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Article
What Shall We Do: Pretend or Real? Preschoolers’ Choices and Parents’ Perceptions
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Journal of Cognition and Development, vol. 21, no. 2
Date: 2020
Pages: 261-281
Children, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Parent and child, Play
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Abstract/Notes: Pretend play is common in childhood. Yet by age 4, children shown pretend and real activities in a book said they would choose to do the real activity over the pretend one. The present studies extended this research, examining children’s actual behavior in laboratory and school settings (Study 1, n = 32, M = 59.32 months; and Study 2, n = 16, M = 54.08 months), their choices about pretend roles (Study 3, n = 50, M = 59.48 months), and parents’ perspectives on what children prefer (Study 4, n = 83). As in prior work, 4-year-olds preferred real activities from a book; by 5, children also engaged more with real activities. In contrast, 3- to 4-year-olds preferred pretend roles and 5- to 6-year-olds were ambivalent. Parents correctly predicted children’s preference for real activities, but they did not predict that children’s reality preferences increase with age.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2019.1709469
ISSN: 1524-8372
Article
"It Just Makes Sense”: Early Childhood Teachers and Mixed‐Age Grouping in One Preschool Setting
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, vol. 20, no. 3
Date: 1999
Pages: 337-345
Article
Individual Development Plans From a Critical Didactic Perspective: Focusing on Montessori- and Reggio Emilia-Profiled Preschools in Sweden
Available from: SAGE Journals
Publication: Journal of Early Childhood Research, vol. 9, no. 3
Date: 2011
Pages: 247-261
Comparative education, Europe, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Sweden
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Abstract/Notes: Individual development plans, which are sometimes designed as ‘agreements — contracts’, can be considered the most rigid type of regulation on the individual level in the history of preschool in Sweden. Today we speak about a deregulated school. This regulation seems to have changed its character, gradually drifting from school regulation to individual and self-regulation. The study aims to map and discuss the variation of content and positions for children in the documentation from all preschools in a municipality in the south of Sweden. Documentation and individual development plans (IDP) are studied from preschools with different pedagogical profiles. Materials from Montessori- and Reggio Emilia-inspired preschools are focused on. A critical didactic perspective refers to a discussion and critical scrutiny of the structure of contents, assessment and position of children in different types of documentation. The perspective leads to questions such as: how is content constructed, and what governs the choice of content in IDPs and documentation at the institutional and individual levels? How is content related to pedagogical profile? What identities and positions are formulated for children in relation to various contents and profiles? The empirical data in the study were gathered in 2008 and comprises text in the form of governing documents on different levels: as municipal guidelines, profile descriptions on the municipality’s websites and IDP forms. Tentative results show a variation with both similar and diverse constructions of contents and positions related to pedagogical profiles.
Language: English
ISSN: 1476-718X
Book Section
An Academic Preschool for Disadvantaged Children: Conclusions from Evaluation Studies
Available from: Books to Borrow @ Internet Archive
Book Title: Preschool Programs for the Disadvantaged: Five Experimental Approaches to Early Childhood Education: Proceedings of the First Annual Hyman Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education
Pages: 1-21
Children with disabilities, Conferences, Developmentally disabled children, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Hyman Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education (1st, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1971), Inclusive education, Preschool children, Preschool education, Special education
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Language: English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972
ISBN: 978-0-8018-1370-2 0-8018-1370-0
Report
Effectiveness of Direct Verbal Instruction on IQ Performance and Achievement in Reading and Arithmetic [Academic Preschool, Champaign, Illinois]
Available from: ERIC
Academic achievement, Americas, Arithmetic, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Literacy, Mathematics education, North America, Reading, United States of America
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Abstract/Notes: This experiment was based on the assumption that the academic failure of the disadvantaged or middle class child is due to a failure of instruction and that if above-normal learning schedules were maintained, the second year of an enrichment program would not show the customary drop in gains from the first year. The subjects of this study were 43 disadvantaged Negro and white 4-year-olds of high, middle, and low intelligence. Fifteen of the children were placed in an experimental group (I) and 28 in a control group (II). A 2-year program involving a group (III) of middle class 4-year-olds was also conducted, with a control group (IV) consisting of middle class 4-year-olds in a Montessori preschool. Groups I and III received a 2-year experimental program in which rapid attainment of basic academic concepts was emphasized. Group II received a 2-year traditional preschool education. Group I achieved significantly greater Stanford-Binet IQ gains than Group II and maintained them over the 2-year program. Group III children also benefited measureably from the program and demonstrated greater achievement in many areas than Group IV.
