Pre-School Education - Science topic

This work arises from the activities developed in the course unit Internship in Informatics Education I, which took place in the 1st semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, focusing, in particular, on the process leading to the elaboration of the portfolio as an active learning strategy, promoting critical, interventional and argumentative reflect...

Yaşamımıza yön veren değerlerin kaybolmasını önlemek ve sağlıklı bireyler yetiştirmek değerler eğitiminin önemini arttırmıştır. Bu araştırmanın amacı, 2013 Okul Öncesi Eğitim Programı ile 2018 Hayat Bilgisi Öğretim Programını (1,2 ve 3. Sınıf) ele aldığı değerler bakımından karşılaştırmak ve birbirini tamamlama durumunu belirlemektir. Araştırmada n...

The service quality of preschool education institutions is a pivotal issue in meeting the expectations of education policies in Türkiye regarding solution proposals, institution adequacy and dissemination of preschool education, and supporting children's development at a desired level. This study evaluates the service quality in preschool education...

In the study, it is aimed to determine the views and experiences in outdoor learning of preschool teachers and headteachers in preschool institutions in Turkey and England with phenomenological research. The data was collected by interview forms which consisted of open-ended questions. Teachers, and head teachers in preschool institutions were inte...

2023 Xi’an Fan Yi University School-level Project: “Research on the Path of Cultivating Scientific Literacy of Pre-school Education Majors in the Perspective of PCK-Taking Xi’an Translation University as an Example” (Project No. 23B09); 2022 Youth Project of Shaanxi Provincial Education Science “14th Five-Year Plan”: “Research on Teaching Quality M...

Background. A child’s personality is formed at an early age. This is the most favorable time to develop a child's emotional intelligence (EI), which is an important factor for further social, emotional, and cognitive development. Parents and teachers are important actors in a child’s social environment and can have a significant impact on a child's...

This article focuses on the formation of pedagogical competence for the design of multimodal educational environment, the functionality of which is the foundation of the cognitive and creative activity of the child in pre-school age. It problematizes the need for adequate professional reflection of the teacher in the context of the transgressive ap...

Internship is a central axis in teacher training, forcing the mobilization and articulation of different types of knowledge, both personal and professional. Becoming a teacher is, thus, an individual and collective process that requires the internal symbiosis of action, experience, and emotion, to constitute itself as a total action of a person in...

The demand of equipping students with knowledge, skills, expression, attitudes, and values that aim to prepare them as future teachers in the exercise and protection of rights and responsibilities in society, In Albanian universities, is increasing. The study was conducted with 90 students of the Professional Master's program "Elementary Education"...

The main goal of the teacher training university program is to prepare qualified teachers who provide quality education services. Teaching competence is the professional knowledge, ability, and attitude to plan, organize, and evaluate the results of the training. In this article, we aim to study the impact of microteaching-based methodology on the...

Latvian is the only official language in Latvia and one of the symbols of an independent state. The article provides a brief insight into the history of its reinforcement, which has not been easy. Education is one of the areas in which it is very important to develop multilingualism, while not forgetting to strengthen state language skills and thei...

Në këtë kumtesë po paraqes disa mejtime mbi rolin që kalendari i pushimeve zyrtarë në arsimin parashkollor, që i përkushton rëndësi të vëçantë traditave abrahamike, mund të luajë në dispozitën e fëmijeve për të akomoduar diversitetin, veçanërisht atij fetar. Mejtimet e mia janë bazuar në të dhëna bibliografike të kombinuar me pak të dhëna empirike,...

From 2019 to 2022, I was glad to be a part of ELTE’s Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education (ELTE TÓK) and study kindergarten education as an international student from China. It is a really lovely and beautiful school and I would like to provide some useful information about my experiences here. I hope this article can help those who are inte...

International Relations are highly important in the operation of a higher education institution, a fact that is no different for our own institution, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). For the Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education (TÓK), one of the smallest of faculties in ELTE, it is very important to have a positive international reputation a...

This paper summarises how a critical pedagogical approach was joined with community-based action research to foster a critical language awareness (CLA) perspective in redesigning and implementing the course, Practice in communicating English literature. Held at Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education (ELTE TÓK) as a p...

Cognitive, affective and psychomotor readiness is an important point that should be emphasized in terms of the adaptation period of students to primary school. Since pre-school education is not compulsory in our country, families may not send their children to pre-school education if they wish. Opinions of families who prefer this situation; The ec...

