Morality, thought, and culture as represented through language have been the focus of research within the past decade. Little research has, however, been directed toward linguistic encoding of morality in children in general, and in children from Arabic communities in particular…
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The current study focused on examining the developmental stages of preschool teachers in the Arab Gulf region. Specifically, the needs and concerns of teachers were investigated using a pretest/posttest (12-month interval) design. Participants included two groups of preschool te…
The purpose of this descriptive survey research study was to describe the gifted third grade students in Kuwait on the basis of their behavioral characteristics as reported by their parents and teachers. From the pool of 2,930 gifted third graders, 300 students (150 boys and 150…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of social and economic change on child socialization in Saudi Arabia. Based on the assumption that an investigation of two generations of one family would control for unforeseen variables, a descriptive-comparative study wa…
This examines theory and purposes of ritual throughout the life cycle, but especially in childhood. The religious function is stressed, along with the psychological or expressive, ideological or cultural, and social. "Religion," "religious" and "spiritual" are broadly defined as…
The study focused on the exploration of the following question: Do Nigerian parents residing in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area adapt or retain their traditional Nigerian child-rearing practices in order to adapt to contemporary American society? The study is based on a…
As a result of several public and governmental efforts in the area of early childhood education, IFTAH YA SIMSIM, a television series combining entertainment and education directed to 3- to 6-year-old children was aired for the first time in 1979 in Kuwait. Since that time, no d…
The controversy surrounding the issue of first language instruction and second language achievement centers around the fear that learning the first language will interfere with student's achievement in English. This controversy is magnified in situations where the native languag…
This study evaluated the possible effects of a prescriptive-intervention approach designed to ameliorate auditory discrimination limitations identified on a measure of auditory discrimination. This quasi-experimental study involved 82 Mexican-American students in five kindergart…
Problem. The problem of the study was to measure and delineate the value systems of preschool children, and to compare their ranking of health as a value relative to selected nonhealth-related values commonly present in their value systems. Procedures. This study was a cross-sec…
While Jewish nursery school and kindergarten enrollment in the United States has doubled within the past decade, a lack of clarity and consensus in goals in curriculum direction inhibits the development of Jewish religious early childhood curriculum. An understanding of the purp…
Children's play behavior during free play in classrooms was observed in order to understand the differences in the play behavior of preschool children with Korean-American and American backgrounds. The subjects were thirty-two Korean-American and thirty-two American children fro…
The present study investigates the use and positive outcomes of group learning as well as collaborative consultation among occupational therapists and special educators regarding group learning in the special education classroom. Two hypotheses were formulated as follows: The fi…
The ecological model assumes school, community, family, and friends shape child outcomes. Minnesota mandates comprehensive Early Childhood Screening (ECS) for preschool children including vision and hearing, and cognitive, language, motor, growth and speech, with optional screen…
The purpose of this study was to examine parent and teacher expectations for early childhood educational programs in Muscat, Oman. Questionnaires were distributed in three private schools; these schools differed from one another in terms of their socioeconomic (SES) levels. Pare…
This study was conducted to determine the relationship between subsequent student achievement and compliance with a kindergarten screening recommendation to delay school entry for one year. Other factors considered included gender, socioeconomic status, and selected student expe…
This study of Mandinka children, some actively engaged in child caregiving and all productive in socio-economic roles, examines the nature of the child's participation in the dissemination of cultural values. As co-producers of socializing contexts, as novices rather than non-me…