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Educational programs for young children emerged reasonably early in the history of the United States of America. The movements
of Child-Centered Education, the Nursery School, the Project Method, Curriculum Reform, and contemporary research have all
influenced mathematics in early childhood education. The Froebelian kindergarten and the Montessori Casa die Bambini (Children’s House) included approaches to teaching mathematics. This article reviews the history of mathematics education
in relation to the history of early childhood education from the turn of the twentieth century. It also discusses how research
in mathematics education attempted to gain its own identity. Throughout history, researchers have identified mathematics issues
and addressed them, defining the field, and generating a cadre of mathematics researchers. 相似文献
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Sandra M. Linder Beth Powers-Costello Dolores A. Stegelin 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2011,39(1):29-37
Mathematics education is a critical part of the curriculum for students worldwide. The foundation for understanding mathematical
concepts related to number sense begins early in life, and early childhood classrooms can provide the seeds for mathematical
skills that will be needed later in life. In this article, the authors make a case for meaningful and developmentally appropriate
mathematics experiences for young children in diverse early learning settings. Instructional and curricular methods inspired
by the Reggio Emilia Approach are described as effective ways to teach number concepts to young children from preschool through
primary age. Strategies for teachers of young learners are presented in order to strengthen the mathematics curriculum in
contemporary early learning settings. The authors’ analysis and recommendations are informed by their extensive experiences
including studies in Reggio Emilia early childhood settings (infant toddler, preschool, and primary schools) and their work
in early childhood teacher education at their respective universities. 相似文献
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Elizabeth Dunphy 《International Journal of Early Years Education》2010,18(4):331-347
One-to-one interviewing is one of the most powerful ways of exploring young children's thinking. While there are a few studies which report the use of this pedagogic strategy by preservice teachers, more are needed. This paper describes an early childhood mathematics education assignment which preservice teachers in a teacher-education college in Ireland undertake with four- and five-year-old children. It presents an analysis of data from a selected sample of 58 preservice teachers' reflections on their dialogues with individual children. It describes how the preservice teachers engaged with the process of interviewing the children; how they reflected on their interactions with the children; their reflections on the children's engagement; and their reflections on young children's mathematics generally. Some dilemmas faced by the participants in the course of the interviewing are highlighted. Findings demonstrate the integrated nature of the knowledge that early childhood teachers need to teach early childhood mathematics effectively. The learning arising from this assignment relates to early childhood mathematics thinking, to the psycho-social nature of learning in early childhood and to pedagogy in early childhood education. 相似文献
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Susanne A. Denham Hideko H. Bassett Katherine Zinsser 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2012,40(3):137-143
Young children’s emotional competence—regulation of emotional expressiveness and experience when necessary, and knowledge
of their own and other’s emotions—is crucial for social and academic (i.e., school) success. Thus, it is important to understand
the mechanisms of how young children develop emotional competence. Both parents and teachers are considered as important socializers
of emotion, providing children experiences that promote or deter the development of emotional competence. However, compared
to parents, early childhood teachers’ roles in socializing young children’s emotional competence have not been examined. Based
on the findings from research on parental socialization of emotion, in this theoretical review we explore possible teacher
roles in the development of young children’s emotional competence. Additionally, we suggest future research focusing on early
childhood teacher socialization of emotion, and discuss theoretical and practical benefits of such research. 相似文献
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Marilyn Fleer 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2004,31(3):51-68
Socio-cultural theory has provided researchers with a powerful cultural tool for examining many taken-for-granted practices
within early childhood education (Wertsch 1991). In drawing upon this tradition, this paper outlines a study that investigated
the learning experiences of Indigenous Australian preschool-aged children at home, in the community and in schooling contexts.
