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Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:02:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322132&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F3%2F327%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322132 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322132 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322131&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F3%2F325%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322131 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322131 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322130&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F3%2F324%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322130 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322129&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F310%3Frss%3D1 This article reports an aspect of a life historical study which investigated the part that ‘love’ played in mothers’ decision-making about returning to work and placing their babies in day care. The article begins with a brief discussion of the context, including 21st-century policies in England to encourage mothers to return to the workforce (DfES, 2004; HMT, 2009). This is followed by a critical overview of relevant literature exploring three key themes: an historical view of women in the workforce, Attachment Theory, and theorizing ‘love’ and ‘care’. The life-historical methodology is discussed and justified and seven key themes are briefly identified and explained. The article then focuses specifically on the theme of ‘love’ using l... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322129 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322128&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 Conclusions and implications for future research follow. In the end, the team finds the importance in their studio practice as a way to create meaning in everyday experiences. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322128 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322127&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F280%3Frss%3D1 This article makes visible the ways heteronormativity is achieved in early childhood education along these trajectories and asks, in whose interests is the (hetero)norm being preserved? (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322127 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322127 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322126&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F262%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the socio-cultural context of early childhood socialization in Hungary. Using a macroscopic lens, we describe the national demographic situation and the social organization of early childhood education and care. Our analysis then shifts to a microscopic focus on parental values and beliefs about the substance of what young children should be learning in different settings. Results from our national survey suggest that Hungarian parents tend to view the socialization roles of childcare workers and parents as different, but complementary: good manners should be learned at home, while cognitive and social skills should be learned in nurseries. Most respondents also think that young children should learn about the world, others, and themselves through play in group settin... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322126 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322126 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322125&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F247%3Frss%3D1 Individual development plans, which are sometimes designed as ‘agreements — contracts’, can be considered the most rigid type of regulation on the individual level in the history of preschool in Sweden. Today we speak about a deregulated school. This regulation seems to have changed its character, gradually drifting from school regulation to individual and self-regulation. The study aims to map and discuss the variation of content and positions for children in the documentation from all preschools in a municipality in the south of Sweden. Documentation and individual development plans (IDP) are studied from preschools with different pedagogical profiles. Materials from Montessori- and Reggio Emilia-inspired preschools are focused on. A critical didactic perspective refers... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322125 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322124&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F232%3Frss%3D1 This study investigated teachers’ experiences of closeness during interactions with children in child care. Structured interviews were conducted with 24 female teachers who were teaching children between the ages of three and five (mean age = 3.9) regarding their conceptions of closeness, and their perceptions of their own and the child’s contributions to close interactions. Qualitative analyses of the interviews revealed a relational model of teacher—child relationships that included a professional domain, an attachment domain and a personal domain, with the personal domain as most dominant in teachers’ perceptions. The personal domain was interpreted as consistent with Weingarten’s (1991) theory of intimate interactions and adds a new perspective on affectiv... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322124 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322124 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322123&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F220%3Frss%3D1 This small-scale study focuses on young children’s reported information and communication technology (ICT) experiences in the home and the role of parents in providing technological opportunities, recognition and support. The children of the parents involved were all enrolled in nursery and reception classes (4—5 years of age) in two settings (referred to hereafter as Stafford School and Hill School). The term home is used here to denote any context in children’s lives beyond the school/nursery environs whilst the interpretation of ICT is equally broad and inclusive in nature and encompasses any technology associated with the handling and electronic transmission of information and/or its use in controlling the operations of machines and other devices (HMI, 1989). In this ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322123 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322123 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322122&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F207%3Frss%3D1 This study sought to collect childcare providers’ suggestions for improving physical activity during daycare hours and their perspectives regarding the feasibility of meeting the physical activity guidelines currently set out for preschoolers. This qualitative study targeted a heterogeneous sample of childcare providers (n = 54) working at YMCA daycare centers in London, Ontario. Eight focus groups were conducted. Saturation was reached by the fifth focus group; however, three additional focus groups were completed to confirm that the researchers continued hearing the same responses. Focus groups were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Inductive content analysis was used to code and categorize emerging themes. Strategies were incorporated to ensure data trustworthiness. Childca... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322122 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322121&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F196%3Frss%3D1 An increasing number of working parents are making use of out of school hours care (OSHC) for their young primary-school aged children, but in Australia very little is known about how effectively these services meet parent needs. The present pilot study aimed to gather information non-directively from employed parents, first, about how OSHC use affects their workforce participation and ability to resolve the competing demands of work and family responsibilities. The second goal was to gain some idea of what parents look for in OSHC and how satisfied they feel with the service they use. Thirteen mothers answered open-ended but structured questions in a telephone interview. They expressed how vital OSHC services are in enabling them to work, but usually did not spontaneously evaluate the qua... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322121 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322121 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5322120&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F3%2F191%3Frss%3D1 This study examined whether labeling novel healthy foods with fun names would increase children’s willingness to try those foods and encourage them to eat more of those foods in a child care setting. Thirty-nine toddler and preschool age children (mean age = 3.9 years) were served each of three foods twice, once labeled with a fun name and once with a healthy name. Percentage of the food consumed by each child was recorded. Overall, children ate a greater percentage of the target foods when they were labeled with fun names. Also, a larger percentage of the children tasted the foods when they were labeled with fun names. This simple strategy could be effective for increasing consumption of healthy foods among young children. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5322120 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 5322120 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968084&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F175%3Frss%3D1 This article presents the findings of a large-scale survey (n = 1049) of ethnic awareness and attitudes among three to four-year-old children in Northern Ireland. In drawing upon and applying Bourdieu’s notion of habitus, the article demonstrates how, even at this age, the children are already beginning to embody and internalize the cultural habits and dispositions of their respective ethnic groups; namely the Protestant and Catholic communities. This is illustrated in the present article in relation to the children’s attitudes towards particular national flags and awareness of specific sports associated with their respective communities. Informed by the work of Bourdieu, the article concludes by arguing for the need for greater use of quantitative methods in conjunction with i... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968084 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968084 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968083&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F162%3Frss%3D1 In this article we unravel the difficulty of being researchers in the homes and classrooms of children and their families whose origins are, for one of us, very different and, for the other, very similar to our own. We first situate our work within theories of early socialization and literacy teaching which underpin our understanding of how young children in cross-cultural contexts learn. We then turn to the question of working with the families and teachers of these children which poses dilemmas not explained by the theories presented. We illustrate these through a series of vignettes typifying both the ‘Outsider’ and the ‘Insider’ role. The stories highlight paradigmatic moments of complexity, clashes or collusion which we unpick in terms of their generalizability... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968083 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968082&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F150%3Frss%3D1 This article explores the economic rationales for and the limitations of a market approach to early education and care services. It considers the direct and indirect research evidence about the functioning of such a market. It argues that any conceptualization of early childhood services in the UK now has to take account of the growth of the for-profit childcare market and the economic rationales of the marketplace. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968082 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968081&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F137%3Frss%3D1 This article summarizes some aspects of the current consensus — on learning through play, respecting diversity, listening to children — and asks some critical questions about the implementation of these principles in practice. Through examining some small examples of interactions in day care and classrooms, it asks whether current confidence about the nature of good practice has prevented researchers from asking difficult questions and challenging orthodoxies. It suggests some topics which might inform the agenda of future research, ensuring that rather than resting on their laurels, researchers attempt to listen carefully to children and families and take both them and their culture seriously. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968081 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968080&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F125%3Frss%3D1 This article reviews the enormous range of research available, examining the aims and purposes of the studies, their methods and findings and the ways in which childhood and child—adult relationships are conceptualized. In particular, this article is concerned with whether the evidence available arises from studies concerned with cost-effectiveness or with equity and the re-distribution of wealth and resources. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968080 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968080 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968079&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F2%2F109%3Frss%3D1 This article reports the effects of pre-school quality on children’s cognitive and behavioural outcomes at age 11 using a large-scale longitudinal study of 3000+ children in England (EPPE/EPPSE). The ECERS-R and a curricular extension to it (ECERS-E) were used to assess the quality of provision in 141 pre-school settings attended by the children. The quality measures were derived from observations throughout the day of interactions and resources related to Literacy, Numeracy and Science learning, as well as observational/ interview data related to how each centre catered to diverse needs of children. Multi-level modelling was used to investigate the effects of pre-school quality on children’s academic and social-behavioural outcomes at age 11. Pre-school quality significantly p... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968079 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968079 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968078&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F2%2F107%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968078 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:00:00 +0100 4968078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511932&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F1%2F102%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511932 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511932 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511931&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F1%2F100%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511931 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511931 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511930&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F81%3Frss%3D1 Sixty-five mothers reported on their toddlers’ attention regulation and negative emotional intensity and provided information about the toddlers’ empathy and aggression. Toddler concerned attention was also observed during a laboratory session as was mothers’ discourse about mental states. Toddlers reported to have better attention regulation and lower negative emotional intensity were reported to be less physically aggressive. Mothers who made more references to needs, intentions, and desires had toddlers who were lower in both aggression- and empathy-related behavior as assessed with maternal report and observation. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511930 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511929&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F66%3Frss%3D1 A capacity-building approach to natural learning environment intervention practices was the focus of the study. Capacity-building early childhood intervention promotes parents’ or other caregivers’ skills, abilities, and confidence to provide children development-enhancing learning opportunities. Natural environment practices use everyday experiences, events, and places as sources of child learning opportunities that promote child competencies. The manner in which the capacity-building intervention approach enhanced caregivers’ abilities to provide their young children everyday natural learning opportunities was examined in this study. The participants were four adult caregivers (three mothers, one grandmother) and four preschool children with developmental delays. A mult... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511929 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511928&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F53%3Frss%3D1 This study examined five—eight-year-old children’s understanding of dangers associated with the Internet, management strategies and sources of their understanding. Children in small groups answered questions relating to what they consider dangerous interactions or materials connected with the Internet, management strategies they would employ if confronted with these, and who taught them what they knew. Many children reported prior negative experiences on the Internet. Although they identified several risk categories, when presented with potentially dangerous Internet interactions almost half were not able to identify the associated risks. Most children identified appropriate management strategies; however, it was evident that children could not safely employ these because they ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511928 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511927&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F36%3Frss%3D1 The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary that these children are exposed to daily with the characteristics of the lexical surround in the literacy settings induced by the implementation of the program. Results showed that literacy situations provided children with an enriched lexical input: a higher amount of word tokens and word types, and more unfamiliar words that represented phenomena, properties or actions not directly observable. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511927 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511926&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F20%3Frss%3D1 Early childhood education and care has become the norm for children in the United States and most European countries. In the United States, immigrant children, a growing demographic, are under-enrolled, particularly in formal settings. This research revealed that younger children of immigrant mothers were less likely to be in non-parental care, but immigrant status did not affect enrollment of three—five-year-old children when various parental and child characteristics were controlled. Socio-economic factors were more important predictors of early childhood education and care use than immigrant status in the older group, which suggests that policies aimed at increasing enrollment among immigrants must consider the primacy of these variables. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Resear... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511926 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511926 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511925&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F9%2F1%2F4%3Frss%3D1 Using the recently available wave of a large nationally representative sample of American elementary school children (ECLS-K data), this study examined the relationship between 6-7 year old students’ behaviors exhibited in the 1st grade (approaches to learning, interpersonal skills, externalizing and internalizing behavior) and their reading and mathematics achievement at the end of the 5th grade (pupils aged 10 - 11 years), controlling for their achievement in the 1st grade. Findings include the single behavioral dimension that has a substantial association with later achievement is students’ approaches to learning. The analysis of the interaction effects showed that students from families of low socioeconomic status, girls (in case of math) and minority students were more lik... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511925 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511925 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4511924&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F9%2F1%2F3%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4511924 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0100 4511924 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196583&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F3%2F333%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196583 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196582&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F3%2F331%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196582 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196582 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196581&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F315%3Frss%3D1 Learning how to respond appropriately in risk situations comes not only from the child’s direct experiences but also through the guidance of those around them. The role of parent practices in guiding children’s decision-making in risky situations has mainly been investigated in experimental contexts. The present study examined children’s risk-taking behaviour and parent responses in everyday outdoor play settings. Parents’ own risk-taking beliefs and behaviours were assessed using the Attitudes Towards Risk Questionnaire (ATR). Interviews explored parents’ attitudes towards children’s risk-taking and parents (11 mothers, one father) were observed as they supervised their four- to five-year-old children on playground equipment at a park. Parents’ AT... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196581 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196580&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F303%3Frss%3D1 This article highlights the parent—teacher conferences in the Swedish preschool and the talk about children’s inappropriate and undesirable behaviour in a preschool setting.The focus of the article concerns how teachers talk about children’s resistance to the social order in preschool and especially how children show resistance to teachers. The empirical material consists of 22 audio-taped conferences included in a larger study of parent—teacher conferences in a Swedish preschool setting. The analysis reveals five different strategies concerning the talk about children’s resistance to the practitioners and the institution: physical resistance, emotional resistance, social resistance, verbal resistance and resistance through rejection. In addition, the article ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196580 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196579&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F294%3Frss%3D1 This qualitative study aimed to explore how infants share and experience friendships and examine the role of infant caregivers in social and friendship experiences among infants. The data were collected through classroom observation over a semester. Findings yielded complex and rich social relationships that both infant friends and caregivers collectively share. Infant friends exhibited strong preference toward each other and share caring, affective, playful, and humorous relationships. The findings also illustrated how infant caregivers play an important role in nurturing and supporting relationships among infants. Yet, it was also noticed that caregivers could easily miss the cues of infants or their intentions and thus hinder the further development of infants’ play and social int... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196579 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196579 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196578&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F282%3Frss%3D1 Thirty-eight children in first and second grade completed a 10-item rating scale on Internet use at home and school. Results suggested that, in general, more children used the Internet at school than at home but home-based use was more often perceived as enjoyable. Three patterns of Internet use emerged suggesting three types of young users: home-based users demonstrated extensive, comprehensive, and enjoyable use of the Internet at home coupled with limited and less enjoyable Internet use at school; school-oriented information seekers reported mainly visiting websites, both at home and at school, but school access was preferred; and school-oriented communicators indicated primarily using email, both at home and at school, but school use was preferred. Implications for Internet literacy in... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196578 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196578 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196577&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F269%3Frss%3D1 Across the ‘European learning space’ (Lawn, 2006) professionalisation of early years workforces has become a key priority and there has been a flow of this policy between borders (Oberhuemer, 2005). Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is central to these developments in England.Within what is regarded as a traditionally ‘split’ early years workforce (Moss, 2008), EYPS felt to offer a route for those from a childcare background to improve their position relative to teaching professionals (HMT, 2004). Alongside these developments theoretical perspectives have emerged attempting to explain the professionalisation process in England. They include the following: 1) a post-structural theory suggesting the operation of an official discourse of professionalisation as a m... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196577 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196576&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F254%3Frss%3D1 Qualitative interview methodology was used to investigate the perspectives and experiences of five general pediatricians who had diagnosed children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Information was obtained from the participants in the following areas: a) training; b) signs/symptoms of ASD; c) causes of ASD; d) well-child exams; e) first concerns/signs of ASD; f) use of ‘wait and see’; g) communication with families; h) making referrals; i) the diagnostic process for ASD; j) pediatrician comfort with making the ASD diagnosis; k) family reactions to the ASD diagnosis; l) recommendations for families; and m) recommendations for other pediatricians. The results of this investigation are discussed as they relate to these themes and with reference to published literature. Recomme... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196576 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196576 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196575&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F239%3Frss%3D1 This article investigates the perceptions of 12 teachers from New South Wales, Australia, regarding the classroom assignment of twins. Analysis of semi-structured interviews with each of the teachers revealed four key findings: 1) teachers’ perceptions about the classroom assignment of twins vary according to their previous experience and relationship with twins in their personal life; 2) there are no sector-wide policies regarding the classroom assignment of twins; 3) setting size is a major factor influencing teachers’ perceptions of the classroom assignment of twins; and 4) formal training does not refer to twins and their education. Recommendations and implications for teachers are discussed. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196575 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4196574&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F3%2F227%3Frss%3D1 This study investigated gender differences in North American preschoolers’ biological reasoning about the concept of ‘life’. Four-year-olds (M = 4.6, SD = 3.3 months) and five-year-olds (M = 5.6, SD = 3.8 months) were asked about the function of 13 body parts, organs, and bodily processes. Results indicated that the likelihood of mentioning the importance of body parts, organs, and bodily processes for maintaining life or preventing death was predicted by age. A concept of life was more likely to occur in boys rather than girls. Although boys had a greater understanding of life they did not outperform girls in their responses to organ/ body part function. The results demonstrate that gender differences in biological reasoning emerge during the preschool years. Implication... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4196574 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4196574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585274&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F2%2F219%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585274 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585273&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F2%2F217%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585273 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585272&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F2%2F214%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585272 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585271&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F2%2F211%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585271 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585270&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F2%2F193%3Frss%3D1 With increasing numbers of women joining the workforce, there is a need for quality childcare. This project, conducted in Japan and using a large number of participants, sought to standardize an evaluation scale to measure the development of children. The development of children under six years of age (N = 22,819) who are enrolled in childcare programs was evaluated by childcare professionals. Percentiles were calculated (10th, 50th, and 90th percentile points) for each item (total 192) of six developmental subscales (gross motor, fine motor, social competence, communication, vocabulary, and intelligence development). The results supported the validity of this scale in measuring child development in Japan. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585270 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585269&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F2%2F175%3Frss%3D1 This article provides a brief up-to-date examination of methodological and ethical issues that researchers may need to consider when designing research studies involving children; and a review of some of the methods and techniques used to elicit their views. The article aims to encourage researchers to critically reflect on these methodological issues and the techniques they choose to use, since they will have implications for the data produced. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585269 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585268&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F2%2F161%3Frss%3D1 This article describes a procedure which has proven useful in facilitating narratives about experience of everyday family situations in order to provide insights into the inner world of children around five—seven years. The Windows to Attachment in Young Children (WAYC) consists of the procedure itself and scoring frameworks through which the narrative is analysed. Reports from three studies demonstrate its success in generating rich narrative accounts from Australian children. A system for coding attachment representations shows promise. A system for coding quality of recall of episodic experience has enabled research into the relationship between children’s memory and parent—child communication. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585268 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585267&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F2%2F133%3Frss%3D1 As policy-makers continue to implement early childhood education reforms that frame the field as a mechanism that is to ready children for elementary school success, questions arise as to how the multiple variables in the readiness equation, such as the child, family, and program, are affected by these policies. The instrumental case study presented in this article looks at this dilemma by examining how a collection of prekindergarten stakeholders in the United States aligned their academic performance expectations for students with their district’s standards-based kindergarten through grade 12 education system. Such an analysis highlights the issues that arise for early educators who are asked to define the ready student within a standards-based education environment. Through this c... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585267 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3585266&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F2%2F115%3Frss%3D1 This article considers that relationship. An analysis of classroom talk is used to establish how aspects of young children’s interactional competence are found in features of talk made available for analysis through transcription that deliberately and methodically seeks to record taken-for-granted features of social interaction. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3585266 Fri, 21 May 2010 11:02:25 +0100 3585266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294270&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F8%2F1%2F109%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294270 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294269&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F1%2F89%3Frss%3D1 This study investigated young children’s perceptions of their role in curriculum development in one Canadian preschool. There is no consensus that children have a role to play in developing curriculum. However, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) confirms children’s right to be listened to about all aspects of their lives. Based on interviews with 34 children and three teachers, this study demonstrates the children feel they play an active role in curriculum development and implementation, but teachers make the final decisions about curriculum content. The children expressed a desire to influence the curriculum in new ways, but their ability to do so may be constrained by structural factors within and beyond the preschool. (Source: Journal of Early C... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294269 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294268&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F1%2F67%3Frss%3D1 This article aims to explore this issue. Semi-structured interviews of 23 pre-school children aged four and five years were analyzed on the basis of the concepts of paratelic and telic states in Reversal Theory, the paratelic state being an excitement-seeking mode, and the telic state being an anxiety-avoiding mode. The phenomenological structure of children’s risky play was found to be characterized by children expressing the ambiguous nature of quick reversals between the paratelic and telic states, producing both pleasant and unpleasant emotions. This ‘walk on the dangerous edge’ seemed to be one of the primary goals of engaging in risky play. As long as the paratelic state dominated the situation, children embraced the potential fear by arousal-increasing strategies a... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294268 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294267&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F1%2F40%3Frss%3D1 This study investigated whether Japanese women’s perceived marital and social support affect their parenting self-efficacy directly or indirectly through their levels of parenting stress. Participants were 98 mothers of children in the second grade living in Sapporo or Osaka, Japan. Data collected through surveys were submitted to a structural equation modeling. Results showed that marital support, mothers-in-law support, and friend support each lowered women’s parenting stress, and the low stress in turn increased women’s parenting self-efficacy; however, the indirect effects of mothers-in-law support and friends support on parenting self-efficacy only approached statistical significance. The support from the women’s own mothers directly affected women’s pare... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294267 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294266&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F1%2F23%3Frss%3D1 This article focuses on the data relating to 17 children aged from five to seven years who used virtual worlds. Findings indicate that virtual worlds offered these young children a wide range of opportunities for play and that the types of play in which they engaged relate closely to ‘offline’ play. The implications for early years educators are considered. