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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
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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