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UnidosUS, 2025
This report examines the critical role of home visitors in supporting dual language development among Latino children, who represent a growing share of the U.S. population. Through surveys and interviews with home visitors, UnidosUS identified gaps in training and resources needed to effectively serve culturally and linguistically diverse…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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W. Catherine Cheung; Michaelene M. Ostrosky – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Going down a slide, dancing to music, and pushing someone on a tire swing are more than simply "play activities" or a means to staying physically fit. Engagement in motor play provides important opportunities for preschoolers to develop a variety of skills, including gross motor, social, communication, and cognitive skills. However,…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Child Development, Play
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Klevan, Sarah; Daniel, Julia; Fehrer, Kendra; Maier, Anna – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Across the United States, policymakers, educators, and community members increasingly support community schools as a method of supporting whole child outcomes. Oakland Unified School District (Oakland Unified) in California has made whole child education central to its community schools initiative. Oakland Unified's community schools provide a…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Holistic Approach, Educational Change, Child Development
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Klevan, Sarah; Daniel, Julia; Fehrer, Kendra; Maier, Anna – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Across the United States, policymakers, educators, and community members increasingly support community schools as a method of supporting whole child outcomes. Oakland Unified School District (Oakland Unified) in California has made whole child education central to its community schools initiative. Oakland Unified's community schools provide a…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Holistic Approach, Educational Change, Child Development
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Ereky Stevens, Katharina; Siraj, Iram; Kong, Kimberley – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
Refugee children are some of the most vulnerable populations in the world. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) for refugee children can have positive impacts on child outcomes, however most of the evidence stems from research from high income countries. This paper reports on a critical review, carried out to evaluate what we know about…
Descriptors: Refugees, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Educational Benefits
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Scacchi, Valeria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
This article is based on doctoral research which contributed to my understanding of early years professional development and learning grounded in Froebelian principles. Through two freestanding but related case studies in London and San Miniato, the article explores the current professional learning and development for educators working with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Faculty Development
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Inaki Karrera; Garazi Ormazabal-Arizkorreta; Andoni Arguiñano – European Journal of Education, 2025
An educational system should be a true reflection of the changing society in which we live. However, looking at current educational practices, this premise is unfortunately called into question, and an educational metamorphosis toward active, democratic, inclusive and creative pedagogical practices for children is clearly needed. Faced with this…
Descriptors: School Organization, Teacher Role, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
Dan Wuori – Teachers College Press, 2024
For a century, America's early childhood policy has been premised on a myth. This falsehood--which dictates that child care and education are somehow separate and distinct--not only suboptimizes the most important window into all human development, but costs American taxpayers an untold fortune. It's time to think differently. Written in plain yet…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Student Needs
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Nichols, Sarah L.; Connor, Susan M.; Kastanis, Maria P.; Corso, Robert M. – Infants and Young Children, 2023
A survey was distributed to Part C early intervention (EI) service coordination (SC) stakeholders in one state in order to gain a deeper understanding of service coordinator knowledge, skills, and motivators for professional growth and recognition. Survey participants (N = 107), including dedicated service coordinators, program managers, social…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Administrator Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Professional Development
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Schachter, Rachel E.; Gerde, Hope K.; Hatton-Bowers, Holly – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2019
Engaging teachers of young children in effective in-service professional development is a critical component of establishing high quality early childhood education. However, not all professional development offerings are effective in imparting new knowledge, enhancing teacher practice, or improving child outcomes, making it difficult for teachers…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Child Development
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Saari, Erni Marlina; Mohamad Rasli, Roznim; Abdul Aziz, Nor Azah – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2021
The educational sector plays an important role in delivering quality education in order to build better nations by striving for excellence. Career development is filled with many challenges encompassing financial, economic, logistical and social factors. The challenges are mainly on quality, qualification, language and ethnicity. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Early Childhood Education, Ethnicity, Guidelines
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Sedgwick, Adrienne; Stothard, Jan – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2019
Considering the prevalence of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and the known association with poor academic performance and social, emotional and mental health, it is surprising that two-thirds of children with primary SLCN go unidentified. Although educational psychologists (EPs) are well positioned to support schools in improving…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Communication Problems, Educational Psychology
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Kamara, Elizabeth Ngololo; Kasanda, Choshi; Van Rooy, Gert – Education Sciences, 2018
The provision of Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) positively impacts children's futures physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially. The assessment sought to inform intervention programs to improve the status of children's physical, social-emotional, cognitive and educational needs, as well as their health and nutritional needs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Educational Quality
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Huf, Christina; Kluge, Markus – Ethnography and Education, 2021
This paper engages with the question of how ethnographers in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) can respond to the ontological turn in the social studies of childhood. Against the background of ECEC's deeply sedimented orientation towards the uniqueness of the individual child, the paper wishes to complicate the rationale of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Movahedazarhouligh, Sara; Banerjee, Rashida – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The term family-centred practices refer to a particular set of beliefs, principles, values, and practices for supporting and strengthening family capacity to enhance and promote child development and learning. Family-centred services in early childhood and early childhood special education programmes (EC/ECSE) can affect a wide range of outcomes.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Special Education, Outcomes of Education
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