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Direct linkBusch, J.; Cabrera, N.; Ialuna, F.; Buchmüller, T.; Leyendecker, B. – Early Education and Development, 2022
Research Findings: We assessed socio-emotional behavior, nonverbal reasoning, German receptive language, and motor skills of refugee children attending early childhood development [ECD] programs and of those who did not (N = 207, mean age = 69.4 months). Young refugee children overall demonstrated lower levels of development and more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Jaggy, Ann-Kathrin; Perren, Sonja; Sticca, Fabio – Early Education and Development, 2020
Pretend play may be beneficial for young children's social development. However, empirical results to date are inconsistent and limited, which is partly due to a lack of psychometrically sound measures for children's social pretend play competence. The current study aimed to compare and validate different assessment methods for children's social…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Imagination
Download full textWerner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature with new evidence from German longitudinal time-use…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Foreign Countries
Sliwka, Anne; Yee, Brandy – European Journal of Education, 2015
There has been a shift in the core idea of schooling in both Germany and Canada: While schools have traditionally focused on cognitive development, they now increasingly focus on "engaged learners" and use integrated settings to support their cognitive, metacognitive and social-emotional development. In line with the theme "Learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Learner Engagement, Cognitive Development
Horstschräer, Julia; Muehler, Grit – Education Economics, 2014
Fixed cutoff dates regulating school entry create disadvantages for children who are young relative to their classmates. Early and late school enrollment, though, might mitigate these disadvantages. In this paper, we analyze in a first step which factors determine school entry, if entrance screenings allow for early and late enrollment. Second, we…
Descriptors: School Entrance Age, Child Development, Disadvantaged, Screening Tests
Kluczniok, Katharina; Anders, Yvonne; Sechtig, Jutta; Rossbach, Hans-Guenther – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
As a result of public discussions regarding Germany's standing on international rankings of student achievement, increased attention was focused on enhancing cognitive stimulation in preschools. There are some concerns that preschool curricula that focus more on cognitive stimulation rather than on socio-emotional skills might neglect the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Academic Education, Social Development, Emotional Development
Brown, Alan; Bimrose, Jenny – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
The study, upon which this special issue focuses, used narrative interviews to investigate how learning can support workers' transitions in the labour market in five European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain). The five countries were chosen to represent very different contexts in the way learning can support career and labour…
Descriptors: Career Change, Labor Market, Interviews, Role of Education
Konig, Anke; van der Aalsvoort, Geerdina Maria – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2009
This study explores educators' reflections on professional childcare practice in different national contexts. The data were collected by showing video clips of classroom activities in Japanese, Dutch and German pre-schools to experienced German and Dutch pre-school teachers. The clips were used to elicit their opinions on playing and learning in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedDe Lisi, Richard – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Reviews six books on child cognitive and emotional development. The books address the following topics: the assessment of cognitive competence; children's theories of mind; early grammatical development; the psychological consequences of parental belief systems for children; the role of culture in human development; and perspectives from…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cultural Influences
