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McNally, Shelley; Slutsky, Ruslan – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
High-quality teacher-child relationships provide protective and supportive environments that provide social support for children to engage in curriculum and take risks that result in overall school success (Buyse, Verschueren, & Doumen, 2011; Pianta & Stuhlman, 2004). Teachers have the potential to use their relationship as a tool for…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children
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Sims-Schouten, Wendy – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Early years care and education have been high on British political agendas. This includes partnership working between early years practitioners and parents. Yet, more research is needed to examine how childcare staff engage with parents and vice versa. This study addresses the role of position and positioning in parent-practitioner relationships,…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Statistical Analysis
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Weigel, Daniel J.; Martin, Sally S.; Lowman, Jennifer L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Several challenges arise when researchers or practitioners attempt to assess the literacy skills of toddlers, including a lack of developmentally appropriate measures, toddlers' more limited communication ability, and how literacy is defined in the years before age three. This paper describes four new measures of early literacy development and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Emergent Literacy, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Arranz Freijo, Enrique B.; Olabarrieta Artetxe, Fernando; Manzano Fernández, Ainhoa; Martín Ayala, Juan luís; Galende Pérez, Nuria – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper makes a proposal for the comprehensive assessment of the family context of children aged two years. It offers an updated resource based on recent research into the assessment of family contexts and their influence on children's psychological development. The proposal explores the following areas: Presence of learning materials;…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Family Environment, Family Influence, Child Development
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Bildiren, Ahmet – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The objective of this study was to examine the different development characteristics of gifted children during the preschool period in comparison with normal developing children according to family observation. For this purpose, face-to-face interviews were carried out with the parents of 112 children identified as gifted and data regarding the…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Student Characteristics, Developmental Psychology, Gifted
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Meng, Christine; Cheng, Ya-Fang – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study used the actor-partner interdependence mediation model to examine the association among parents' depressive symptoms, sense of mastery, and parent involvement. To address the research goal, this study conducted secondary analysis using the cross-sectional data collected from the 2000 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Parent Participation, Preschool Children
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Rautamies, Erja; Poikonen, Pirjo-Liisa; Vähäsantanen, Katja; Laakso, Marja-Leena – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study addresses the relationships between teachers and children (four to six years old) with difficulties in self-regulation from the parent's point of view. Narratives were constructed in 21 interviews with parents of children who have difficulties in self-regulation. The study focused on two questions: (i) What kinds of teacher-child…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Self Control, Self Management
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Lloyd, Eva; Edmonds, Casey; Downs, Celony; Crutchley, Rebecca; Paffard, Fran – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The acquisition of everyday scientific concepts by 3-6-year-old children attending early childhood institutions has been widely studied. In contrast, research on science learning processes among younger children is less extensive. This paper reports on findings from an exploratory empirical study undertaken in a "stay and play" service…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Scientific Concepts, Science Education
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O'Sullivan, Cathryn; Minott, Ceceile – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The authors, through a consultancy with the Caribbean Child Development Centre, the University of the West Indies Open Campus, sought to identify comprehensive parent support programmes and policies in the healthcare sector in non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries. As mapping researchers, the authors were contracted to map policies and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Parent Education, Parent Materials, Child Development
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Campbell-Barr, Verity – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The early childhood workforce is routinely demonstrated as being central to the quality of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Frequently, discussions of quality focus on structural features of training, such as level and duration. However, the literature demonstrates that quality extends beyond the structural and that early childhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Hachfeld, Axinja; Anders, Yvonne; Kuger, Susanne; Smidt, Wilfried – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Home and educational institutions are children's most important external influences and a positive partnership between the two can positively affect children's cognitive and non-cognitive development. Quality of family-preschool partnership (FPP) can depend on preschool and family characteristics. For Germany, studies show that immigrant parents…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family School Relationship, Parent Participation, Partnerships in Education
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Ren, Lixin; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This mixed methods study focused on the socialization goals for preschool-aged children among parents from three small-sized cities located in northeastern China. A total of 154 parents with preschool-aged children completed questionnaires measuring parental socialization goals for children's social-emotional competence and academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries
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Meadan, Hedda; Stoner, Julia B.; Angell, Maureen E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Emphasis on families' involvement in the education of children with disabilities is evident in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and in published best practices. However, most of the research related to families of children with disabilities has focused on mothers' experiences, involvement, and needs. There is limited…
Descriptors: Fathers, Autism, Parent Responsibility, Parent Role
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Winterbottom, Christian; Mazzocco, Philip J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Over the past decade early childhood education (ECE) teachers have faced increasing pressures to implement standardised tests in order to secure external validation and funding. In response, many teacher education programmes now focus heavily on positivistic training approaches, as opposed to more developmentally appropriate pedagogies…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Kluczniok, Katharina; Anders, Yvonne; Sechtig, Jutta; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
As a result of public discussions regarding Germany's standing on international rankings of student achievement, increased attention was focused on enhancing cognitive stimulation in preschools. There are some concerns that preschool curricula that focus more on cognitive stimulation rather than on socio-emotional skills might neglect the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Academic Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
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