Essays on Preschool

In the article, “Diverging Development: The Not-so-invisible Hand of Social Class in the United States”, Furstenberg said that social class is quickly beginning to shape the development of children, even before the child is born. Classism is alive in the form of less opportunities for lower social classes, forming a class that isn’t necessarily unintelligent, but uneducated. There exists a stereotype against those of lower social classes that these people do not strive to rise in the social hierarchy, and they often receive sub-par assistance, in part, through this prejudice. The article argues that social class is part ...

Introduction

In practice, Early Childhood Education is considered as one of the best environments for preschool age children based on a multitude of learning opportunities that it provides (Clark & Moss, 2005). This kind of early childhood education helps the children to foster in their language development, physical development and social ability in every dimension (Fasold, 1990). It is important that childhood teachers examine the trends in the today's society that influence the way the children play. Children's play behaviours will always be different depending on various contextual facts. For example, changes in the way technology get driven including children playing ...

What are the differences in language development between early and late normal development children?

What are the differences in language development in early childhood between children with typical development patterns and children with attention deficit disorder? What are the differences in language development in late childhood between children with typical development patterns and children with attention deficit disorder?

What are the developmental difference in language acquisition between early and late childhood stages for children with attention deficit disorder?

Introduction Language development has been a principal issue of interest in developmental psychology, especially with consideration of multiple external and internal factors that can affect this aspect of learning – both in early childhood and at later stages. Pungello and colleagues (2009) summarize the existing research stating that early language development in children is principal for ...

Introduction

The journey by which an individual develops is both very personal and also very predictable. It is predictable by way of accomplishing certain milestones at particular times. Development is marked by these milestones and through them, an individual's development is able to be termed “normal’ or “abnormal.” However, it is personal in that each person achieves these milestones at different times in their development. The similarities between the development of each person allow for the timeline of development to be documented and analyzed.

Social Development of Infants

In infants, social development primarily occurs as the child begins to become aware of and respond ...

A Review

Part A Working with the families of children with disabilities can be delicate for many reasons, not the least of which is that they may not be able to fully participate in ways which are meaningful (Dunst, 2002, 143). Knowing how to participate can also be difficult due to its changeable nature; in preschool families may be able to participate fully in the education of their child via the provision of special schools which allow for parental interaction during class (Dunst, 2002, 144), or by creating family-specific areas where they can ‘learn-by-doing’ when it comes to their children, perhaps ...

Markers and standards of a high quality early childhood classroom

High-quality programs are defined by a sense of purpose, which means that high-quality childhood institutions know exactly the required standards for their institutions. High-quality early childhood classrooms are marked by various elements which enable them to stand above others. They have well-trained teachers who have received special training to provide professional childhood development and education that reflect quality to the children. Preschool children require a supportive environment for effective learning. Thus, a supportive learning environment is another marker of high-quality childhood classrooms. Additionally, a high-quality classroom should have relevant instructional materials and there should be collaborations between families and ...

EDU 100: Issues in Education

Choosing a major is very difficult. In many cases, it determines the activity that a person will do for the rest of his or her life. Students have to consider some important aspects when deciding what the emphasis of their college studies and further career will be. This is problematic in many respects. In this sense, Koeppel (2004) affirms that the main factor that influences the decision-making on a college major is the age of students. He states that, since young adults are in the midst of self-discovery, making such an important decision puts an incredibly heavy pressure on ...

East versus West, Capitalism versus Communism. Vietnam and North America are two very different countries. Not only they are located at the opposite sides of the globe, but also the mentality, the vision of the world is like day and night. It would be wrong to compare the educational system in these countries and decide which one is better. However, it could be useful to take a look at the outcomes of the systems and understand which works better. Although even this would be a bias vision, since the needs of the people in these countries and their goals ...

Elizabeth L. Angeli

Relationship between language and literary development Literacy development process is a very complex issue because it involves numerous experiences that intricately coincide and complement each other (Antilla, 2013). Literacy development begins at birth as a young baby hears and starts to interpret meaning from the spoken word. Thus a child’s very early experience set the stage for the development of literacy. As children discover and get to know the world around them, they tend to find the ways to connect with their environment and communicate with others. Thereby oral language becomes the foundation for a child’s entry ...

