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Keung, Chrysa Pui Chi; Fung, Chanel Kit Ho – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
In Hong Kong, play-based learning has been highlighted in the latest curriculum guide in 2017. While adopting 'child-centredness' as the core value of kindergarten education can enrich children's play experiences. However, little emphasis has been placed on how young children perceive play-based learning in the classroom. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Learning Experience, Young Children
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Guo, Karen; Zhong, Yuehong – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
This article explores parents' perspectives of children's learning, drawing on a comparative research project with a focus on survey data from 200 preschool parents in Japan and China. The findings were compared between the two countries in order to identify common and distinct perspectives in terms of what and how children learn in the families…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Parent Attitudes
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Houssa, Marine; Nader-Grosbois, Nathalie – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
In an experimental design, we examined the effects of middle-term training in social information processing (SIP) and in Theory of Mind (ToM) on preschoolers' social cognition and social adjustment. 48 preschoolers took part in a pre-test and post-test session involving cognitive, socio-cognitive and social adjustment (direct and indirect)…
Descriptors: Social Development, Cognitive Processes, Theory of Mind, Preschool Children
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Tracey, Louise; Chambers, Bette; Bywater, Tracey; Elliott, Louise – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
The SPOKES (Supporting Parents on Kids Education in Schools) programme is a ten-week intervention for parents designed to help struggling readers in Year 1. The programme teaches parents strategies to support their children's reading such as listening to children read, pausing to let them work out words, and praising them when they concentrate and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Parents as Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
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Hurlbutt, Karen S. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2011
Teachers may be inadequately prepared for the increasing number of students being identified with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), as students with ASD may not respond to traditional methods of instruction. Some parents of children with ASD are concerned with educational programming available through public school systems and are turning to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Home Schooling, Autism, Parents