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C., 1966
Article
Preschoolers′ Strategic Behavior and Performance on a Same-Different Task
Available from: ScienceDirect
Publication: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 60, no. 2
Date: 1995
Pages: 284-303
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Abstract/Notes: Preschoolers′ strategic behavior was examined on a task in which they must decide whether two arrays are the same. Fifty-six 3- and 4-year-olds selected doors to open which exposed parts of the arrays. Children made moderate use of an appropriate "vertical-pairs" strategy-viewing spatially corresponding parts of the two arrays-and it facilitated performance. Telling nonstrategic children to use the strategy or executing it for them improved their same-different judgments. However, increased spontaneous production of the vertical-pairs strategy over trials did not consistently improve judgments, which suggests a strategy utilization deficiency. Other microgenetic analyses revealed that children tended to use several strategies over the trials and that strategy changes often were not developmentally progressive or driven by failure of another strategy. The discussion addressed production and utilization deficiencies and the diversity of strategy development.
Language: English
ISSN: 0022-0965
Book Section
The Status and Future of Preschool Compensatory Education
Available from: Books to Borrow @ Internet Archive
Book Title: Preschool Programs for the Disadvantaged: Five Experimental Approaches to Early Childhood Education: Proceedings of the First Annual Hyman Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education
Pages: 165-181
Children with disabilities, Conferences, Developmentally disabled children, Early childhood care and education, Early childhood education, Hyman Blumberg Symposium on Research in Early Childhood Education (1st, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 1971), Inclusive education, Preschool children, Preschool education, Special education
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Language: English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972
ISBN: 978-0-8018-1370-2 0-8018-1370-0
Master's Thesis (M.A.)
Motor Inhibition and Assertive Behavior in Montessori and Parent Cooperative Preschool Settings
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Language: English
Published: San Francisco, California, 1976
Article
Embedding Video-Based Modeling Handwriting Instruction in a Montessori Preschool Phonics Program
Available from: Taylor and Francis Online
Publication: Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, and Early Intervention, vol. 7, no. 2
Date: 2014
Pages: 151-160
Americas, Information and communications technology (ICT), Montessori method of education, North America, Technology and children, United States of America, Writing - Instruction and study
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Abstract/Notes: A video-based modeling handwriting program for lowercase letter formation was embedded in a Montessori preschool phonics curriculum in one of two Montessori classrooms for 16 weeks. Children could view the DVD on request during phonics lesson time. Phonics skill and letter sequencing patterns improved for the children in both classrooms. The children with access to viewing the video-based modeling showed greater improvement in letter legibility. As part of early intervening services, occupational therapy practitioners may be called upon to make recommendations that benefit all the children in a classroom. Video-based modeling was compatible with the Montessori phonics curriculum and effective for this group.
Language: English
DOI: 10.1080/19411243.2014.930618
ISSN: 1941-1243
Doctoral Dissertation (Ph.D. In Communications)
Television as Activity System: "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" and the Development of Polite Behavior Routines in Preschoolers
Available from: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
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Abstract/Notes: This dissertation examines the role of quality age-appropriate television in children's knowledge of polite behavior routines. The television program used is from the series "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" and the child subjects are preschoolers in a Montessori school in a midwestern University town. The study asks: What do preschoolers know about appropriate host-guest behaviors and from where does this knowledge come? A developmental investigation of preschoolers' knowledge of polite behavior routines and their learning from the television program is undertaken using the theoretical framework of Soviet activity theory. By framing the interacting elements in the study as an activity system, a study design in five phases emerges. The phases include: observations of children in the classroom environment; a deep reading of the program; interviews with the program's producers; a study of children's learning from the program and knowledge of host-guest behaviors, and; surveys and interviews with parents intended to establish family attitudes and methods for teaching polite behaviors. Results from the five phases are integrated and analyzed within the framework of activity theory. It is concluded that preschoolers have quite a bit of knowledge about how to interact as hosts and guests and that they do imitate and learn from an appropriate television program. Their knowledge of appropriate behaviors and their memory and comprehension for the televised messages increase with age from three to five years. There also appears to be an affective component, involving fear related to strange situations, at work for the youngest children, which may contribute to inhibiting their performance of appropriate behaviors. The television program, the school, and the home, which in this study all reflect middle-class American values, parallel each other in the behaviors they encourage. And although the importance of this kind of television programming is acknowledged, it is concluded that children's abilities in this domain are stretched more by interacting with an adult, that is, learning takes place in the "zone of proximal development" in a role-playing situation, but not simply as a result of viewing.
Language: English
Published: Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1993