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Mugyeong Moon 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2001,2(1):22-31
The purpose of this study is to investigate teacher perspectives on peer relation problems of young children. Examined are
teacher definition of and assessment criteria for peer relation problems, and the most poignant peer relation problem perceived
by teachers. Three experienced American preschool teachers are interviewed and observed for one year. It is found that the
teachers define children’s peer relation problems as part of developmental processes and individual differences. The teachers
judge peer relation problems in terms of children’s emotional well-being, intentions, and social skills, and perceive children’s
control of others as the most serious peer relation problem in the classroom. It is posited that the teachers’ perspectives
rely on the emotional and motivational bases of children’s relationships with peers. The related issues are discussed and
implications for teaching practices are provided. 相似文献
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This study describes the lived experience of Kevin, a young child with physical disabilities who is placed in an inclusive classroom, a classroom where children with and without disabilities are educated together, with extra support provided for the child with disabilities. Children with disabilities who are placed in inclusive early childhood settings tend to be rejected or neglected more than their typically developing peers and are involved more with the adults in the classroom than with their peers. Kevin’s experiences are framed in the context of the current emphasis on inclusive practices. The study documents that adult assistance and curriculum activities both play an important role in either facilitating or constraining social interaction with peers. When the assigned assistant functions as the child’s playmate and mostly chooses table activities, both of these seem to limit opportunities for social interaction with peers. This study also documents that, without the assistant present, the child makes independent choices such as where and with whom to play. The dramatic play area serves as a conduit for meaningful verbal and nonverbal communication with peers. At the same time, Kevin’s strong desire to play in this area seems to be the impetus for physical development—he walks alone for the very first time. Suggestions are given for teacher facilitation of dramatic play. 相似文献
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Mainstream research in the education of students with significant disabilities, which seeks to improve the ways these students can participate successfully in general education settings, has established the importance of teachers and classroom contexts in mediating relations between students with significant disabilities and their peers in the classroom. However, there is still a gap in the literature regarding the ways in which teacher practice, particularly teacher discourse, shapes the identities of these students. Drawing on the data from a study that examined the participation of students with significant disabilities in inclusive settings, this paper presents a case study of the relations between Harry, a first‐grade student with significant disabilities, and a peer student, Andrea. The paper weaves several theoretical frameworks – disability studies, narrative theory, and sociocultural theory – to offer an interpretation that directs attention to the forms of teacher mediation available to peer students in engaging with their classmates with significant disabilities. 相似文献
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This article describes an integrated art and early literacy project entitled, ‘Picture Partners’. The main purpose of the
project was to explore how young children create and express meaning through art. Children’s responses, both written and spoken,
were included because accompanying modes of expression expand the nature and content of their drawings and inform teachers
about children’s intentions and processes of thinking. A secondary purpose was to investigate how children use illustrations
from familiar picture books as models for their own creations and whether children’s responses to stories might be enhanced
through their collaboration with peers. Partnerships were formed and participants worked in close proximity as they drew pictures
in response to a teacher directed prompt. Using qualitative, interpretative analysis, a small subset of drawings produced
by kindergarten and first grade children was examined. The results revealed that the process of drawing was influenced by
illustrations in picturebooks, peer interactions, and the artwork of partners in close proximity. The shift in emphasis away
from the interpretations of visual realism in children’s drawings towards their own purposes allowed readers to focus on the
way drawings represent meaning within children’s socio-cultural worlds. 相似文献
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This paper reports on the social skills and social status of 22 students with mainly moderate intellectual disabilities who had received an inclusive preschool intervention and were subsequently followed up from 18 months to more than five years later in their mainstream classrooms. Measures included direct assessment of social interaction in the playground, social status obtained by interviewing classmates, and the ratings of classroom teachers, parents and school principals. Large differences were found between the students with disabilities and their typical peers for amount of time spent interacting with peers and amount of time spent in isolation, with a moderate difference found for interactions with teachers. However, no difference was found between the social status of the two groups, and the students with disabilities were still spending more than half their time in the playground interacting with typically developing peers. Parents generally rated their children as having better social skills than did principals or teachers. A moderate relationship was found between the direct measures of peer interactions and teachers' perceptions of peer interaction skills. The relationships between the parents' and principals' perceptions of peer interaction and direct measures of the interaction were only small. Some of the implications of these findings for integrating students into mainstream schools and classes are discussed. 相似文献
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This paper examines important factors in maximizing children’s experiential learning in the context of inquiry-based children’s
museums. Learning is understood as situated in physical, social, and interactive context that is best achieved when children
have opportunities to engage in play-based inquiry. Recommendations for maximizing children’s learning in museums, supporting
