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Enhancing Preschoolers' Creativity through Art-Based Environmental Education for Sustainability
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Marianthi Kalafati; Evgenia Flogaiti; Maria Daskolia – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Creativity is key in developing students' environmental competence so that they come up with working and sustainable solutions to address environmental issues in daily life. However, these remain under-investigated in both Environmental Education (EE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) research. Here, we report an action research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
Engaging Children in "What-If" Thinking through Read-Aloud Conversations in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
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Niklas Pramling; Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study presents the research that Pramling Samuelsson's keynote at the 32nd annual EECERA conference in Brighton 2024 drew upon. The study addresses an important but understudied feature of early childhood education and care for sustainability (ECECfS), namely engaging children in prospective or what-if thinking. Our reasoning is founded on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Imagination
STEAM Education in Preschool Education: We Design Our School for Our Visually Impaired Friend
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Hacioglu, Yasemin; Suiçmez, Esra – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2022
Integration of STEAM disciplines in preschool education is considered to be difficult for children to work as engineers and perform robotics applications. Therefore, preschool STEAM activities are needed. The study aims to convey how to implement the preschool STEAM activity named "We design our school for our visually impaired friend"…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, STEM Education, Art Education, Curriculum Implementation
Joint Contributions of Teacher's Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Book Reading to Preschooler's Growth in Language Skill
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Beth M. Phillips; Chelsea Funari; Felesa Oliver; Jennifer Berrien; Pamela W. Burris; Michael P. Mesa – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
In the context of the critical need to support children's early language development, teacher knowledge may enhance children's opportunities to build linguistic skills. In this study we explored how early childhood teachers' (n = 86) pedagogical content knowledge for language and vocabulary, and their book-reading implementation across the school…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development
Joint Contributions of Teacher's Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Book Reading to Preschooler's Growth in Language Skill
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Beth M. Phillips; Chelsea Funari; Felesa Oliver; Jennifer Berrien; Pamela W. Burris; Michael P. Mesa – Grantee Submission, 2022
In the context of the critical need to support children's early language development, teacher knowledge may enhance children's opportunities to build linguistic skills. In this study we explored how early childhood teachers' (n = 86) pedagogical content knowledge for language and vocabulary, and their book-reading implementation across the school…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development
Creating a Virtual Space in World Language Teacher Preparation? Considerations for Practice-Based Rehearsals
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Moser, Kelly; Chambless, Krista; Miller, Nicole – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
The past decade has been marked by a shift toward practice-based approaches in teacher education. Rehearsal has become an important dialogic strategy for encouraging candidate reflection as they work toward deconstructing and enacting high leverage practices (HLPs) during their preparation. Despite the frequent reference to rehearsals in the…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction