Early Childhood Research & Practice articles

Recent articles from Early Childhood Research & Practice

Analyzing the impact of gender on depictions of touch in early childhood textbooks.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Recent research efforts have articulated that men teaching in early childhood contexts represent between 1% and 4% of all early childhood education (ECED) teachers, depending on the study and/or context (Cameron, 2001; Farquhar, 1997). A few countries have successfully...

At the zoo: kindergartners reinvent a dramatic play area.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Background Information The Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education is located in Brookings, South Dakota, on the campus of South Dakota State University. The program houses three laboratory preschool classrooms and one kindergarten classroom. At the time of the activities reported...

Coaching as part of a pilot quality rating scale initiative: challenges to--and supports for--the change-making process.(early care and education)(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Research suggests that the quality of center-based early care and education (ECE) and family child care homes in this country is generally mediocre (Helburn, Culkin, Morris, Mocan, Howes, & Phillipsen, 1995; Kontos, Howes, Shinn, & Galinsky, 1994). In addition, parents often...

Dental care issues for African immigrant families of preschoolers.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Introduction According to the Surgeon General's report published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000), dental caries is one of the most common chronic childhood diseases--5 times more common than asthma. The report indicates that the impact of oral disease on...

Introduction to the special section on dramatic play.(early childhood education)
September 22, 2008... This special section of Early Childhood Research and Practice features two practitioner perspectives on children's involvement in dramatic play. Dramatic play, socio-dramatic play, symbolic play, pretend play--these varied terms describe interrelated phenomena well known to those who work...