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Hermida, M. J.; Segretin, M. S.; Soni García, A.; Lipina, S. J. – Educational Research, 2016
Background: Teachers' conceptions and misconceptions about neuroscience are crucial in establishing a proper dialogue between neuroscience and education. In recent years, studies in different countries have examined primary and secondary school teachers' conceptions. However, although preschool education has proved its importance to later academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Misconceptions, Preschool Teachers, Knowledge Level
Borg, Farhana – Cogent Education, 2017
Although young children are often involved in economic transactions of various kinds in their daily activities, research on their knowledge and behaviors in relation to sustainable economics is limited. Sustainable economics deals with, among others, equity, corporate responsibility and poverty reduction. This study explored preschool children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Knowledge Level, Money Management
Ledoux, Tracey; Robinson, Jessica; Baranowski, Tom; O'Connor, Daniel P. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
The American Academy of Pediatrics and World Health Organization recommend responsive feeding (RF) to promote healthy eating behaviors in early childhood. This project developed and tested a vicarious learning video to teach parents RF practices. A RF vicarious learning video was developed using community-based participatory research methods.…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Comparative Analysis
Saçkes, Mesut; Smith, Mandy McCormick; Trundle, Kathy Cabe – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The purpose of this cross-cultural study was to describe and compare US and Turkish children's observational knowledge of the day and night cycle and to identify similarities predicted by framework theory. Fifty-six (27 US and 29 Turkish) young children (ages 48-60 months) participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were individually…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Astronomy, Observational Learning
Park, Mi-Hwa – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Consideration of children's emotions in a classroom provides more opportunities for improvement in children's engagement. However, the literature about emotional scaffolding in early childhood settings is underdeveloped. This qualitative case study focuses on the construction and implementation of strategies of scaffolding emotions by two early…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Learner Engagement, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Hansen, Joakim Evensen; Alvestad, Marit – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
This article focuses on educational language practices as described by preschool teachers in Norwegian kindergartens in groups consisting of one- to three-year-old children. Research indicates a relationship between high-quality childcare and language development, yet there is a need for more research on educational practices in high-quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Richardson, Sue Ellen; Bofferding, Laura – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
We explore early childhood teachers' lived experiences learning and teaching mathematics with young children, adding finer-grained context and detail to broader research descriptions. We interviewed ten early childhood teachers in a university laboratory school about their mathematics training, classroom mathematics curriculum, who controls their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Instruction, Young Children
Toyama, Noriko – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The present study examined (1) whether children notice different causes for contagious illnesses, non-contagious illnesses, and injuries and (2) what information adults provide to children and to what extent this information is related to children's causal awareness. Studies 1 and 2 explored preschool teachers' and mothers' explanations of…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Injuries, Adults, Preschool Teachers
Brown, Chris; Rogers, Sue – London Review of Education, 2014
This paper examines our use of knowledge-creation activity as a way of developing evidence-informed practice among a learning community of 36 early years practitioners in one London borough. It also seeks to illustrate how we approached the idea of measuring evidence use and our engagement with, and adapted use of, two separate measurement scales:…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Program Effectiveness
Tande, D. L.; Niemeier, B. S.; Hwang, J. H.; Stastny, S.; Bezbaruah, N.; Hektner, J. M.; Habedank, D. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2014
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this pilot study was to compare changes in preschool children's identification, preferences, and beliefs related to fruits and vegetables introduced to a child care center's menu before and after a nutrition education and food exposure intervention. The study also sought to determine how these changes were…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pilot Projects, Preferences, Beliefs
Fayez, Merfat; Takash, Hanan Mahmoud; Al-Zboon, Eman Khleif – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Early childhood teachers play major roles in defying child abuse and neglect and alleviating its detrimental effects on young children. Therefore, this study aimed at exploring how Jordanian pre-service early childhood teachers define and perceive violence against children and their role in child abuse detection and prevention. Furthermore, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Child Abuse, Preservice Teachers
Sukbunpant, Sasipin; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Dempsey, Ian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
It is generally assumed that preschool teachers play a crucial daily role in the inclusion of young children with a disability in education settings. In many countries, however, there are little available data to inform such a view. Part of a larger project with 528 preschool teachers from northern Thailand, the aim of the study reported here was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion
Ntuli, Esther; Traore, Moussa – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2013
Inclusion is designed to bring special education services into the general classrooms. Research indicates that children with disabilities demonstrate better progress when learning with typically developing peers in general classrooms than they would in segregated learning environments. In inclusive classrooms, children with disabilities learn by…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
Burton, Whitney Blair – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The identification and utilization of community funds of knowledge has been essential in understanding and assisting cultural groups to bridge the achievement gap. The purpose of this study was to examine the community funds of knowledge, the role of the parent, and the partnerships of a rural school in southeastern "Appalachia," United…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Schools, White Students, Knowledge Level
Canturk-Gunhan, Berna; Cetingoz, Duygu – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
The purpose of this study is to examine preschool preservice teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of basic geometric shapes. The study employed case study method in order to investigate preschool preservice teachers' SMK and PCK on geometric shapes in actual classroom environment and to describe the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Geometric Concepts, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education