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Junqing Zhai; Simone Miranda Blom; Justin Dillon; Shanghao Wu; Xiaomei Yan – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Engagement with nature is crucial for child development and kindergarten educators' pedagogical beliefs about nature play significantly affect children's access to and experiences of nature in kindergarten. This study examines the role of nature play in children's holistic development, engaging 12 Chinese kindergarten educators through in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Strooband, Karel F. B.; Howard, Steven J.; Okely, Anthony D.; Neilsen-Hewett, Cathrine; de Rosnay, Marc – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Due to the lack of tools that can be easily used by practitioners, there is a need to develop acceptable embedded ways to assess children's fine motor skill development within early childhood education and care settings. This study examined the validity and reliability of a brief and ecologically valid fine motor assessment tool for preschool-aged…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Motor Development
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Sara Colaianni; Madison M. Walsh; Sara Onnivello; Miranda E. Pinks; Chiara Marcolin; Kaylyn Van Deusen; Elisa Rossi; Nathaniel R. Riggs; Francesca Pulina; Lisa Daunhauer; Deborah J. Fidler; Silvia Lanfranchi – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: People with Down syndrome (DS) are predisposed to challenges with executive functions (EF), which are crucial for adaptive outcomes and academic success. Early interventions targeting EF are therefore critical. The present study analysed Italian data on the acceptability, enjoyability and household implementation of EXPO (EXecutive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Down Syndrome, Parent Role, Intervention
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Sever Serezli, Esra; Erbas, Ahmet Akif; Günter, Tugçe – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2023
The purpose of this action research was to enable university students to learn about children's rights with the scenarios developed based on the problem-based learning (PBL) approach. In this context, three scenarios related to daily life have been developed on the right to participate, the right to education, the right to rest, leisure, play, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Problem Based Learning, College Students, Child Development
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Meira Medina-Junge; Susana Pendzik – Research in Drama Education, 2024
Autobiographical theatre usually brings to the forefront personal experiences that have been hidden or silenced, while the autoethnographic approach emphasises their social dimensions. This article looks at "Night Watchers" (an autobiographical/autoethnographic piece) featuring three artists who, using acting, painting, and poetry, tell…
Descriptors: Drama, Therapy, Collective Settlements, Foreign Countries
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Aruna Wu; Yue Tian; Shuo Chen; Liying Cui – Early Education and Development, 2024
"Research Findings:" Playfulness is an important personality tendency with an important role in the well-being, mental health, and various other aspects of an individual's life. Previous studies have shown that the development of children's playfulness is related to parents' playfulness. However, limited research has been conducted on…
Descriptors: Parents, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Van keer, Ines; Vandesande, Sien; Dhondt, Ann; Maes, Bea – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
Children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay (SDD) are vulnerable for the development of (future) behavioral and mental health problems. To support children within this target group, knowledge on their social-emotional development is necessary. Therefore, in this paper, an explorative assessment of the changes in the…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Child Development, Foreign Countries
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Afsah, Omayma; Elawady, Sara; Elshawaf, Wessam; Abou-Elsaad, Tamer – Deafness & Education International, 2022
Background: Deafness is the most common sensory impairment in human beings, with significant social and psychological implications. Several questionnaires were designed to evaluate the social and emotional abilities of English-speaking deaf children. This study's objective was to create Arabic questionnaires to assess the social abilities of…
Descriptors: Arabic, Deafness, Children, Foreign Countries
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Yakuwa, Marina Sayuri; Pancieri, Letícia; Neill, Sarah; de Mello, Débora Falleiros – SAGE Open, 2022
To analyze mothers' understanding of child brain development and their stimulus practices with children in the first months of life. Qualitative research, with 18 Brazilian mothers, over 18 years of age, used semi-structured interviews to identify their perspectives on important healthcare outcomes, based on reflexive thematic analysis. Mother's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Concept Formation, Brain
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Ban, Midori; Takahashi, Hideyuki – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study explored child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child's minds. We administered the Mind Perception Questionnaire to 216 women with children aged between 0 and 24 months and 221 working women without children. Participants responded with mind perceptions for various entities, including for their children (a 0--2-year-old…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Infants, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
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Yu-Ching Yeh; Mei-Huey Hsieh; Zih-Syuan Yang; Mei-Mei Chang; Hsin-Jung Chien; Wei-Lun Hong; Hsiao-Hsin Tsai – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Well-designed physical spaces and appropriate equipment are crucial for enhancing the quality of care and education for infants and toddlers. Four key areas were examined hygiene and safety, learning and development, space and facility management, and sustainability. The study sampled childcare centers based on their geographic distribution and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care Centers, Facilities
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Allison Frost; Elissa Scherer; Esther O. Chung; John A. Gallis; Kate Sanborn; Yunji Zhou; Ashley Hagaman; Katherine LeMasters; Siham Sikander; Elizabeth Turner; Joanna Maselko – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
Maternal depression is a global public health concern with far-reaching impacts on child development, yet our understanding of mechanisms remains incomplete. This study examined whether parenting mediates the association between maternal depression and child outcomes. Participants included 841 rural Pakistani mother-child dyads (50% female).…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Parenting Styles, Child Development
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Helene Jørgensen; Colin J. Deal; Nicholas L. Holt – Journal of Character Education, 2023
The overall purpose of this study was to examine parents' role in the development of character among young athletes, with a particular focus on life skills development across learning contexts (i.e., sport, family, school). Participants were 20 parents (13 mothers, 7 fathers, M[subscript age] = 46.8 years, SD = 4.6) and 24 children (14 girls, 10…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Child Development, Values Education, Athletes
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Thapa, Sapna; Nganga, Lydiah; Madrid Akpovo, Samara – Early Education and Development, 2022
This exploratory, cross-national research study investigated how ten female early childhood educators, five in Nepal and five in Kenya, understood and defined young children's socio-emotional development (SED). Research Findings: Revealed that teachers' understandings of SED were influenced by several factors such as ethno-culture, language, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Child Development
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Awang Rozaimie; Norseha Unin; Aiza Johari; Abdul Ismail Mohd Jawi – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
The Reading Seed Programme (RSP), an in-house literacy program inaugurated by Sarawak's State Library (PUSTAKA Negeri Sarawak, Malaysia), has the potential to become the country's primary literacy initiative, particularly in terms of fostering a reading culture. The purpose of this paper is to empirically establish the reliability of survey…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Literacy, Reading Habits
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