scholarly journals Social studies in early childhood education and care: A scoping review focusing on diversity

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-324
Author(s):  
Anette Ringen Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Educational Challenge ◽  
Education And Care

Currently, little research exists on social studies within the context of Norwegian early childhood education and care, and how early childhood teachers work to familiarise children with social studies contexts . This article is a scoping literature review offering a preliminary research agenda. Its aim is to explore the ways in which the early childhood teacher can work to ensure young learners’ social studies education with a specific focus on cultural diversity and subsequent educational challenges. The research question guiding the article asks: How does previous educational research show that early childhood teachers can use social studies to address diversity with and amongst children? The analysis uncovers 4 scopes of research across 26 international and national studies. Previous research has contributed with knowledge in the areas of cultural diversity, anti-discrimination, human rights, and community and society as a means to familiarise children with diversity and related matters. Each scope addresses the knowledge status and opportunities for future research within each area. Based on the analysis, the author discusses the critical educational challenge of a paradox in familiarising children with diversity, where the early childhood teacher risks conveying biased information and stereotypical views, and highlighting cultures in discriminatory ways.

Problematising early childhood teacher registration as a mechanism to improve quality early childhood education and care

2020 ◽  
pp. 146394911989602
Author(s):  
Marianne Fenech ◽  
Samantha King
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
National Review ◽  
Education And Care

Regulatory drivers of teacher quality and teacher professionalism are increasingly being utilised in Australia and internationally to improve children’s outcomes. In the context of a recent national review on teacher registration, this article reports on findings from a small-scale study that investigated three early childhood teachers’ perceptions of teacher registration in New South Wales, Australia. The participants rejected discursive truths about the need for and benefits of teacher registration, associating this relatively new mechanism of teacher accountability as a threat to teachers’ professional practice and job satisfaction, and to centres’ provision of quality early childhood education. The findings problematise a discourse of teacher professionalism made enticing by a vow to bring early childhood teachers in from the margins of the educator sector.

Employers’ perspectives of how well prepared early childhood teacher graduates are to work in early childhood education and care services

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-227
Author(s):  
Wendy Boyd ◽  
Sandie Wong ◽  
Marianne Fenech ◽  
Linda Mahony ◽  
Jane Warren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Education And Care

With an unprecedented number of children in early childhood education and care in Australia, demand for early childhood teachers is increasing. This demand is in the context of recognition of the importance of the early years and increasing requirements for more highly qualified early childhood teachers under the National Quality Framework. Increasingly, evidence shows the value-added difference of university-qualified teachers to child outcomes. Within Australia there are multiple ways to become an early childhood teacher. Three common approaches are a 4-year teaching degree to teach children aged birth to 5 years, children aged birth to 8 years, or children aged birth to 12 years. There is, however, no evidence of how effective these degree programmes are. This paper presents the perspectives of 19 employers of early childhood teachers in New South Wales regarding how well prepared early childhood teacher graduates are to work in the early childhood sector in Australia. Although participants noted the strengths of new graduate early childhood teachers, they also identified several areas in which they were less well prepared to teach in the early years.

scholarly journals Early Childhood Education and Instructional Ecology: A Vygotskian Approach in Teaching Early Childhood Social Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Kwabena Ofori-Attah
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Zone Of Proximal Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Proximal Development ◽  
Childhood Education

This study guided by Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory explored the perception of pre-service teachers about the application of the ZPD in the classroom. Five participants, all junior students, were purposefully selected from a university in the southern region of the United States to participate in the study. Open-ended interview questions were designed from a review of the literature regarding the effectiveness of Vygotsky’s ZPD in the classroom. Axial coding was used to analyze the data for the final research report. A major finding from the study is that Vygotsky’s ZPD is recognized by Educator Preparatory Providers (EPPS) as a major instructional approach used to promote student achievement and that some pre-educator candidates perceive problems implementing this innovative form of teaching social studies in the early childhood classroom. Another significant finding from the study is that it extends our knowledge about the application of Vygotsky’s ZPD in the early childhood social studies classroom. Implications for early childhood teacher preparation and future research are considered in the paper. Keywords: cognitive development, early childhood education, instructional ecology, preservice teachers, zone of proximal development

scholarly journals PENDAPAT KEPALA SEKOLAH DAN GURU PAMONG TENTANG KOMPETENSI PEDAGOGIK MAHASISWA PLP PGPAUD

Edukid ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Syifa Rohmati Mashfufah ◽  
Ocih Setiasih ◽  
Cucu Eliyawati
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Mentor Teachers ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Instructional Evaluation ◽  
Academic Year

