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Develo** a design thinking engagement scale for early childhood teachers
Engaging in design thinking activities has been increasingly viewed as important for the craft of teaching for early childhood practitioners....
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Early Childhood Teacher Education in Contemporary Times
The University of the South Pacific (USP) is the premier provider for teacher education in early childhood education and care (ECEC) for 15 campuses...
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School Readiness Beliefs: Comparing Priorities of Early Childhood Teachers and Immigrant Latine and Chinese Parents
Numerous studies have compared parents’ and teachers’ beliefs about school readiness. However, no known research has explicitly examined the...
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Math on the Brain: Seven Principles from Neuroscience for Early Childhood Educators
Educational neuroscience aims to merge neuroscience and education for better teaching and learning outcomes. Translating scientific findings into...
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Measuring Children’s Engagement in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Sco** Literature Review
The purpose of this sco** review was to explore operationalizations and related conceptualizations of young children’s engagement in early...
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A Qualitative Exploration of Early Childhood Educators’ Declared Practices when Supporting Preschoolers’ Oral Language Development
Verbal interactions between children and educators can support the language development of preschoolers when conversations are of high quality....
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An Ecological Exploration into the Agency of Four Former Early Childhood Teachers
Issues of Early Childhood Teacher (ECT) shortages, recruitment, and retention are of concern in many nations, with ECT attrition being a contributing...
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A Literature Review of Educational Robotics and Early Childhood Education
Educational robotics is an emerging field with school aged children; however, it is relatively new to the field of early childhood education and...
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Caring for the Caregiver: Work Mistreatment and Well-Being Among Early Childhood Education Staff in Colorado
Experiences of workplace mistreatment are associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes. Workplace mistreatment among early childhood...
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Linking teacher empathy to multicultural teaching competence: The mediating role of multicultural beliefs
In multicultural education, empathy has been regarded as an essential teacher disposition that enables teachers to better understand culturally and...
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Children’s access to outdoors in early childhood education and care centres in China during the COVID pandemic
China has undergone rapid development in early childhood education and outdoor pedagogy in recent times. Importantly, it was the first country to...
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Inclusion in Early Childhood Education: A Sense-Making Perspective
This chapter draws on sense-making theory to understand, interpret, and enact inclusion in early childhood education in Ghana. Through the...
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Fostering Racial Literacy in Early Childhood Contexts
There is a critical need to disrupt the systemic racism that underlies educational inequities and support greater social justice (Croom, Journal of...
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Space, Voice, Audience, and Influence: The Lundy Model and Early Childhood
Listening to children’s views is not just a model of good pedagogical practice but a legally binding obligation enshrined in the Convention on the...
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Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Teachers from Pakistan and the US
The COVID-19 pandemic posed unique challenges for early childhood teachers who were facilitating the learning and development of young students. This...
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Unravelling early childhood pre-service teachers’ implicit stereotypes of scientists by using the repertory grid technique
Considering teachers’ roles in develo** children’s scientific literacy in preschools, a better understanding of pre-service teachers’...
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Becoming an English language teacher over lines of desire: Stories of lived experiences
Beyond the notion of decision-making of career choice just being rational, this article proposes the primacy of ‘affect’ in the decision to become...
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The Relationship Between Attitude Towards STEM Education, Self-Efficacy in STEM Education, and Constructivist Beliefs of Early Childhood Teachers
This study examines the links between early childhood teachers’ attitudes toward STEM education, constructivist beliefs, and self-efficacy in STEM...
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Transfer of responsibility from scaffolding to preservice early childhood teachers learning to debug
Computer science is often integrated within early childhood education (ECE) through the use of educational robots. This requires adequate preparation...
