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Nieuwmeijer, Christiane; Marshall, Nigel; van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4-5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the content of the music education taking place…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Education, Play, Preservice Teacher Education
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McKenney, Susan; Bradley, Barbara – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
Against the backdrop of growing international concern for a narrowing view of early literacy, this study was initiated to determine how teachers of four-year-olds view their task of fostering early literacy. This paper reports on the first steps to design and validate an instrument which captures teachers' perceptions of early literacy content…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Emergent Literacy, Curriculum Implementation, Content Validity
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Cviko, Amina; McKenney, Susan; Voogt, Joke – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
PictoPal is the name of a technology-rich curriculum with a focus on emergent literacy of Dutch kindergarteners. A case study design was used to examine teacher technology integration within PictoPal along with their perceptions about teaching/learning, technology and technology-based innovations. Observations were undertaken on pupils' engagement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Technology, Kindergarten