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Parents' Practices of Co-Play in a Community Playgroup
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Celine P. Y. Chu; Karen McLean; Susan Edwards – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Playgroups are a unique form of early childhood provision involving parents and their children attending together. Parents' attendance at playgroups provides opportunities for involvement in play. However, little is known about parents' practices of co-play in playgroups and the potential for these practices to enhance children's play experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Group Activities, Family (Sociological Unit)
How an Educational Experiment Creates Motivating Conditions for Children to Role-Play a Child-Initiated PlayWorld
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Fleer, Marilyn – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Government guidelines are demanding greater educational outcomes and intentional teaching in Australian preschools. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a study of how children incorporate concepts into child-initiated play. A cohort of 18 children (aged 3.0-5.8, mean age of 4.8) were digitally observed over seven weeks…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Role Playing, Play, Preschool Children
'Don't Pick, Don't Lick': Connecting Young Children's Risky Play in Nature to Science Education in Australian Bush Kinders
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Christopher Speldewinde – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
The forest school approach to nature learning has gathered momentum in the UK and across parts of Europe including Scandinavia for well over 50 years. In other contexts that include Canada, China, New Zealand and Australia, nature-based early childhood education and care settings, influenced by European forest school approaches, are in a rapid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
Neoliberalism and Sociocultural Specificities: A Discourse Analysis of Early Childhood Curriculum Policies in Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore
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Yang, Weipeng; Xu, Peng; Liu, Haidan; Li, Hui – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Many governments have launched the top-down early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms to enhance the accountability of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services. The present discourse analysis of latest ECC policies across four diverse but representative countries -- Australia, China, New Zealand, and Singapore -- aims to examine the…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Discourse Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Early Childhood Education
Infant Educators' Beliefs about Infant Language Development in Long Day Care Settings
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Degotardi, Sheila; Gill, Amy – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
This study examined infant educators' beliefs about infant language development in the context of early childhood classrooms. Participants were 59 educators who were employed to work directly with under-two-year-old children. Educators were interviewed to determine their understandings of infant language development and Grounded Theory qualitative…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Grounded Theory, Language Acquisition, Preschool Education
DAPcentrism: Challenging Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
Fleer, Marilyn, Ed. – 1995
This book examines the implications of existing learning theories for early childhood education, with a special emphasis on Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP). Chapter 1, "Challenging Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Introduction (Marilyn Fleer), presents the debate and summarizes the remaining chapters. Chapter 2, "Does…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education