarten teacher in a Midwestern school district who incorporates…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Play
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Zoyah Kinkead-Clark; Sabeerah Adbul-Majied – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
Caribbean nations have leaned on and undergirded their early childhood programmes with Developmentally Appropriate Practices promulgated by the NAEYC. For many years the guidance provided by DAP has been used in both the development of standards of practice for early childhood professionals as well as curriculum development. In recent years…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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