Geometric activities for early childhood education

A class of first graders was working on a geometry Jesson in which they were to arrange a basic set of geometric blocks like the arrangements shown on a screen in front of the classroom. Three students in the group were noticeably successful in completing the task. They were not only highly successful in the interpretive aspects of the activity, but they were also able to verbally justify their selection of particular blocks, even when the decision required considerable deductive reasoning. Their teacher pointed out that these three students were all in the lowest reading group in the class.

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Seeing through the metaphor: The OECD quality toolbox for early childhood

Semiotica ◽

10.1515/sem-2016-0134 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2016 (212) ◽

pp. 97-110 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sandy Farquhar ◽

Peter Fitzsimons

Keyword(s):

International Economic ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Local Government ◽

Education Policy ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Creative Play ◽

Government Education ◽

Education And Care ◽

Selection Of

AbstractThis paper explores the idea of metaphor as a persuasive device, using as an example a recent OECD publication purporting to be a quality toolbox for early childhood education and care. Leaving aside the problematic notion of quality, we argue that there is a serious problem with the idea of education as something that can be done with a toolbox, particularly in the formative stages of young children’s education. We suggest that the OECD selection of the toolbox as a metaphor is a way of inserting international economic imperatives into local government education policy, in ways that the citizenry is not aware of. As with any metaphor for education, the selection highlights some aspects while hiding others, a concealment that can’t be exposed by intensifying one’s gaze without a change in perspective. To examine the extent of what remains hidden by the toolbox, we engage in creative play with some different metaphors for education, arguing that particular metaphors may serve to obfuscate rather than clarify, an artifice that is not acceptable from a body as influential and far-reaching as the OECD.

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Race/ethnicity, human capital, and the selection of young children into early childhood education

Social Science Research ◽

10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102364 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 85 ◽

pp. 102364

Author(s):

Robert W. Ressler ◽

Elizabeth Ackert ◽

Arya Ansari ◽

Robert Crosnoe

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Young Children ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Race Ethnicity ◽

Selection Of

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STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN PAUD MELALUI METODE DONGENG BAGI PENDIDIK PAUD

JIV-Jurnal Ilmiah Visi ◽

10.21009/jiv.0302.11 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 198-203

Author(s):

Ade Kusmiadi ◽

Sriwahyuningsih Sriwahyuningsih ◽

Yuyun Nurfalah

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

Instructional Strategy ◽

Learning Method ◽

Story Telling ◽

Childhood Education ◽

Instructional Objectives ◽

Selection Of

Instructional strategy is one of important factors to achieve instructional objectives. This article discusses both strengthening of Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers in implementing instructional strategy through story telling method and some consideration upon the selection of appropriate story telling for ECE. It is one of the effective methods improving children’s competencies in many aspects. It could also improve the teachers’ knowledge and stimulate their creativity in developing learning method.

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Early-Childhood Education for the Developmentally Delayed: Diagnosis, Intervention, and Evaluation

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1002.81 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 81-92

Author(s):

Susan Freedman Gilbert

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Early Childhood Education ◽

School Children ◽

Developmental Delays ◽

Delayed Diagnosis ◽

Language Impairments ◽

Developmentally Delayed ◽

Speech And Language ◽

Childhood Education

This paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained, behaviorally oriented, noncategorical program for pre-school children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays.

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