Early Childhood - Science topic

The field of computer science remains male-dominated, with women facing significant barriers to entry and advancement. Despite numerous global initiatives aimed at addressing this imbalance, gender-based stereotypes still shape perceptions of technology-related fields, often discouraging girls from pursuing STEM studies and careers. To address this...

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Vorfreudig kann ich verkünden: Am Montag, den 20. Januar 2025 darf ich in der internationalen online-Vortragsreihe ,What’s next? New perspectives on (early) childhood education and care’ mitwirken mit einem Vortrag zu "Kindheit jenseits öffentlicher Institutionen. Die Diversität pädagogischer Alternativität und ihre Implikationen für die Kindheitsf...

An international online lecture series with new perspectives on (early) childhood education and care Internationally, the discourses on childhood education and care are diverse. This is due to varying historical developments, organizational structures, as well as social and educational policy frameworks. Still, similarities can be found on a scien...

The main objective of this research paper is to understand that from the stage of early childhood, throughout the lives of the individual, they need to put emphasis on promoting good health and well-being. It needs to be promoted from physical and psychological perspectives. Hence, one needs to be well-aware in terms of various types of measures, w...

Purpose of Review To review evidence supporting human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (UC-MSC) as an innovative model system advancing obesity precision medicine. Recent Findings Obesity prevalence is increasing rapidly and exposures during fetal development can impact individual susceptibility to obesity. UC-MSCs exhibit heterogeneous pheno...

The current narrative surrounding children’s health and wellbeing often focuses on adversity and dysregulation with a lack of positive messaging. However, promoting protective and buffering factors may be as important as reducing adverse exposures. While the concept of flourishing is commonly applied in the context of adults, defining what flourish...

While the link between autism and gender dysphoria (GD) has received increasing attention, the phenomenon of GD co-occurring with autism remains unclear owing to the lack of autistic transgender perspectives. A recent qualitative analysis found that their GD (i.e., dysphoria related to gender norms) may be a subset of pervasive social dysphoria (PS...

Objectives Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) caused by pathogenic variants in SCN8A are associated with difficult‐to‐treat and early‐onset seizures, developmental delay/intellectual disability, impaired quality of life, and increased risk of early mortality. High doses of sodium channel blockers are typically used to treat SCN8A‐D...

Language development is fundamental in early childhood education (ECE). While in recent years, research regarding the importance of dual language development for DLLs in ECE has increased, there remains a great need to determine effective practices and quality measurement tools that effectively support linguistically diverse children in ECE setting...

Background: Canada lacks an approach to early childhood mental health prevention aimed at decreasing barriers to care among highest-needs families. In this Canadian randomized controlled trial, we aimed to evaluate whether participation in the Family Check-Up® (FCU) would be associated with lower severity of child behavior problems (primary outcome...

This article explores preservice teachers’ (PSTs) experiences engaging in a program initiative blending antiracist teaching and project-based learning (PjBL) to create an antiracist PjBL. Informed by critical race theory and racial literacy theory we used children’s literature as a catalyst for engaging PSTs in sustained conversations about systemi...

Many superhero and villain stories include trauma, which could influence how the public perceives the impact of trauma in their own lives. Our aim was to assess whether total Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) scores were associated with heroism or villainy among Marvel and DC Characters. We watched 33 films, with a total runtime of 77 hours and...

There is notable variation in state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrant parents and their children. Little research has investigated how these exclusions impair the well‐being of immigrant families. This study examined how state‐level social policy exclusions for immigrants are associated with the well‐being of immigrant parents and develo...

Objective To investigate the relationship between a history of otitis media (OM) in early childhood and speech reception thresholds (SRT) in later childhood, using the Dutch digits‐in‐noise (DIN) test at ages 9 and 13 years. Methods This study was conducted within the Generation R study, a prospective birth cohort in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Ch...

Teachers in the early care and education (ECE) workforce have been experiencing elevated levels of depression and job stress, which can lead to lower quality teaching practices, less emotional support to children, and higher staff turnover. Research has shown that racial concordance (or matching) between teachers and their students is associated wi...

The main objective of this research paper is to understand that forming a social circle is essential in leading to up-gradation of overall personality traits. From the stage of early childhood, throughout the lives of the individuals, they need to form an effective social circle within personal and professional lives. Individuals are required to co...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of early childhood chronic stress on the development of the brain extracellular matrix (ECM) and how alterations in the ECM following early-life adversity (ELA) affect auditory learning and cognitive flexibility. ELA was induced through a combination of maternal separation and neonatal isolation in male Sp...

