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Facilitating Hong Kong Kindergarten Teachers' Perceptions of Enactment of Play-Based Learning for Whole-Child Development: The Potential of Personal and Organizational Enablers
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Hongbiao Yin; Alan Chi Keung Cheung; Winnie Wing Yi Tam; Elaine Lau – Early Education and Development, 2024
While play-based learning is important for a high quality early education, only when teachers are confident and competent in enacting play-based learning in their everyday practice are expected benefits of play-based learning for whole-child development realized. A sample of 592 early childhood educators who assumed different job titles in Hong…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Preschool Teachers
Teacher-Child Interaction and Preschoolers' Learning Behavior in China: A Piecewise Growth Model
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Hu, Bi Ying; Wu, Zhongling; Winsler, Adam; Wu, Yan; Fan, Xitao – Early Education and Development, 2021
Research Findings: This longitudinal study examined how teacher-child interaction quality related to growth in children's approaches to learning (ATL), measured by Competence Motivation Learning Strategies, and Attention and Persistence, in a stratified random sample of 607 Chinese children. Data on classroom teacher-child interaction quality…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Student Behavior, Foreign Countries
Mother-Toddler Shared Reading with Electronic versus Print Books: Mothers' Language Use and Perspectives
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Eggleston, Corinne; Wang, X. Christine; Choi, Youngae – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: Reading e-books is becoming common even among toddlers, but we have limited understanding of how parents-toddlers reading e-books together compares to print books. To address the gap, we investigated interactions of 30 mother-toddler (12 months) dyads, in particular, mothers' language use, while reading both electronic and print…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Printed Materials
Bridging a Cultural Divide between Play and Learning: Parental Ethnotheories of Young Children's Play and Their Instantiation in Contemporary China
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Lin, Xunyi; Li, Hui; Yang, Weipeng – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: The current study explored the ethnotheories of 6 Chinese families regarding their young children's play in Shanghai, the most Westernized metropolis in China. A triangulation of multiple data sources was established through in-depth interviews, home visit observations, and 1-week recordings of child's daily play activities. The…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Progressive Education, Individual Differences, Early Childhood Education