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Elena Yudina – American Journal of Play, 2023
The author contends that, although most early childhood educators agree about the value of play for child development, preschools and kindergartens often do not reflect this belief, and she discusses this anomaly in the adult notion of play and how it manifests in classroom practices. She argues that it produces schoolroom practices in which…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
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David J. Purpura; Connor D. O'Rear; Alexa Ellis; Jessica A. R. Logan; Lauren Westerberg; Patrick Ehrman; Yemimah A. King; Mackenna Vander Tuin; Inga Nordgren; Kirsten Anderson; Jimena Cosso; Erica Zippert; Amy R. Napoli; Caroline Byrd Hornburg; Sara A. Schmitt; Jennifer Dobbs-Oates – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Children's early understanding of mathematics provides a foundation for later success in school. Identifying ways to enhance mathematical instruction is crucial to understanding the ideal ways to promote academic success. Previous work has identified mathematical language (i.e., the words and concepts related to early mathematical development such…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Numeracy, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts
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Juan Li; Qian-Qian Li; Shu-Qi Wang; Zhen Jin; Xiao-Xiao Wang; Ni-Ming Sun; Hai-Xian Li; Xudan Ye – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Spatial ability is a significant component of mathematical ability and a foundation for children to master mathematical knowledge. Although many studies have confirmed that technology can enhance children's learning, few have explored the use of technology in the area of children's spatial learning. In this study, we adopted a paradigm for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
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Geist, Eugene; Jung, Jeesun – Childhood Education, 2022
Do young children understand the complex mathematics in the petals of a daisy, the Fibonacci sequence in the spiral of a pinecone, the fractal geometry in the leaves of a fern, or the "golden ratio" in the seed pattern of a sunflower? Probably not, but they certainly can observe and recognize the patterns and compare them to similar…
Descriptors: Gardening, Geometry, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Noor Amiera Alias; Masne Kadar; Farahiyah Wan Yunus; Katie Cremin – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
Introduction: Self-care skills are integral to how children manage their daily lives without help. Without good motor skills, the children have difficulty achieving independence in self-care. Objectives: This study aimed to explore the understanding on teaching of motor skills related to self-care skills, factors inhibit teaching self-care and…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills, Teaching Methods, Occupational Therapy
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Lixin Wang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: This paper represents an empirical study that examines the impact of specific teaching methods on the effectiveness of preschool music education. Objectives: The current study seeks to determine whether the integration of digital technology improves the music learning outcomes of preschoolers. Methods: The author compared the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education
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Devi, Anamika – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2022
There are some studies indicating that parents make a significant contribution to children's conceptual learning through play, whereas very few studies have been done to identify parents' pedagogical positioning in children's imaginative play for supporting their learning and development. This paper is seeking how Indian-Australian immigrant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Play, Parent Role, Immigrants
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Emine Hande Aydos – Journal of Theoretical Educational Science, 2025
Art education, which contributes to a wide range of activities from supporting children's fine motor development to increasing aesthetic sensitivity, is a basic learning area that supports children's creativity and strengthens their sensory and cognitive development in the preschool period. The purpose of the research is to create a roadmap for…
Descriptors: Art Education, Early Childhood Education, Art Activities, Child Development
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Jasemin Can; Johanna Kiili; Mari Vuorisalo; Niina Rutanen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article describes the interplay between age and children's resources during the transition from Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. We describe how age operates in the structures of ECEC during the time before the actual transition. We approach the transition to pre-primary education and the relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Briitta Ollonen; Marjaana Kangas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This research focuses on exploring teacher motivational scaffolding and preschoolers motivational triggers in a playful learning project conducted in a Finnish preschool context. The aim of playful learning was to promote preschoolers' multiliteracy and digital skills in a news-making project. The participants were 17 preschoolers and their…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Student Motivation
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Wang, Hua-Chen; Nation, Kate; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Robidoux, Serje; Weighall, Anna; Castles, Anne – Child Development, 2022
This study explored whether a daytime nap aids children's acquisition of letter-sound knowledge, which is a fundamental component for learning to read. Thirty-two preschool children in Sydney, Australia (M[subscript age] = 4 years;3 months) were taught letter-sound mappings in two sessions: one followed by a nap and the other by a wakeful period.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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López Assef, Belén; Desmeules-Trudel, Félix; Bernard, Amélie; Zamuner, Tania S. – Child Development, 2021
Research has found mixed evidence for the production effect in childhood. Some studies have found a positive effect of production on word recognition and recall, while others have found the reverse. This paper takes a developmental approach to investigate the production effect. Children aged 2-6 years (n = 150) from a predominantly white…
Descriptors: Child Development, Word Recognition, Recall (Psychology), Whites
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Howe, Sally – Global Education Review, 2022
The purpose of this theoretical paper is to examine the links between the philosophical underpinnings of Froebelian pedagogy (where pedagogy is understood as the basis on which early childhood practices are developed) and the pedagogy of a recent movement in environmental education for young children; the Common Worlds Research Collective. Current…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Education
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Ade Dwi Utami; Marilyn Fleer; Liang Li – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Structured and teacher-directed play focused on children's academic outcomes has proven problematic in Indonesian early childhood education. This contrasts with the PlayWorlds model, which emphasises both the primary activity of play and conceptual learning. However, there has been little research in Indonesia on the pedagogical aspects of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Play
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Dobrota, Snježana – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2022
Musical activities in early and preschool age significantly contribute to the overall development of the child. The paper has explored music preferences of preschool children for classical music and "world music." As a part of the research, a general data questionnaire and music preferences questionnaire were used. The research was…
Descriptors: Music Education, Singing, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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