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Pre-School Education: Unpacking Dilemmas and Challenges Experienced by Caregivers--A Case of Private Sectors in Mutare Urban-Zimbabwe
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Chiparange, Getrude Vongai; Saruchera, Kenneth – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Despite the remarkable awareness in Zimbabwe of the importance of Early Childhood Development and Education (ECD), there is insufficient motivation for communities, local authorities and central government to make strategic plans for universal position. The study was to unpack dilemmas and challenges related to the implementation of the ECD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education, Caregivers
Positive and Negative Childhood and Adolescent Identity Memories Stemming from One's Country and Culture-of-Origin: A Comparative Narrative Analysis
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Bazuin-Yoder, Amy – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2011
The initial cognitive ability to coordinate experience into a hierarchically organized, multi-episode narrative occurs in youth, beginning a narrative record of ego identity development that continues throughout the life span (Habermas and Bluck in "Psychological Bulletin" 126:748-769, 2000; Habermas and de Silveira in "Developmental Psychology"…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Ethnicity, Self Concept, Developmental Psychology
Teachers' Perceptions of Their First Teaching Positions
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Brobst, Molly R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Colleges and universities graduate many qualified teachers each year who are eager to enter their own classrooms, yet over one third of teachers leave the profession within the first 5 years of teaching. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine teachers' perceptions of their first teaching positions to determine whether they…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teachers, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Language and the Formation of Masculine Potency in Peruvian Aymara Boyhood
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Smith, Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The dissertation project is a study of how childrens' increasingly skillful use of certain language forms ("stance forms") help them to more effectively perform culturally salient social identities in discourse. Although scholars have long claimed that language use helps to position speakers in terms of socially recognizable identities,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Socialization, Play, Intervention
Constructing Constructivism: How Student-Teachers Construct Ideas of Development, Knowledge, Learning, and Teaching
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Kroll, Linda R. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This case study investigates the development of the understanding of constructivist theory among students in a Masters level elementary teacher education program within a particular course. The focus of the study is a seminar entitled "Advanced Seminar in Child Development". The questions explored include: How do students' ideas of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Education Programs, Seminars
Playing for Keeps: Supporting Children's Play. Topics in Early Childhood Education, Volume 2.
Phillips, Amy L., Ed. – 1996
Changes in our world have made it more difficult for children to find protected, exciting places to play and interesting, satisfactory things to play with. This edited volume, resulting from the collaboration of Bank Street College (New York, New York), Erikson Institute (Chicago, Illinois), Pacific Oaks College (Pasadena, California), and…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Child Development