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Gilligan, Therese; McNally, Sinéad; Lovett, Judy; Farell, Therese; Kumar, Sona; McLoughlin, Eilish; Corriveau, Kathleen – Early Education and Development, 2023
The under-representation of women in science disciplines is a persistent problem for workplaces and educational policy. Girls may start to disengage early from science subjects, partly due to cultural stereotypes around science and gender. Early language interventions which introduce science activities in terms of action (or process) versus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Science Education
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Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Pepe, Alessandro; Gabola, Piera – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research findings: This study advances our understanding of early childhood teachers' emotion socialization styles by innovatively exploring how these relate to teachers' beliefs about emotions and levels of mind-mindedness, while controlling for age, level of education, teaching experience, and training in emotion education. Sixty female teachers…
Descriptors: Socialization, Teacher Attitudes, Emotional Response, Females
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; Patrick, Helen – Early Education and Development, 2010
Research Findings: We report on an assessment developed to document young children's narrative production after listening to short segments of science-related informational text (SciT) on life science, earth and space, and simple machines. We examine differences between kindergarten boys (n = 39) and girls (n = 29) on several indices of narrative…
Descriptors: Females, Young Children, Literature Appreciation, Biological Sciences