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294266 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294266 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294265&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F8%2F1%2F5%3Frss%3D1 Using a developmental assets framework, we examined the influences of family resources, routines, and stress on preschool-aged children’s emerging literacy development. Data were collected from 85 children as well as from their parents. Using path analysis, the results revealed that the more regular the routines in the household, the more likely parents were to engage their children in literacy enhancing activities, and in turn the higher the children’s print knowledge and reading interest. This was the case both initially and a year later. Results also showed that family resources and stress contributed to aspects of literacy development, although not as strongly as family routines. The findings suggest that interventions should include efforts to promote supportive family con... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294265 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:31:43 +0100 3294265 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919815&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F3%2F341%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919815 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919814&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F324%3Frss%3D1 The purpose of this article is to engender a space where a variety of critical feminist(s) lenses are interwoven to problematize current discursive practices in linguistic diversity training and to (re)imagine nueavas posibilidades for linguistic diversity research/training for pre-kindergarten teachers. Transnational feminists’ projects have the potential to illuminate and connect larger global issues with, and that pertain to, local and specific radical projects by incorporating critical reflexive methodological tools. In this article we propose to a) discuss language as a monocultural construction that limits conceptions of language and learning for younger human beings; b) examine the discursive practices of teachers of students who are English as second/third language learners; ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919814 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919813&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F299%3Frss%3D1 This article describes an application of dialogic research methods in a pilot study conducted in an Education and Care setting in Wellington, New Zealand focusing on an 18-month-old toddler and his teacher. The purpose of this exploratory study was to ‘operationalize’ dialogic research within this early childhood education context, in preparation for a larger investigation. Approaching the field through this dialogic research method offered an alternative means of investigating the acts of a toddler through genre (as the framework of analysis) and utterance (as the unit of analysis). This article argues for dialogic research as a method which enables toddler and teacher ‘voices’ to authentically inter-animate and contribute accordingly to the research process, thus ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919813 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919812&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F283%3Frss%3D1 This article considers some of the ethical tensions we have experienced when engaging children in research about their prior-to-school and school environments and their perspectives of the transitions between these environments. Examples from projects conducted in Iceland and Australia are drawn upon to illustrate these tensions and, to reflect on the strategies and questions we have developed to guide our engagement with children. This article raises issues rather than offering simple solutions. We suggest that there are a number of contextual and relational variables that guide our research interactions, and no ‘one best solution’ applicable to all contexts. Our aim in sharing these tensions is to stimulate further debate and discussions around children’s participation ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919812 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919811&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F264%3Frss%3D1 Research into the lives of children with acquired brain injury (ABI) often neglects to incorporate children as participants, preferring to obtain the opinions of the adult carer (e.g. McKinlay et al., 2002). There has been a concerted attempt to move away from this position by those working in children’s research with current etiquette highlighting the inclusion of children and the use of a child-friendly methodology (Chappell, 2000). Children with disabilities can represent a challenge to the qualitative researcher due to the combination of maintaining the child’s attention and the demands placed on them by their disability. The focus of this article is to discuss possible impediments to interviewing children with acquired brain injury (ABI) and provide an insight into how the... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919811 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919810&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F244%3Frss%3D1 This article suggests that drawing may be an appropriate non-verbal method for ‘listening’ to these children’s ideas and recording their perspectives. Three areas of inquiry are reviewed: (1) the use of drawings as a method of listening respectfully to children; (2) approaches to the analysis of children’s drawings; and (3) the analysis of drawings completed by children with communication impairment. We identify six aspects of children’s drawings — facial expressions, accentuation of body features (e.g. mouth and ears), portrayal of talking/listening, colours used, conversational partners, and sense of self — that are potentially pertinent for children with communication impairment. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919810 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919809&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F3%2F228%3Frss%3D1 Young children often use actions rather than talk as they interact with objects and each other to strategically shape the social, material, and cultural environment. New dynamic research designs and methods are needed to capture the collaborative learning and social positioning achieved through children’s non-verbal interactions. Mediated discourse analysis (MDA), a hybrid ethnographic/sociolinguistic approach rooted in cultural-historical activity and practice theories, analyzes mediated actions with objects. A three-year ethnographic study of children’s literacy play illustrates the five-stage process in MDA research design that resulted in microanalysis of children’s activity with social practices, positioning and spaces that included and excluded peers. (Source: Journ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919809 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2919808&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F3%2F227%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2919808 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:16 +0100 2919808 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427574&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F2%2F222%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427574 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427573&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F2%2F219%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427573 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427573 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427572&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F2%2F216%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427572 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427572 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427571&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F200%3Frss%3D1 This article explores how young Korean immigrant girls (age five to eight) living in the United States interpreted American popular culture by discussing their interpretations of Disney animated films. In particular, it scrutinizes these girls' understanding of the idea of monarchy — in this case, the process of and the qualification for a ruler — in the films. In addition, this article looks closely at the girls' perspectives on what it means to be a princess in the films by connecting such perspectives to their sense of Korean ethnicity. Finally, it provides some suggestions and implication for researchers and early childhood educators. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427571 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427570&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F185%3Frss%3D1 This study identified Mexican immigrant and Mexican American families' common values and beliefs about preschoolers' socioemotional development in a low-income urban school, which offers a dual language program in South Texas. Approximately 65 families participated in the Family Institute for Early Literacy Development (FIELD), which focused on the social skills expected from children as they enter public preschools. Findings show five socioemotional values within the home that are aligned with research based prosocial behaviors needed for school readiness. Thus, findings imply the importance of supporting preschoolers' social development in school through funds of knowledge. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427570 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427569&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F173%3Frss%3D1 This study examined persistence in the face of academic challenge for economically disadvantaged children. Participants included 103 children attending Head Start preschools, as well as their caregivers and teachers. Child tasks measured persistence in the face of academic challenge as well as emergent implicit theories of intelligence. Caregiver interviews provided information about poverty risks. Teacher interviews measured child attention problems. A cumulative index of poverty risks, as well as teacher-reported child attention problems and child emergent implicit theories of intelligence predicted persistence in the face of challenge. Implications concern conceptualizing persistence in the face of academic challenge, understanding diversity in educational outcomes for economically disa... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427569 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427568&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F153%3Frss%3D1 Recent research suggests that children could be engaged in probability tasks at an early age and task characteristics seem to play an important role in the way children perceive an activity. To this direction in the present article we investigate the role of some basic characteristics of probabilistic tasks in their design and implementation. In order to do so, we present the structure and the content of a series of tasks that were implemented in a kindergarten school focusing on two characteristics: the context and the materials used. In our case, the performance of the experiment together with the use of dice and spinners seemed to be critical in children's development of probabilistic thinking. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427568 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427568 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427567&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F135%3Frss%3D1 This study examines the relationship between children's generational status and their cognitive and social school readiness, paying particular attention to racial/ethnic and national origin differences. This relationship is examined using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998—99 (ECLS-K). Results indicate that, while children of foreign-born mothers tend to have lower levels of school readiness than children of native-born mothers, this disparity is largely due to differences in family context characteristics. After controlling for an array of family background variables, non-Hispanic black, Asian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and other Hispanic children of foreign-born mothers are found to have similar levels of academic school readiness to co-ethnic ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427567 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2427566&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F2%2F115%3Frss%3D1 There is growing interest in the study of young children's `everyday' lives. Music engagement is central to young children's experience of the `everyday' yet few studies have investigated the ways young children and their families engage with and use music in their daily lives. The purpose of this article is twofold: it interrogates the ways in which a young child, and his family draw on musical engagement and use in their daily life; and it provides a storied account as a means to demonstrate the uses of narrative inquiry to early childhood research. Findings identify: the parenting education role of early music programs; the function of joint music-making in the regulation of children's behaviour and emotional states; the contribution of joint and individual music-making to children's la... