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Kanak, Mehmet; Pekdogan, Serpil – Research in Pedagogy, 2018
This research aims to reveal the importance of science and mathematics education, children's natural curiosity towards science, and teachers' deficiencies and opinions in this area. In this study, where the qualitative method is preferred, the special case method, which enables in-depth research within a specific subject, is used. The study group…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Teachers, Semi Structured Interviews
Björklund, Camilla; Ahlskog-Björkman, Eva – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2018
This study presents an analysis of preschool teachers' reasoning about pedagogical goals. Of specific interest is how teachers in a Swedish and a Finnish context describe goals for children's learning and how they describe them implementing these goals into their practice. The research question is thus: How are pedagogical goals perceived and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Foreign Countries, Semi Structured Interviews, Qualitative Research
Tsai, Chia-Yen – International Education Studies, 2017
In this research I investigated the views preschool educators in Taiwan on play and the role of play in the curriculum. Adopting a qualitative methodology, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 educators at preschools affiliated with elementary schools. The results indicate that preschool educators generally agree that, in addition to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Play, Teaching Methods
Sisson, Jamie Huff; Kroeger, Janice – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This dialogic analysis, on the professional identities of five public preschool teachers from a major metropolitan school district in the United States, examines the dialogic space of participants in a context where discourses of play-based pedagogies and academic readiness were in competition. In discussing the pedagogical tensions that ensued…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Preschool Teachers, Discourse Analysis, Play
Sak, Ramazan; Tantekin-Erden, Feyza; Morrison, George S. – Education 3-13, 2018
This study describes the beliefs, self-reported practices and actual practices related to child-centred education of five female preschool teachers in Ankara, Turkey, and assesses the consistency between the participants' beliefs and practices. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations and document review. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Wang, Xinxin; Lam, Chun Bun – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017
An increasing number of parents in China are enrolling their preschool children in after-school programs provided by private, for-profit early learning centers. This study used a qualitative approach to explore how teachers in these centers understood and implemented play and play-based curricula. Data were collected by examining the curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Qualitative Research, Preschool Teachers
Öztürk Yilmaztekin, Elif; Erden, Feyza Tantekin – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study investigates early childhood teachers' views about science teaching practices in an early childhood settings. It was conducted in a preschool located in Ankara, Turkey. The data of the study were collected through multiple sources of information such as interviews with early childhood teachers and observations of their practices in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Delserieys, Alice; Jégou, Corinne; Boilevin, Jean-Marie; Ravanis, Konstantinos – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2018
Background: This work is based on the idea that young children benefit from early introduction of scientific concepts. Few researches describe didactical strategies focusing on physics understanding for young children and analyse their effectiveness in standard classroom environments. Purpose: The aim is to identify whether didactical strategies…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Science Education, Scientific Concepts
Bengisoy, Ayse – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2017
Accurate usage of tablet etc. devices in growth period is essential in terms of development performance. Tablet usage for education and teaching supports audio-visual memory; however, an examination of the consequences of continued usage reveals serious problems. Technology is essential in terms of communication and reaching information in the…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Skjaeveland, Yngve – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2017
This article discusses the teaching of history in early childhood education and care centres and children's understanding of history. Based on interviews with eight Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers and on interpretative phenomenological analysis, the article shows how the early childhood education and care centres teach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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
Elaldi, Senel; Yerliyurt, Nazli Sila – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This study attempted to evaluate the views of senior preservice preschool teachers on the efficacy of drama activities in their field experience in terms of the effect of students' learning, socialization, individual or group work skills and school connectedness and also disclosed the suggestions of senior preservice preschool teachers for faculty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Drama
Chawla-Duggan, Rita – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
This paper focuses upon the micro level of the pre-school classroom, taking the example of the Indian Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS), and the discourse of "child-centred" pedagogy that is often associated with quality pre-schooling. Through an analysis of visual data, semi-structured and film elicitation interviews drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Child Development, Semi Structured Interviews
Fox, Jillian; Diezmann, Carmel; Lamb, Janeen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
The aim of this paper is to report on barriers to ICT integration in teaching practices from the perspective of early childhood teachers. Six early childhood teachers from a combined private school in Queensland participated in this study. Individual interviews explored the ICT tools used in early childhood programs and the barriers to integration…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Barriers
Theobald, Maryanne – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2017
Working within culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms may present challenges for monolingual researchers wishing to gain children's perspectives. Consequently, children who are not fluent speakers of the dominant language are under-represented in early years' research. When linguistic boundaries exist, one recommended approach is working…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Foreign Countries, Japanese, English (Second Language)