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Direct linkFleer, 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
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
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
Colmer, Kaye; Waniganayake, Manjula; Field, Laurie – Professional Development in Education, 2015
A range of studies has demonstrated that collaborative professional development and learning (PD&L) is effective in implementing curriculum reform. PD&L that is contextualised within a specific setting enables educators to explore new theoretical perspectives, review existing knowledge and beliefs, and examine their current practice. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Development