Each family was given a video camera and asked to record aspects of their child’s life that they considered important for
growing up in Australia today. Rogoff’s (1998) three planes of analysis were used to examine the video and interview data
gathered. The study documented important cultural understandings relevant to early childhood education from the perspective
of a range of Indigenous families. 相似文献
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Ana Schaller Lisa Oglesby Rocha David Barshinger 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(5):351-356
A study of Mexican immigrant mothers of young children in the AVANCE-Dallas early childhood intervention program demonstrates
that low-educational parents often exhibit ambitious attitudes about educational achievement for their children. Though they
lack an extensive academic background, which places their children at risk for low education, their positive attitude manifested
in daily pro-educational behaviors overcomes their low education level because they both motivate their children to pursue
academic success and participate in their children’s learning. The best way to capitalize on immigrant parents’ educational
drive for their children is to partner with them—either through an intervention program or through early childhood educators’
interaction with parents—by showing them how their participation in their children’s learning through concrete activities
(such as regular mother–child conversation, daily reading, and playtime activities that teach developmental skills) may increase
their chances of achieving academic success. 相似文献
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Anita A. Wager 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2012,15(1):9-23
Connecting students’ cultural and community mathematical practices to school mathematics is a critical issue in mathematics
education. The goal of the study was to identify how teachers incorporate children’s cultural and out-of-school mathematics
in instruction. Four related practices were identified, and three drew on children’s cultural or out-of-school experiences:
(a) using these experiences as contexts for problems, (b) linking these experiences to school mathematics, and (c) identifying
embedded mathematical practices prominent in these experiences. A fourth category, teacher initiated situated settings, focused
on shared experiences using the classroom as a site of culture. Findings suggest that these practices represent varying levels
of complexity and that use of this framework might support teachers in better relating students’ cultural and out-of-school
experiences to mathematics. 相似文献
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Mathematics problem solving provides a means for obtaining a view of young children’s understanding of mathematics as they
move through the early childhood concept development sequence. Assessment information can be obtained through observations
and interviews as children develop problem solutions. Examples of preschool, kindergarten, and primary grade children’s approaches
to problem solving are provided in the article. Prekindergarten and kindergarten age children discover problems during play.
For example, they figure out how to use informal measurement to use construction materials such as unit blocks and Lego to
build a desired building or make a desired object. Moldable materials such as clay and play dough provided shape experiences.
The daily sequence of activities builds on their concept of time. Primary grade children solve adult- and child-generated
problems. They may use manipulatives and/or drawings to generate problem solutions prior to using symbols and notation. Teacher
and/or student devised rubrics can be used to guide evaluation. 相似文献
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Kathleen Walker Karen S. Myers-Bowman Judith A. Myers-Walls 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(4):377-382
Early childhood educators are in a unique position to provide peace education to young children and have been called to do
so by their professional organizations. This article is intended to support early childhood educators in these endeavors by
providing an overview of young children’s conceptions of peace, war, and peacemaking strategies. In addition, a theoretical
framework for assessing young children’s conceptions of peacemaking is presented and recommendations for encouraging young
children in their peacemaking efforts are suggested. 相似文献
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Kleopatra Nikolopoulou 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):173-179
The computer has now become a recognized tool in the education of young children and when used appropriately can reinforce
their learning experiences. This paper reviews specific features (relating to pedagogic design, software content and user-interface
design) of early childhood educational software and discusses issues in favor of its localization. Specific features in favor
of its localization include the dominance of pictures, animation and sound, the culture-independent content and the neutrality
of graphical, interface and story-line features. Children’s software worth being adapted to fit another country’s curriculum
needs to be developmentally appropriate. The quality of the software will need to be combined with other factors, such as
the role of the teacher, in order to contribute to young children’s learning and development. 相似文献
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The focus of this study was elementary preservice teachers’ development as effective teachers of science and mathematics as
influenced by their participation in elementary science and mathematics methods courses. Preservice teachers’ reports of factors
that influenced their perception of their teaching abilities were analyzed according to Bandura’s (1994) 4 sources of efficacy:
mastery experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasion, and stress reduction. This investigation allowed the researchers
