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Jiyoung Kim; Anne Leftwich; Daniel Castner – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Many K-12 computer science (CS) education initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels have recently started to focus on engaging the young children. Although most CS education research has focused on the secondary level, only minimal research has explored how computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) can be taught in elementary…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten
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Kayahan Yüksel, Didem; Polat, Kübra – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2022
The aim of the study is to evaluate the National Education Council [NEC] decisions made from 1939 to 2021 in line with the components of inclusive education. In this context, the NEC decisions were examined in line with the themes of access, support, and participation, which are the components of inclusive education. In this study, document…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Inclusion, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Platas, Linda M. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2015
The Mathematical Development Beliefs Survey was developed to measure early childhood teachers' beliefs about mathematics teaching and learning in the preschool classroom. This instrument was designed to measure beliefs concerning (a) age-appropriateness of mathematics instruction, (b) classroom locus of generation of mathematical knowledge…
Descriptors: Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Goldman, Juliette D. G. – Health Education Journal, 2015
Background: Children and young adolescents are reaching puberty earlier. Providing information about such changes before puberty can help them develop in a more competent and informed manner. Context and Objective: UNESCO's "International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education" forms a comprehensive, evidence-based, authoritative…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Puberty, Sex Education, Comprehensive School Health Education
Barnett, W. Steven; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Brown, Kirsty; Squires, Jim; Horowitz, Michelle – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2016
This report explores the extent to which states (and several large cities) are positioned to provide high quality preschool education on a large scale. States and cities that are already doing so or that could do so with modest improvements offer opportunities for advocacy to advance access to high quality early education as well as for rigorous…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
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Genishi, Celia – Elementary School Journal, 1988
This microethnographic study describes aspects of the computer curriculum of a class of kindergartners in a public elementary school. Descriptions provide a basis for a consideration of the appropriateness of computers in the kindergarten. Complex matches and mismatches between goals and observed activity are discussed. (RH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Objectives
Zill, Nicholas; Wolpow, Ellen – 1990
The first National Education Goal agreed to be President Bush and the nation's governors is that all children will start school ready to learn. The first objective under that goal is that of providing high quality and developmentally appropriate preschool programs for all disadvantaged and disabled children. This paper seeks to assist efforts to…
Descriptors: Background, Compensatory Education, Definitions, Developmentally Appropriate Practices