Assessing beliefs of preservice early childhood education teachers using Q-sort methodology
A comparison of the beliefs of instructors and students in an early childhood higher education program on the topics of behavior management, teaching practices, and the nature of children, based on a survey of 60 students and 8 faculty members at a 4-year early care and education teacher preparation program in the Southeast United States
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Children's graphical representations and emergent writing: Evidence from children's drawings
A study of the Chinese pictographic and English ideographic characters appearing in the drawings of ten children aged 4-5 at Austin Chinese School
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Children's perspectives as 'touch downs' in time: Assessing and developing children's understanding simultaneously
A discussion of the collection of children's perspectives in the assessment and development of their learning and their environments, and a presentation of three examples from preschool environments in Sweden
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Creating intersubjectivity during socio-dramatic play at an Australian kindergarten
A study of the intersubjective acts in the socio-dramatic play of 28 children from two early education sites in a middle-income suburb of an Australian city
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The day care experience of minority families in Norway
A qualitative evaluation of a multi-center half-day program providing cultural integration for young children from immigrant and minority families in Oslo, based on interviews with 45 participating families, 15 staff, and 7 teachers
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Early child development and care in Tanzania: Challenges for the future
A historical overview of child care and early education policy in Tanzania since the country’s colonial period, and overviews of the current state of services offered, workforce development, and challenges faced by the country’s child care and early education sector
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Editorial: Special Issue: Listening to young children's voices in research: Changing perspectives/changing relationships
An introduction to a special issue of the journal Early Child Development and Care, focusing on the act of listening to children as a data collection method in child development and education research
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The effect of curriculum, coaching, and professional development on prekindergarten children’s literacy achievement
A study of the effect of Southern California’s Preschool Literacy Project, which provides a specialized curriculum, teacher coaching, a print-rich environment, and professional development opportunities to teachers, on the literacy scores of the participating children, based on data collected from 22 state preschool classrooms serving children from low income families
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Ethnic variation in the association between family structures and practices on child outcomes at 36 months: Results from Early Head Start
An examination of the associations between children’s behavioral and cognitive outcomes, family structural characteristics, and parenting practices among three samples (a total of 2,777) low income families with European American, African American, and Hispanic American ethnicities
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Fostering at-risk preschoolers' number sense
A comparison of the pre- and post-test numeracy skills of children in classrooms using four different numeracy teaching techniques: structured discovery, semistructured discovery, direct instruction, and unstructured practice, based on data collected from 80 at risk children from two public preschools
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Horizons for Homeless Children: A comprehensive service model for homeless families
A description of services provided by Horizons for Homeless Children, including Community Children’s Centers, Playspaces, parent education, and other family supports for homeless families with children in Massachusetts
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Horses in the sandpit: Photography, prolonged involvement and “stepping back” as strategies for listening to children’s voices
An account of the use of photographs and digital cameras in a study of children’s perspectives of their spaces and activities at a Te Whariki child care center
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How accurate can mothers and teachers be regarding children's emergent literacy development?: A comparison between mothers with high and low education
A comparison of the evaluations of children's emergent literacy by their mothers, by their teachers, and by a series of tests, and a comparison of the accuracy of the evaluations provided by mothers with low and high levels of education, based on a study of 75 kindergarteners from greater Tel Aviv
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How do linguistically diverse students fare in full- and half-day kindergarten?: Examining academic achievement, instructional quality, and attendance
A comparison of four full-day and four half-day kindergartens in the areas of instructional quality, attendance rates, and student academic achievement, and an examination of the scores of the sub-populations of kindergarteners learning English as an additional language within these classrooms
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Learning to learn an additional language: A personal perspective
A description of New Zealand’s policies and programs in which young children are immersed and instructed in second languages, including the environments in which children from immigrant families learn English, and the Kohanga Reo programs in which young children are immersed in the aboriginal Maori language
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Making meaning: Children’s perspectives expressed through drawing
A study of children’s narratives about their transitions to school, their memories of preschool, their first year of school, and their future expectations for school, collected through a drawing exercise with small numbers of children in Iceland and Australia
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Male teacher, female teacher: Exploring children’s perspectives of teachers’ roles in kindergarten
An exploration of the differences in children’s ratings of their male and female teachers’ caring, playing, organizing and teaching roles, based on interviews with 37 4-year-old children from the state of South Australia
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Personnel preparation for preservice early intervention providers: Supporting families’ participation in university classrooms
A description of a 2-day training program to encourage and prepare the parents of children with disabilities to speak in front of university classrooms of preservice intervention providers
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Preschoolers’ exposure to language stimulation in classrooms serving at-risk children: The contribution of group size and activity context
An examination of the speech of teachers and teacher assistants during several types of activities and with several sizes of groups of children, based on transcriptions of a sample of recordings from 6 Title I classrooms, 6 Head Start classrooms, and 2 classrooms in state-funded preschools all serving children from low-income backgrounds in two regions of one state
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Social-emotional problems in early childhood and the development of depressive symptoms in school-age children
A study of the relationship between teacher-reported socioemotional problems in preschool and self-reported depressive symptoms at age 8, and a study of the influence of gender on this relationship, based on a longitudinal study of 25 boys and 31 girls recruited from child care centers in one New England urban area
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Special issue: Listening to young children's voices in research: Changing perspectives/changing relationships
A special issue of the journal Early Child Development and Care, focusing on the act of listening to children as a data collection method in child development and education research
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Teacher-child relationships in prekindergarten: The influence of child and teacher characteristics
A study of correlations between the characteristics of teachers and children such as gender, temperament, and agreeableness, and levels of teacher-child closeness and conflict, based on data collected in 10 prekindergarten classrooms in one mid-sized eastern city
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