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Lee, Kerry; Courtney, Matthew; McGlashan, Ann; Neveldsen, Paul; Toso, Meripa – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
The Maori Whakatauki (significant saying) for Technology Education: Kaua e rangiruatia te hapai o te hoe; E kore to tatou waka e u ki uta. Don't paddle out of unison; Our canoe will never reach the shore. Quality initial teacher education (ITE) builds on student prior knowledge. Students bring a wealth of life and career knowledge and skills to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Program Development, Preservice Teachers
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Jonas Yassin Iversen; Juliet Munden; Margaret Nambao – Language and Education, 2024
Limited access to reading material written in local languages is considered a contributing factor to poor reading achievement in Sub-Saharan Africa. Several non-government projects are attempting to compensate for this by providing extensive reading material. One such project is the non-commercial, donor-initiated African Storybook. This article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Teacher Attitudes, Story Reading
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Núñez, María Isabel Gómez; Muñoz, María Angeles Cano – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2020
Introduction: Anxiety is an emotion which is characterized by a set of cognitive, psychophysical and behavioral symptoms, showed by a subject before some situations which are perceived as threatening or dangerous. The aim of the present work was to know the relationship between anxiety, emotional intelligence and personality, as well as the…
Descriptors: Prediction, Emotional Intelligence, Anxiety, Personality Traits
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Pranoto, Yuli Kurniawati Sugiyo; Hong, Jianzhong – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The study aims at exploring Indonesian children's preferences in the choice of play companions that lead to their happiness. In total, 381 boys and 396 girls (aged 4-6 years old) participated in the study. We conducted a story-telling test to determine which play companions that lead to children's happiness and by using content analysis to…
Descriptors: Play, Gender Differences, Story Telling, Preferences
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Kain, Juliana; Ortega, Alejandra; Garmendia, María Luisa; Corvalán, Camila; Marambio, Paola; Rojas, Joanna; Muñoz, Camila; Leyton, Barbara – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
We developed and pilot tested the effectiveness of a physically active academic program, Active Breaks (AB), whose objective is to increase school time moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among first graders, through daily 15-minute bouts of MVPA, at the beginning of the first lesson. Initially, 240 cards including one game each were…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Thiede, Robert – School Leadership Review, 2020
The Ashland University's superintendent licensure program had not been revised and updated for the last several years. With all of the educational reforms in the first part of this new millennium, there was a pressing need to redefine and develop the overall program and courses embedded in it. An action plan was set up to carry out several steps…
Descriptors: Universities, Superintendents, Administrator Education, Educational Change
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Taylor, Linda K.; Kim, Kyoung Jin – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2020
This Reflection on Practice is based upon a change in the undergraduate course "Family and Community Relations." Historically, this course has been taught on campus in a lecture format, as well as small and large group activities. However, during a spring semester at a midsized Midwestern University, it was altered to provide more direct…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Child Care
Kipnis, F.; Whitebook, M.; Almaraz, M.; Sakai, L.; Austin, L. J. E. – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2012
The Learning Together longitudinal study focuses on four counties' efforts to expand bachelor's degree opportunities in early care and education (ECE) for adults currently working in the field. The "student cohort" model--in which small groups of ECE students with similar interests and characteristics pursue a bachelor's degree together,…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Bachelors Degrees
Whitebook, Marcy; Kipnis, Fran; Sakai, Laura; Almaraz, Mirella – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2011
The "Learning Together" longitudinal study focuses on four counties' efforts to expand bachelor's degree opportunities in early care and education (ECE) for adults currently working in the field. The "student cohort model"--in which small groups of ECE students with similar interests and characteristics pursue a bachelor's…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, Bachelors Degrees
Whitebook, Marcy; Sakai, Laura; Kipnis, Fran; Bellm, Dan; Almaraz, Mirella – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2010
Interest in expanding access to higher education has been driven by concerns about ethnic and linguistic stratification within the early childhood workforce, and building a pipeline for diversifying the early care and education (ECE) field's leadership. "Cohort" B.A. completion programs, which target small groups of adults working in ECE…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Organizational Change, Program Development, Adult Students
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Hestenes, Linda L.; Laparo, Karen; Scott-Little, Catherine; Chakravarthi, Swetha; Lower, Joanna K.; Cranor, Angie; Cassidy, Deborah J.; Niemeyer, Judith – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2009
Preparing students in the early childhood field to work with children both with and without disabilities and to collaborate with different professionals is an important endeavor for colleges and universities. The purpose of this paper is to articulate a unique model of program collaboration between early childhood special education and early…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Young Children
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2008
This report reflects the first year of a multiyear effort to examine B.A. completion cohort programs in early care and education in four California counties. The six programs under investigation were developed with similar goals: (1) To increase and retain a pool of B.A.-level professionals in the ECE field with culturally, linguistically, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Educational Experience, Adult Students