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Curry, Ashley; Epley, Pamela – Journal of Social Work Education, 2022
Reflective practice helps clinicians manage the complexity and uncertainty inherent in day-to-day practice. This is important given the high rates of burnout, turnover, and trauma-related stress among social workers and other clinicians. Using focus groups with 55 social work and child development graduate students and alumni, this study explored…
Descriptors: Social Work, Child Development, Graduate Students, Alumni
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Virmani, Elita Amini; Hatton-Bowers, Holly; Lombardi, Caitlin McPherran; Decker, Kalli B.; King, Elizabeth K.; Plata-Potter, Sandra I.; Vallotton, Claire D. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Although the social-emotional competence of preservice early childhood professionals (ECPs) has been associated with the quality of their interactions with young children, there is limited understanding of these associations during preservice training. Utilizing a sample of students with career goals in early childhood (N=473), we examined the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Metacognition, Reflection
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du Plessis, Gretchen Erika – Education as Change, 2019
This article, based on theoretical reflections and empirical examples, outlines dilemmas in the social positioning of postgraduate research when students are challenged with their locations as insiders and outsiders in terms of the issues they investigate in Development Studies. Encountering the "other" and oneself in, against and beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Student Research
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Pruitt, Rebecca – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2017
This qualitative study examined two sections of a course in child development, one online and one face-to-face, for comparisons related to constructivist approaches of the instructor and constructivist processes of the learners. Themes for each course section were more similar than different, indicating that factors other than delivery method play…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Trust (Psychology), Synchronous Communication, Child Development
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Vandermaas-Peeler, Maureen; Duncan-Bendix, Jennifer; Biehl, Maja Sbahl – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2018
The study purpose was to examine U.S. college students' perceptions of their engagement and learning after studying abroad for a semester in Denmark. All students participated in a course focusing on children and adolescents in Scandinavian contexts, a semester-long practicum experience in a Danish educational institution, and two course-embedded…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Learner Engagement, Study Abroad
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Hester, Sally; Moore, Allison – Global Studies of Childhood, 2016
This article comprises some critical reflections on the teaching of a second year undergraduate module called "Children's Cultural Worlds" in which students are required to engage with original studies which are then used to stimulate self-reflection and engagement with wider issues relating to our understanding of children's place in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Early Childhood Teachers, Children, Child Development
Navarro, Karin Elisa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Pre-service teachers depend on hands-on training to acquire the necessary practical skills to effectively work in the classroom. This is especially true for pre-service teachers in Early Childhood Education (ECE), who often rely on mentoring programs to learn to successfully work with children and influence their developmental outcomes. This study…
Descriptors: Mentors, Action Research, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Murris, Karin; Verbeek, Clare – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2014
We start our paper with a critical exploration of the current 'back to basics' approach in South African foundation phase teacher education with its emphasis on strengthening the teaching of subject knowledge. We claim that such a proposal first demands an answer to the question 'what is foundational in foundation phase teaching?' We propose an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Role of Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Horsley, Karen; Penn, Helen – Management in Education, 2014
Students on the Early Childhood Studies degree programme at the University of East London were asked to reflect on their childhood memories and how these have shaped their understandings of early childhood and practices with young children. Students' rich and varied accounts reflect the diversity of largely non-traditional students from countries…
Descriptors: Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Influences
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Poling, Devereaux A.; Hupp, Julie M. – College Teaching, 2009
The authors designed an active learning project for a child development course in which students apply core concepts to a hypothetical baby they "raise" during the term. Students applied developmental topics to their unique, developing child. The project fostered student learning and enthusiasm for the material. The project's versatility makes it…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Higher Education, Course Content, Infant Care
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Bruns, Deborah A.; Cooley, Marissa – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
Preparing early childhood education (ECE) and early childhood special education (ECSE) professionals to work with young children with and without disabilities entails the acquisition of content, its application, and opportunities for reflection. This article describes a component of an ECSE assessment course focusing on the logistics and process…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Evaluation Methods
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Gupta, Amita – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2006
This article is based on a study conducted in a teacher education classroom in an attempt to 1) recognize and acknowledge teacher candidates' prior beliefs and experiences; 2) formalize the connection between theories of child development and learning and teacher's implicit beliefs; and 3) encourage teacher candidates to reflect on their own…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Learning Theories, Theory Practice Relationship, Minority Group Teachers