This book is the outcome of a joint collaboration between East China Normal University and the University of Luxembourg, initiated by the Center of Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future (IBEF), and focuses on kindergartens in China from a cultural psychology perspective. B…
This book is the outcome of a joint collaboration between East China Normal University and the University of Luxembourg, initiated by the Center of Ideas for the Basic Education of the Future (IBEF), and focuses on kindergartens in China from a cultural psychology perspective. B…
My thesis presents a comparison of English and Turkish Early Years/Kindergarten teachers’ understandings and practices of outdoor activities. Comparative research provides a wider understanding of the two different cultures’ current circumstances in outdoor activities. Such rese…
The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to describe the Black Kindergarten Movement through efforts of the Black Women’s Clubs and their communities at the time right after the Reconstruction and into the Progressive Era. The common documents that were used in the data collect…
The teaching of English as a foreign language has a promising outlook in the nation of Kuwait. Recent policy reflects language development theories that see early childhood as an especially good period for the learning of a foreign language. Thus, English is now taught at 30 pub…
This study aimed to investigate the attitudes, knowledge and reported practices of Kuwaiti kindergarten teachers regarding computer use in the classroom. The study was completed using a mixed methods research design whereby both quantitative and qualitative data was collected an…
Kant’s essay ‘Project for Perpetual Peace’, written in 1795, was seminal in the relationship it constructed between the individual, national governance and international relations. Peace became a rallying cry after the Napoleonic wars and for a century, societies for peace sprou…
The purpose of this causal comparative study was to investigate differences between home environment scores of high-IQ and low-IQ Saudi Arabian kindergarten children. The primary hypothesis in the study was that there is a statistically significant difference in home environment…
The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the progress of student performance in reading and writing for 2 years in mixed-age classrooms as compared to students in traditional classrooms. The 471 subjects evaluated in the study were those who completed their first 2 …
In order to determine if kindergarten students could be taught to make or improve the comprehension strategy of text-to-self connection during reading, the think-aloud instructional approach was taught whole group using read-aloud books over a six-week period (Baumann, Jones, & …
This study examined joint reading of narrative and informational texts in the home setting, between parents and their English-Hebrew dual language learning preschool children. Parent-child dyads were video-recorded while reading two sets of books; each set contained one narrativ…
The National Center for Fair and Open Testing has estimated that every American child takes as many as three standardized tests during the school year (Neill and Medina, 1989). Standardized tests drive curricula and dictate classroom instruction (Gifford, 1990). Also, tests are …
This study was carried out to examine the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity in the state of Kuwait. The participants were parents and teachers, who rated their kindergarteners' behavior at home a…
This investigation replicated and extended a study conducted by Medina (1990). The study examined the effect of music on the acquisition and retention of story vocabulary for kindergarten and first grade students in a selected school in eastern Pennsylvania. A second factor, the…
Children begin learning at birth and efforts to prepare children for school success should also begin early. Thirty percent of all American children arrive at school minimally prepared to learn. According to The National Association of Elementary School Principals (2005), due to…
Research Question. In what ways will providing a specific set of phonemic awareness activities such as sound blending, segmenting, and rhyming help my kindergarten students understand an early component to reading? Research Activities. This study explores the effectiveness of ph…
