Early Childhood Research & Practice articles from September 2006

Early Childhood Research & Practice archives from September 2006

Mothers' representations of the role of parents and preschools in promoting children's development.
September 22, 2006... Abstract This qualitative study investigated mothers' views about their role in their children's education and their expectations of their child's preschool. A particular focus of the study was to contrast the views of mothers with...

Nurturing social experience in three early childhood special education classrooms.
September 22, 2006... Abstract This study explored the ways in which early childhood special education teachers supported children's social behavior within the context of their preschool classrooms. Data collected for six children through naturalistic classroom...

Identifying key early literacy and school readiness issues: exploring a strategy for assessing community needs.
September 22, 2006... Abstract Much effort has been expended in developing intervention programs to help improve the early literacy and school readiness skills of young children. This article presents the results of a needs assessment project aimed at...

Primary literacy achievement: a collaborative urban partnership.
September 22, 2006... Abstract This study examined the effects of a collaborative urban partnership on student literacy achievement. The participants were approximately 220 students in kindergarten through third grade and 10 teachers. Participants were from an...

Mapping knowledge: concept maps in early childhood education.
September 22, 2006... Abstract Graphic organizers such as webs, time lines, Venn diagrams, flowcharts, and concept maps are well known and widely used instructional and learning tools. They help teachers and students not only to identify and visually represent...

Changing classroom practice to include the project approach.
September 22, 2006... Abstract Project work involves content, products, and processes. Teacher educators may notice that those new to project work adopt ideas and practices related to content and products more readily than they adopt ideas and practices related...

A look at children's adjustment to early childhood programs.
September 22, 2006... Abstract This paper describes a pilot project during which the author visited different early childhood classrooms and used a handheld video camera to record how children adjust to new programs. The objectives were (1) to describe how...

The garbage project.
September 22, 2006... Abstract This article describes a project on garbage undertaken by 5-year-old children in a bilingual school in Mexico City. This project shows how the children explored the problem of garbage generated in their school and in Mexico City,...