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Direct linkMcKendrick, John H. – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
This is the opening paper in a "Scottish Educational Review" collection on "Making Space for Play in Scottish Education." It is acknowledged that, historically, a perception of divergent purpose enabled education both to enlist play and to curb play to achieve desired educational outcomes. However, a new understanding of play…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Teaching Methods, Child Development
Cerino, Anna – Education 3-13, 2023
This report offers insight into a reflective and critical practitioner's role in carefully planning an environment that reflects young children's need for independence. Education as an agent of liberation is the key to the child obtaining that freedom and achieving independence. It is argued that liberation can only be achieved when an effective…
Descriptors: Forestry, Personal Autonomy, Teaching Methods, Well Being
Chetna Duggal; Kanak Kataria; Lamia Bagasrawala; Anvita Walia – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2025
India is home to the largest population of adolescents in the world, of which nearly half experience one or more adverse childhood experiences. Despite rising interest in building trauma-sensitive school systems globally, such initiatives are limited in India. This paper presents the development, implementation, and acceptability of the Fostering…
Descriptors: Trauma, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Alison – Primary Science, 2021
Children are naturally inquisitive and want to explore and investigate; in doing so they make sense of the world around them. Piaget (Pound, 2006) suggests children make sense by themselves, by making choices and taking opportunities. Through exploration and investigation they also make sense of themselves through sensory, firsthand experiences.…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Child Development, Learning Processes, Forestry
Mariam, Erum; Ahmad, Jahanara; Sarwar, Sarwat Sarah – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2021
In August 2017, almost a million Rohingya people fled to Bangladesh to escape violence and persecution in Myanmar; 55 percent of them were children. BRAC, one of the largest nongovernmental organizations in the world, operates an initiative called the Humanitarian Play Lab model for children ages 0-6 in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Young Children, Play
Download full textBrandao, Neuza Maria Dias; Theodotou, Evgenia – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2020
Multimodality is an important element of teaching and learning in early years settings. It provides opportunities for young children to communicate using different resources they feel comfortable with. This paper focuses on multimodality and multimodal learning in early years education and the different approaches, which can be used to create a…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Teaching Methods, Multimedia Materials, Preschool Education
Mesquita, Cristina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
This study started from a collaborative work developed with a group of educators, who work in an institution that welcomes children from 0 to 6 years. The educators, after participating in a seminar on documentation and evaluation in early childhood education, showed enthusiasm to learn how to document the children's voice and experiences. This…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Preschool Children, Seminars
Yan, Jin; Jones, Brad; Smith, Jordan J.; Morgan, Philip; Eather, Narelle – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2023
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of game-based approaches on game performance, fundamental movement skills, health-related indicators, and physical activity outcomes among children (5-12 years) when delivered in the primary physical education school setting. Method: A systematic search of six electronic databases without date limitation was…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Physical Education, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Carey, Kathy – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2018
Though Montessori teachers and teacher educators are very familiar with the command to "follow the child," few may know where in her writing Montessori says to do this. This article looks at where the concept is referred to indirectly at times. This article also answers the question "what does this really mean in postmodern…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teaching Methods, Postmodernism, Child Development
Gardner-Neblett, Nicole; Henk, Jennifer K.; Vallotton, Claire D.; Rucker, Larra; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Although there have been calls in the early childhood field for effective approaches to preparing the workforce to support optimal early child development, there is a gap in understanding how different types of professional development predict teachers' beliefs about children and their self-reported classroom practices. Using the National Survey…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Prediction, Teacher Attitudes
Adamson, Gracie Scala; Rouse, Elizabeth; Emmett, Susan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Recent reforms for the early childhood education and care sector in Australia have led in part to the development of a national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) which presents play based learning as "a context for learning through which children organize and make sense of their social worlds, as they engage actively with people, objects…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Play, Participation, Teaching Methods
Wolf, Sharon; Gonzalez Canche, Manuel S.; Coe, Kristen – Child Development, 2021
Research on classroom peer effects has focused nearly exclusively on high-income countries and on academic skills. Little is known about peer effects in low-income countries and whether effects differ under different educational environments (e.g., teacher-directed versus child-centered, conditions of concentrated advantage or disadvantage). Based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Peer Relationship, Low Income Groups
Lana Shklyar Nenide; Kate Sweeney; Gerard Costa; Neal M. Horen; Robert M. Corso; Jordana Ash, Contributor; Lynette Aytch, Contributor; Julie Betchkal, Contributor; Jean Budd, Contributor; Margo Candelaria, Contributor; Corinne G. Catalano, Contributor; Kimberly P. Diamond-Berry, Contributor; Faith Eidson, Contributor; Brandy Fox, Contributor; Keri Giordano, Contributor; Amy Hunter, Contributor; Harleen Hutchinson, Contributor; Nucha Isarowong, Contributor; Ashley McCormick, Contributor; Kelli McDermott, Contributor; Kaitlin Mulcahy, Contributor; Carmen Rosa Noroña, Contributor; Nichole Paradis, Contributor; Rebecca Parlakian, Contributor; Lindsay J. Pearson, Contributor; Thomas Rendon, Contributor; Julia Sayles, Contributor; Jayne Singer, Contributor; Staci Sontoski, Contributor; Kristin Tenney-Blackwell, Contributor; Mary Louise Hemmeter, Contributor – Brookes Publishing Company, 2025
Infant Mental Health (IMH) and the Pyramid Model (PM) are two frameworks with an important common goal: supporting the mental health and social-emotional well-being of infants, young children and their families. For the first time ever, one book integrates these two frameworks to create a more effective, knowledgeable, and responsive early…
Descriptors: Infants, Models, Mental Health, Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Zhao, HuiJun; Zhang, Nini; Guo, Karen – Educational Studies, 2022
The notion of learning dispositions has extended conceptions of learning in early childhood education to incorporate dimensions such as habits of mind and patterns of behaviour. This paper conceptualizes learning dispositions through a Chinese lens, and with conceptualizing this notion, explores associated pedagogical practices. The data are drawn…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cognitive Processes, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education
Araújo, Sara Barros – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Research literature acknowledges the influential role of teachers' beliefs on their interpretations, decision-making and pedagogical practices. It also suggests that initial teacher education (ITE) plays a relevant role in explicitly addressing beliefs that students hold. This study aims to examine beliefs about the child of prospective early…
Descriptors: Practicums, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Decision Making
