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Facilitating Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions of Enactment of Play-Based Learning for Whole-Child Development: The Potential of Personal and Organizational Enablers
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Hongbiao Yin; Alan Chi Keung Cheung; Winnie Wing Yi Tam; Elaine Lau – Early Education and Development, 2024
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
Classrooms Are Complex Host Environments: An Integrative Theoretical Measurement Model of the Pre-K to Grade 3 Classroom Ecology
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Justice, Laura M.; Jiang, Hui; Sun, Jing; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Purtell, Kelly; Ansari, Arya; Helsabeck, Nathan – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to test a theoretical measurement model representing four proposed dimensions of the classroom ecology in pre-K to third-grade classrooms. The four proposed dimensions of Classroom Composition, Peer Network and Norms, Teacher Practices, and Student Experiences were evaluated using data collected in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Preschool Education, Measurement Techniques
An Analysis of the Nature of Young Students' STEM Learning in 3D Technology-Enhanced Makerspaces
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Forbes, Anne; Falloon, Garry; Stevenson, Michael; Hatzigianni, Maria; Bower, Matt – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This study was undertaken to investigate learning processes and outcomes from using 3D design and printing technologies with children aged 5-8 years, in three schools in a metropolitan city in Australia. Data were collected from five sources (teacher interviews, surveys, journals; student interviews; and iPad screen recordings)…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students