What grade children begin to cheat, whether older students report that they have cheated more than younger students have, and whether boys report that they cheat more than girls were investigated. Data on ways in which students cheat and their ideas about how to prevent and stop…
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My personal search for principles and practices to guide my role as a teacher of young children took me to Munich, Germany to be trained in the Montessori method; to Tumbaco, Ecuador to be a teacher trainee at the Wild's active school and most recently to Bali, Indonesia to expe…
This is a year long in-depth, longitudinal case study of Noa, a six-year-old female in a bilingual first grade class which documents and analyzes her literacy development in a multilingual setting. Data collection for the study includes: written artifacts, anecdotal records, inf…
Dramatic increases in the number of children exposed to drugs passed through the umbilical cord have been encountered in the past few years. This is due to the widespread availability of a super-potent form of cocaine known as "rock cocaine" or "crack." The neurological damage c…
The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of early nutritional supplementation on duration and level of spontaneous play in mildly-to-moderately malnourished young children. Fifty-five 18-to-24-month-old children living within the tea plantations of West Java, Indo…
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 examines mother-child interaction from a Vygotskian perspective focusing both on maternal processes of scaffolding and on children's independent outcomes. Previous research on mother-child interaction has been dominated by the Anglo Western middle-class parent-child m…
The role of the home environment in cognitive development has been well documented in western societies. There has been a tendency until now to examine the relationship between environmental factors and cognitive development in non-western societies using "western perspectives".…
The thesis, entitled Fidelity and Flexibility in Waldorf Education, 1919–1998, takes as its focus the mysterious development of the turn-of-the-century progressive educational movement called Waldorf, so named after the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Factory, whose owner was the gene…
The interactions of 24 pairs of preschool age children and their parents from four different cultures were recorded by the parents during the activity of sharing five non-scripted illustrated books. The focus of the research was to determine possible differences across cultures …
Okul öncesi dönemde çocuklar merak içinde çevreyi ve olayları inceleyerek, denemeler yaparak yeni bilgi ve becerileri öğrenmeye çalışırlar. Bu denemeler sırasında çoğu zaman hata yaparlar. Bu tez araştırmasının amacı, okul öncesi öğretmenlerinin hatalardan öğrenmeyi sağlama perf…
School psychologists in Israel have recently been mandated to become more involved in the assessment of preschool children. At the present time, no standardized developmental screening test for preschool children exists in Israel. The purpose of this study was to validate and ev…
The art education curriculum in Saudi Arabia is characterized by two shortcomings: first, as is the case in the West, it equates art education with instruction in art; and second, art education, along with the rest of the curriculum, was imported almost wholesale from the West a…
This study was designed to investigate the perceptions of mothers in Qatar regarding developmentally appropriate programs and practices for the education of their young children. A survey was used to address the research questions. Five-hundred-thirty-five mothers of children in…
Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment (TPBA) uses play, the means through which children learn and develop, to help professionals and parents better understand the developmental status, learning style, temperament, motivation, and interaction patterns of young children. TPBA i…
Since the 1960's changes in social, political, and economic structures in Nigeria have stimulated the needs for, and growth of, diversified provisions of early childhood education. The policy which encourages private efforts in the provision of preprimary education, coupled with…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine if the use of music would increase English language frequency in a group of second language kindergartners. The subjects selected for this investigation consisted of two girls and two boys between the ages of four and fi…
To comply with the government's policy to develop human resources of Indonesia through educational endeavors, the Ministry of Education and Culture's decree dated December 31, 1989 (No. 0854/U/1989) raised the formal qualification of elementary school teachers from senior high s…