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Theodotou, Evgenia – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
Literacy is one of the most important areas of development. Several pieces of research examine the positive impact of the arts on children's literacy development. However, most of them focus on specific literacy skills and not in providing a holistic examination of literacy. Also, they adapt a structured methodology, with pre-decided lesson plans,…
Descriptors: Literacy, Literacy Education, Art Education, Lesson Plans
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Joubert, Ina; Harrison, Giulietta Domenica – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The importance of a Piagetian approach is recognized in South African early childhood educational practices and teacher training, but the reality of the implementation of teaching and learning in the domain of early years opposes his philosophy in many ways. Our Early Childhood Education policies strongly advocate a Piagetian approach such as the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
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Sellars, Maura; Imig, David – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
One of the critical challenges that faces societies today is how to educate children and young people to cope with the ever demanding contexts in which they live. This education must include the relationships and support that facilitate socio-emotional development. This writing explores the work of Pestalozzi, a pioneering pedagogue, who, over two…
Descriptors: Child Development, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Child Psychology
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Chen, Feiyan – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Parents play an influential role in children's emotional development. Numerous quantitative studies have examined the correlations between a "single" dimension of parents' emotion socialisation practices (e.g. parental emotion expression or attitudes) and children's emotional development. However, little attention has been paid to a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Self Control, Teaching Methods, Emotional Development
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Persellin, Diane; Bateman, Laura – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The purpose of our study was to compare the effectiveness of two song-teaching methods: holistic and phrase-by-phrase. Thirty-two first-grade children (n = 32) from two music classes in an urban elementary school were taught two folksongs. The first class (n = 16) was taught one song through the phrase-by-phrase method and another song through the…
Descriptors: Singing, Whole Language Approach, Instructional Effectiveness, Statistical Analysis
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Urban, Klaus K. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Proposes a more dimensional, holistic, child- and action-oriented educational-psychological approach for working with gifted preschool children, based on experiences with the Hanover Project and findings that previous kindergarten educational reforms in Germany did not sufficiently recognize and promote gifted preschool children. Examines…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Child Behavior, Child Development, Childhood Needs