The scientific monograph entitled "Perspectives on teacher education and development" is the work of authors from different professional and scientific backgrounds, coming from a broader international area. The publication consists of 38 original scientific contributions addressing different aspects of teacher education and training and highlightin...

Introduction: The emphasis on skills-based learning has caused curricular change in education systems across the European Union, particularly in terms of the increased use of active teaching methodologies at all stages of education. These sorts of methodology are proven to have a positive impact on students’ motivation to learn and involve teaching...

This paper presents an overview of Educational Robotics (ER) in primary and pre-school education. As ER seems to be gaining popularity for its effectiveness as a learning tool, more research needs to be done in this area. Recent results from ER pilot projects advocate for the integration of ER in K-12 education curricula. On the other hand, teacher...

2020-2021 Eğitim ve Öğretim yılında yürütülen "Buradayım Öğretmenim Projesi" salgın hastalık döneminde okul öncesi eğitimi düzeyi çocukların ihtiyaçları gözeterek planlanmış bütünsel bir dizi çalışma (çevrimiçi etkinlikler, masal saati ve aile katılım etkinlikleri) ile acil durum uzaktan öğretime ani geçiş uygulamalarını içermektedir. Alan uzmanl...

The connections between Mathematics and children's reality help them to attribute meaning to concepts. In the early years, the choice of representations to motivate mathematical ideas is crucial in the communication and mental construction of concepts. There are many ways to represent, informally or formally, mathematical ideas, an example is child...

Background Kindergartens and other preschool facilities provide preschool children with an important setting for social interactions. Social interaction supports the development of social skills in children and is associated with better subsequent performance in arithmetic. Objective This study reviewed the literature to; (a) identify targets treat...

This study aims to examine the opinions of the preschool education teachers on ethics. The study has been designed pursuant to the qualitative and case study techniques. The study included 32 preschool education teachers during the academic year 2020-2021. The general information form and structured questionary form, prepared by the researcher, wer...

Bu çalışmada amaç, yapılan geri dönüşüm ile ilgili etkinliklerin okulöncesi 5-6 yaş grubu çocuklarının farkındalığına etkisinin incelenmesidir. Çalışma, 2020-2021 eğitim-öğretim yılında Sahil Ana Okulu’nda 4 kız 5 erkek toplam 9 öğrenci ve aileleri ile yürütülmüştür. Nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden görüşme ve gözlem tekniğine birlikte yer verilmişti...

This study aims to examine the opinions of the pre-school education teachers on ethics. The study has been designed pursuant to the qualitative and case study techniques. The study included 32 pre-school education teachers during the academic year 2020-2021. The general information form and structured questionary form, prepared by the researcher, w...

This article is based on a Project-based Learning (PBL) experience which has been successfully developed during the last academic year, 2021-2022, with the students of the 2nd year of study, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Specialization Pedagogy of Primary School and Pre-school Education, in the context of promoting and sustaining...

In this study, it was aimed to examine the opinions of preschool teachers about the distance education process in preschool education in the COVID19 pandemic. The research is designed as a case study, one of the qualitative research designs. The working group consists of 22 preschool teachers. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data col...

The dialogue between knowledge, pedagogies and didactic resources gives meaning to learning. This learning when integrated in a transdisciplinary environment enhances the holistic development of the child. This study is part of the Master’s Degree in Education of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education and Portuguese and History and Geography of Portugal...

Creative thinking, identifying new solutions, taking risks, the proactive attitude, initiative, self-esteem, social and innovative intentions to contribute to societal well-being are competencies listed down in the Learning Compass (OECD, 2019a). Such abilities can be connected with social entrepreneurial competence. Meaningful constructs for the s...

This study aimed to determine the views of pre-service teachers on sustainable development and implementation process in the pre-school period. In the study, phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. The research was carried out with pre-service teachers studying in the fourth year of the Department of Pre-school Educ...

MEB okul öncesi eğitim programında “Öğrenme Merkezlerinin” düzenlenmesi ve kullanılması üzerinde önemle durmuştur. Sınıflarda eğitim öğretim sürecinin daha verimli bir şekilde gerçekleşmesi ve istendik davranışların çocuklara kazandırılması için fiziksel çevrenin uygun şekilde hazırlanması gerekir. Buradan yola çıkarak araştırmanın amacını, okul ön...

span lang="EN-US">This research investigated whether the emotional intelligence skills of first- and fourth-grade university students differ according to the departments they are enrolled in and other factors. In this research, the 87-item Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory was used. In the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and adaptability sub-dimens...

