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Nihal Eres; Tugba Ecevit – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2025
This study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate the feasibility of an activity titled "Space Adventure for Little Explorers", integrating the engineering and entrepreneurship design model within the STEM education framework into preschool education. The activity was structured in four stages: (1) Discovery with the Family, (2)…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship, Preschool Education, Learning Activities
Zi Juan Cheng; Chun Xiao Ma; Runke Huang; Ying Bai – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
In recent years, the concept of "deeper learning" has generated great interest in the field of preschool education in China. However, deep learning in the preschool stage is different from that in school education, as it requires explaining content characteristics, developing observational tools to identify deep learning, and exploring…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Learning Processes, Play
Samantha Bergmann; Tiffany Kodak – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Parity is one source of automatic reinforcement that increases the probability of verbal behavior that conforms to models provided by the verbal community. Parity as a conditioned reinforcer could explain the acquisition of grammar in the absence of direct, explicit reinforcement. This possibility has been explored in previous research on…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Verbal Development, Responses
Robin Samuelsson – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Programming is becoming a key subject in early education globally, with surging problems of how computer science can become a subject for children of all ages and backgrounds. Problems of implementing new technologies in the old curricula have long been noted, and lately, concern over computer science education goals is often too narrow and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Play, Early Childhood Education, Technology Integration
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay – Reading Teacher, 2023
Using play to meet specific learning goals in pre-k can be challenging. In this article, we discuss why play is an essential activity for pre-k learning. We share some research on the importance of supporting unconstrained, trifecta skills like oral language in the context of child-centered, playful activities. We explain the importance of teacher…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Learning Processes
Conrad Oh-Young; Michael Karlin – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2025
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model system, has taken the world by storm. Fearful that students would use ChatGPT to circumvent the learning process, multiple school districts in the U.S. have outright banned its use. Despite this, there are some who suggest that ChatGPT has the potential to reshape the field of education…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software
Elizabeth Rouse; Maria Nicholas – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
The 'schoolification' of early childhood education and care programs, seen as readying children for formalised schooling, has had an impact on the education of younger and younger age groups. While the focus of past research has mainly focused on 4-5-year-old children, this study shifts the focus to 2-3-year-old children and the literacy focus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Play
Pi-Hun Yang; Chung-Yuan Hsu; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Gwo-Haur Hwang; Min-Ai Yang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
The complexity of gear concepts, often misunderstood by young children, highlights the need for educational frameworks beyond simple play. To examine the effects of using the prediction, observation, and explanation (POE) model in building block activities, a true experimental design was implemented. A total of 49 preschoolers were randomly…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Science Education
Nilsson, Carina; Svensson, Anette; Basic, Goran – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this article was to re-examine the empirical research focused on the creation and recreation of pre-school teachers' identity and their practices with multilingual children and language development. The analysis was based on empirical sequences from previously published qualitative analyses with the assistance of an interactionist…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Multilingualism, Teacher Student Relationship
Chandler, Kayla; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku; Preston, Ron – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
In this article, the authors provide some insight into how teachers can potentially facilitate among students' representations and activities on mathematical tasks: between or among -- (1) student representations and the context; (2) multiple forms of student representations; and (3) processes in student representations. The authors use the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
María Dolores Soto-González; Ramona Rodríguez-López – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2025
This study presents a transdisciplinary techno-artistic experience conducted with students of the degree in Preschool Education from the University of Valencia. The experience seeks to promote the use of technologies with a contemporary approach through new creative forms such as sound-visual cartographies. The objective is to understand the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Technology, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers
Elizabeth A. Ethridge; Adrien D. Malek-Lasater; Kyong-Ah Kwon – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Early childhood teachers routinely facilitate play-based learning experiences in their physical classrooms; however, the pivot to virtual teaching platforms created a barrier for providing age appropriate, play-based learning opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are few studies exploring how to promote play in the virtual classroom or…
Descriptors: Play, Teaching Methods, Preschool Teachers, Virtual Classrooms
Anna Hartman – Journal of Jewish Education, 2024
The concept of children's theories is central to the approach of the municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. The author investigates children's theories about Judaism. Methods include semi-structured interviews and pedagogical documentation from American Jewish early childhood centers. Analysis involves open coding…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Jews, Religious Education, Reggio Emilia Approach
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
Pelin Mete – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Research has shown significant relationships between students' epistemological beliefs and their approaches to learning. This study aimed to investigate the relationships between the scientific epistemological beliefs, science learning approaches, and the scientific inquiry skills of undergraduate students who took science courses by expanding the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Learning Processes, Inquiry