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Dutch Early Years Classroom Teachers Facilitating and Guiding Musical Play: Problems and Opportunities
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Nieuwmeijer, Christiane; Marshall, Nigel; van Oers, Bert – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Musical play is an activity in which young children more or less freely explore and create with sound with limited guidance from a teacher. This study explored the occurrence of musical play in Dutch early years education (4-5 year olds). Twenty early years classroom teachers were interviewed about the content of the music education taking place…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Music Education, Play, Preservice Teacher Education
Children's Engagement in Play at Home: A Parent's Role in Supporting Play Opportunities during Early Childhood
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LaForett, Doré R.; Mendez, Julia L. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study examined parents' developmentally appropriate beliefs about young children's play and parents' views on their child's play skills. This exploratory secondary data analysis was drawn from data on low-income African-American and Latino parents and their children (n = 109) participating in Head Start programmes in the USA. Compared with…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Parent Role, Learner Engagement
A Study of Early Childhood Mathematics Teaching in the United States and China
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Li, Xia; Chi, Liping; DeBey, Mary; Baroody, Arthur J. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The present study involved using a questionnaire to investigate the mathematics teaching practices of 74 U.S. and 67 Chinese early childhood teachers. Quantitative and qualitative analyses yielded several key findings. First, U.S. teachers are less intentional in mathematics teaching than their Chinese counterparts.…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Instruction, Questionnaires, Educational Practices
Not Your Mother's View: The Dynamics of Toddler Visual Experience
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Smith, Linda B.; Yu, Chen; Pereira, Alfredo F. – Developmental Science, 2011
Human toddlers learn about objects through second-by-second, minute-by-minute sensory-motor interactions. In an effort to understand how toddlers' bodily actions structure the visual learning environment, mini-video cameras were placed low on the foreheads of toddlers, and for comparison also on the foreheads of their parents, as they jointly…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Perceptual Motor Learning, Video Technology, Play
Developmentally Appropriate Education: A Case Study.
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Christian, Linda Garris; Bell, David – 1991
This paper maintains that the two basic dimensions of developmentally appropriate practice are age appropriateness and individual appropriateness. For the latter dimension, individuals' patterns of growth, personality, families, and culture are believed to be important. Teachers who use developmentally appropriate practices believe that young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design, Developmental Programs
Playgrounds for School-Age Afterschool Programs.
Wardle, Francis – Child Care Information Exchange, 1998
Notes the increase in after-school programs for school-age children and discusses ways to meet the outdoor play needs of this age group. Stresses the need to recognize the unique physical, cognitive, and social needs of school-age children; offers suggestions for developing or modifying playgrounds to meet those needs. (TJQ)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Age Differences, Child Safety, Developmentally Appropriate Practices