STEM activities are able to teach us a special attitude towards knowledge and the approach to learning which could be interactive, interesting and integrated. With its child-centered learning structure and learning by doing technique the activities encourage and lead children to their new discoveries. STEM activities make a learning process easy and fun, treating the young learners as true scientists and thus cherishing their talents and capacities from the earliest age. A great example of a STEM activity can be the one called “Likes go together”. Judging from its title, we can presume that the activity is focused on ...

I have chosen to pursue a career as a preschool teacher in a public school setting. A public school setting offers many resources and trainings that might not otherwise be present at private institutions. I feel like preschool teaching is a good fit for me due to my prior experience working with children as a substitute teacher. I witnessed firsthand excellent classroom techniques and strategies that I would be excited to implement in my classroom. The foundation to a successful academic career begins in preschool. I personally feel I have the experience to help equip students with the necessary ...

Genetic and Environmental Research

Genetic research involves a critical analysis of medical and scientific causes, amelioration, enhancement, transmission, and elimination of inherited traits and disorders (McGuire et al., 2014). The role of genetic research is paramount particularly in a dynamic fields of diagnosis and treatment of genetic related disorders. The core areas of genetic research include genetic testing, reproductive genomics, gene therapy, genetic databanks, and pharmacogenomics. In social sciences, genetic research entails the study of the manner in which the genetic traits contributes to human behavior. Research on genetics has significant impacts not only on the health care sector but also to the ...

The noble and equally challenging position of teaching requires passion and high degree of professionalism on the part of individuals dreaming to build it as a life career. I always see teaching as an unconditional obligation a person always carries in his or her mind to take responsibility to the future of students rather than seeing it as a mere profession to eke out one’s living. In other words, a willingness to help the young ones grow and voluntarism are the two essential qualities of a good teacher. Obviously, this requires me to keep aside my personal choices ...

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Abstract Obesity is a condition of having more than average fatness, and it is defined by the Body Mass Index (BMI) of 95th percentile or more. Obesity epidemic is not only affecting the people from underdeveloped and developing countries but also affecting the people of developed countries. Particularly, minorities in developed countries are facing the problem more commonly as compared to the other population. During the last few decades, it has not only affected the adults but also children even at very young ages. Therefore, for the betterment of future generations, it is important to work ...

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Target Audience: Preschool Children, 3 – 4 years Learning Objectives: During this lesson, preschool children will learn the parts of their body and their functions. Activities: The teacher will sing the song “Me Complete” and teach the children the song. The teacher will help the children create life-size body outlines, according to the following procedure: One child will lay on his/her back, on a large piece of paper. After informing the child, draw an outline around his/her body with a marker. Once each child has an outline, give the children crayons to color their drawings. *Suggestion – have the ...

High scope education approach was developed based on the Piaget intellectual development theory. Therefore, the approach to education focuses on the individuality of the student as opposed to the collective approach. The students are supposed to learn realistically through experience as opposed to the impartation of knowledge through repeated reciting. The experiences in the classroom focusing on the approach are based on the stages of development in which the children are (Chambers, Cheung, & Slavin, 2015). The approach to learning places more emphasis on the constructive process of learning needed to increase the intellectual imagination as well as the social ...

Quantitative study

Campbell, D. A., Lake, M. F., Falk, M., & Backstrand, J. R. (2006). A randomized control trial of continuous support in labor by a lay doula. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 35(4), 456-464.

Database from which the article was retrieved

Wiley Online Library Study Design The study utilized a randomized controlled design whereby the participants were randomized into either the control (no intervention) group or the experimental (doula group). As such, the design utilized was suitable and consistent with the study since it enabled the investigator to effectively compare the outcome measures of the two group and come up with significant inferences (Polit & Beck, 2013). ...

Research Report Analysis

APA Citation for the Article Swindler Boutte, G., & Hill, E. L. (2006). African American communities: Implications for culturally relevant teaching. The New Educator, 2(4), 311-329.

DOI: 10.1080/15476880600974875

Question set: Main question: how can culturally relevant classroom instruction change teaching and learning processes? Sub-question: how effective is barbershop research and sermons for teaching African American school children? Setting and Population demographics Setting: three schools in the state of South Carolina. Population: Research Methodology Research design: qualitative ethnographic design. The researchers looked at the teachers who worked in the African American schools and considered their teaching styles. The teaching approaches were adjusted ...