Principals  and  Mentor-Teachers’  Opinionson  The  Pedagogic Competence  Of  PGPAUD  FIP  UPI  Students  Taking  Professional  Internship Program  Academic  Year  2014-2015.  The  research  aims  to  find  the  opinions  of principals  and  mentor-teachers  on  the  pedagogic  competence  of  PGPAUD  FIP  UPI Students taking professional internship program in the academic year of 2014-2015. It adopted descriptive survey method. The population and sample of this research were all principals and mentor-teachers who supervised the professional internship program for 2014-2015 academic year. Data were collected using close-ended questionnaires as the instrument and were then analyzed with descriptive statistic.The principals’ opinion on the pedagogic competence of PGPAUDstudents taking professional internship program was  good  with  a  score  of  72.93%.  Mentor-teachers’  opinion  on  the  pedagogic competence of PGPAUD students taking professional internship program was good as well with a score of 62.06%. The research recommends that the instructional strategies used  in  improving  pedagogic  competence  be  more  applicative,  especially  for  the strategies used in teaching instructional evaluation, so that in addition to being able to identify  concepts  of  instructional  evaluation,  students  can  practice  applying  the techniques  in  the  field.  Future  research  is  suggested  to  raise  issues  on  pedagogic competence in the study program of Early Childhood Teacher Education in Indonesia to reveal further results and findings.The study program of Early Childhood Education is  recommended  to  create  more  competent  graduates  of  early  childhood  education teachers. Pendapat  Kepala  Sekolah  dan  Guru  Pamong  tentang  Kompetensi Pedagogik  Mahasiswa  PLP  PGPAUD  FIP  UPI  Tahun  Akademik  2014-2015. Tujuan  penelitian  ini  adalah  untuk  mengetahui  pendapat  kepala  sekolah  dan  guru pamong  tentang  kompetensi  pedagogik  mahasiswa  PLP  PGPAUD  FIP  UPI  tahun akademik 2014-2015. Metode yang digunakan survei deskriptive. Populasi dan sampel pada  penelitian  ini  adalah  seluruh  kepala  sekolah  dan  guru  pamong  yang  menjadi pembimbing  program  PLP  tahun  akademik  2014-2015.  Alat  pengumpulan  data penelitian ini menggunakan angket tertutup yang kemudian dianalisis dengan statistika deskriptif. Kepala sekolah  berpendapat tentang kompetensi pedagogik mahasiswa PLP PGPAUD adalah baik dengan nilai 72,93%. Pendapat guru pamang tentang kompetensi pedagogik  mahasiswa PLP PGPAUD adalah baik dengan nilai 62,06%. Rekomendasi penelitian  ini  agar  strategi  pembelajaran  yang  digunakan  dalam  meningkatkan kompentensi  pedagogik  lebih  aplikatif,  khususnya  untuk  strategi  pembelajaran matakuliah  evaluasi  pembelajaran,  sehingga  mahasiswa  selain  dibekali  pengetahuan mengenai konsep-konsep evaluasi pembelajaran, mahasiswa juga dapat berlatih untuk menggunakan  teknik-teknik  penilaian  di  lapangan  secara  langsung.  Untuk  penelitian selanjutnya  agar  dapat  mengangkat  permasalahan  mengenai  kompetensi  pedagogik pada program studi PGPAUD di Indonesia sehingga diharapkan peneliti mendapatkan temuan  baru  dan  memberikan  rekomendasi  untuk  program  studi  PGPAUD  dan menghasilkan lulusan-lulusan guru PAUD yang lebih baik lagi.

