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Direct linkNoelle M. Suntheimer; Emily M. Weiss; Esinam Ami Avornyo; Sharon Wolf – Grantee Submission, 2024
Across geographically diverse samples, engagement in stimulating activities with young children is considered an important element of parenting that promotes cognitive, behavioral, and social-emotional development. Indicators of stimulation activities are often summed, based on the assumption that more stimulation is better and that different…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Social Emotional Learning, Play, Kindergarten
David Barny – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Following the social turn in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) in the 1990s (Block, 2003), researchers have increasingly focused on the emic perspective of learners. As a result, identity, subjectivity, and agency have come to the forefront in SLA research. In an effort to afford learners the means to negotiate meaning more freely and to position…
Descriptors: French, Perspective Taking, Computer Simulation, Educational Games
Ilana Dvorin Friedman; Kate Phillippo – Journal of Jewish Education, 2024
Within Orthodox Jewish early childhood programs, gender roles of the Shabbat Party promote heteronormative gender expectations that contend with values about children, teaching, and Judaism. Interviews with 15 educators suggested tensions between gender flexible attitudes and beliefs that gender unfolds naturally. Pretend play was considered a…
Descriptors: Judaism, Religious Education, Religious Schools, Early Childhood Education
Download full textIrene Picton; Iulia Moisi; Tracy Jackson; Christina Clark – National Literacy Trust, 2024
Home environments have the potential for rich literacy activities. Indeed, what parents do in and outside the home to support their child's learning has a powerful impact on their child's development, not only in terms of educational outcomes but also for wider ones, such as children's wellbeing. The impact of the home learning environment (HLE)…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Role, Emergent Literacy, Young Children
Lee, Do Kyeong; Cole, Whitney G.; Golenia, Laura; Adolph, Karen E. – Developmental Science, 2018
Researchers can study complex developmental phenomena with all the inherent noise and complexity or simplify behaviors to hone in on the essential aspects of a phenomenon. We used the development of walking as a model system to compare the costs and benefits of simplifying a complex, noisy behavior. Traditionally, researchers simplify infant…
Descriptors: Infants, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Models
Takaya, Keiichi – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2018
Caroline Pratt, the founder of the City and Country School, is one of the few educators who tried to work out a program that would engage and develop students' imaginations. Along with other progressive educators, however, she has been criticized for her child-centeredness, that is, valuing children's spontaneity at the expense of planning and…
Descriptors: Progressive Education, Curriculum, Student Centered Learning, Imagination
Proyer, René T.; Brauer, Kay; Wolf, Annegret; Chick, Garry – American Journal of Play, 2018
Adult playfulness contributes to well-functioning romantic relationships, claim the authors, who study the association between playfulness of several kinds (other directed, lighthearted, intellectual, whimsical) and six specific attitudes towards love they call love styles--"eros," "ludus," "storge,"…
Descriptors: Play, Individual Differences, Adults, Intimacy
Sandra Abegglen; Tom Burns; Sandra Sinfield – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2025
This paper presents a case for integrating students as partners (SaP) within the curriculum of higher education (HE), particularly through the lens of "third space" learning. Drawing on our experiences as a collaborative of educators in Canada and the United Kingdom, we explore the liberatory potential of play, partnership, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Students
Sheng, Ling; Dong, Wenming; Hu, Jiangbo – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Mental State Language (MSL) is language that refers to individuals' inner states, including terms relating to "emotion," "desire-&-preference," "perception" and "cognition." This study explores the nature of eight Chinese educators' MSL in their interactions with infants during structured and free play.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Usage, Teacher Student Relationship
Cameron, Monica; Aspden, Karyn; Smith, Penny; McLaughlin, Tara – Waikato Journal of Education, 2023
The revision of Te Whariki, the New Zealand Early Childhood Curriculum Framework, in 2017 offered a unique opportunity to gain understanding of the ways teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand think about and enact curriculum in their daily practice. As researchers we were intrigued as to the ways teachers conceptualised the role of curriculum in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Teacher Attitudes
Nilsson, Carina; Svensson, Anette; Basic, Goran – Cogent Education, 2023
The purpose of this article was to re-examine the empirical research focused on the creation and recreation of pre-school teachers' identity and their practices with multilingual children and language development. The analysis was based on empirical sequences from previously published qualitative analyses with the assistance of an interactionist…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Professional Identity, Multilingualism, Teacher Student Relationship
Tam, Angela Choi Fung – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
This two-year longitudinal study explores whether a professional learning community (PLC) helps shift language teachers' beliefs about implementing play-based learning. Ten practitioners from a preschool participated in this case study. Data were collected through interviews and observations of participants' practices engaged in the PLC. The…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preschool Education, Beliefs, Play
Wright, Barry; Kingsley, Ellen; Cooper, Cindy; Biggs, Katie; Bursnall, Matthew; Wang, Han-I; Chater, Tim; Coates, Elizabeth; Teare, M. Dawn; McKendrick, Kirsty; Gomez de la Cuesta, Gina; Barr, Amy; Solaiman, Kiera; Packham, Anna; Marshall, David; Varley, Danielle; Nekooi, Roshanak; Parrott, Steve; Ali, Shehzad; Gilbody, Simon; Le Couteur, Ann – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Social learning through friendships is important in child development. Autistic children often initiate and engage in social interactions differently than neurotypical peers. LEGO® based therapy is a group intervention which facilitates social interactions with peers using collaborative LEGO® play. A 1:1 cluster randomised controlled trial with…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence, Social Isolation
Shorer, M.; Zilker, N.; Salomon, A.; Spiegelman, N. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examined parental playfulness as a mediator of the association between mothers' emotional difficulties (anxiety, depression) and their children's psychosocial adjustment (externalizing, internalizing, and prosocial behaviours). We also examined the associations between parental playfulness and mothers' supportive / unsupportive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Health, Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Norazlan, Sarah Alia; Said, Ismail – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
Children's experiences with nature may develop ecological literacy and enhance their psychological well-being. However, a limited understanding of how the village landscape has functional impacts on the children's play behaviour and perceptual performances can influence ecological literacy. This study investigated children's preferences in the…
Descriptors: Preferences, Outdoor Education, Play, Animals
