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Feleihi, Sadegh; Abedanzadeh, Rasool; Saemi, Esmaeel – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Predominantly, childhood provides a window of opportunity for the promotion and development of social maturation and fundamental movement skills. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of active play on the motor proficiency and social maturity of children. Thirty participants (age range: seven to nine years old) were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Intervention, Psychomotor Skills, Elementary School Students
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Kruszewska, Aleksandra; Kocot, Anna – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Each preschool is obliged to prepare children to start school education, which means it should equip them with such skills and competencies that determine their readiness to start learning at school, in other words, school maturity. The aim of this study was to determine the level of emotions, feelings and social-emotional behaviours of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students, School Readiness
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Turunen, Tuija; Uusiautti, Satu; Määttä, Kaarina – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This paper aims at investigating the changing constructions of childhood in two Finnish pre-school education curricula during the time of pre-school reform in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These constructions are part of the underlying curriculum containing postulates and values that influence the written curriculum documents. They determine the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Evaluation
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Sherrod, Kathryn B.; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Play patterns of 11 "language slow" preschool children and 11 younger "language competent" children were examined to determine whether age or language use contributed more to mature play. Matched by language level, subjects were drawn from five middle-class preschools and were of middle to upper socioeconomic status. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Maturity (Individuals)
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Mills, Belen C.; Stevens, Ann – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Introduces research comparing changes in the child rearing practices of employed and nonemployed mothers of four-year-old children. Also discusses the mother's occupational role as it influences the parent's attitudes in child rearing practices. No significant differences were found between the employed and nonemployed mothers on six Child Rearing…
Descriptors: Behavior, Child Rearing, Discipline, Employed Women
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May, Deborah C.; Welch, Edward – Early Child Development and Care, 1985
Examines the relationship between developmental placement as a result of preschool and kindergarten developmental testing and children's later cognitive achievement and social-emotional growth. A total of 223 children in Grades two through six were coded as traditional, overplaced, or "Buy a Year" depending on Gesell Screening Test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Grade Placement, Children, Cognitive Development