Within the Borderlands: Beginning Early Childhood Teachers in Primary Schools

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Britt ◽  
Jennifer Sumsion
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Difference

This article presents findings from a study undertaken by a pre-service early childhood teacher, that investigated the experiences of four beginning early childhood qualified teachers in primary school settings. The study explored the metaphors that these teachers used when describing their lived experience stories and analysed what these metaphors indicated about the discourses the teachers perceived were available to them, and where they had chosen to situate themselves within these discourses. Throughout the article, the metaphor of ‘border crossings' is used to highlight the focus within much of the literature on the difference and separation between early childhood and primary education. Data were generated through in-depth, open-ended interviews, a group discussion, visual representations and written material. The thematic recurrences and discursive positionings within the metaphors and narratives of the participants were deconstructed and critically analysed using a framework of feminist post-structuralism. In particular, this article explores the discursive positionings related to the teachers' movement within the borderland of early childhood education and primary education. It argues that early childhood teachers in primary schools are operating within an exciting space — an intersection between early childhood education and primary education. Rather than focusing on the difference and separation between these points, the focus shifts to working toward creating points of overlap, of connection — a shared borderland between early childhood education and primary education.

Teachers as Brokers

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Mentha ◽  
Amelia Church ◽  
Jane Page
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Education And Care

This paper explores a small sample of Australian early childhood teachers’ perceptions of the rights-based conceptsparticipationandagency. We recognise and reconcile some of the perceived tensions between the debates on participation and protection and how these play out in the teaching and learning spaces of early childhood education. Teachers’ reflections on these concepts in relation to practice are highly significant to the field, connecting the concepts of children’s rights to the reality of everyday practices in early childhood education and care settings. As brokers or conduits to participation in early learning environments, a better understanding of teacher’s professional stance enables opportunities for young children to be better heard. An understanding of complexities and relatedness within these settings, can lead to more consistent and clear policy implementation.

The Monster in the Room: Safety, Pleasure and Early Childhood Education

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Jones
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data

Inspired by the work of Joseph Tobin and his book, Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education (Yale, 1997), this article is about the necessarily uneasy and tenuous place of pleasure, desire and sensuality in early childhood education at a time when the field struggles to be identified as rule-governed and properly ‘professional’. With reference to focus group data from early childhood teachers and managers in Auckland, New Zealand, it considers what might be the comforts, and the problematic effects, of the contemporary demands for safety, and asks what kinds of pleasures are available to the modern ‘safe’ professional early childhood teacher.

Examining early childhood teachers’ attitudes and responses to superhero play

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182
Author(s):  
Megan Wiwatowski ◽  
Jane Page ◽  
Sarah Young
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Children’S Learning ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

Research highlights that early childhood teachers (ECTs) hold varied opinions on the value of superhero play (SP) to young children’s learning and development. This study sought to investigate how ECTs in Victoria are responding to superhero play, and to examine the beliefs that underpin their responses. Interviews were conducted with eight ECTs from the Bayside area in Melbourne. The study revealed that while the majority of the teachers interviewed responded to children’s superhero play in a variety of ways, there were a number of barriers to supporting superhero play in early childhood education and care settings. This paper concludes by identifying the value of ECTs engaging in critical reflection to ensure that their responses to superhero play are based on professional knowledge that is informed by theory and research.

scholarly journals Sticky stories from the classroom: From reflection to diffraction in Early Childhood Teacher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Rigmor Moxnes ◽  
Jayne Osgood
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher ◽  
Early Childhood Teacher Education ◽  
Childhood Education

This article aims to challenge the prominence of reflexivity as a strategy for early childhood teachers to adopt by taking Norwegian early childhood teacher education as its focus. Observed micro-moments from a university classroom generate multilayered, multi-sensorial entangled narratives that address what reflection and diffraction are and what they do – where students, the educator, materiality, space and affects intra-act. Furthermore, the article explores the ways in which teacher educators and students in early childhood teacher education become-with the classroom and materiality, and, in doing so, ideas about professionalism in early childhood education are opened out. By identifying the limitations of reflection, the authors go on to explore what working with diffraction might offer to reach alternative understandings. By placing a focus on seemingly unremarkable and routine events in the life of an early childhood teacher education classroom, the authors offer other, potentially more generative ways to think about student teachers and their further professional practice in kindergartens.

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