children’s interactions with peers and adults, and offering affordances for children’s play are discussed. 相似文献
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Liv Gjems 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2010,38(4):271-278
As a genre of talk, narratives represent important building blocks in children’s learning in many fields. The purpose of the
study presented in this article is to examine how teachers can encourage children’s learning about people’s beliefs through
narrating. Narratives play an important part in children’s learning to understand other people and how they will act according
to what they believe, think or know. This study is based on video observations of six children, 3 and 4 years old, and their
spontaneous personal narratives told to teachers over a period of 8 months. The narrative analysis revealed that in most of
the narratives the teachers were passive listeners or were concerned about the structure of events. The teachers seldom asked
questions about the children’s mental state or disagreed with the child in ways that revealed their different beliefs. Suggestions
about implications of this study are that early childhood teacher education should focus on talking with children about what
they may think or believe concerning narrated events, and also reveal what they think and believe themselves. 相似文献
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Eija Pakarinen Noona Kiuru Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen Anna-Maija Poikkeus Martti Siekkinen Jari-Erik Nurmi 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2010,25(3):281-300
This study examined the extent to which observed teaching practices and self-reported teacher stress predict children’s learning
motivation and phonological awareness in kindergarten. The pre-reading skills of 1,268 children were measured at the beginning
of their kindergarten year. Their learning motivation and phonological awareness were assessed in the following spring. Questionnaires
measuring teacher stress were filled out by 137 kindergarten teachers. A pair of trained observers used the Classroom Assessment
Scoring System (Pianta et al. 2008) to observe 49 kindergarten teachers from the whole sample on their emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional
support. The results of multilevel modeling showed that low teacher stress and high classroom organization predicted high
learning motivation in children and that the children’s learning motivation contributed to their level of phonological awareness.
Moreover, children’s learning motivation mediated the association between teacher stress and children’s phonological awareness.
The results emphasize the importance of teachers’ pedagogical well-being and classroom organizational quality for children’s
learning motivation. 相似文献
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David Hamilton 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2005,52(2):121-137
Ecobehavioural analysis procedures were used to examine the interactive engagement of children with developmental disabilities due to Down syndrome who attended inclusive preschools for 2 years. Compared with typical children, the children with disabilities displayed infrequent interactions with peers for the duration of the study. For the children with disabilities, interactive engagement was largely unrelated to the characteristics of class activities, while typical children responded positively to activities expected to promote peer interaction. The results are discussed in terms of the inadequacy of informal strategies commonly applied in inclusive preschool settings to promote interactive engagement in children with disabilities. 相似文献
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Martha Lash 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,36(1):33-38
This study reflects a naturalistic, interpretive 5-month study in a public school morning kindergarten regarding the children’s
social development and creation of a peer culture during the transitional months into public education. The main focus of
the research was the children’s perspectives on these transitions and their evolving classroom community and peer culture
in response to the teacher, classroom and school environment. This study captures the dynamic and complex flow of activity
that occurs in classrooms, the give and take of relationships, and the agency that children take in developing peer culture
as one piece of community. Elements of the peer culture that are foregrounded include secondary adjustments as realized in
clean-up strategies, protecting play materials over time, and hypothetical competition with the afternoon kindergarten class. 相似文献
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Ling-Ling Tsao Samuel L. Odom Virginia Buysse Marti Skinner Tracy West Joann Vitztum-Komanecki 《Exceptionality》2013,21(3):125-140
The purpose of this study was to examine the social participation of young children with disabilities in inclusive preschool programs. One hundred forty-three preschool-aged children with disabilities were observed in classrooms representing four organizational contexts: community-based, Head Start, public school, and blended. Children's and adults' social behavior was positive across settings, and children in blended programs engaged in significantly more positive social behavior with adults. Peer social engagement did not differ across organizational contexts. Activity initiator was an ecological variable that affected children's social engagement in that children engaged in significantly more interaction with peers in child-initiated activities and significantly more interaction with adults in adult-initiated activities.). 相似文献
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The present study builds on research that indicates that teachers play a key role in promoting those interactional behaviours
that challenge children’s thinking and scaffold their learning. It does this by seeking to determine whether teachers who
implement cooperative learning and receive training in explicit strategic questioning strategies demonstrate more verbal behaviours
that mediate children’s learning than teachers who implement cooperative learning only. The study also sought to determine
whether students who receive training in explicit questioning strategies demonstrate more explanatory behaviour than their
untrained peers, and, as a consequence, do these same students demonstrate more advanced reasoning and problem-solving skills
on follow-up reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The study involved 31 teachers in two conditions, the cooperative + strategic
questioning condition and the cooperative condition, and two groups of students from each teacher’s classroom. The results
show that the teachers in the cooperative + strategic questioning condition used significantly more mediating behaviours than
