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Penderi, Efthymia; Rekalidou, Galini – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
The preschool setting offers many opportunities to promote development of responsibility in young children. Clean-up routines may support children's distributional judgments, and reveal their sense of responsibility about classroom duties. Although there is a large number of studies regarding children's views about resource distribution,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Beliefs, Social Responsibility, Sanitation
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Saçkes, Mesut – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study aims to examine kindergarten children's mental models of the day and night cycle and provide implications for pedagogical practices targeting space science concepts in early childhood classrooms. A total of 46 kindergartners participated in the study, their age ranging from 60 to 75 months, including 22 boys and 24 girls.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes
Way, Jennifer; Reece, Amelia; Bobis, Janette; Anderson, Judy; Martin, Andrew – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
The phenomenon of the "middle-years dip" in mathematics engagement and achievement has been a cause of concern for over a decade. This paper presents an example of one upper-primary classroom identified as having higher than average levels of student engagement, with the purpose of documenting specific teaching strategies that align with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Education