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…
The Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE), a parent-completed screening instrument, was translated and studied for use in Malaysia to identify young children for social-emotional problems. Psychometric properties such as content validity, internal consistency…
This study examined the views of African refugee parents regarding the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) construct of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) in early childhood education. Despite its wide acceptance and implementation, DAP re…
Cette recherche se déroule dans deux villages sénégalais en périphérie de Dakar, N'Gor et Yoff, auprès de représentants de l'ethnie Lébou—des mères et des enfants. Elle permet d'identifier des savoirs acquis par l'enfant Lébou de six ans, durant son enfance, au sein de sa sociét…
Preschools in Saudi Arabia have been around and continuously growing and improving for more than 40 years. These programs, however, still collectively suffer from the lack of utilization of classroom assessments to support learning and help teachers make decisions about curricul…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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…
This descriptive study was designed to investigate demographic background and child-rearing attitudes and practices of mothers of four-year-old children in Amman, Jordan. Ninety-six mothers were randomly selected from a stratified population of preschools according to religions …
The study was designed to investigate the effects of foreign domestic servants in the caregiving role among two groups of Kuwaiti families. First, Kuwaiti families studying in the United States and second, Kuwaiti families studying at the University of Kuwait, in Kuwait, or thei…