their peers in the cooperative condition. The study also showed that the children in these teachers’ classes engaged in more
elaboration and obtained significantly higher scores on the follow-up reasoning and problem-solving tasks. The study demonstrates
the importance of explicitly teaching strategic questioning strategies to children during cooperative learning. 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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Since the 1980s, children with disabilities in China have been integrated into general education settings; the practice is
termed sui ban jiu du, literally “learning in a regular classroom” (LRC). The term LRC means “receiving special education in general education
classrooms”, and it is regarded as a practical form of inclusion in China. This paper provides context for understanding the
issues of teacher education and inclusion in China by comparing the concept of LRC in China to the international concept of
inclusive education. It discusses the challenges for and development of LRC at the levels of policy and practice. The main
issues involved in teacher education for special/inclusive education are discussed in relation to the culture and context
of current policy and its implementation, teachers’ attitudes toward LRC, the professional competence of LRC teachers, the
shortage of qualified teachers, and the lack of a national system for special education certification. The final section considers
strategies to develop high-quality inclusive education in China from the perspectives of policy development, professional
development, and the development of procedures for policy implementation. 相似文献
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The study presented in this article investigates forms of mathematical interaction in different social settings. One major interest is to better understand mathematics teachers’ joint professional
discourse while observing and analysing young students mathematical interaction followed by teacher’s intervention. The teachers’
joint professional discourse is about a combined learning and talking between two students before an intervention by their
teacher (setting 1) and then it is about the students learning together with the teacher during their mathematical work (setting
2). The joint professional teachers’ discourse constitutes setting 3. This combination of social settings 1 and 2 is taken
as an opportunity for mathematics teachers’ professionalisation process when interpreting the students’ mathematical interactions
in a more and more professional and sensible way. The epistemological analysis of mathematical sign-systems in communication
and interaction in these three settings gives evidence of different types of mathematical talk, which are explained depending
on the according social setting. Whereas the interaction between students or between teachers is affected by phases of a process-oriented
and investigated talk, the interaction between students and teachers is mainly closed and structured by the ideas of the teacher
and by the expectations of the students.
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This study investigated the perceptions and attitudes of teachers in early childhood settings toward social interaction interventions appropriate for young children with disabilities. Participants were 137 teachers working in either self‐contained classroom settings (SC) or inclusive classroom settings (INC). Variables that might interfere with perceived acceptability, feasibility, and current use of interventions were explored. These included theoretical orientation, attitude toward inclusion, experience working with children with disabilities, and teacher efficacy. Results indicated that SC and INC teachers are strikingly similar in their perceptions of interventions despite literature‐based indications that philosophical and theoretical differences between the two groups might influence attitudes. Implications for consultation practices by school psychologists and related professionals are discussed. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 42: 53–63, 2005. 相似文献
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The effect of activity type on the engagement and interaction of young children with disabilities in inclusive childcare settings 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The engagement and adult and peer interaction of 37 young children with a range of disabilities was measured in free play, group, and meal-routine activities in inclusive childcare settings. A significant effect for activity type was found for total engagement, active engagement, and passive engagement, with the children being more engaged in free-play and meal-routine activities than group activities. Free-play and meal-routine activities provided better opportunities for active engagement than did group activities, but children were more actively engaged during meal-routine activities than during free play. Passive engagement was more commonly observed during group activities. Children interacted more with their peers during free play. When children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder were compared with children with other disabilities, they were found to be significantly less engaged during free play and interacted less with their peers. The implications of these findings for inclusive practice in childcare settings are discussed. 相似文献
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This study was conducted in a Reggio inspired child care classroom of 4-year olds where the fundamental principles of Reggio
Emilia preschools are interpreted for a Canadian context. Qualitative case study methodology was employed to investigate how
social interaction plays a role in young children’s learning processes. Drawing on social constructivist views of children’s
learning and socialization, children’s discussions and interactions within a preschool learning group were examined. Examination
of children’s discourse is valuable not only for understanding individual and group learning experiences but also for illuminating
children’s agency and their active roles in their own learning. The study focused on the in-depth study of six children’s
activities during a ‘Shades of Pink’ project. As the project, ‘Shades of Pink’ unfolded, the children faced cognitive conflict while they were talking about the details of Monet’s painting, but worked
toward building common understandings. In this study, children are considered to be meaning makers and active participants
in their own learning processes. In addition, the relationships between children became a context in which the co-construction
of theories, interpretations and various understandings of reality took place. Small group work became a basis for creating
unity, a space in which thoughts took shape as well as a way to compare interpretations; with the result that new thoughts
and meanings were produced. 相似文献