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Carlos Montoya-Fernández; Luisa Losada-Puente; Isabel María Gómez-Barreto; Pedro Gil-Madrona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This systematic review aims to identify the dimensions operationalized in different instruments that assess the developmental domains in Early Childhood Education through play. Research between 2015 and 2021 that dealt with quantitative developmental assessment instruments from 2 to 7 years of age were included. Instruments without psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Counsell, Shelly L.; Hyerle, David – Teachers College Press, 2023
"What" and "how" young children are thinking are typically expressed and shared at home and school through verbal and written modes of communication. As a visual language framework conceived and developed by David Hyerle, Thinking Maps® offers an additional way for learners to represent their ideas by visually mapping their…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes, Evidence Based Practice, Metacognition
Shaeffer, Sheldon F. – UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Two major, inter-related issues are analysed in this paper -- mother tongue (MT) and early childhood care and education (ECCE). Evidence tells us that learning first in one's MT leads to better outcomes in the future -- for individuals, cultures, and nations. But MT is used rarely in ECCE programmes and the early grades of primary school so that…
Descriptors: Native Language, Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Language of Instruction
Meloy, Beth; Schachner, Abby – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The purpose of the Early Childhood Essentials Framework is to synthesize and communicate the essential skills and competencies children should be acquiring before they enter kindergarten and the related skills and competencies early childhood educators must cultivate in order to provide high-quality early learning experiences that will set all…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Skill Development, Preschool Education, School Readiness
Brown, Christopher P.; Lan, Yi-Chin – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: As policymakers and advocates across the United States look to early childhood educators to improve children's cognitive development so they enter elementary school ready to learn, debates have emerged over what types of practices these educators should be engaged in to achieve this goal. Historically, the field of early childhood…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Cognitive Development, Meta Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Flannery, Louise P.; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2013
Young learners today generate, express, and interact with sophisticated ideas using a range of digital tools to explore interactive stories, animations, computer games, and robotics. In recent years, new developmentally appropriate robotics kits have been entering early childhood classrooms. This paper presents a retrospective analysis of one…
Descriptors: Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Robotics, Early Childhood Education, Programming
Jambunathan, Saigeetha – Education 3-13, 2012
The present project studied the relationship between the use of developmentally appropriate practices and children's perception of self-competence in Head Start classrooms. Self-competence is defined as children's confidence in succeeding in certain tasks. Developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) as proposed by the National Association for the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Teaching Methods, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education

Lubeck, Sally – Early Education and Development, 1991
Assesses articles in this special issue on reconceptualizing early childhood education. Maintains articles are based on conception of education in which teachers are not concerned with adopting a canon but with developing sensitivity needed to see children's place in their community and society and to structure classroom activities that encourage…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Theory, Curriculum Evaluation, Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Rushton, Stephen; Larkin, Elizabeth – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2001
Highlights connections between recent findings in brain research and principles of Developmentally Appropriate Practices, discussing implications for early childhood education practice. Explores the similarities between brain research findings and a constructivist approach in which environments are designed to gain the learner's attention, foster…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Barry, Elaine S. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2006
This paper provides the opportunity to understand children's behavior from a memory viewpoint. For the last three decades, cognitive developmentalists have been asking the question, "what develops in children's memory?" Four answers to this question are presented, complete with explanations, examples, and possible applications where appropriate.…
Descriptors: Memory, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Preschool Teachers
Crosser, Sandra – Early Childhood News, 1996
Discusses why the early childhood education curriculum should provide opportunities for children to deal with moral issues and think about right and wrong in developmentally appropriate ways. Suggests ways in which teachers can assist children in this development and activities that promote growing experiences. (ET)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Individual Development

Spodek, Bernard – Early Education and Development, 1991
Alternative programs developed in early childhood education over the years, from Colonial church communities to Montessori to current developmentally appropriate practices, are reviewed. It is suggested that teachers with limited perspectives on curriculum may violate the various ways of young children's knowing. (LB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Theory, Curriculum Evaluation, Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Veale, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 2001
Examines the traditional place of play in contemporary early childhood programs in light of new directions in theory and curriculum, the push for educational outcomes, and perceived pressures of the global market economy. Maintains that a new focus on teaching through play may provide a way to reconcile demand for outcomes with a concern for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Context Effect, Developmentally Appropriate Practices

Rushton, Stephen P.; Eitelgeorge, Janice; Zickafoose, Ruby – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2003
Relates each of the eight conditions of learning in Brian Cambourne's theory of literacy to findings in brain research within a constructivist approach to early childhood education. Cites sample classroom dialogues demonstrating classroom elements that foster a brain-based, developmentally appropriate learning environment supporting Cambourne's…
Descriptors: Brain, Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning)
Davis, Lola S. – 1993
This interpretative study explored the view of how children construct knowledge as proposed by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in its position paper "Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8, Expanded Edition" (DAP-DOC) (Bredekamp,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education