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Wenjie Wang; Annabelle Black Delfin – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article recounts the changes that occurred when a research study was redesigned to become more participatory, involving children, teachers, families, and the wider symbolic cultural neighbourhood. What emerged was a research study that was "integrated" into the curriculum of a four-year-old classroom. Here, the process is…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Dinallo, Anna Marie – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
A Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) framework was used in this study to gather and analyze the perceptions of mothers involved in a critical family literacy program designed to foster social and emotional development. Through narrative inquiry, participants discussed perceptions of their children's social-emotional development and the…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Mothers, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
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Papandreou, Maria; Tsiouli, Maria – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
Children's everyday mathematics has been well evidenced by a growing body of research and is widely acknowledged as fundamental to meaningful learning in early childhood education. However, literature supports that drawing upon children's mathematical resources for further learning requires that the range of these resources is valued and noticed…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Processes, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities
Seusan, Laura Andreea; Maradiegue, Rocío – UNICEF, 2020
Over 11 million cases of coronavirus have been reported in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than seven months after the first case hit Brazil, COVID-19 has deprived 97 per cent of the region's students of their normal schooling. Across the region, the prolonged closure of schools means that 137 million boys and girls continue to miss out on…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries, School Closing
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Lord, Alison; McFarland, Laura – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2010
This study examined the experiences of three primary teacher education students participating in early childhood-focused community play sessions, as well as their perceptions of early childhood and primary philosophy and pedagogy. The purpose was to explore perceived differences in primary and early childhood pre-service teacher courses, which may…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Courses, Play, Primary Education
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Chen, Shu-Chin Susan; Cheng, Yu-Pay – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
The main purpose of this descriptive research is to examine and document the development of a curriculum-based learning portfolio model for children in a preschool for three-six-year-olds in Taiwan. Data collection methods adopted include classroom observation, in-depth interviews, questionnaires and documentation. Participants include a preschool…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Curriculum Development, Observation, Foreign Countries
Whalley, Margy – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
"Involving Parents in Their Children's Learning" is the story of the pioneering work of the Pen Green Centre for children and families. Showing how early years practitioners can collaborate effectively with parents, the book includes case studies of parents and children who have attended the centre, studies which chart developments in learning for…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Diaries, Child Development
Dembo, Myron H. – 1978
Educational psychology departments should offer to interested students throughout the university a parent education course stressing child development and the educational process. As a result of declining enrollments in schools of education, professors of educational psychology need to develop new courses applicable to new student populations.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Curriculum Development, Education Courses
Aaronson, Judith; Klosterman-Lang, Penny – 1997
This project delivered traditional parenting skills to participants at area family centers through reading and critically examining issues raised in children's literature. Recruitment efforts were unsuccessful at two Arsenal Family Centers; sufficient participants were recruited at the Providence Family Support Center where the 16-week course was…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childrens Literature
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New, Rebecca S. – Theory Into Practice, 2007
This article situates Reggio Emilia's municipally funded early childhood program within the city's cultural traditions of resistance and collaboration and considers what it is about this highly localized program that is appealing and useful to contemporary school reform initiatives. Five features of Reggio Emilia's approach to early education are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Researchers, School Restructuring, Child Development
Katz, Lilian G., Ed.; And Others – 1980
This third volume of Current Topics in Early Childhood Education brings together the work of contributers from five nations--Australia, England, Ireland, West Germany, and the United States--and discusses a variety of issues of interest to researchers and practitioners in early childhood education. The volume deals with the following issues: a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Chen, Deborah; Haney, Michele – 1999
This final report describes the activities and outcomes of Promoting Learning through Active Interactions, a research-to-practice 4-year project that developed, implemented, and validated a five-module curriculum with 25 infants (ages 6-30 months) who are deaf-blind, their parents, and early interventionists. The project had the following…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Curriculum Development
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Strom, Robert D. – Family Relations, 1985
A random sample of 2,893 White, suburban, middle-class parents, teachers, and children representing every grade level responded to questionnaires on parental success. Identified issues related to successful child rearing and rank ordered their importance for each grade level. Curriculum topics and their importance changed with stages of child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
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Jambunathan, Saigeetha; Caulfield, Mathew – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
The goal of the present study is to explore the use of developmentally appropriate practices in Asian Indian early childhood classrooms. This information is critical for all early childhood educators and teacher educators because the society we live in is fast becoming extremely diverse and our classrooms are becoming a cauldron of various…
Descriptors: Indians, Young Children, Rating Scales, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Seiden, Betty Bobo – 1979
A parenting curriculum need not be confined to the high school's home economics or social studies departments. When students are made aware that books are written for children who cannot yet read, there is no problem eliciting justifications for a unit on children's literature in the high school English class, a unit that compares the…
Descriptors: Books, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childrens Literature
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