to evaluate the courses based on these sources. The analysis indicated all 4 sources influenced preservice teachers’ teaching
self-efficacy beliefs, with mastery experiences considered the most influential. Embedded within discussions of mastery experiences
were references to the other sources of efficacy, which suggest an interrelationship between mastery experiences and the other
sources. 相似文献
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Hope K. Gerde Rachel E. Schachter Barbara A. Wasik 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2013,41(5):315-323
Researchers and practitioners have become increasingly interested in how early childhood programs prepare young children for science. Due to a number of factors, including educators’ low self-efficacy for teaching science and lack of educational resources, many early childhood classrooms do not offer high-quality science experiences for young children. However, high-quality science education has the potential to lay an important foundation for children’s knowledge and interest in science as well as reinforcing and integrating critical language, literacy, and math readiness skills. This paper examines the current research on science in preschool classrooms and provides suggestions on how to teach science that supports children’s development across domains. Using the scientific method to explore science with young children provides a systematic model for engaging children in observation, questioning, predicting, experimenting, summarizing, and sharing results. These processes encourage children’s use of language, literacy, and mathematics skills in authentic ways. Suggestions are provided for teachers to use the scientific method as their guide for generating scientific discovery in their classroom. 相似文献
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The advent of computer technology in the classroom raised the issue of its appropriate use by teachers and their students
alike. It has been recommended that teacher education programs provide more opportunities for teacher candidates’ use of technology
including teaching their own technology-enhanced lessons. With a goal of integrating scholarship into student teaching, a
teacher candidate enrolled in a graduate program in childhood education carried out a technology-enhanced research project
within a professional development school. Examining the impact of the project on the teacher candidate, this article describes
how one’s pedagogical content knowledge and technological competence can be developed through a research-oriented teaching
experience. The article also demonstrates the emergence of a community of practice that shares the goal of providing learning
spaces for the teacher candidate and young children in the context of mathematics enrichment with computers. 相似文献
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Pat Drake 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2009,12(1):67-82
This article derives from a case study of 10 secondary school teaching assistants (TAs) who did not have conventional pre-qualifications
in mathematics but who undertook an honours degree in mathematics education studies at a Higher Education Institution in England
whilst continuing to work as TAs in school. Work-based learning was thus undertaken in parallel with advancement through the
hierarchical undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Lave and Wenger’s work on communities of practice is used as a framework
to explore the TAs’ learning of mathematics alongside their professional work in schools. This case illustrates how and where
institution-based undergraduate teaching relates to work in school, and where it does not, thus signalling the importance
of the TAs’ informal learning strategies in bringing together these experiences. 相似文献
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The attitude construct is widely used by teachers and researchers in mathematics education. Often, however, teachers’ diagnosis
of ‘negative attitude’ is a causal attribution of students’ failure, perceived as global and uncontrollable, rather than an
accurate interpretation of students’ behaviour, capable of steering future action. In order to make this diagnosis useful
for dealing with students’ difficulties in mathematics, it is necessary to clarify the construct attitude from a theoretical viewpoint, while keeping in touch with the practice that motivates its use. With this aim, we investigated
how students tell their own relationship with mathematics, proposing the essay “Me and maths” to more than 1,600 students
(1st to 13th grade). A multidimensional characterisation of a student’s attitude towards mathematics emerges from this study.
This characterisation and the study of the evolution of attitude have many important consequences for teachers’ practice and
education. For example, the study shows how the relationship with mathematics is rarely told as stable, even by older students:
this result suggests that it is never too late to change students’ attitude towards mathematics. 相似文献
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Erin E. Turner Corey Drake Amy Roth McDuffie Julia Aguirre Tonya Gau Bartell Mary Q. Foote 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2012,15(1):67-82
Research repeatedly documents that teachers are underprepared to teach mathematics effectively in diverse classrooms. A critical
aspect of learning to be an effective mathematics teacher for diverse learners is developing knowledge, dispositions, and
practices that support building on children’s mathematical thinking, as well as their cultural, linguistic, and community-based
knowledge. This article presents a conjectured learning trajectory for prospective teachers’ (PSTs’) development related to
integrating children’s multiple mathematical knowledge bases (i.e., the understandings and experiences that have the potential to shape and support children’s mathematics learning—including
children’s mathematical thinking, and children’s cultural, home, and community-based knowledge), in mathematics instruction.
