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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Outdoor experiences allow teachers to focus on expanding child learning in different domains. Nature experiences can sharpen child senses, enrich vocabulary, increase spatial understandings, and permit more practice for large muscle skills. As well, teachers can arrange outdoor activities to promote positive peer cooperation and aesthetic…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Young Children, Disabilities
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McNerney, Karen; Hall, Nichola – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Research in science in early childhood is an area that has not received much attention (Fleer, M., & Robbins, J. (2003). "Hit and run research" with "hit and miss" results in early childhood science education. "Research in Science Education," 33, 405-431.) and it has been reported that early children teachers lack…
Descriptors: Science Education, Early Childhood Education, Action Research, Faculty Development
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Kurki, Kristiina; Järvelä, Sanna; Mykkänen, Arttu; Määttä, Elina – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Decades of research have associated effective emotion and behaviour regulation with learning and social competence among young children. However, further studies on children's use of emotion regulation in their everyday lives are required. This study focuses on investigating six- to nine-year-old children's (N?=?24) use of emotion regulation…
Descriptors: Self Control, Qualitative Research, Interpersonal Competence, Measures (Individuals)
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Reunamo, Jyrki; Lee, Hui-Chun; Wang, Li-Chen; Ruokonen, Inkeri; Nikkola, Teemu; Malmstrom, Sanna – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
In this research, children's creativity in pretend play and the conditions for creativity during high involvement are studied from four points of view: as a zone for proximal development, as a skill, as a personal orientation and as a culturally shared environment creation. The theoretical model is influenced by Vygotsky's ideas of creativity as…
Descriptors: Creativity, Play, Observation, Skill Analysis
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Gillespie, Catherine Wilson; Glider, Kendra R. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This study investigated how and when teachers used music in preschool classrooms throughout the day. Direct classroom observations were conducted to determine preschool teachers' use of music in four Head Start classrooms and one private preschool classroom for a total of 24 hours of observation in each classroom. Music was observed to be used 6.5…
Descriptors: Music, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence
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Anliak, Sakire; Sahin, Derya – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The present observational study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the I Can Problem Solve (ICPS) programme on behavioural change from aggression to pro-social behaviours by using the DECB rating scale. Non-participant observation method was used to collect data in pretest-training-posttest design. It was hypothesised that the ICPS…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Observation, Pretests Posttests