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Hewitt, Emma – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study draws on four case studies of young children in order to explore the relationship between children's action schema [Athey, C. (1990). "Extending though in young children: A parent-teacher partnership." London: Paul Chapman] and their developing speech, language and communication. What emerged was a connection through…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Child Development, Preschool Children, Concept Formation
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Klette, Trine; Drugli, May Britt; Aandahl, Ann Mari – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The study investigated the quality of interactions between childcare providers and toddlers during a lunch in childcare centres. Meals in childcare centres are semi-structured adult-led situations where the children not only eat, but are also provided with opportunities for implicit learning and interactions. Participants were 13 toddlers aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Interaction
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Orr, Edna – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study reports on the development of new motor and behavioural indicators for recognizing symbolic acts among infants. Following five infants between the ages of 6 and 18 months and their ability to use an object in novel way yielded four levels of action, based on the number of objects and actions combined in each symbolic act. Employing…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Infant Behavior, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Sivberg, Bengt; Jakobsson, Ulf; Lundqvist, Pia – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Very early precursors of disrupted social behaviours are significant to understanding the possibility of mitigating or changing behaviours through interventions. Spontaneous play situations between infant and parent in two groups of infants aged 8.5-9 months were observed. First, a large number of videos were analysed to develop an observational…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Nonverbal Ability
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Kroll, Linda R. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This case study examines the development of self-regulation, socially, cognitively and emotionally, through the use of play in the curriculum in five preschool classrooms for children ages 2-5 years old at a university laboratory school. Five teachers were interviewed about their deliberate use of play to support the development of self-regulation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Role, Child Development, Play
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Otsuka, Kaoru; Jay, Tim – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This article reports on a study conducted to investigate the development of abstract thinking in preschool children (ages from three years to four years old) in a nursery school in England. Adopting a social influence approach, the researcher engaged in "close listening" to document children's ideas expressed in various representations…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Preschool Children, Nursery Schools, Video Technology
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Kim, Yunhee – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Caregivers' warm, sensitive, and attentive interactions with their children have been widely considered key indicators of infant-caregiver interaction quality in childcare contexts. The primary purpose of this study was to explore infant's daily experiences and the characteristics of relationship-based supportive care practices in a childcare…
Descriptors: Infants, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Experience
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Fleer, Marilyn – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Although there is a long tradition of play pedagogy in early childhood education, teachers have mostly taken a passive role in children's play. There are relatively few studies of the pedagogical roles adults take from inside of children's imaginary play. This paper seeks to fill this gap through presenting the findings of a study where the play…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Role, Play
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Venturelli, Elena; Cigala, Ada – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study focuses on the everyday morning microtransition in childcare centres that involves child-parent separation. This moment involves the contemporary presence of the child, caregiver and parent in the day-care centre. This coexistence is considered extremely relevant and full of important meanings for the interactive patterns they will…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Educational Environment, Interaction
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Buell, Martha; Han, Myae; Vukelich, Carol – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Early care and education programme quality is usually assessed at the classroom level. One such measure of classroom quality is the classroom assessment scoring system (CLASS). In an effort to ensure higher quality programming, the CLASS is being used to direct teacher professional development. However, there has been relatively little research on…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Scoring, Educational Quality, Scores
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Markodimitraki, Maria; Ampartzaki, Maria; Kypriotaki, Maria; Linardakis, Michalis – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The present study focused on the intra-pair interaction of a pair of dizygotic twins with autism in pre-school age and explored: (a) the type of play and the level of symbolic play the twins prefer and are most frequently engaged with; (b) the attitudes the twins usually display; (c) the most frequent initiator of interactions; and (d) the way the…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries
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Hart, Jennifer L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The current study investigates the influence of situational context on perceptions of playful aggression. Using an online data collection instrument embedded with video vignettes showing young boys engaged in aggressive play behaviour, 36 situational profiles that are defined by the unique combinations of variables believed to influence attitudes…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Attitudes, Play, Aggression
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Durand, Judith; Hopf, Michaela; Nunnenmacher, Sabine – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
In debate on professionalisation of early childhood education and care professionals (ECEC professionals), the focus is increasingly turning to the ability of ECEC professionals to reflect on and evaluate their own pedagogical practice. Self-reflection is considered a core competence of professional pedagogical practice. So far, little research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Preschool Teachers
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Lawrence, Penny; Gallagher, Tracy – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This article traces the development of adult Pedagogic Strategies with children aged 0-5 years at the Pen Green Centre for Children and Their Families in England. Pedagogical Strategies are a conceptual framework of effective strategies both practitioners and parents "already" have to support children's learning. The methodology was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Young Children, Preschool Education, Infants
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Robson, Sue – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Debate about the balance between child- and adult-initiated activities in early childhood settings is long standing. This article reports a study of 29 children aged 4-5 years in a London state school, on the influences of child- and adult-initiated activities on children's self-regulation and metacognition. Whilst both contexts were supportive,…
Descriptors: Self Control, Metacognition, Role, Early Childhood Education
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