Objective This study aimed to investigate the multiple mediating effects of achievement motivation and subjective wellbeing between social support and individual occupational identity. Methods Questionnaire method was used in this study. 565 junior college students majoring in pre-school education were tested by social support scale, achievement m...

Bu araştırma, MEB Okul Öncesi Eğitim Programında bulunan sosyal-duygusal, dil ve öz bakım kazanımlarının doğa temelli öğrenme ile ilişkisinin incelenmesi amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Araştırma kapsamında, doküman incelemesi yöntemiyle program ilgili beceriler yönünden içerik analizi yapılmıştır. Araştırmacılar, bu becerilere ait kazanım ve göstergeleri...

In Europe, the number of early bilingual/multilingual or CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) programmes is increasing. They offer ideal circumstances for learners of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, foreigners and native speakers alike. Awakening to languages, building positive attitudes toward other nations and developing o...

This study discusses pre-school teacher training of an exceptional kind in Hungary while additionally providing an overview of the underlying situation. In the light of current thinking in teacher education with a special focus on teaching literature for undergraduate students, a framework for the children’s literature course shall be introduced. T...

This article gives an account of the development of an event designed to motivate teacher trainee students to learn languages. The event was planned and organised by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at the Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TÓK). The department’s intention was to play a pro...

Background: this study shows the importance of Physical Education in Pre-school Education and the leading role of the teacher at this stage as the person in charge of carrying out the motor skills of their pupils. Few studies have been found on the perception that teachers at this stage have of the subject. Objective: to analyse the thinking, ways...

In order to train autonomous, innovative and creative educators, artistic expressions are the best area. This poster presents a set of experiences, games and anecdotes experienced by educators in training, in the Masters' Degree in Pre-school Education and Primary School Teaching in the University of Madeira, reflected in their personal, pedagogica...

India is not only the largest home of child population in the world but also the largest home of malnutritional child. India are passing through various difficulties like drought, famine, flood, food crisis, regional imbalances, economic disparities, unequal distribution, lack of education, Children living under nutrition and faces number of chroni...

The objective of the study is to identify the level of recreation of social experience by children of 5-7 years old in motor games. Methods: theoretical: analysis, synthesis, generalization; empirical: observation and evaluation of independent motor activity of children, game diagnostic situations, conversation; methods of mathematical statistics:...

The age of 0-6, which is called the pre-school period, has a critical importance for human life. The opportunities provided to children in this period and the rich stimulating environment offered affect all development areas positively. For this, it is stated that children should be educated by teachers trained in this field from an early age in an...

Music education for the preschool age group and piano teaching in this context is generally of great interest and in demand. In Turkey, music teacher candidates take piano lessons during their undergraduate education, two of which are compulsory and six are elective. In this process, however, a course on how to teach the piano is not included in th...

The aim of the research is to examine the environmental awareness and attitudes towards the environment of 5–6-year-old children attending nature-centred private kindergartens and public kindergartens. The study group of the descriptive research that used a screening model consists of 48 children from nature-centred Private Maki Kindergartens and 4...

This study aimed to determine whether the administrators and teachers of pre-school education institutions are aware of cyberbullying, whether they are cyber victims or cyberbullies, and their situations of creating strategies by taking security measures to combat cyberbullying. In this regard; A total of 15 public, private and independent kinderga...

This study aims to examine pre-school teachers' views about the policies made in Turkey for the development of pre-school education between the years 2000-2019. In line with the purpose of the study, phenomenological research, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. In the study, semi-structured interview questions were determined as a d...

The article is for analysis of new experience in the national context-organisation of distance education in preschool education and the challenges in application of the innovation, when the implementation as such has not been planned and modelled for getting ready for it in advance. In Lithuania, before the COVID-19 pandemic distance education in t...

Children constitute the majority of individuals who are locked in their homes with the closure of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic period. In this process, it is a matter of curiosity how teachers, who are seen as a source for children to participate in education and reach reliable information, make sense of this process and reflect it in their...

This study set out to investigate the extent to which prospective teachers taking the Undergraduate module ‘English Language Teaching in Pre-school Education’ at the University of Alicante deemed suit the flipped classroom methodology introduced to enhance the learning process. Iterative cycles enabled the researcher to add a second dimension conce...

