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Karen Guo; Andrea Nolan; Carole Lanting – Australian Educational Researcher, 2025
Current research and literature emphasize the crucial role of group experiences in children's learning during early childhood. However, despite the frequent use of the term 'group', little attention has been paid to its position in children's learning and the diverse perspectives that inform it. This study addressed this gap by applying a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Teachers
Suzette Knowles – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Encouraging children's academic success and positive outcomes is a critical duty of parents and school leaders. School leaders face a variety of challenges, including encounters with parents. The problem is the challenges school leaders face where parental involvement influences their children's holistic development. An absence of dynamic parental…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Kelly M. Purtell; Arya Ansari; Qingqing Yang; Caroline P. Bartholomew – Grantee Submission, 2021
Almost five million children attend preschool in the United States each year. Recent attention has been paid to the ways in which preschool classrooms shape children's early language development. This article discusses the importance of peers and classroom composition through the lens of age and socioeconomic status and the implications for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Language, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Keim, Kahlie Meara – Online Submission, 2020
Teachers can play important roles in supporting children's development through play, but require training to better understand this role. Practice-based coaching shows promise in its ability to train teachers in use of evidence-based practice, but has not been used for play support practices. The present study sought to explore using…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Play
Anderson, Kate; Sayre, Rebecca – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2016
The Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes (MELQO) initiative aims to improve early childhood education worldwide through measurement of children's development and learning and the quality of learning environments. Led by UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, MELQO comprises an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Educational Assessment
Friedlaender, Diane; Beckham, Kyle; Zheng, Xinhua; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
This report documents the practices and outcomes of Alice Birney, a public K-8 Waldorf-Inspired School in Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). This study highlights how such a school addresses students' academic, social, emotional, physical, and creative development. Birney students outperform similar students in SCUSD on several…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Educational Research