Analysis and Comparison of Montessori and Project Approaches to Education

Literature Review . Conclusion References .. Analysis and Comparison of Montessori and Project Approaches to Education The purpose of this paper is to look at two distinct approaches to early childhood education, Montessori and Project Approach’s view. While the Montessori approach is primarily used to promote child development in a natural environment, the Project Approach is focused on individuals in their early stages of development by an in-depth introduction to reality. As the public becomes more aware of the importance of early childhood development, it is important to recognize the similarities and differences in the two methods so parents ...

Play is an essential part of children’s life and curriculum and being able to play is considered as a symbol of children’s sound health and development. It is also known that playing enhances children’s creativity, social and emotional growth and keep them physically fit. If we look upon closely, playing is the fundamental means by which children explore and build their own understanding of the world (Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Berk, L. E., & Singer, D. G., 2009). They start with a small game and when they start achieving success, they are excited to let the ...

Prison Funding vs. Education Funding

Introduction There is an increase in budget allocation in the prisons compared education spending. Both correction and education are vital for any state or country. It would be very hard for a country to survive without expenditure in prisons. As well, education is an essential need and speeds up the development of any country and therefore it is inevitable to survive without spending in schools. However, the budgets should be balanced. The will be achieved through mitigating the cases to reduce the criminals of the community. It will be a good step because the funds, which would otherwise be ...

Introduction

Studies on psychology and cognition have shown that a child’s language has a great impact on his/her ability to regulate his emotions and behavior. In order for two people to understand and share meaning with one another, a clear ground should first be laid out to avoid misunderstandings. A study involving 120 children aged 18 months to 4 years old showed that participants who had superior language skills expressed less anger upon reaching 4 years old (Roben, Cole, & Armstrong, 2012). Most children in their early stages learn to use language as a means of self-expression and self-regulation, because ...

In the following work we are going to analyze two video clips representing child’s development in the symbolic social environment. The action in the first video clip, “Cats and Dogs,” takes place in the preschool classroom. There are three girls participating in the play. They use the classroom environment as the environment of their play. However, none of the furniture in the room is used for their actions, they imitate all the things that they are and they are going to use. The girls do not use any additional material for their play either, they just decide which ...

Useful Strategies in Dual Language Classroom

The Statement of The Problem. In a preschool classroom setting, there are multiple reasons as to why reading and writing may become difficult for those who are learning in a dual language environment. Although the problem is not them learning another language, it is actually helping them to learn to speak, read and write it. The two languages English and Arabic are at complete total polar ends. Neither represent the other and neither use the same alphabet. For example French, Spanish and Italian use the same alphabetic letters so students feel more comfortable. Both languages English and Arabic are ...

Pre-schools are important places for the development of a child. It is important for preschools to ensure that the children are provided with best services that will ensure both physical and mental development in the long run (Christakis, 2016). The best approach to be taken for preschool education for young children is a combination of both Montessori and Reggio Emilia. Montessori approach will be important in ensuring that children develop independently with enough freedom. The approach insists on respect for a child’s social, physical and psychological development through providing the child with a good environment that encourages these ...

"Three to Five" video examines the theory and methodology of physical education of preschool children, function of physical culture teacher in preschool. Video reveals the features of the development of children motor skills, learning movements, sports games and exercises, it describing the exercise and offers a variety of forms of work in physical education and organization of this work in preschool. In turn, physical education as a system of measures aimed at developing the child's growing body and its functions can be considered as a priority for the entire educational work with children. However, according to experts, this system ...

Gender inequality is a predicament of all women, especially the Muslim women, but musawah, an Islamic movement, is on the right path of rescuing Muslim women from this bondage via encouraging them to make their own interpretation of the Quran- will the movement succeed in bringing gender equality? The musawah movement was coined with the intention of enlightening Muslim women in order to achieve gender equality. The movement has adopted several, relevant, mechanisms that will aid in the achievement of its goal; for example, providing education programs that are intended to enlighten the Muslim women as well as encouraging ...