Introduction: This empirical study discusses the issue of compulsory pre-school education in the Slovak Republic from the viewpoint of the parents of children attending nursery school. The goal of the research is to establish the attitudes of presents to compulsory education a year before the child begins school. The research therefore works with t...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception of the digital teaching competences of the students of the Degree in Pre-School Education, Degree in Primary Education and Master in Teacher Training for Secondary Education. Additionally, this paper includes the students’ perception of their teachers’ digital competence. A mixed non-experiment...

The final publication compromises the literature review, methods, observations, findings, good practices related to ECEC in an intercultural perspective and practical examples derived from the Intercultural Early Childhood Education and Care Curriculum Design for Professionals (I.ECEC) project. It was made possible with the cooperation of the partn...

Starting from the importance of sustainable behaviour among educators for sustainability in kindergarten, the aim of this empirical quantitative study was to investigate the prevalence of predispositions towards sustainable behaviour among students from the first cycle of the Preschool Education study programme at three universities. The connection...

The outbreak of the covid pandemic resulted in an upsurge of interest in research related to the investigation of its effects on education, including the functioning, conditions and efficiency of online or distance learning. Apart from reviewing the most recent research literature in the field, this study aims to give an account of the experiences...

In today's society, children also play, but they play differently. The appearance of new technologies, the lack of free space to play, the decrease in autonomy and mobility are some of the factors that have been leading to a decrease in the time of free playing in the lives of children (Neto & Lopes, 2008). As part of a broader investigation, carri...

In this research, it is aimed to compare the preschool education curricula of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), England, Finland, Southern Cyprus and India. In this study, pre-school education curricula in TRNC, England, Finland, Southern Cyprus and India were examined and the age groups covered by the curricula, their general objectives,...

It is assumed that the content of the experiences children are exposed to early in life form the bedrock of their later education in life...

A prominent international trend is competency-based curriculum reforms across education jurisdictions that are based on or inspired by global frameworks such as OECD’s core competency definitions. The educational changes are generally oriented towards a behaviourist conception of competence that is task-based and focuses on direct observation of pe...

The purpose of this descriptive study is to investigate on-line learning readiness levels of student teachers according to several variables. By using purposive sampling method, the sample consisted of 270 (200 female and 70 male) student teachers in Turkey. Data collection tools include (i) Student Demographics Form with 18 items, (ii) On-line Lea...

Purpose: The New Education Policy (NEP-2020) aimed to revitalize the early childhood care and education (ECCE) program as ≈ 85 % of child’s cumulative brain proliferation occurs prior to 6 years. This initiative is made with special emphasis for socio-economically disadvantaged background communities to ensure better paradigm development of each pr...

Pre-School Education in Kasese District Uganda

Recent studies indicate tablets as the preferred devices of preschool children, due to portability, autonomy of use and variety of apps. There is also extensive evidence of the contributions of digital technologies in different areas of learning at these ages. The Aprender XXI project aimed to develop game-based learning apps, with content recommen...

ABSTRACT: This article results from an ongoing PhD project being developed at the University of Minho, in the Music Education Area of the Arts Education Specialization of the Child Studies PhD Program. The main focus of the project is music education and music learning in the context of Pre-School Education institutions in Portugal. In the course o...

The changing conditions of social development give considerable relevance to a study of parameters of a social situation of the development of the individual at the stage of childhood. The aim of the study: research of characteristics of a social situation of the development of a pre-school aged child at the present stage of society. The study was...

In Portugal, pre-school education (between the age of three and the age of entry into basic education), is considered the first stage of basic education in the process of lifelong education in which the learning opportunities are based on a set of curricular guidelines. In this context, unfortunately, professionals in Pre-school Education do not h...

The author of the article attempts to analyze the current pre-school education system of Uzbekistan, its main challenges, shortcomings and reforms. Moreover, this research will provide the study of the importance of learning at early ages (3-5) and its impact on the future learning and personal development of children. The research highlights the a...

The paper examines the process of the Buryat language teaching in pre-school educational institutions of the Republic of Buryatia from the viewpoint of realization of the state program “Development of Education”. The article describes the measures implemented in the sphere of pre-school education within the framework of the proposed federal project...

Dream, Save, Do (DSD) is a Sesame Workshop initiative to help young children and the adults who care for them develop financial empowerment skills. The initiative is funded by the MetLife Foundation. The program uses videos, songs, games and activities with Sesame characters to model effective use of language as well as strategies for using money,...