Research on the cerebellum and its functional organization has significantly expanded over the last decades, expanding our comprehension of its role far beyond motor control, including critical contributions to cognition and affective processing. Notably, the cerebellar lateralization mirrors contralateral brain lateralization, a complex phenomenon...

Early childhood educators (ECEs) work in highly regulated environments due to the push for regulation and standardisation, often in the name of quality improvement. Despite this, our study showed educators used a nuanced approach to involving families in their services that was influenced by their settings, values and service culture. Educators usu...

Media use for emotion regulation, such as occupying children when they are bored or distracting them from negative emotions, is a common practice for parents in the United States, but it has been linked with weaker emotion regulation skills among young children. This association has not been examined in the presence of other family context variable...

Letter formation is recognized as a crucial aspect in early literacy, prompting this study to determine the effectiveness of rainbow writing in enhancing the letter skills of kindergarten pupils. A quasi-experimental research design was utilized, with the control group receiving traditional instruction and the experimental group receiving rainbow w...

This study aims to overcome the problems in English learning in Perintis II Kindergarten, which faces the limitations of engaging and interactive learning media. Traditional learning methods, such as lectures and flashcards, have not been effective in optimally increasing students' vocabulary mastery. The study developed Android-based learning medi...

Background Perinatal growth and nutrition have been shown to be determinants in the programming of different tissues, such as adipose tissue, predisposing individuals to metabolic alterations later in life. Previous studies have documented an increased risk of metabolic disturbances and low-grade inflammation in prepubertal children with a history...

There is a need for robust evidence about which educational interventions work in preschool to foster children’s cognitive and socio-emotional learning (SEL) outcomes. Lab-based individually randomized experiments can develop and refine such interventions, and field-based randomized experiments (e.g., cluster randomized trials) evaluate their effec...

O artigo analisa a difusão da agenda de governança global para a infância na ALC por meio da transferência de políticas educacionais entre Organismos Multilaterais (OM) e suas configurações nos contextos nacionais. A partir de uma metodologia documental descritivo-analítica, documentos nacionais e internacionais são examinados para mapear políticas...

Over 10 million children in the world have active epilepsy, and the root cause is unknown in approximately half of cases. The gut microbiome has been associated with various neurological disorders, and certain drugs greatly disturb the microbiome. Our aim was to study the association of prenatal and childhood exposure (before the age of two) of ant...

From the stage of early childhood, throughout the lives of the individuals, they need to put emphasis on leading to up-gradation of different types of skills and abilities. The different types of skills and abilities are put into operation in one’s personal and professional lives. These are required to be utilized in a moral and ethical manner. In...

In the field of educational robotics, it is important to understand the processes trough which child-robot interactions are established during play activities. In terms of socio-material characteristics, robots can vary widely, from more mechanical robots to more anthropomorphic ones. Research has shown that the degree of anthropomorphization of th...

Background Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centers play an important role in fostering healthy dietary habits. The Nutrition Now project focusing on improving dietary habits during the first 1000 days of life. Central to the project is the implementation of an e-learning resource aimed at promoting feeding practices among staff and health...

Food insecurity (FI) has been identified as a determinant of child development, yet evidence quantifying this association using the newly developed Early Childhood Development Index 2030 (ECDI2030) remains limited. Herein, we provide national estimates of early childhood development (ECD) risks using the ECDI2030 and examined to what extent FI was...

Coordination in mothers’ and their infants’ parasympathetic nervous system functioning (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA] synchrony) specifically during playful interactions may promote resilience against exposure to postpartum depressive symptoms (PPD), for both members of the dyad. To test biobehavioral synchrony theory-derived hypotheses,...

It is important to assess learning in both familiar and unfamiliar conditions to determine the extent of learning generalisation. In this study, we evaluated parent language outcomes of LENA Start™, a parent-implemented intervention, using distal measures derived from a parent–child free play interaction. Forty-four parents and their child (mean: 2...

Background: The recorded incidence of eating disorders is elevated in people from higher socioeconomic positions, but self-reported eating disorder symptoms are more common in those from lower socioeconomic positions in cross-sectional studies. Longitudinal studies investigating the role of different socioeconomic indicators in the aetiology of a r...

Any educational programme, in this case Early Childhood Educator and Youth Sport Coach Education programmes, needs a framework that it is based on. Therefore, a theoretical and methodological framework is necessary, in order to define a basis to follow for the development of course modules and teaching units. The target groups which will need and u...

The role of parents is very important in life skills education for early childhood, because at this stage children are in a period of rapid development both cognitively, emotionally, socially and physically. Life skills education includes basic skills such as the ability to be independent, regulate emotions, communication, and the ability to face d...