Data were collected from 200 PSTs enrolled in mathematics methods courses at six United States universities. Data sources
included beginning and end-of-semester surveys, interviews, and PSTs’ written work. Our conjectured learning trajectory can
serve as a tool for mathematics teacher educators and researchers as they focus on PSTs’ development of equitable mathematics
instruction. 相似文献
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The evaluation of teaching quality in mathematics has become increasingly important following research reports indicating
that preschoolers are developmentally able to engage in mathematic thought and that child performance in mathematics at this
level is a strong predictor of later school achievement. As attention turns to early mathematics education, so too does the
focus on teaching quality. This paper reviews nine instruments designed to measure mathematics teaching quality—their theoretical
bases, foci, and psychometrics—and examines their appropriateness for administration in early childhood settings. Three of
the nine measures are identified as having highly desirable characteristics, with one of them specifically designed for early
childhood administration. The measures, our review process, and our recommendations for practice are presented. As school
divisions and teacher educators examine teaching quality, they will be better able to support their teachers’ practice, and
better able to reap the benefits in improved child outcomes. 相似文献
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A Study Of Mathematics Anxiety in Pre-Service Teachers 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Gina Gresham 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,35(2):181-188
The study investigated the changes in levels of mathematics anxiety among pre-service teachers in six different sections of
a mathematics method courses for early childhood/elementary education pre-service teachers. The changes were a function of
using Bruner’s framework of developing conceptual knowledge before procedural knowledge and using manipulatives and other
activities to make mathematics concepts more concrete and meaningful. Data were collected using quantitative and qualitative
measures. Two hundred forty-six pre-service teachers completed a 98-item Likert-type survey. Informal discussions, informal
interviews, and questionnaire-guided narrative interviews were conducted with pre-service teachers. Data revealed a statistically
significant reduction in mathematics anxiety in pre-service teachers (p < .001) who completed a mathematics methods course that emphasized Bruner’s model of concept development. Results of the
study have implications for teacher education programs concerning how future teachers are trained, the measurement of mathematics
anxiety levels among pre-service teachers, and the determination of specific contexts in which mathematics anxiety can be
interpreted and reduced. 相似文献
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Tricia Giovacco-Johnson 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,37(2):127-135
This article describes an innovative practice in family involvement developed by one early care and education center engaged
in professional development. The Hopes and Dreams Project documented family involvement in children’s lives and education
through the pairing of pictures and narratives about their lives, histories, priorities, goals, and responsibilities with
the school community. Narrative inquiry was a powerful method for increasing understanding of complexity of family involvement.
Findings showed that families’ priorities in forming partnerships included the importance in belonging to the community, being
involved in their children’s lives and education, experiencing diversity, and experiences in childhood for children’s futures.
This research supports the importance of redefining family partnerships in early care and education in a manner that is inclusive
of family values and priorities. The implications are that early care and education providers have an important role in developing
and defining involvement practices that empower families and educate professionals. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to investigate young children’s perspectives related to their experiences in child care. Researchers
used individual interviews and drawings in an early childhood program in Denmark and one in the United States as the basis
for examining children’s perspectives on their everyday lives in child care. Observations documented the everyday cultural
practices for the children in the two child care centers and provided a foundation for interpreting the interviews and the
drawings. The information collected was analyzed to determine what aspects of child care young children like best and least,
as well as their thoughts on the adults and peers in their center. 相似文献