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W. Steven Barnett; Kwanghee Jung – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2024
We investigated the extent to which practices considered developmentally appropriate and inappropriate varied by preschool program auspice (private, public school, and Head Start). Survey data from a 2010 national sample of 2,664 teachers of 4-year-olds provided teacher reports on the frequency of seven practices (e.g., offering children choices…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Preschool Education, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Teachers
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Jasemin Can; Johanna Kiili; Mari Vuorisalo; Niina Rutanen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article describes the interplay between age and children's resources during the transition from Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. We describe how age operates in the structures of ECEC during the time before the actual transition. We approach the transition to pre-primary education and the relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Madora Soutter; Alessandra E. Ward; Chu N. Ly – Teachers College Press, 2025
Learn how to cultivate a commitment to justice with young children in developmentally appropriate ways (pre-K-grade 6). Transformative social and emotional learning (TSEL) is an asset-based, culturally responsive way of teaching that sees social and emotional learning and social justice as inextricably linked. This practical guide will support…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
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Cheung, Alan C. K.; Keung, Chrysa; Tam, Winnie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
In this study, a modified version of the Curriculum Orientation Inventory for Early Childhood Education (COI-ECE) is developed and validated with a sample of 717 in-service teachers from fifty Hong Kong pre-primary schools. Results of confirmatory factor analysis show that theĀ curriculum beliefs of pre-primary school teachers can be conceptualised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Marianne N. Bloch; Meredith Whye – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The recently revised NAEYC position papers and the fourth edition of NAEYC's Developmentally Appropriate Guidelines (NAEYC. 2022. "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs: Serving Children from Birth through Age 8," edited by S. Friedman, 4th ed. Washington: National Association for the Education of Young…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
Yang, Weipeng; Li, Hui – ECNU Review of Education, 2022
Purpose: This article presents a scoping review of the internationally published research on the early childhood curriculum (ECC) reforms, policies, measures, and effectiveness in China and Singapore, to explore the joint and interactive effects of globalization and localization in ECC in two different contexts. Design/Approach/Methods: We…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Preschool Curriculum, Educational Change