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Learning, Development and the Early Childhood Curriculum: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Early Years Foundation Stage in England
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Wood, Elizabeth – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2020
This article focuses on the national policy framework for early childhood education (birth to 5 years) in England -- the Early Years Foundation Stage, specifically the use of child development theories as the underpinning knowledge base for practice. The aim is to understand what constructions of learning and development are foregrounded in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Teaching Methods
A Review of Reminiscing in Early Childhood Settings and Links to Sustained Shared Thinking
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Neale, Dave; Pino-Pasternak, Deborah – Educational Psychology Review, 2017
The importance of parent-child reminiscing for young children's social and cognitive development has been well established, but despite the increasing numbers of children attending formal early childhood settings such as nurseries and preschools, there has been surprisingly little research exploring educator-child reminiscing in these contexts.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Literature Reviews, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship
The Social Construction of School Readiness
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Shallwani, Sadaf – Online Submission, 2009
In the mainstream discourse on child development and education, 'school readiness' has been conceptualized as the skills and knowledge that children need when they enter school in order to learn effectively in the school environment. However, school readiness is an idea which is entwined with our beliefs about child development and child needs (E.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Social Environment, Educational Environment
Origins, Differences, and the Origins of Differences in Moral Development: Parent-Child Discourse as Moral Activity.
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Buzzelli, Cary A. – Developmental Review, 1997
A framework is presented for analyzing discourse during parent-child interaction about moral matters, using speech genres and registers. This analysis considers social, cultural, and historical influences on moral development and locates the origins of moral sensibilities and differences in moral functioning in the discourse parents and children…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis
The Legacy of Early Attachments.
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Thompson, Ross A. – Child Development, 2000
Evaluates what has been learned regarding the impact of early close relationships on psychological development, by examining the origins of continuity and change in attachment security and its prediction of later behavior. Evaluates research on impact of changing family circumstances and quality of care on attachment security. Offers new…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Children
Linguistic Cohesion and the Developing Reader/Writer.
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Irwin, Judith Westphal – Topics in Language Disorders, 1988
Linguistic cohesion involves the semantic and syntactic relationships that link sentences together. Research on linguistic cohesion is related to readability and to developmental and ability-level issues in reading/writing. Instructional strategies for low-ability readers/writers include predicting comprehension problems through cohesion analysis…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Developmental Stages, Discourse Analysis