scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS’ COMPETENCE IN FACILITATING SCIENTIFIC PLAY- LEARN ACTIVITIES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTRES IN DELTA STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
Ifelayo Balota ◽  
Simeon Olajide
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
The State ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Descriptive Survey

Abstract   The study identified the scientific play-learn activities practiced in early childhood education centres in Delta state and investigated the academic qualifications of the early childhood educators. It also assessed the scientific play-learn skills of the early childhood educators and examined the relationship between early childhood educators’ qualifications and scientific play-learn activities facilitation skills in the study area. These were with a view to providing succinct information about early childhood educators’ competence in facilitating scientific play-learn activities in early childhood centres in the State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised all early childhood educators in the State. The sample for the study consisted of 360 early childhood educators drawn from the three senatorial districts in the state using multistage sampling procedure. One self-designed instrument titled ‘‘Early Childhood Educators’ Competence in Science Play-learn Activities Questionnaire’’ (ECECSPAQ) was used for data collection. The data collected were analysed using frequency count, percentage, and regression analysis. The results of the study showed that 29.5% of early childhood educators in all the centres practised gravity, 22.3% practised motion, 16.4% practised electricity, 46.4% practised sound, and 24.2% practised air and wind. The results further showed that 16.1 % of the early childhood educators had senior school certificate, 11.4% had ND certificate, 20.6% had TC11 and NCE, 14.4% had HND, 4.7% had certificate in Nursery and Primary education while 10.5% also had certificate in science areas. The results also showed that early childhood educators possessed very low level of scientific play-learn skills (21.90%). The results finally showed a significant relationship of early childhood educators’ qualifications on scientific play-learn activities facilitation skills (F = 2.547, p < 0.05). The study concluded that early childhood educators possessed low competence in embarking on rich scientific play-learn activities necessary to promote science learning in children.

scholarly journals Professionalisation of early childhood education and care practitioners: Working conditions in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912110101
Author(s):  
Geraldine Mooney Simmie ◽  
Dawn Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Education And Care

The last decade has revealed a global (re)configuring of the relationships between the state, society and educational settings in the direction of systems of performance management. In this article, the authors conduct a critical feminist inquiry into this changing relationship in relation to the professionalisation of early childhood education and care practitioners in Ireland, with a focus on dilemmatic contradictions between the policy reform ensemble and practitioners’ reported working conditions in a doctoral study. The critique draws from the politics of power and education, and gendered and classed subjectivities, and allows the authors to theorise early childhood education and care professionalisation in alternative emancipatory ways for democratic pedagogy rather than a limited performativity. The findings reveal the state (re)configured as a central command centre with an over-reliance on surveillance, alongside deficits of responsibility for public interest values in relation to the working conditions of early childhood education and care workers, who are mostly part-time ‘pink-collar’ women workers in precarious roles. The study has implications that go beyond Ireland for the professionalisation of early childhood education and care workers and meeting the early developmental needs of young children.

Monitoring children’s development in early childhood education settings to promote early detection of autism

2021 ◽  
pp. 183693912199808
Author(s):  
Beth Mozolic-Staunton ◽  
Josephine Barbaro ◽  
Jacqui Yoxall ◽  
Michelle Donelly
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Intervention ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Population Surveillance ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Children's Development ◽  
Children’S Development

Autism is a developmental condition that can be detected in early childhood. Early intervention can improve outcomes, though many children are not identified until they reach primary school. Early childhood educators are well placed to monitor children’s development and identify those who may benefit from additional supports, though implementation of standardised tools and processes is limited. The National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia has increased the onus on educators to support families to access funded services. A workshop on evidence-informed practice in early detection for autism was provided for early childhood professionals. The theory of practice architectures informed development and analysis of pre- and post-workshop surveys to explore changes in early childhood educators’ perspectives on factors influencing universal developmental monitoring and referrals to early intervention supports using an evidence-based tool, the Social Attention and Communication Surveillance-Revised (SACS-R). Post-workshop increases in early childhood educators’ perceived knowledge and confidence are evident, though recent policy reforms present challenges. Population surveillance using SACS-R in early childhood education is effective for identification and referral for children who have autism, and capacity building for professionals to use SACS-R is recommended.

Early Childhood Education Schools in Brazil

2018 ◽  
pp. 202-221
Author(s):  
Tizuko Morchida Kishimoto
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
Japanese Education ◽  
Japanese Children ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Brazilian Children

This chapter investigates play and interculturality between Brazilian and Japanese children in early childhood education schools in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The research context is 27 schools in five cities with nursery and kindergarten. Three questions structure the article. The first deals with family motivations indicating Japanese education and culture as one of the reasons for choosing the schools. The second examines the objectives and educational practices, and the third explores the play and interculturality between Japanese and Brazilian children.

The state of parent involvement in early childhood education

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Ali Kemal Tekin ◽  
Laila Al-Salmi ◽  
Maryam Al-Mamari
Keyword(s):  
Parent Involvement ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Childhood Education

Tending, counting and fitting with post-developmental fat(s) in early childhood education

2020 ◽  
pp. 146394912090738
Author(s):  
Nicole Land
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Childhood Education

This article responds to Euro-western conceptions of childhood obesity that understand fat within developmental narratives, as biochemically consequential and as a marker of individualized responsibility. Drawing in multiple fat(s) generated in a pedagogical inquiry with early childhood educators and children, the author articulates ‘post-developmental fat(s)’ as fat(s) that trouble the logics, practices and relationships required to understand fat as obesity. She traces how situated methods of tending fat(s) generated specific possibilities for counting and fitting fat(s). Foregrounding questions of how fat(s) happen and what fat(s) can do in early childhood education, the author takes seriously how fat(s) matter momentarily amid intentional, speculative and deeply politicized pedagogical practices oriented towards doing fat(s) differently in early childhood education.

scholarly journals Uso do ambiente Code.org para ensino de programação no Ensino Fundamental I - uma experiência no Desafio Hora do Código.

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Márcia Regina Kaminski ◽  
Clodis Boscarioli
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Public School ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Student Development ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
The State ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Positive Results

<p class="ResumoRevista"><strong>Resumo: </strong>O ensino de programação pode oferecer importantes contribuições ao desenvolvimento dos estudantes. Vários movimentos incentivam o ensino de programação nas escolas por meio de eventos como os da Hora do Código. A plataforma Code.org é um ambiente utilizado para promoção destes eventos que disponibiliza gratuitamente jogos educacionais para o ensino de programação. Este trabalho relata a experiência da participação de alunos de 2º a 5º ano de Ensino Fundamental I de uma escola pública em um destes eventos ocorrido no Estado do XXXXXX. Os resultados positivos motivaram a escola a estender as atividades com a plataforma Code.org para alunos de 1º ano e Educação Infantil. Os resultados dessas experiências são também detalhados.</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The teaching of programming is gaining space in the school environment given the contributions it can offer to student development. Several movements encourage this work in schools through events such as Hora do Código. The Code.org platform is an environment used to promote these events that provides free educational games for programming learning. This paper reports the experience of the participation of students from 2nd to 5th year of Elementary School I of a public school in one of these events occurred in the State of XXXX. The positive results motivated the school to extend its activities with the Code.org platform for 1st year students and Early Childhood Education. The results of these experiments are also detailed.</p><p> </p>

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