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book review: Young Children's Health and Well-beingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Steele, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

weaving transnational feminist(s) methodologies: (re)examining early childhood linguistic diversity teacher training and researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 conc...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Saavedra, C. M., Chakravarthi, S., Lower, J. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

a Bakhtinian homecoming: operationalizing dialogism in the context of an early childhood education centre in Wellington, New ZealandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 dia...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: White, E. J. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

researching with children: ethical tensionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ‘on...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Dockett, S., Einarsdottir, J., Perry, B. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

interviewing children with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 th...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Boylan, A.-M., Linden, M., Alderdice, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

listening to children with communication impairment talking through their drawingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 partner...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Holliday, E. L., Harrison, L. J., McLeod, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

mediated discourse analysis: researching young children's non-verbal interactions as social practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Wohlwend, K. E. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - October 23, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Clough, P., Connolly, P., Nutbrown, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: journals

book review: Early Childhood Development from Understanding to Initiatives Bilal Iqbal Avan, ed., Pakistan: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. xvii + 256 (pbk), pp. xvii + 270 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 19 547389 6 {pound} 11.99 (hbk) (pbk), ISBN 978 0 19 547597 5 (hbk), {pound} 9.99 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Raja Muhammad Farrukh Zaman, Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Anthropology and Child Development: A Cross-cultural Reader LeVine, Robert and New, Rebecca (eds) Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 324 pp. ISBN 978 0 63122975 9 (hbk), ISBN 978 0 63122976 6 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: French, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Young Children Learn Measurement and Geometry. A Learning-Teaching Trajectory with Intermediate Attainment Targets for the Lower Grades in Primary School Van den Heuvel-Panhuisen, M. and Buys, K. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers, 2008, 356 pp. ISBN 978 90 8790 397 8, $39.00 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Munarriz Diaz, R., Ulloa, Z. R. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

young American immigrant children's interpretations of popular culture: a case study of Korean girls' perspectives on royalty in Disney filmsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 an...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Lee, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

supporting preschoolers' social development in school through funds of knowledgeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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' so...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Riojas-Cortez, M., Bustos Flores, B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

persistence in the face of academic challenge for economically disadvantaged childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 fa...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Brown, E. D. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

designing probabilistic tasks for kindergartnersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 spinner...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Skoumpourdi, C., Kafoussi, S., Tatsis, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

roots of assimilation: generational status differentials in ethnic minority children's school readinessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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-Hi...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Hibel, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

sounding lives in and through music: a narrative inquiry of the `everyday' musical engagement of a young childEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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;...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Barrett, M. S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Food and Health in Early Childhood: A Holistic Approach Albon, Deborah and Mukherji, Penny. London: SAGE, 2008, 171 pp. ISBN 978 1 4129 4722 0, {pound}17.99 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Smith, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

hidden spaces and places in the preschool: withdrawal strategies in preschool children's peer culturesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Skanfors, L., Lofdahl, A., Hagglund, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

care and business orientations in the delivery of childcare: an exploratory studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Campbell-Barr, V. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

parental goals and parenting practices of upper-middle-class Korean mothers with preschool childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 becau...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Park, J.-H., Young In Kwon, Tags: Article Source Type: journals

grandparents as educators and carers in ChinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 youn...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Nyland, B., Xiaodong Zeng, , Nyland, C., Tran, L. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

the deafening silence: discussing children's drawings for understanding and addressing marginalizationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Angelides, P., Michaelidou, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

a study of sociolinguistic characteristics of Taiwan children's peer-talk in a Mandarin--English-speaking preschoolEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Wang, L.-C., Hyun, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

erratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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book review: Contemporary Perspectives on Science and Technology in Early Childhood Education: A Volume in Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education. Saracho, Olivia N. and Spodek, Bernard (eds). Charlotte, NC, USA: Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2008, vii + 186 pp. ISBN 978 1 59311 635 4 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Lowe, G. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Under Deadman's Skin: Discovering the Meaning in Children's Violent Play. Katch, Jane, and Foreword by Vivian Paley. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002, pp. 144. ISBN 978 080703129 2, $16 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Parnell, W. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Cognitive Development: the Learning Brain. Goswami, Usha. Hove and New York: Psychology Press, 2008, xix + 457 pp. ISBN 978 1 84169 530-3, {pound}49.95 (hbk); ISBN 978 1 84169 531 0, {pound}24.95 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Whitmarsh, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Diversities in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking and Doing. Genishi, Celia and Goodwin, A. Ling (eds). Oxon: Routledge, 2008, xi + 293 pp. ISBN 415 95713 7 (hbk); ISBN 415 95714 4 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Hutchinson, B. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

always Othered: ethical research with childrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 se...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Lahman, M. K.E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

teacher inquiries into gay and lesbian families in early childhood classroomsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Souto-Manning, M., Hermann-Wilmarth, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

young children's musical worlds: musical engagement in 3.5-year-oldsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Lamont, A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

family stress in Dutch families with motor impaired toddlers: a survey in a Dutch rehabilitation centreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 c...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Tibosch, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

do child care centers benefit poor children after school entry?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 e...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - September 11, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Bassok, D., French, D., Fuller, B., Lynn Kagan, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Diversity and Difference in Early Childhood Education: Issues of Theory and Practice Robinson, Kerry, H. and Jones Diaz, Criss. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006, pp xiii + 207. ISBN 0335 21683 8, {pound}60 (hbk); ISBN 0335 21682 X, {pound}19.99 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Maynard, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Teaching Traveller Children: Maximizing Learning Outcomes Danaher, Patrick Alan, Coombes, Phyllida and Kiddle, Cathy. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books Limited, 2007, 122 pp. ISBN 978 1 85856 377 0 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Fitzpatrick, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

emotion in children's art: do young children understand the emotions expressed in other children's drawings?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 ident...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Misailidi, P., Bonoti, F. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

performance of students from the former USSR in Greek schoolsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Mitakidou, S., Tourtouras, C., Tressou, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

the good, the bad and the pacifier: unsettling accounts of early years practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 Foucaul...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Whitmarsh, J. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

the school readiness of children living in a disadvantaged area in IrelandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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. Fi...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Kiernan, G., Axford, N., Little, M., Murphy, C., Greene, S., Gormley, M. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

learning from the children: exploring preschool children's encounters with ICT at homeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 operatio...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - May 20, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Stephen, C., McPake, J., Plowman, L., Berch-Heyman, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

book review: Researching Children's Experience: Approaches and Methods: Green, Sheila and Hogan, Diane (eds). SAGE, London, 2005, xiii+284 pp. ISBN 10 0 7619 7103 3, {pound}19.95 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Ingleby, E. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

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Sally Lubeck: opening up a new horizon of possibilitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Moss, P. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

action or reaction!: reflecting on Sally Lubeck's wisdom to reinvent the field of early educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Ryan, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

rethinking research in early care and education: joining Sally's questEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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 th...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: New, R. S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

learning research: insights from Head StartEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Jessup, P. A. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

how long is a woman's life, finally?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: David, T. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

gender, work, and child care: crossing borders in the life and work of Sally LubeckEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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...
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Bloch, M. N. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

the role of international expertEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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)
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - February 14, 2008 Category: Child Development Authors: Penn, H. Tags: Article Source Type: journals