Early childhood education was a strong component of the education systems across the Eastern Bloc,1 and it had multiple functions in a socialist society. Preschools and nurseries provided children with health care, social protection, child development opportunities, socialization, and preparation for school. By offering low-cost childcare they gave...

Background The prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is rising globally, particularly among children exposed to adverse intrauterine environments, such as those associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Epigenetic modifications, specifically DNA methylation, have emerged as mechanisms by which early environmental expo...

This paper aims to discuss the role of language development in the early childhood stage and how it supports children to express their own beliefs, thoughts, emotions, and perceptions about anything, as well as to understand those of others. This ability to understand their own and other’s mental state is what we call children's theory of mind (ToM...

Young children are growing up amid a digital revolution that has changed the way we interact with the world around us. While the benefits are great, the use of technology at an early age also brings risks and challenges. Exposure to inappropriate content, screen addiction and lack of supervision can be serious issues affecting children's developmen...

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Having addressed the nature and complexity of intersexuality including commonalities with and differences from the transgender condition, we now address major legal challenges to the bisexual status quo through the legal advancement of rights for intersexual persons. Identified here are four domains in which the rights of intersex individuals are b...

This study explores play activities in early childhood school. Play serves as an important process for promoting children's learning and development besides enhancing the emotional, intellectual, and social skills of the child. It is the teacher's role in early childhood development education to set up an environment that facilitates play experienc...

The individuals, belonging to all communities throughout the country are required to participate in different types of activities, i.e. social, political, economic, cultural and religious. These activities are regarded as an integral part of the lives of the individuals in both personal and professional spheres. The individuals from the stage of ea...

Introduction Child and adolescent obesity is associated with a range of immediate health issues and influences obesity in adulthood. The complex nature of health determinants that contribute to obesity makes it challenging to deliver effective public health interventions. This research presents insights from a system dynamics model of childhood and...

The presence of malnutrition in early life is a determining factor in the onset of metabolic alterations and chronic diseases in adults. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the impact of malnutrition in early childhood with the presence of cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood in marginalized populations from Chiapas, Mexico...

Purpose The first 1000 days of life are critical for long-term health outcomes, and there is increasing concern about the suitability of commercial food products for infants, toddlers, and children. This study evaluates the compliance of UK commercial baby food products with WHO Nutrient and Promotion Profile Model (NPPM) guidelines. Methods Betwe...

Background Mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of illness globally. The importance of psychosocial skills acquired in early childhood, such as executive functions, inhibitory control, emotional regulation, and social problem-solving, in preventing mental disorders has been reported. Furthermore, mental health care delivery is evol...

Emotion socialization is a dynamic transactional process that unfolds at the moment during parent-child interactions. To better understand these transactions (both parent-driven and child-driven) in early childhood, we conducted a lag-sequential analysis examining sequential contingency between maternal emotion coaching and child emotion regulation...

Participation in outdoor play is beneficial for the health, well-being, and development of children. Early childhood education centers (ECECs) can provide equitable access to outdoor play. The PROmoting Early Childhood Outside (PRO-ECO) study is a pilot randomized trial that evaluates the PRO-ECO intervention on children’s outdoor play participatio...

Teacher professional development is a key factor in enhancing pedagogical interactions. However, implementing programs that are tailored to teachers' specific needs and teaching contexts remains challenging. This article examines a professional development program in pedagogical mediation based on action research, designed for early childhood educa...

Objective: This study investigates the resilience and happiness of Malaysian children during the COVID-19 pandemic, aiming to understand their coping mechanisms compared to peers in other Asian countries. Theoretical Framework: The research is grounded in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, which emphasizes the impact of various environment...

This study explores the policy implementation gaps in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Debre Tabor City, Ethiopia, with a focus on identifying the factors that hinder the effective execution of ECCE policies. Despite the recognition of the importance of early childhood education in national development agendas, significant challenges pe...

Background In India, approximately 3.5 million children are affected by Developmental Delay (DD), often stemming from preterm births. These delays contribute to neurological and motor development delays, placing a significant financial burden on families. Maternal unemployment rates are also elevated in such cases. Delayed Developmental Milestones...

Introduction Early childhood educators continue to need support to build their capacity to promote positive social and emotional development and address challenging behavior when it occurs, without resorting to exclusion. One approach to improve the experiences and outcomes of young children through better support to educators is Early Childhood Me...

This study evaluates the impact of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policies on the development outcomes of children in Debre Tabor City, Ethiopia. The research explores the implementation of ECCE programs, focusing on their accessibility, quality, and effectiveness in fostering cognitive, emotional, and social growth in young children. Th...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive disease that affects motor neurons, with symptoms usually starting in infancy or early childhood. Recent breakthroughs in treatments targeting SMA have improved both lifespan and quality of life for infants and children with the disease. Given the impact of these treatments, it is essential to develop...

