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Direct linkDuran Mavi; Gamze Tuti; Murat Ozdemir – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Teacher self-efficacy is a critical component of school life quality, leading scholars to explore the mechanisms behind it. Most studies have focused on this factor's mediation and moderation functions, with some indicating a strong link between teachers' academic optimism and self-efficacy. However, the roles of teachers' professional development…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Faculty Development
Teresa Parczewska – Environmental Education Research, 2025
The study explored parents' opinions regarding the forest kindergarten attended by their children. Six parents participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore their experiences. The topics raised in the interviews concerned four areas: sources of parents' knowledge about forest kindergartens; arguments for choosing a…
Descriptors: Forestry, Environmental Education, Kindergarten, Parent Attitudes
Hui Zhang; Xiulan Cheng; Yueyue Ai – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Although teacher social-emotional competence (SEC) has been recognized as a crucial indicator of teacher professional development as well as an effective predictor of their psychological well-being, little is known about how teachers' SEC contributes to job burnout. The objectives of the present research were to explore the impact of SEC on job…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Well Being, Teacher Burnout, Rural Schools
Åmot, Ingvild; Ytterhus, Borgunn – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This article focuses on how children, independent of abilities, create healthy identities and spaces in kindergarten, and is based on a qualitative CGT-study carried out in Norwegian Kindergartens. Data sources include Life-form interviews with 24 children, with and without disabilities. Children placed health in the context of their daily-life…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
Julie Katter; Natalia M. Rojas; Stephanie L. Albert; Bethany Springer; Nicole Huang-Greco; Bonnie Kerker – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2024
Although efforts have been made to improve teacher professional development and ongoing supports, limited research has examined how early childhood education (ECE) teachers support each other informally. The present study describes how one type of informal support, collegial support (e.g. instrumental and expressive), enabled ECE teachers to cope…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Collegiality, Teacher Collaboration
Editorial Projects in Education, 2025
Student engagement and well-being are critical for academic success and overall development. This Spotlight explores strategies to create supportive and engaging learning environments that foster student motivation and well-being. From re-emphasizing the importance of play in kindergarten to leveraging the power of outdoor learning, these articles…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Well Being, Kindergarten, Young Children
Qiling Wu; Annemarie H. Hindman – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Peer Relations Journal, 2024
Understanding predictors and effects of teacher well-being, including job satisfaction, is crucial for both teachers' and children's development. Research on teacher job satisfaction (TJS) has indicated that many individual and contextual factors may make a difference for teachers' professional well-being. However, against the backdrop of this…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Predictor Variables, Well Being
Bernstorff, Benedicte – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
From a child-centered perspective, this article explores the practices of children's self-organized play-communities in institutional everyday life in Danish early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings, based on a phenomenological non-participant-observational study with a duration of 16 months involving two kindergartens (Bernstorff,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Play, Group Activities
Download full textAutumn Barnes, Contributor; Adina Cooper, Contributor; Marci Hertz, Contributor; Kesha Hudson, Contributor; Sarah Lee, Contributor; Sandra Leonard, Contributor; Bailee Peralto, Contributor; Mary Schauer, Contributor; Katy Suellentrop, Contributor; Jorge Verlenden, Contributor; Natalie Wilkins, Contributor; Camara Wooten, Contributor; Anna Yaros, Contributor – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023
This action guide was designed for school administrators in kindergarten through 12th grade schools (K-12), including principals and leaders of school-based student support teams, to identify evidence-based strategies, approaches, and practices that can positively influence students' mental health. This action guide describes six in-school…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Schools, Early Childhood Education, Middle Schools
To, Ken Hang; Yin, Hongbiao – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
The study examined how emotion regulation strategies were utilised by kindergarten principals to fulfil their leading roles. In-depth interviews and document analysis were conducted with five kindergarten principals in Hong Kong. The principals linked their emotions to the psychosocial climate of the kindergartens, highlighting that emotion…
Descriptors: Principals, Emotional Response, Self Control, Kindergarten
Junqing Zhai; Yunqi Chen; Peiyao Tian; Daner Sun; Jin Sun – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study explores the relationship between parental attitudes toward outdoor activities and children's health-related quality of life, focusing on the mediation of outdoor activity time and nature connections. Data from 399 kindergarten children, supplemented by parental insights, were analyzed using structural equation modelling (SEM). Positive…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Recreational Activities, Physical Health, Quality of Life
Flora E. Chacon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This narrative inquiry research study explored the experiences of three migrant families living in California. This research contributes new knowledge that will support Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) administrators, early childhood practitioners, elementary school principals, and kindergarten teachers in understanding transition events…
Descriptors: Migrant Programs, Migrant Children, Migrant Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
Xin Zheng; Ying Luo; Jiaxin Tang – Early Education and Development, 2024
Teaching is an emotionally demanding profession, and teachers' ability to manage their emotions appears to be linked to their occupational well-being. Kindergarten teachers experience intense and frequent emotional interactions in their daily work; however, studies on kindergarten teachers' emotional labor are still rare. Because social…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Emotional Response, Well Being
Al-Massarweh, Sami Salamah; AL-Dlalah, Moham'd M.; Alyamani, Abdelraouf Hameed; Jabali, Safia M. – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
This study aimed to identify the degree of contribution of mothers' treatment patterns to the emotional balance of kindergarten children and to achieve the objectives of the study; two scales were built: a questionnaire to measure mothers' treatment patterns and a questionnaire to measure the emotional balance of kindergarten children after…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Mothers
Madison Blaydes; Cassandra A. Gearhart; Christopher J. McCarthy; Caroline H. Weppner – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Teachers, a population already vulnerable to high stress, experienced heightened demands, and reduced resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. This longitudinal study utilized inductive thematic analysis to explore 241 K-12 teachers' qualitative accounts of stressors, supports, and pandemic-specific impacts through their responses to three…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Stress Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
