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de Medeiros Silva, Suzana Cinthia Gomes; de Oliveira, Maria Marly; de Oliveira, Gilvaneide Ferreira – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study is part of a dissertation which aims to explore and understand the role of play in the teaching-learning process at elementary level in a public school at Pernambuco, Brazil. We opted for a qualitative approach, using the interactive methodology, interviews by the technique of hermeneutic-dialectical circle, observations of science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Early childhood education changed in the twentieth century, from mother-at-home-care in the 1950s, to professional early education today. Theoretical and social-political choices of pioneers in ECE had a profound impact on the way children's education is conceptualized. We argue from a social constructivist perspective. The oral history method is…
Descriptors: Oral History, Child Development, Learning Theories, Neoliberalism
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Sisson, Jamie Huff; Kroeger, Janice – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This dialogic analysis, on the professional identities of five public preschool teachers from a major metropolitan school district in the United States, examines the dialogic space of participants in a context where discourses of play-based pedagogies and academic readiness were in competition. In discussing the pedagogical tensions that ensued…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Preschool Teachers, Discourse Analysis, Play
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Öztürk Yilmaztekin, Elif; Erden, Feyza Tantekin – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study investigates early childhood teachers' views about science teaching practices in an early childhood settings. It was conducted in a preschool located in Ankara, Turkey. The data of the study were collected through multiple sources of information such as interviews with early childhood teachers and observations of their practices in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Lewis-Fokum, Yewande; Thomas, Joan – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
This paper presents preliminary findings about how literacy is taught at the elementary level in three grade-one classrooms in Jamaica. While this might seem rudimentary, there is a dearth of information in Jamaica about how teachers teach reading and writing. We attempted to fill this gap by conducting an exploratory small-scale qualitative case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Scott-Weich, Bridget; Yaden, David B., Jr. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This case study examined the effects that the processes of private speech and materialization (using line underscores as word placeholders) had on the emergent writing behaviours of one, six-year-old student who was enrolled in an auditory--oral deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) first-grade classroom situated on a large urban public school campus.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Literacy Education, Deafness, Grade 1
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Ahlskog-Björkman, Eva; Björklund, Camilla – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study focuses on teachers' ways of mediating meaning through communicative tools and modes in preschool thematic work. A socio-cultural perspective is used for analysis on how tools and modes are provided for children to make use of for communicative purposes. The research questions are: (1) what communicative tools do teachers use in their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Communication Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Baker, Fiona S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Social Affairs has launched an initiative to revive traditional play so as to increase children's knowledge of the UAE's rich culture, traditions and heritage. Inspired by the initiative, this qualitative study is a synthesis of locally written historical accounts interlaced with 52 Emirati kindergarten…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Play
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Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška; Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
The aim of this qualitative study was to evaluate the positive and negative aspects of the interactive whiteboard (IWB) and tablet computers use in the first grade of primary school from the perspectives of three groups of evaluators, namely the teachers, the pupils and an independent observer. The sample included three first grade classes with…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Interactive Video, Educational Technology, Laptop Computers
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DeFauw, Danielle L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This article details a qualitative case study of 24 preschool children engaged with step-by-step drawing instruction provided by five educators as they developed their fine motor skills and drew detailed objects using the Drawing Children Into Reading curriculum (Halperin, W. A. (2011a). "Project 50 preschool manual." South Haven, MI:…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Reading Instruction, Preschool Education, Freehand Drawing
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Mahony, L.; Lunn, J.; Petriwskyj, A.; Walsh, K. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
In this study, the pedagogical decision-making processes of 21 Australian early childhood teachers working with children experiencing parental separation and divorce were examined. Transcripts from interviews and a focus group with teachers were analysed using grounded theory methodology. The findings showed that as teachers interacted with young…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Preschool Teachers, Divorce, Schemata (Cognition)
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Miller Marsh, Monica; Zhulamanova, Ilfa – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This research focused on making visible children's funds of identity [Esteban-Guitart, M., & Moll, L. (2014). Funds of identity: A new concept based on the funds of knowledge approach. "Culture & Psychology," 20(1), 31-48] and incorporating these resources into an inquiry-oriented, play-based, preschool curriculum. Participants…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Curriculum Development, Action Research, Cooperative Programs
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Kinkead-Clark, Zoyah; Hardacre, Charlotte – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The following study examines two researchers' perspectives on play in the lives of children from diverse cultural contexts. Two questions guided this study: (1) how do researchers conceptualize children's play and (2) what shapes their understanding of play. In order to answer these questions, a critical discourse was established between two…
Descriptors: Play, Cultural Context, Student Diversity, Teacher Researchers
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McCarthey, Sarah J.; Kang, Grace – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The study focused on two kindergarten teachers who were observed and interviewed throughout one school year. The contrasting cases demonstrate how two teachers drew upon their experiences with teaching writing and professional development (PD) with differing outcomes for their instruction and underlying beliefs about writing. Dana, an experienced…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Case Studies
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Hellman, Anette – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The purpose of this article is to explore the way preschool teachers teach reflective care in Japan. The article builds on a two-month ethnographic study conducted in Japanese kindergartens and nurseries among children aged 3-6 years. The data were analysed using concepts of age and gender. The results show that care in Japan, in contrast to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Gender Differences
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