Introduction

According to the case study, the need to belong is a theory that stats that social alienation (especially by peers) has detrimental effects. The theory supports the fact that peers who are eliminated from their societal groups have psychological impairments. According to the article societal exclusion predicts impaired self-regulation: a 2 year longitudinal panel study including the transition from preschool to school, social seclusion leads to lack of ability to regulate oneself. There was need to conduct this study because children were suffering due to lack of societal groups affiliations. Social rejection hurts and no kid would want to ...

Analysis of Waldorf

Waldorf Education is a private, developmental curriculum focused on teaching to the holistic needs of children.  Rudolf Steiner developed Waldorf education in the early 20th Century to create a learning environment focused on artistic learning and creative thinking.  Waldorf schools, also referred to as Steiner schools, exist in 91 countries and there are about 1,000 schools in total (Costello-Dougherty, 2009).  Waldorf schools vary in sizes but some have programs from preschool through high school (DeLuca & Hughes, 2014).  As children pass through a series of stages of development, Waldorf curriculum focuses on teaching the right thing at the right ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) Of all of the things that are important for the development of young children, there is one that goes without question. Play has dominated the social sciences are a true cornerstone in the healthy development of children, from infants through the adolescent years. Multiple types of play have been recognized in the years leading up to what many consider to be the height of psychological science, research, and implementation. It is through Symbolic play and Creative play that children are able to explore their limits, test possible solutions to problems, and learn how to navigate ...

Introduction

Child development involves continuous changes psychologically, biologically and emotionally from the time of infancy up to the end of adolescence. Growth and development are always used interchangeably, but it is important to note the difference in that growth involves the physical changes in child’s body shape, size, height, weight, arms, and legs length whereas development encompasses a continuous progression in complex knowledge. A child’s growth and development are always divided into four periods; infancy, preschool years, middle childhood years and adolescence. The study in this article is about the need to belong theory which gives the relationship ...

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conduct a self-reflection on the knowledge acquired after undertaking the course. As such, it is set to analyze my orientations and perspectives about the needs of the students, the roles of the teacher, and incorporation of culture. Methods: The paper is based on the analysis of peer-reviewed articles that provide a framework of the self-assessment. In other words, the theoretical stipulations presented by the authors are used as the lenses of the assessment. Findings: The course has imparted crucial understanding in regard to how I view education and roles of different ...

A Research Proposal First Draft

Abstract While many researchers and practitioners alike are still finding that it is possible to help children develop creative thinking skills, we are also finding that this practice isn't being incorporated for all our kindergarten and pre-school children. The purpose of this paper will therefore be to investigate the ways in which children at the preschool/kindergarten level are being supported in the development of creative thinking skills, as well as the particular role this has played in helping kindergarten students. After initiating a review of the literature to guide the study, the methodology will involve data collection—interviews with ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

Each person comes through different stages of development. Thus, there are a lot of theories on psychological development stages. Though, they are different and depend on the different factors. That is why it is not correct to separate some distinct stages of the development. Child development is a complex dialectical process. In psychology, there are the following periods of child and youth development: the newborn (up to 10 days), infant age (under 1 year), early childhood (1-3 years), pre-preschool (3-5 years), preschool (5-7 years) primary school (7-11 years), adolescence (11-15 years), early youth or senior school age (15-18 years). ...

Education being one of the most crucial aspects of human life requires to be addressed with great concern, especially during the early stage of learning. In the 21st century education has received views attributing it with great importance. Therefore, for this to be achieved it means that emphasis will have to be put in place from the beginning of the curriculum for the young learners. As explained by California preschool framework (California Department of Education.2010), is that young learners enter preschool with a lot of anxiety, wondering in on what they will find there and they also have the ...

In the coming year, I would like to practice as a daycare teacher and specialists in providing childcare training programmes. My rapport with children and high affinity to impart knowledge on others has led me to choose this field of practice. Confidence is a major proponent in ensuring that I trust in my abilities and will be able to impart important knowledge on children in the formative years of their lives. The highest academic qualifications can enable me attain major honors as a certified teacher in daycare. Being a certified preschool teacher is the best fit for my career. ...

