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Wood, Elizabeth Ann – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2014
This article troubles the established discourse of free choice and free play in early childhood education, and develops post-structural approaches to theorising children's agency in the context of institutional and relational power structures. It is widely accepted that planning a curriculum based on children's needs, interests and patterns of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Naturalistic Observation, Qualitative Research
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Nadeem, Sanober; Rafique, Ghazala; Khowaja, Liaquat; Yameen, Anjum – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Family environment plays a very important role in early child development and the availability of stimulating material in the early years of a child's life is crucial for optimising development. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory is one of the most widely used measures to assess the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Child Development, Early Experience
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Elfer, Peter – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2006
Whilst there is broad consensus that the emotional responsiveness and sensitivity of staff are of high importance in interactions with babies and young children in nursery, there is not consensus about how far interactions should be organised to facilitate attachments with particular staff. This paper brings the "child's voice" into this…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Emotional Response, Interaction Process Analysis