Introduction: Oral health literacy (OHL) is defined as an individual's capacity to comprehend and effectively utilize information pertaining to dental health, which subsequently influences oral health behaviors and informs decision-making processes. OHL plays a critical role in mitigating oral health disparities, enhancing dental health outcomes, a...

The implementation of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) policies plays a critical role in shaping the foundational development of young children. This study investigates the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing ECCE policy in Debre Tabor City, Ethiopia. Employing a qualitative case study approach, the research explores...

A strong body of evidence has underscored the cross-cultural importance of nurturing parent–child relationships for promoting early child development outcomes. However, most research on parenting has predominantly relied on self-reported measures collected from mothers. Observational tools for assessing parent–child interactions from not only mothe...

Background With the explosion of techniques for recording brain activity, including the analysis of electrical signals generated during sleep, our understanding of neural dynamics has expanded significantly. Yet, uncertainty exists regarding whether there are sex differences in brain activity during sleep across the human lifespan. We aimed to addr...

This study sought to fathom on the quest for the adoption of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Early Childhood Development (ECD) settings in the Central Circuit of Hurungwe District. Adopting and embracing the use of ICTs in the education fraternity at ECD level is critically important in laying a strong base for sustainable education...

The main objective of this research paper is to acquire an efficient understanding of the factor that implementation of household responsibilities is regarded as an integral part of all communities. Throughout the lives of the individuals, they are required to focus on this task in a well-ordered manner. The individuals are required to augment info...

Children’s high and increasing levels of screen time are of growing concern to parents, health professionals, and researchers. With the growing availability and use of devices such as smartphones and tablets, it is important to understand the impact of children’s screen use on development. Prospective longitudinal data from 6,281 children (48.3% fe...

Background Prior longitudinal studies have found that individuals born during World War II and the postwar period had lower incident dementia (Tom et al., 2020) than previous generations, a finding contradictory to research indicating early‐life stressors as adverse events for late‐life cognition. This study aimed to further explore this associatio...

Background Poor cardiovascular health in midlife increases risk of dementia in later years. At least some of this risk may stem from early decrements in cognitive ability in those with poor cardiovascular health that are already evident by midlife. Whether such associations are causal, however, or develop in tandem due to shared factors encountered...

Digital art (DA) is emerging as a modern educational tool with unique value in the field of childhood education (CE). It not only enriches teaching and learning methods but also has the potential to promote young children’s cognitive, affective, and creative development. The aim of this systematic review is to explore the status, challenges, and pr...

The South African government has undertaken to expand universal access to Early Childhood Development (ECD) with a particular focus on children from socially disadvantaged communities and with disabilities. This requires training and support of ECD practitioners, such that they are equipped 399with the necessary knowledge and competencies to implem...

Background Calculating an individual’s risk for preclinical and symptomatic Alzheimer disease (AD) involves considering their experiences across the lifespan. This includes assessment of childhood experiences as risk factors for dementing disorders in later life. Method The Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (ADRC) examined the relationship...

Understanding and embracing positive attitudes toward disability are crucial for inclusive practices. Universities play a key role in shaping these attitudes, making higher education critical for promoting inclusion and understanding diversity. This study investigates the influence of career selection and academic progression on university students...

This article examines when, and how, early childhood educators facilitate mathematical learning opportunities for babies and toddlers in Australian early childhood settings. The participants included babies and toddlers aged 2 to 40 months and their educators, across six different early childhood education settings. Data were gathered during case s...

Background: Dental health is the most important part of general oral health, especially during a child's growth and development. Children with dental caries experience loss of chewing ability and problems with digestion, resulting in disruption of growth and development. Dental caries in children is still a fairly high prevalence problem in Indones...

Purpose The primary aim of the study was to examine the association between early childhood practitioners' use of language facilitation strategies during interactive book reading of informational texts related to science and the language skills of preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method Twenty-four practitioners (12 e...

The study examined the phenomenon of self-renewal and conceptual change of kindergarten managers in the process of implementing the transition to a forest kindergarten model from a professional career perspective. The educator's career takes place in four consecutive stages: the stage of entry into the career, the building stage, the mid-career sta...

The transition from preschool to school is a significant milestone in a child’s life, and the experiences gained during this period have a long-term impact not only on learning outcomes but also on the relationship with school and teachers. Starting school is exciting and filled with anticipation for young children; at the same time, it is also a s...