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Direct linkYvonne Tse Crepaldi; Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
Transnationals constitute one-third of the population of the economically prosperous Singapore. Applying a family language policy (FLP) framework and collaborative autoethnography from data (interviews, videos, and diaries) spanning 13 years, this study delves into the linguistic journey of an Italian-Chinese family with two children born in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Foreign Nationals, Case Studies
Mali A. Waugh; Aaron DeMasi; Michele Gonçalves Maia; Taylor N. Evans; Lana B. Karasik; Sarah E. Berger – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Learning to descend stairs requires motor and cognitive capacities on the part of infants and opportunities for practice and assurance of safety offered by caregivers. The American Academy of Pediatrics prescribes the age strategy to teach toddlers to safely descend stairs but without much consideration for individual differences in infants'…
Descriptors: Child Development, Individual Differences, Toddlers, Safety
Macagno, Alessia; Molina, Paola – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
From their origins, Italian early childhood services paid attention to the transition from family to childcare centre, explicitly referring to attachment theory. In the present study, the "Parent Attachment Diary" was adapted and applied within a childcare centre context to examine the development of infants' relationship with their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care Centers
Molina, Paola; Marotta, Monica; Bulgarelli, Daniela – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Ability to reflect on practice is a key element of early childhood professionalism and is positively associated with the quality of educational services. "Observation-Projet" (Fontaine 2008, 2011b) is a method designed to support practitioners' reflection through the observational process. The method adapts the required scientific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Caregiver Training, Caregiver Attitudes
Cameron, Catherine Ann; Pinto, Giuliana; Hancock, Roger; Tapanya, Sombat – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Fathers' interactions with their young children are understudied. Variations between families in the masculine nurturance of toddlers can be expected, depending on personal characteristics, gender, family structures, and cultural contexts in which they are situated. This is a qualitative study, focusing on probing the nature of the exchanges…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Fathers, Grandparents
Venturelli, Elena; Cigala, Ada – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study focuses on the everyday morning microtransition in childcare centres that involves child-parent separation. This moment involves the contemporary presence of the child, caregiver and parent in the day-care centre. This coexistence is considered extremely relevant and full of important meanings for the interactive patterns they will…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Environment, Interaction
Posada, German; Lu, Ting; Trumbell, Jill; Kaloustian, Garene; Trudel, Marcel; Plata, Sandra J.; Peña, Paola P.; Perez, Jennifer; Tereno, Susana; Dugravier, Romain; Coppola, Gabrielle; Constantini, Alessandro; Cassibba, Rosalinda; Kondo-Ikemura, Kiyomi; Nóblega, Magaly; Haya, Ines M.; Pedraglio, Claudia; Verissimo, Manuela; Santos, Antonio J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Lay, Keng-Ling – Child Development, 2013
The evolutionary rationale offered by Bowlby implies that secure base relationships are common in child-caregiver dyads and thus, child secure behavior observable across diverse social contexts and cultures. This study offers a test of the universality hypothesis. Trained observers in nine countries used the Attachment Q-set to describe the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Child Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Peer reviewedFein, Greta G. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1995
Examined changes in relations among indices of adjustment and caregiver behaviors for 99 Italian infants upon entry into child care and at 3 and 6 months. Found that after 6 months, expressive children received more and different forms of attention than did nonexpressive children. Some six-month patterns were rooted in temperament, with…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Caregiver Child Relationship, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Download full textCartwright, Penny, Ed.; Kelly, Clare, Ed.; McLean, Kathy, Ed.; Mellor, Nikki, Ed.; Pidgeon, Sue, Ed.; Stevens, Judith, Ed.; Stables, Kay, Ed. – Early Childhood Review: Papers from GAEC, 1996
This periodical, from Goldsmiths Association for Early Childhood (GAEC), addresses a variety of issues related to early childhood education in Great Britain. Articles included in the Spring 1996 issue are: (1) "Traditional Story Telling in the Early Years" (Fiona Collins); (2) "International Focus--Early Childhood Education…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Book Reviews, Books, Caregiver Child Relationship
Peer reviewedEdwards, Carolyn Pope; Raikes, Helen – Young Children, 2002
Describes the value of nonparental adult-child relationships for infants and toddlers and outlines specific steps that American and Italian educators from relationship-oriented programs rely on to expand on children's relationship dances with their parents. Suggests that educators should initially take the initiative to become attuned to the child…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Care
Peer reviewedVarin, Dario; Crugnola, Cristina Riva; Molina, Paola; Ripamonti, Chiara – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Investigates how the age of entry into regular group day care influences short-term behaviors expressing well-being or discomfort in the day care environment. Finds that children entered at two particular ages displayed difficult reunions with their mothers and were less resistant to frustration; children entered at another age showed lower…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers
Kroenke, Lillian DeVault, Ed. – Infants and Toddlers, 2002
This document is comprised of the 2001-2002 issues of a quarterly journal for teachers and parents of children in Montessori infant and toddler programs. The spring 2001 issue presents articles on the history of infant and toddler programs in Italy and how to fulfill infant needs in Montessori child care, and on learning activities in the kitchen…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Childhood Needs, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Gandini, Lella, Ed.; Edwards, Carolyn Pope, Ed. – 2001
This book describes Italian experiences in providing early care and education, focusing on four cities--Milan, Parma, Reggio Emilia, and Pistoia--with outstanding city-run systems designed to serve children under 3 and their families. The book considers specific strategies or practices used, and interprets the significance of the Italian…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Day Care, Delivery Systems, Documentation