Nowadays teachers preparation context is actual, when government nationwide develops a system of external motivation to choose the profession of pre-school education teacher (paid scholarships, raised salaries, the status of pre-school teachers is equated to the status of a general education teacher). It becomes important to recognize and understan...

The study aimed to investigate factors influencing participation in pre-school education and its implications for quality-education. The descriptive survey research design was employed through stratified random sampling to collect pertinent information through questionnaires and observational checklists. The first finding was that 68.92% of the tot...

The aim of this study is to examine the views of students about the achievements and motivations of thedistance education processes in universities during the pandemic period. The working group consists of 68 prospective teachers who continue their undergraduate programs in different departments of a private university in Northern Cyprus in the 201...

Education is a conscious effort made by individuals with the aim of improving their quality as a form of adaptation of self-thinking to the times (Law No. 20 of 2003 article 1 paragraph 1). There are several levels of formal education in Indonesia, including Pre-School Education, Elementary School Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Educatio...

In the academic year of 2016/17, the Department of Mathematics at the ELTE Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education (Budapest) has introduced a new, Mathematics Primer Course for first-year students majoring in primary school education. Since this year, every first-year student to enrol has taken a compulsory placement test in Mathematics. Our s...

The article describes the results of studying the social and communicative development of preschool children, in particular – the features of interpersonal relationships of children brought up in different age groups of pre-school educational institutions. The studies aim is to identify the features of the sociometric structure of a group of differ...

The article presents important milestones in the history of primary school teacher training for the German nationality in Hungary. It is the first such institute founded 200 years ago (1819) in Zipser Kapitel/Spišská Kapitula, and the German-speaking teacher training institute, which was founded 80 years ago (1939) in Budapest. The Faculty of Prima...

The number of people with excess weight increases every year. Overweight and obesity in childhood can cause several chronic diseases in adulthood. Children with excess body mass develop more morphological and functional changes, including pulmonary functions. One of the common methods to assess lung function is spirometry. This method is a challeng...

Cooperation between educators and speech therapists represents an important element in the care of a child with speech disorders, including speech impediments. Teachers should also have the minimum of knowledge on speech therapy which will allow them to notice abnormalities in speech development in children as well as identify activities which prom...

People's ideological level has been continuous improving over the few years, and intangible cultural heritage (hereinafter referred to as ICH) has gradually received higher attention from the public. Some researchers propose that it is conducive to guiding children to further understand the ICH in the pre-school education stage by incorporating ICH...

مع تزايد متطلبات الأسرة وتعددها، خاصة إذا كانت المرأة عاملة فهي تحتاج حتما إلى بديل لها يرعى شؤون أطفالها وقت غيابها، لذلك أضحت مؤسسات استقبال الطفولة الصغيرة في الوقت المعاصر، تعتبر ضرورة اجتماعية ملحة وحاجة تربوية واقتصادية. كما أخذت الدول على عاتقها تحقيق رفـــاهية شعوبها، فاهتمت بإنشاء مثل هذه المؤسسات من دور الحضانة وريــــاض الأطفال في سبيل ت...

The innovative tendency in pedagogy, called “new education”, which appeared in many European countries in the first half of the 20th century, aimed at reviving schooling, the conditions of education, and the process of learning; it also set a new role for the teacher and emphasized a new approach to the child. Maria Montessori (1870–1952), an Itali...

he article deals with the problem of professional training of specialists majoring in Pedagogics at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, for working with children with special educational needs under conditions of inclusive education, which is useful not only for children with special educational needs, but also for their peers and par...

z Bu çalışmanın amacı, MEB 2013 Okul Öncesi Eğitim Programında bulunan kazanımların 21. Yüzyıl becerileri açısından incelenmesi ve referans becerilerin hangi düzeyde yer aldığının belirlenmesidir. Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden olan içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda okul öncesi programında bulunan kazanımların ç...

Educar para a Economia Circular pressupõe uma mudança de paradigma conceptual relativamente à economia linear, à reciclagem e sustentabilidade. Os estudantes de mestrado de habilitação para a docência, enquanto futuros professores, podem ter um papel multiplicador na sensibilização e implementação destes novos comportamentos. Dois projetos desenvol...

Quality education is one of the key indicators for economic development of a country. Consequently, most developing countries have committed themselves in several international forums not only to provide education but also to make it a basic right for everyone. So far, several developing countries have managed to make giant leaps towards this direc...