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2427566 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2427566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118718&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F1%2F110%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118718 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118718 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118717&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F94%3Frss%3D1 The article discusses how children make use of their preschool context in order to withdraw. Ethnographic observations were made of two-to five-year-old children's interactions during free play and teacher-led activities in the preschool, and documentation was carried out through field notes and video recordings. The empirical material was analysed using Corsaro's theory on children's peer cultures. Results show that children, in their peer cultures, construct withdrawal strategies — `making oneself inaccessible' and `creating and protecting shared hidden spaces' — by making use of the preschool's organization of time and space. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118717 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118717 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118716&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F76%3Frss%3D1 Childcare policies introduced in England in the last 10 years have created economic tensions within the sector. Having set the scene, this article presents an exploration of the different ways in which childcare providers approach operating their childcare businesses. Drawing on a case study of one Local Authority in England, the article presents findings from qualitative interviews with a range of childcare providers, demonstrating that they can be classified as being business orientated, care orientated or having a combination of these two approaches. These orientations are largely determined by the provider's attitudes towards making money and the needs of the child. However, the geographical location where the childcare facility is located also interplays in determining how a provider ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118716 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118716 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118715&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F58%3Frss%3D1 In order to understand how mothers develop their parenting styles under rapidly changing cultural contexts, this study examines and compares Korean upper-middle-class mothers' parental goals and real parenting practices as they reported. For this purpose, face-to-face in-depth interviews with 20 Korean mothers were conducted. By analyzing the data, we found that Korean mothers' parenting beliefs focused on `raising a child with good social and emotional characteristics', while their reported practices mainly concentrated on children's academic achievements. Korean mothers failed to connect their beliefs and behaviors because they tended to compare their parenting practices with those of other mothers. Although the mothers followed expectations from current Korean society, they constantly h... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118715 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118714&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F46%3Frss%3D1 Many grandparents play a significant role as educators and carers of children in the preschool years. Recently, this role has become the focus of much early childhood research as challenges facing grandparent carers and grandparent-headed households increasingly become an economic and social issue. Using survey data from China we explore the role of grandparents who have a primary care responsibility for a young child and discuss this contribution to the family in relation to quality of care and education. We argue that grandparents play a significant role in terms of home education of the young, workforce support for young parents, cultural identity within families and community capacity building. Grandparents are therefore deserving of more sustained attention from policy makers and educ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118714 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118714 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118713&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F27%3Frss%3D1 Researchers who deal with inclusive education have made great efforts to listen to the voices of children in order to understand marginalization. Despite the fact that these efforts take place, the voices of many children fail to be heard and hence many children continue to be marginalized. In this article we will develop and implement a technique in order to understand and address marginalization. We will develop a technique that uses children's drawings and a simultaneous talk with children to reveal voices of marginalization. We first define the technique by presenting its theoretical background and then illustrate how the method has been used. Using evidence from a school in Cyprus, we demonstrate how children's drawings and simultaneous discussion with the creator of the drawing can h... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118713 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118712&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F7%2F1%2F3%3Frss%3D1 This qualitative study presents sociolinguistic characteristics of peer-talk of 44 children in a Mandarin—English-speaking preschool in Taiwan where English was taught as a foreign language (EFL). Key findings: teacher-dominated talk influences children's peer-talk; EFL and code-switching emerge in spontaneous peer-talk; children actively engage in EFL learning by using private speech for self-regulatory learning; children actively provide peer tutoring even though they are in the early stage of EFL learning; and language play creates emergent humor for children's verbal participation in the EFL classroom, offering a way for them to resist authoritative voices and thus transform EFL into a living language. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118712 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118712 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2118711&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F7%2F1%2F2%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2118711 Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100 2118711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785050&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F3%2F308%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785050 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785049&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F3%2F305%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785049 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785049 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785048&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F3%2F303%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785048 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785048 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785047&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F3%2F301%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785047 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785047 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785046&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F3%2F281%3Frss%3D1 The author takes the stance that children are always Othered or unfamiliar in research. The child as Other is intensified by adults' memories of their own childhoods. The author discusses what it means to be Othered, reviews images of children, and the roles early childhood research methodologists recommend a researcher should hold. Through narratives the author interrupts the text and reflects on her own childhood, research and teaching young children. Finally, methodological recommendations for utilizing or minimizing the researcher/child Othered relationship are set forth in the following areas: ethical consideration, reflexivity, intersubjectivity, innovative methods, children are experts, and being with children. ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785046 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785045&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F3%2F263%3Frss%3D1 Gay and lesbian issues are often silenced in teacher education programs. Such silencing has serious consequences for teachers who feel unprepared to discuss such issues in their classrooms. Challenging the silence regarding gay and lesbian issues that often permeates early childhood classrooms, we share a teacher's critical inquiry into teaching gay and lesbian issues through teacher action research. We posit that while gay and lesbian issues need to be an intrinsic part of teacher education classes, practising teachers may create the opportunity to take steps toward addressing diversity, fully including gay and lesbian issues in their classrooms. We propose that the case presented may provide a practical possibility f... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785045 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785044&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F3%2F247%3Frss%3D1 This study explores preschoolers' real life engagement with music in everyday life, examining the choices that they have over music listening and the engagement that they show in relation to music in different contexts. A total of 32 children from the United Kingdom aged 3.2—3.9 years participated with their families, nursery teachers and other caregivers. Experience sampling methodology was used to capture up to 21 episodes within a seven-day period. A total of 437 episodes were captured, and 81% had music exposure, either at the time of the call (38%) or during the two preceding hours (43%). Children's music was most frequently heard and chosen by the children themselves; pop music was also frequently heard but less of... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785044 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785044 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785043&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F3%2F233%3Frss%3D1 The study investigated the relationship between family stress and child characteristics in families with motor impaired toddlers. Families of 20 children between 21/2 and 5 years old with motor impairments, who visit a therapeutic toddler class in a rehabilitation centre, participated. The study was carried out in the Netherlands. Family stress was investigated through the Nijmegen Questionnaire for the pedagogical situation (NVOS) (a Dutch family stress inventory) and child characteristics were obtained from the KinderRAP. Factors which appear to have a significant correlation with subjective family stress are: the level of adaptive functioning of the child, problem behaviour of the child, the level of communication o... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785043 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785042&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F3%2F211%3Frss%3D1 We report on child care and home environments of 229 children in the US who were 21/2 years of age (on average) at entry to the study. Among children attending a center at 21/2 or 41/2 years of age, cognitive proficiencies were significantly higher at 71/2 years of age, compared with children in home-based care, after taking into account prior proficiency levels, maternal attributes, and other covariates. No relationship between center attendance and social development, positive or negative, was detected at 71/2. A priori selection factors modestly helped to explain the likelihood that mothers enrolled their child in a center. But associations between center exposure and higher cognitive proficiency at age 71/2... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785042 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1785042 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452832&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F2%2F203%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452832 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452831&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F2%2F201%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452831 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452830&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F2%2F189%3Frss%3D1 This study examined developmental changes in children's ability to understand the emotions expressed in other children's drawings. Eighty participants, at each of four age groups — three, four, five and six years — were presented with a series of child drawings, each expressing a different emotion (happiness, sadness, anger or fear). All drawings had been previously rated by adult judges on an emotion-intensity scale as being good exemplars of the emotions examined. Next, participants were shown pictures of child artists each expressing one of the designated emotions on her/his face and were instructed to identify the artist who created each drawing. The results showed that: (i) by age three, children demonstrated an understanding of the emotions expressed in drawings; (ii) hap... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452830 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452829&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F2%2F163%3Frss%3D1 This article outlines part of a research study2 focusing on the children of both Greek and other origins, who emigrated to Greece from the former USSR and who attended primary schools in Thessaloniki between the academic years 1989—90 to 1999—2000. The aim of this article is to compare the performance in language and mathematics of immigrant and repatriate children, who started school in Greece, with children of the same group, who joined school at a later grade, and also to compare the first group of children with their native peers. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452829 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452828&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F2%2F145%3Frss%3D1 In this article, interviews with eight managers and questionnaires from 75 practitioners are analysed to explore their perceptions of the role of pacifiers (or dummies) within the nursery. Managers and practitioners source their knowledge from the media, family/friends, and short professional speech and language courses; however, their perceptions of pacifiers derive from mainly contested research that has filtered into the public domain. This creates tensions between perceived parental rights to offer a child a pacifier, current UK guidelines and participants' own, often ambivalent, views. The article engages with Foucauldian concepts to explore how authoritative knowledge filters into everyday practice and to deconstruct relations of power within the early years setting. (Source: Journal... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452828 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452828 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452827&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F2%2F119%3Frss%3D1 This study examined the multiple factors that contribute to the school readiness and early school progress of children living in an urban disadvantaged area. Structured interviews were undertaken with parents of children who had recently started school to elicit information about those aspects of children's health, and their home and neighbourhood contexts that may influence their school readiness. Questionnaires were administered to these children's teachers to assess the children's cognitive and socio-emotional school readiness and to identify influences on children's subsequent progress in their first year at school. Findings indicated that while the majority of children were ready for school, over one-third evidenced difficulties in relation to their cognitive abilities and socio-emoti... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452827 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1452826&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F2%2F99%3Frss%3D1 This article is an account of our attempts to understand preschool children's experiences with information and communication technologies (ICT) at home. Using case study data, we focus on what we can learn from talking directly to the children that might otherwise have been overlooked and on describing and evaluating the methods we adopted to ensure that we maximized the children's contributions to the research. By paying attention to the children's perspectives we have learned that they are discriminating users of ICT who evaluate their own performances, know what gives them pleasure and who differentiate between operational competence and the substantive activities made possible by ICT. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1452826 Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1452826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230889&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F93%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230889 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230888&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F79%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230888 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230888 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230887&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F75%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230887 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230886&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F69%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230886 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230885&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F1%2F59%3Frss%3D1 The article considers three domains of Sally Lubeck's scholarship as illustrations of her orientation to research on early care and education: her critique of positivism in general and the field of developmental psychology (and the sub-discipline of child development) specifically as the primary source of a `knowledge base' for the field of early childhood education; her concerns about globalization's increasing influence on educational goals and practices; and her quest to expand the potentials of research in a way that illuminates alternative perspectives on the period of early childhood and bridges the divide between the protagonists and subjects of social science. The article concludes with an invitation to others to pick up where Sally left off. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Res... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230885 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230884&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F51%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230884 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230883&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F47%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230883 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230883 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230882&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F1%2F31%3Frss%3D1 The focus of this article is on the themes of gender, work, and child care as they have been addressed in much of Sally Lubeck's work, in an attempt to understand her trajectory, and her diverse messages to us. In reading her work for this article, key themes stood out that focus our attention on Sally Lubeck's continuing fight for better public funding for child care/early education in the USA, and for a positive family policy that supports all families, particularly single mothers and their children in the United States. Her research attention was also focused on the wisdom expressed in local cultural systems, by parents and teachers, as well as within societal contexts where care and education for all families and children are prioritized. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230882 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230881&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F1%2F23%3Frss%3D1 This article reviews Sally Lubeck's international contributions. It describes her role as rapporteur for the OECD review of early education and care services in the UK, one of 20 such reviews commissioned by the OECD. It discusses the continued relevance of her observations and comments on provision in the UK. The article goes on to comment briefly on her insights into the role of international agencies more generally, and the difficulties of knowledge transfer not only between the rich countries of the OECD but between rich and poor countries across the world. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230881 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230881 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230880&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F6%2F1%2F7%3Frss%3D1 The introduction to this article will seek to present a distillation of Sally Lubeck's achievements in order to provide a benchmark of existing knowledge in the field of early childhood care and education from her perspective and an indication of its likely future. Her work, it is suggested, provides an exemplification of the new sociology of childhood that is theoretically grounded as well as morally and ethically committed. The contributions and challenges she made that are offered in this article focus on childhood in different cultures, the impact of globalization and the role of cross-national perspectives in the critical examination of our own national contexts. Poverty levels and the choice made by the US and UK to avoid redistribution of wealth are identified as a major source of d... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230880 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230880 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1230879&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F6%2F1%2F3%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1230879 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1230879 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951323&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F3%2F332%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951323 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951322&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F3%2F330%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951322 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951321&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F3%2F327%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951321 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951320&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F3%2F325%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951320 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951319&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F3%2F323%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951319 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951319 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951318&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F3%2F301%3Frss%3D1 We use multilevel modeling of ECLS-K data (a nationally representative sample of American kindergarteners) to describe the process and content of kindergarten mathematics instruction, as well as the associations of such instruction with achievement gaps by social class and race/ethnicity. Where instructional effectiveness is concerned, time spent on two of the process characteristics — traditional math and group/interactive activities — was significantly and positively associated with achievement gains. Time spent on three of the content variables — advanced counting, practical math, and single-digit operations — was associated with increased achievement. Time spent on basic numbers/shapes significantly decreased achievement. Classes with a high percentage of Africa... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951318 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951317&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F3%2F285%3Frss%3D1 This article reports evidence from a small-scale study undertaken to evaluate the impact learning support assistants have on the reading attainment of young children taught in schools using a whole class systematic phonics approach. A matched sample test/retest approach was employed to examine differences in the reading performance of pupils who did and did not receive additional reading support. Whilst overall, pupils exposed to the whole class systematic phonics approach showed a significant improvement in reading performance, no added value was noted for pupils receiving learning support assistance. On the contrary, the results suggest that learning support may have a detrimental impact on lower ability readers. Contradictions between the empirical findings and the views of teachers are... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951317 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951317 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951316&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F3%2F263%3Frss%3D1 Whilst regulation is utilized by governments in Australia and internationally as a means of promoting quality standards in early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, a growing body of literature is critical of the detrimental effect of this regulation. Drawing on our investigation into early childhood teachers' perceptions of the impact of regulation on quality practices we suggest that the way regulation is constructed limits its capacity to effect high quality standards. After problematizing the use of risk management and performative constructs of regulation, we call for regulatory reform that transcends these dominant constructions. We contend that a transformed system of regulatory accountability underpinned by notions of `a decent and non-humiliating society', socially just ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951316 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951315&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F3%2F245%3Frss%3D1 This study examines the differences in self-reported fathering activities of men who were reported to be a residential biological father or father figure. Specifically, this study examines self-reported fathering activities which include physical play activities, social skills activities, cognitive activities, and caregiving activities across African American, European American, and Latino fathers of low income families. The subjects for this study were 485 men who were identified as fathers or father figures of children enrolled in the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project in 14 communities across the United States. The results indicate that there were reported differences in types of fathering activities across race and ethnicity. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951315 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=951314&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F3%2F219%3Frss%3D1 This study investigates the learning exchange between three— to six-year-old children and their grandparents, in Sylheti/Bengali-speaking families of Bangladeshi origin and monolingual English-speaking families living in east London. The following concepts from sociocultural theory are applied to this new area of intergenerational learning: `scaffolding', `synergy' leading to mutual benefits for the young child and their caregiver, `syncretizing' of knowledge from different sources, `funds of knowledge' within communities, and the transmission of knowledge or `prolepsis' between generations. Methods include an initial survey at a primary school to establish the range of learning activities taking place at home between grandparents and children, followed by case studies of nine famili... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=951314 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:00 +0100 951314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617335&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F2%2F214%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617335 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617335 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617334&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F2%2F212%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617334 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617333&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F2%2F208%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617333 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617332&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F2%2F205%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617332 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617331&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F2%2F189%3Frss%3D1 Early childhood teachers in Victoria, Australia face increasing cultural and `racial' diversity among the children and families with whom they work. A small-scale exploratory study found that many teachers were uncertain about how best to respond to such diversity and a mismatch between social expectations that teachers would encourage children to respect cultural diversity and teachers' practice. These findings suggest strongly that the `one-off' isolated session that is the dominant form of professional training in the Australian early childhood field has been ineffective in promoting respect for diversity amongst teachers. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617331 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617331 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617330&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F2%2F169%3Frss%3D1 Communities in the UK are seeing a sustained shift in the balance of care of babies and the youngest children from families to nurseries, with a particular emphasis being placed on early learning. Yet a basic question of whether nurseries should be modelled on the intimacy and spontaneity of family interactions or the more professional and planned interactions of school has remained largely unaddressed. The assumption has been that the multiple tasks now expected of nursery, including education, child care, health promotion, family support and child protection, can be integrated together, and much attention has been given to this. Much less attention has been given to the way different staff respond to these different conceptions of roles and tasks and how they interact with the personal a... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617330 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617330 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617329&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F2%2F155%3Frss%3D1 This article investigates young children's career development in the context of Gottfredson's stage theory. Eighty-four children attending a kindergarten/early learning centre for four- to five-year-old children exhibited sex typing of their aspirations, with the vast majority nominating real occupational roles as opposed to fantasy ones, as aspirations for adult life. The pattern of boys' and girls' aspirations differentially support Gottfredson's proposals. Questions are raised concerning the stability of patterns of aspirations in terms of sex type in a changing society. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617329 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617329 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617328&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F2%2F135%3Frss%3D1 The study investigated ten early childhood teachers' perceptions of their relationships with 120 children (mean age = 4 years 3 months), of whom 41 children spoke English as an additional language (EAL: mean age = 4 years 2 months). The Student—Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS) was employed to elicit teachers' perceptions of their relationships in the first and third terms of a school year. The results show that, while children who have the least experience in spoken English were scored significantly lower on the STRS Closeness Scale by their teachers as compared with the rest of the children at the beginning of the school year, these differences were not significant at the end of the school year. The findings add empirical support to the importance of verbal communication, in additi... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617328 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617328 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=617327&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F2%2F115%3Frss%3D1 This large-scale study describes what children know and can do when they start school in Scotland. The description became possible because a third of Scottish Authorities are involved in a single, broadly based, on-entry baseline assessment of children. The study also looked at variations by home background, sex, age and pre-school experience within Scotland. Comparisons were then made with the cognitive development of children starting school in England, New Zealand and Western Australia, concentrating on children whose first language was English. Surprising differences were found between Scotland and other countries. New Zealand also stood out on some measures. The results are discussed in terms of pre-school provision and what on-entry assessment can and cannot tell us. (Source: Journal... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=617327 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 617327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361872&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F1%2F110%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361872 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361872 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361871&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F5%2F1%2F107%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361871 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361871 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361870&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F1%2F83%3Frss%3D1 This article examines the appropriation of sociocultural theory by a group of Australian early childhood educators participating in a professional development program informed by Developmental Work Research (DWR). The DWR methodology offers the opportunity to examine the processes involved for educators when learning to operate within a new conceptual framework and the implications this holds for their practice. The findings suggest that appropriation of a new theoretical framework such as sociocultural theory involves educators critiquing and analysing existing practices, participating in opportunities to implement new models of work in addition to reflection on new ways of seeing children, growth, learning and develo... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361870 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361869&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F1%2F64%3Frss%3D1 This study aimed to promote advanced reasoning about biological inheritance in four-and five-year-olds. A total of 78 preschoolers (Experimental n = 40; Comparison n = 38) completed pre-and post-test versions of two biological reasoning tasks. The Experimental condition received 15 lessons on biological inheritance, whereas the Comparison condition received regular story time activities. The results showed that the Experimental group outperformed the Comparison group at posttest. Overall, the results are an encouraging indication that an increased understanding of biological inheritance can be effectively supported in preschool years. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361869 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361868&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F1%2F47%3Frss%3D1 This article argues that engaging with children as research participants requires a commitment to, and the facilitation of, listening to and hearing their accounts in research. Drawing on research conducted in both New South Wales and Queensland, Australia, this article adopts the stance that children are active and effective participants in research. It examines selected protocols that stand to support such engagement. Specifi cally, it considers issues of ethics and research protocols, mechanisms of engagement, principles of co-construction of the research interaction, the analysis and dissemination of data, and negotiating the research space. This article contributes to methodological understandings of research with... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361868 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361867&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F1%2F32%3Frss%3D1 This study reports on the development and piloting of a new procedure which overcomes these problems, and the results suggest that many preschool children do seem able to distinguish between different musical styles. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361867 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361867 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=361866&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F5%2F1%2F2%3Frss%3D1 This study explored pre-kindergarten teachers' beliefs about the appropriateness of early mathematics education. Thirty pre-kindergarten teachers of four-year-olds, half working with low-SES children at publicly funded pre-kindergartens and the other half with middle-SES children at private pre-kindergartens, were interviewed concerning written vignettes describing two fictitious pre-kindergarten teachers' contrasting pedagogies concerning key issues in teaching mathematics to young children. The low-SES publicly funded pre-kindergarten teachers tended to support a strong focus on goal-based mathematics teaching at pre-kindergarten and at home to get children ready for kindergarten. The middle-SES private pre-kindergar... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=361866 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:00:00 +0100 361866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191996&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F3%2F335%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191996 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191996 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191995&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F3%2F331%3Frss%3D1 (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191995 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191994&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F311%3Frss%3D1 This article explores how the evidence base for aspects of early childhood has been explored using systematic research synthesis methods developed at the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre (EPPI-Centre). Three early childhood systematic reviews have been carried out using EPPI-Centre procedures and tools. The article discusses the principles underlying systematic research synthesis, the way in which the three reviews were set up, the processes involved in reviewing studies for the reviews, and the nature and generalizability of the reviews’ findings. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191994 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191993&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F291%3Frss%3D1 The purpose of this article is to draw attention to competition as a multidimensional phenomenon in preschool. Theories of competition are outlined here in relation to an empirical study of how preschool children compete constructively and how they themselves express and conceive competition in different situations. The data consist of video observations, individual and group interviews as well as children’s drawings. The results show that cooperation and constructive competition exist simultaneously. Competition enters children’s lives at an early stage, and constructive competition is a dimension that can motivate children to achieve better at the same time as it makes activities more exciting. Constructi... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191993 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191992&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F277%3Frss%3D1 The aim of this study is to explore creativity in Spanish children during their early years and to explore differences regarding gender and age. We have used a sample of 285 children between five and seven years old. To measure their creativity we used the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT). We have used the test of figured expression that is orientated to evaluate the level of imagination in producing pictures. It consists of three subtests: making a picture; finishing a picture; and making different patterns using parallel lines. The abilities that are assessed with this test are: originality, which consists in considering innovative answers, neither familiar nor inappropriate; elaboration, which refers to the amount ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191992 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191991&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F259%3Frss%3D1 This article draws on the sociology of childhood framework in order to examine one primary school girl’s account of how the children in her classroom pass notes to each other when they are ‘not allowed to talk at all’. Close examination of the account shows how the girls and boys in this particular classroom co-construct gendered membership activities in order to negotiate the teacher’s regulation of their classroom interactions. The girls competently participate in the covert activity of passing notes outside of teacher regulation, whereas the boys competently participate in the overt activity of passing notes, thereby gaining the membership of their male teacher into their activity. The boys d... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191991 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191990&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F223%3Frss%3D1 In Hawaii, state agencies and foundations are poised to support readiness efforts to improve educational outcomes for children. Developing a shared understanding of the construct of readiness is key to these efforts. The purposes of this research were to (a) discover the perceptions and beliefs held by Hawaii parents, teachers and administrators affiliated with four- and five-year-olds about children ready for school and schools ready for children, and (b) to compare these views with other research reported in the literature. Data were gathered from 24 focus group interviews and 2604 returned surveys. Both similarities and differences emerged among the role groups regarding the most valued aspects of readiness. These data are ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191990 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=191989&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F3%2F203%3Frss%3D1 The present article reports a study of communicative behaviour among mothers and infants who were grouped according to the ratings of sensitivity and co-operation, respectively. The participants were 27 Finnish-speaking mothers and their 10-month-old first-born infants (13 boys and 14 girls). The study is descriptive by nature, and the data were therefore treated in terms of descriptive parameters. According to the results, maternal sensitivity was associated with general activity in communication as well as the frequency of responses, while infant co-operation was associated with the frequency of intentional communicative acts. As for more detailed aspects of communicative style, for example, the use of different kinds of ... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=191989 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:00:00 +0100 191989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7153&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F2%2F194%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7153 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7152&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F2%2F191%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7152 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7152 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7151&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F2%2F189%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7151 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7151 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7150&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F2%2F169%3Frss%3D1 To better prepare early childhood teachers for computer use, more information about their current skills and classroom practices is needed. Sampling from a large metropolitan public school system in the USA, the study surveyed 297 state pre-kindergarten teachers, gathering information about their attitudes, skills, and instructional methods related to computer use. Statistically significant relationships indicate that attitudes, skills, and practice are interrelated variables. Results also suggest that aspects of teacher technology competence vary as a function of number of years teaching, role as lead or assistant teacher, home computer access, and length of in-service training. Implications for increasing training ef... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7150 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7149&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F2%2F153%3Frss%3D1 This article will focus on the strategies employed by 24 adults (12 mothers and 12 qualified preschool teachers) when introducing new and unusual vocabulary to four-year-old children during shared reading. The mothers differed in terms of educational achievement; half the mothers had left school by the age of 16, and half the mothers were tertiary educated. All the adult–child dyads read the same two picture books (one narrative and one informational) and the surrounding talk was analysed to determine what kinds of supportive strategies were used by the adults to introduce and explain unfamiliar vocabulary items. There were differences between the two groups of mothers in terms of the frequency and manner in whic... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7149 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7149 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7148&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F2%2F133%3Frss%3D1 This study supports the significance of the infant–caregiver relationship in high-quality infant educare and caregiver education and sheds light on the necessity of a process-oriented and holistic perspective on infant–caregiver relationship development. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7148 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7148 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7147&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F2%2F121%3Frss%3D1 The incidence of twin births in the United States (US) has increased more than 65 per cent since 1980. However, the risk of injury to multiple-birth children is unknown. We sought to compare the risk of injury-related hospitalization and death between multiples and singletons. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using linked birth certificate, hospital discharge, and death certificate data from Washington State (1987–2002). All multiples and approximately three singletons randomly selected for each multiple pregnancy were included. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to determine the hazard ratio (HR) of injury-related hospitalization and death in the first six years of life for twins and triplets c... Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7147 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7146&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Fabstract%2F4%2F2%2F99%3Frss%3D1 This article uses an ethical audit framework proposed by Cribb and Ball to critically analyze the possible implications of the rapid growth of corporatized childcare in Australia. In particular, it seeks to examine how corporatization affects childcare service provision and whether it conflicts with other social goals. Noting the paucity of systematic evidence currently available concerning the impact of corporatization, the article identifies a research agenda with scope to inform policy decisions about whether support for continued expansion of corporatized childcare is ethically justifiable. (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7146 Thu, 18 May 2006 06:00:00 +0100 7146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7160&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F1%2F91%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7160 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0100 7160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=7159&cid=s_32762_144_f&fid=32762&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecr.sagepub.com%2Fcgi%2Freprint%2F4%2F1%2F89%3Frss%3D1 (No abstract is available for this citation) (Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research) Journal of Early Childhood Research journals http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=7159 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:00:00 +0100 7159