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Aiming away: New Zealand child care supervisors' responses (2001-2002) A study of child care supervisors’ perceptions of the purposes of their child care services, such as nurturing children, helping children learn, working with parents and community, and cultural advocacy, and their rankings of the importance of a list of stated purposes, based on the questionnaire responses of 78 New Zealand child care supervisors |
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Aligning early childhood visual art education with socio-cultural theory and practice: A personal pedagogical stance in the relationship between theory and visual arts education practice in New Zealand early childhood education An examination of ideas emerging from sociocultural theory as it relates to visual arts education within the Te Whariki curriculum |
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Assessment of mathematical development in early childhood: Some views of preschool practitioners in regional and rural Australia A qualitative survey of practitioners' rationales for and approaches to the assessment of children's mathematical development, methods for the documentation of children's participation in mathematical activities, and of the use of assessment records, based on data from early childhood center staff in Australia |
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The Australian child-care centre as a developmental niche An analysis of the communicative language experiences of two infant children filmed in child care centers over a period of eighteen months, studying the child care center as a developmental niche |
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Beginning reading instruction: Towards levelling the playing field A comparison of the reading-related test scores of 7 children before and after an 8 week shared reading intervention, based on data collected from 6 voluntary participant low income families living in a small city in New South Wales |
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''Catch the future'': Literacy and numeracy pathways for young children: Voices from the field A description of two qualitative methodologies adopted for a research project in Australia examining literacy and numeracy pathways for young children’s learning in the year before school entry |
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'Cause they trust their parents, don't they?': Supporting literacy in the first three years of life A presentation of parent’s perceptions of their interactions with their young children participating in the Support at Home for Early Language and Literacies (SHELLS) early literacy support program in Australia |
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Changing perceptions of literacy: Local literacies in indigenous and early childhood communities An exploration of the changes in literacy perceptions of preschool staff members in an Indigenous Australian community after participating in six professional development sessions |
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Children of the new millennium: Research and professional learning into practice An investigation of the ways young children use information and communication technologies (ITC) at home and in early childhood settings, based on 31 teacher observations of 140 children in 16 different early childhood settings |
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Children starting school: What should children, parents and school teachers do? A presentation of the outcomes of an ongoing study in New South Wales (NSW) about what is seen by students, parents, school teachers and prior-to-school educators to be important in children's transition to school |
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Community centred child care: A new answer to ''Who benefits?'' A discussion of community oriented approaches to early childhood education and care, using information on the Families First initiative in New South Wales |
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Can teaching be invisible?: Considering children's experience of the roles of teachers An exploration of young children's perspectives on the roles of teachers at a child care center, based on observations and interactions with 6 children |
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The culture of child care in North America found in three distant geographical locations An inquiry into the services delivery of early childhood education and care in North America, based on a sample of 15 child care centers in Nova Scotia in Canada, and Florida and Washington in the United States |
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Does adjustment at preschool predict adjustment in the first year of schooling? A study to identify whether measures of adjustment at preschool predict adjustment to the first year of schooling in the same measures, after allowing for the possible influence of children's personal characteristics, family demographics, and outside school-hours care in the first year of schooling, and transition experience |
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Early childhood education in Ghana: The policy hiatus A qualitative study of pedagogy, compliance with national policy, and the influence of national culture at 5 government and 5 private early childhood settings Ga West district of greater Accra |
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Early childhood educators celebrating and assessing young children’s powerful mathematical ideas Three case studies of the use of the Numeracy Matrix method of teaching mathematics, and the Learning Stories approach to assessment of learning experiences, in preschools in South Australia |
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Early childhood practitioners' views on planning for young children's futures Results of a survey given to 37 Australian early childhood teachers about their views on planning for young children's futures and on supporting children's long-term development |
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Early childhood service provision: Parent satisfaction A study of the methods used by parents to assess the quality of child care services, and an exploration of parental satisfaction with child care services, specifically in the areas of the physical wellbeing, emotional wellbeing, and education of their children, based on a sample of 148 parents from greater Sydney, Australia |
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The everyday life of children across early childhood institution and the family An inquiry into the relationship between early childhood institutions and children’s family environments, and the influence of different environments on children’s development, based on a study of six families with 5-year-olds in an early childhood institution (ECI) in Denmark |
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Examining early childhood teachers perceptions of ICT A study of the availability and use of information and communication technology in the classroom and teachers’ ICT-related skills and professional development endeavors, based on the questionnaire responses of 7 teachers and the interview responses of a small number of teachers and children at a child care center and a kindergarten in Wellington |
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How Australian rural and regional early childhood practitioners foster children's mathematics learning A qualitative survey of 64 early educators' self-reported mathematics-related behaviors and activities intended to foster mathematical thinking and promote foundational knowledge of math in children |
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"I caught your eye, I catched your teeth": Distributed playfulness connecting children An examination of relationships and communications during occurences of distributed playfulness derived from observations of children in two centers, one full day center visited on 25 occasions that served children birth through school age, and another visited on 12 occasions serving mainly 4 year old children in half day sessions |
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ICT in early childhood education: Perceptions, potential and reality An exploration of the benefits of and barriers to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) with young children, based on the questionnaire responses of 334 respondents from kindergartens, playcenters, kohanga reo, and early care and education centers in 5 districts of New Zealand |
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Indicators of children's adjustment to the first year of schooling A search for portions of the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) Teacher Form Elementary Level that can serve as indicators of successful school adjustment in an Australian context, based on data collected from 213 children at four primary schools across Melbourne |
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In search of quality: A local and global perspective Descriptions of two child care sites in the same district of Beijing: a gated suburban wealthy preschool and a playgroup at a public market serving the children of poor internal-migrant families, and a discussion of the appropriateness of quality measures in these two settings |
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