Gender inequality has become a major issue in the society today with countries, governments, organizations, and gender activists, both men and women, joining the fight against gender inequality. Gendering starts early in childhood and is embedded in our institutions and family set ups. Role models in the society treat boys and girls differently from infancy and this becomes the onset of gender inequality which then proceeds on to maturity. Gender inequality is more prevalent in some societies than it is in others. The Muslim community has been on the frontline of gender inequality with most women being subjected to ...

ES 6340

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Research Purpose/Introduction

In a paper presented at a symposium on teaching children to think creatively, child psychologist E. Paul Torrance (1972), creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (Torrance, 1980, 1966) says, I know that it is possible to teach children to think creatively and that it can be done in a variety of ways. I have done it. I have seen my wife do it. I have seen other excellent teachers do it. I have seen children who demonstrated a disability for thinking creatively learn to think creatively. I have seen them continuing for years thereafter to ...

Problem #1

Null hypothesis: There is no significant difference in the average achievement scores between Preschool and No-Preschool groups. Alternative hypothesis: There is a significant difference in the average achievement scores between Preschool and No-Preschool groups. H0: μ1=μ2Ha: μ1≠μ2

Calculate the results for independent samples t-test:

Problem #2 Null hypothesis: There is no significant difference in the performance of sales representatives between 1st month and 6th month groups. Alternative hypothesis: The performance of sales representatives in 1st month is significantly less than in 6th month. H0: μ1=μ2Ha: μ1<μ2

The paired t-test should be used:

t=dnd2-d2n-1 t=1.533 The critical t-value for 5% level of significance is 2.132. The paired t-test indicated ...

Curriculum Strategy

Poor children have been faced with poverty as a risk factor in their success academically. Some children who come from poor backgrounds are affected in their school readiness. The poverty should not be an obstacle to the normal learning of a child from an early age. Children come from diverse backgrounds, with diverse cultures, this makes them unique and hence when performing an assessment to them one should be acknowledged. The adequate assessment and analysis of the activity of the child, the right chosen method for the child’s learning will help to avoid the problems in the future ...

The ultimate goal of early childhood education is to improve children’s social-emotional skills, acquisition and use of knowledge and skills and use of appropriate behavior to meet their needs. As said by Albert Einstein, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Therefore, the use of technology is not suitable in early age, as it teaches children to depend on technology rather than believing in themselves. Scientifically proven method states that when a person learns something through the senses of touching, hearing, writing, communication is more prone to remember for a ...

1.0 Introduction 1.1 Overview of the condition

Obesity is defined as having a sex- and age- specific body mass index (BMI) at or above the ninety fifth percentile of national growth standards. Obesity is directly linked to excessive/abnormal fat accumulation. The BMI is a ratio of the body weight and height and is the most common and accurate measure of obesity because it correlates to the amount of body fat. In terms of BMI, a person is considered to be obese if s/he has a BMI of over 30 (which is often ≥20% the normal body weight). A body mass index ...

With fascination I looked amazed at my mother’s first laptop as she brought it home in the first day she bought it. Although I was only four years of age, I understood back then that that was not a toy, but something very serious, something that attracted me. I was too young to understand its mechanisms, but I soon started to turn it on by myself and to enter in my mother’s programs. My fascination for my mother’s laptop grew so much that in my first day of school I told my mother that I want to ...

The book Big Math Activities for Young Children: For Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary Children reveal the manner in which young children are taught basic arithmetic’s using the readily available materials. The book expresses various concepts that include addition, and subtraction among others. Thus, the book guides children in developing mathematical reasoning using reasonable mathematic language, and thereby making them to enjoy learning mathematics. The young scholar are thus encouraged to take mathematics as a critical subjects because most careers require one to perform well in mathematics.

Questions from the book

- The children are required to carry out simple ...

Introduction

A national health interview survey conducted by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (2011) has showed that about 5.2 million children aged from one to seventeen years old have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hypertension Disorder, while the average annual ambulatory care visits with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as the primary diagnosis has reached 9.0 million (cdc.gov).

According to the National Institute of Mental Health (2012), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is listed among the most common brain disorders that occur during childhood and can last up to adulthood. Some of the most distinguishing symptoms of the ...

