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Happiness from the Perspective of Mother and Children: Indonesian Setting
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Sugiyo Pranoto, Yuli Kurniawati; Hong, Jianzhong – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This study aims to evaluate whether mothers and their children have the same perspective on the children's happiness. It enriched studies gap concerning agreement on perspective about young children happiness. Some studies showed agreement, the others showed disagreement. In total 777 children and 367 mothers were involved in this study. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Mothers, Parent Attitudes
Navigating Different Cultural Beliefs and Practices to Support Immigrant Preschoolers and Their Families: A Bakhtinian Textual Analysis on Preschool Teacher and Administrator Perspectives
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Kim-Bossard, MinSoo; Choi, Jennifer; Meneses, Alejandra – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Understanding different cultural beliefs and practices has become increasingly important for early childhood educators in the contemporary United States. This paper investigates how preschool teachers and administrators navigate different cultural discourses in classrooms that frequently go unidentified or ignored, and how they support children…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education
Marital Relationship Quality and Couples' Cognitive Stimulation Practices toward Their Infants: Actor and Partner Effects of White and Hispanic Parents
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Sotomayor-Peterson, Marcela; Wilhelm, Mari S.; Card, Noel A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The present study explores actor and partner effects on mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation within an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM). This model allows us to evaluate whether mothers' and fathers' practices are impacted not only by their own experiences but also by their partners' experiences. The APIM treats the couple as the…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Mothers, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
A Comparative Study of Childcare in Japan and the USA: Who Needs to Take Care of Our Young Children?
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Izumi-Taylor, Satomi; Lee, Yu-Yuan; Franceschini, Louis, III – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine similarities and differences in the perceptions of childcare among early childhood teachers in Japan and the USA. Participants consisted of 278 Japanese early childhood teachers (10 males and 268 females) on the Japanese mainland and 78 American early childhood teachers (5 males and 73 females) in the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Preschool Education in China and the United States: A Personal Perspective
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Pang, Yanhui; Richey, Dean – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
In this article the preschool education in China and the United States are compared, based on the factors that influence the preschool education in each country as well as the characteristics of the preschool education in each culture. The preschool education in both countries has its strengths and weaknesses, which result from their respective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis
Is the Expressive Vocabulary of Young Cantonese Speakers Noun or Verb Dominated?
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Tse, Shek Kam; Chan, Carol; Li, Hui – Early Child Development and Care, 2005
The spontaneous utterances produced by 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36-60 months in 30-minute toy play contexts were collected. The incidence and percentage of different lexical classes, the ratio of noun and verb types and tokens were calculated. A statistically significant predominance of verb usage was found in the expressive utterances…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Language Acquisition, Preschool Children
Hugs and Smiles: Demonstrating Caring in a Multicultural Early Childhood Classroom
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Pappamihiel, Eleni N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
In many ways, teacher preparation programs have made great strides in preparing future teachers to work with an increasingly diverse population. However, there is still controversy about whether or not these courses are adequate and result in real change. This article represents a study that was designed to investigate preservice teachers' beliefs…
Descriptors: Altruism, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences, Preservice Teachers