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Just before Pre-Primary Education: Interplay between Age and Resources in the Transition Processes of Diverse Pre-Primary Education Contexts
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Jasemin Can; Johanna Kiili; Mari Vuorisalo; Niina Rutanen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
This article describes the interplay between age and children's resources during the transition from Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) to pre-primary education. We describe how age operates in the structures of ECEC during the time before the actual transition. We approach the transition to pre-primary education and the relation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
The Impact of Place in Building Human Capability
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Garlick, Steve – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2014
While it is accepted that there are "sensitive" and "critical" periods of life during which certain human capabilities are more readily acquired, and where the multiplied returns on our investment in human capability building are more significant, it is also argued that there are place-based contexts (society, nature, culture,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Human Capital, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Developmental Tasks
Attainment of Developmental Tasks by Adolescents with Hearing Loss Attending Special Schools
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Martin Pinquart; Jens P. Pfeiffer – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The investigators compared the perceived attainment of developmental tasks by 181 German adolescents with hearing loss and 254 peers without hearing loss. The adolescents with hearing loss were attending special schools for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. On average, the two groups perceived similar levels of success across the assessed…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Adolescents, Special Schools, Deafness
Pre-School Kids Benefit from New Skills Assessments
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Willms, J. Douglas – Education Canada, 2009
The Early Years Evaluation (EYE) program is intended to help teachers to evaluate the skills of children from three to six years. This article discusses two new skills assessments of the EYE program: (1) the Early Years Evaluation-Direct Assessment (EYE-DA); and (2) the Early Years Evaluation-Teacher Assessment (EYE-TA). The EYE-DA evaluates…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preschool Children, Child Development, Skill Analysis
Warrki Jarrinjaku "Working Together Everyone and Listening": Growing Together as Leaders for Aboriginal Children in Remote Central Australia
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Priest, Kathryn; King, Sharijn; Nangala, Irene; Brown, Wendy Nungurrayi; Nangala, Marilyn – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
This article outlines an early childhood leadership model that senior Anangu and Yapa (Aboriginal) women, living semi-traditional lifestyles in the remote desert regions of central Australia, have identified as a positive and important way forward for their children, families, governments and related professionals. The initiative--Warrki…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Community Action
Children in the Junkyard.
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Haas, Malka – Childhood Education, 1996
Examines the role of playgrounds that use discarded items or "junk" as an integral part of kindergarten classes in an Israeli kibbutz. Suggests that play in the junkyard, by including the whole person--muscles and senses, emotion and intellect, individual growth and social interaction--can offer the experiential foundations on which…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Developmental Tasks