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Li, Jin – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
Background: Kindergarten is the age at which children's future time perspective emerges. This capacity enables them to form goals based on past and ongoing experiences and project themselves in the future. This development may play an important role in guiding children in self-regulated learning. When faced with the conflict between their need to…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cultural Differences, Play, Learning Processes
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Henderson, Linda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
This paper engages with the early childhood-school relationship. The relationship has a long-standing history of being defined by a series of divisions and separations. Research has identified the divisions and separations to be largely determined by differences around concepts of learning and pedagogy. Discursive analyses of these differences…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Discourse Analysis, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
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Tucker, Stephen I.; Lommatsch, Christina W.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Symanzik, Jürgen – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of mathematical practices evident during children's interactions with touchscreen mathematics virtual manipulatives. Researchers analyzed 33 Kindergarten children's interactions during activities involving apps featuring mathematical content of early number sense or quantity in base ten, recorded…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Manipulative Materials, Educational Technology
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Cobb, Jeanne B. – Reading Psychology, 2014
Forty-four children, identified by their kindergarten teachers as independent readers upon public school entrance, were interviewed to assess their perceptions of how and when they learned to read. In addition to interviews, the children's literacy behaviors were observed in their normal classroom settings and in individual shared book experiences…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Childhood Attitudes, Early Reading
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Hegde, Archana V.; Sugita, Chisato; Crane-Mitchell, Linda; Averett, Paige – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This study explored Japanese day nursery and kindergarten teachers' beliefs and practices regarding developmentally appropriate practices. Data were collected using in-depth interviews. Teacher interviews provided insights into the merger of the childcare and education systems of Japan. Six themes emerged from the analysis of the day nursery and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Role Models
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Knauf, Helen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2015
The pedagogical documentation of educational processes in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centres is an important concern of early childhood education. Its purpose is to make learning visible and to stimulate discussion between educators and parents. In the academic discourse, however, pedagogical documentation is subject to differing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Documentation, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma; Tucker, Stephen I.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Maahs-Fladung, Cathy; Symanzik, Juergen; Mahamane, Salif; MacDonald, Beth; Jordan, Kerry – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2015
Part of a larger initiation mixed methods study (Greene, Caracelli, & Graham, 1989), this paper discusses the changes in young children's learning performance and efficiency (one element of the quantitative portion of the larger study) during clinical interviews in which each child interacted with a variety of virtual manipulative…
Descriptors: Young Children, Learning Processes, Efficiency, Numeracy
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Varol, Filiz – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2013
The present study aims to investigate Turkish kindergarten teachers' beliefs toward learning and teaching and their current instructional practices in kindergarten classrooms. To this end, teacher interviews and classroom observations were conducted with 28 kindergarten teachers. The interview results showed that teachers did not realize the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Interviews
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Al-Darwish, Salwa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
This study examines the perceptions of the Kuwaiti kindergarten school teachers and parents as well as the English curriculum in an attempt to identify areas that need to be improved in the kindergarten teachers' program at the CBE (College of Basic Education). In addition, the paper looks closely into the delivery of information and sequence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Garrett, Delia D. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This qualitative case study analyzed and categorized kindergarten teachers' learning processes and their instructional practices in writing through the process of peer coaching. At the study site, state and local standards require that teachers transform their current beliefs and practices in response to expectations for academic performance. Such…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Interviews, Program Effectiveness, Coaching (Performance)
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Hyvonen, Pirkko Tellervo – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Playful learning environments (PLEs) have been constructed in schoolyards in Finland with the aim of increasing learning through play in curriculum-based education. In order to better understand and inform this development, the Hyvonen sets out to ascertain how teachers view and use play in kindergarten and elementary education. Fourteen teachers…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Play, Teacher Education Programs, Elementary Education
Mack, Frances L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined how teachers design and implement instructional strategies to enhance students' emergent writing. A case study methodology was used to examine the elements of an emergent writing program of two kindergarten teachers. The study hoped to define a classroom environment that is conducive to literacy and writing using best…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Case Studies, Preschool Teachers, Writing Instruction
Little, Dorothy C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this research was to study a sociocognitive "student/parent/peer authoring community" called Traveling Books (TBks) in kindergarten and second grade in a public elementary school setting. TBks are teacher-made vehicles for involving parents in peer-based literacy environments. The study was based on Epstein's theory that…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Philosophy, Parent Participation, Urban Areas
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Buldu, Mehmet – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study investigated interactions between pedagogical documentation--a formative assessment technique and instructional intervention designed to increase student learning by recording children's experiences--and kindergarten children, families and teachers in the UAE. The study sample comprised six teachers in six kindergarten classrooms, 141…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Parents, Parent School Relationship
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Hsieh, Ming Fang – Language Awareness, 2011
In Taiwan, earlier English instruction has become prevalent in response to the trend of English as an international language. Current studies are interested in investigating the outcomes or developmental process of learning English from a linguistic perspective. However, this article aims to reveal children's subjective experiences of learning…
Descriptors: Sentences, Childrens Art, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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