The study examines the efficacy of a professional development program for early childhood educators that facilitate emergent literary skills in preschoolers. The program led by a speech-language pathologist, focuses on teaching print concepts, de contextualized oral language, teaching alphabet knowledge within natural occurring classroom interactions. A child with special needs will flourish and benefit from an early childhood environment to empower learning. Center learning empowers a child to engage in the self-directed learning based on ability, interest, and strength actively. Centre learning will enhance interactive language, collaboration, independence, reading, and writing. All of the empowering areas of development relate strongly with the ...

There are numerous technology media which pre-school children can be exposed to. They include televisions, computers and video games consoles. There are many researches that indicate that well- designed and age appropriate television and other electronic media use can be beneficial to children below the ages of five years. There are certain programs that if well chosen for the children will be quite beneficial to the cognitive development of such children. The exposure of preschool children to technology can be quite optimal in that it allows children to experience a world that can never be readily available to them. (Kirkorian, ...

I have been observing the Little Dominic Preschool Center in our locality since I started taking up the subject. From most of the people’s perspective and from my viewpoint, this is the best preschool center in town basing it from the number of enrollees, the social and economic conditions of parents who wanted to bring their children at the center, the state and location of the center and most especially the facilities of the school. Enrollment comes on a first-come-first serve basis so as early as six months before the actual opening of classes they already accept enrollees. The ...

Book review: Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition by Chandler H. Barbour, Nita H. Barbour and Patricia A. Scully

Introduction

Families, Schools, and Communities: Building Partnerships for Educating Children, 5th Edition offers more choices for teachers and students than the previous editions. The authors are all educators and their combined experience easily reaches 100 years. Professor Chandler Barbour has retired from an elementary school teaching career but he is still actively involved as a volunteer to his community’s projects with public schools, church boards, directing a fishing advocacy group and as a member on a hospital board. He ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

Introduction:

In this paper, the significance of good quality early childhood education has been discussed, along with the teaching strategies which encourage multicultural education. The relationship and interaction between the teacher and parents is shown to be of vital importance, in order to make a child’s learning successful and meaningful in every aspect. Some light is thrown on how a teacher can motivate children in the classroom and ignite their interest in various activities. Various assessment methods have now been developed and implemented which mainly focus on recognizing and nurturing a child’s strengths and strengthening the weaknesses or areas which need ...

Introduction

Digital storytelling is considered as a computer based technique of narrating stories. It is mostly concerned with a particular point of view as well as focusing on a particular topic of explanation. This computer based program contains a mixture of automated image, audio narration, music and video clips as well as texts. This helps to equip the learner with enough knowledge and make him have a clear understanding of the true picture of the story explanation. These automated stories have a varied amount of time but an educational story typically takes around two to ten minutes. A digital story starts with a script where the story ...

A curriculum is a set of courses and the content that is offered in the learning institutions. It consists of the experiences and practices that enable students to mature to responsible people in the society. A curriculum is rigid and founded on a general syllabus, which recommends the content to be taught and at what age. Depending on its context, a curriculum has set goals and objectives and entails all the skills, understanding, knowledge and attitudes that the learner must develop. It also has well described methodology of the process of evaluation and assessment of the learners. It is important for Curriculum ...

Introduction

Raising a morally upright child is the dream of every parent. Parents tend to experience anxiety when their children fail to depict the expected morals. However, it is vital to consider the development state of children before supposing that their immoral behavior is a negative sign of their future. There are various theories of moral development such as Kohlberg and Gilligan theories, which explain the moral development in different stages. They help in understanding the stage in which the child is in and expect parents and other adults will develop reasonable expectations in order to guide the child toward effective moral ...

Introduction

“The chosen topic is of Urban Childhood Education” Reasons for Choosing this Topic I selected this topic because I feel that Education plays a vital role in making a child successful and independent. For any child’s life, an aspect of early childhood education is very important as it goes against the concept of childhood slavery when a child cannot fulfill his childhood needs, and others exploit him by excessive work and as a tool to get work done. in spite of being given important academic education, he spends his childhood in slavery. In the critical years from birth to three ...

Introduction

According to Burns (99), learning is comparatively permanent change in behavior, whereby behavior is the observable activity as well as internal processes such as attitudes, thinking and emotions. Burns holds that learning may not show itself in observable behavior immediately the educational program has happened. Learning occurs in different settings such as at home, during play, at work or more commonly, at school. In formal settings, learning takes place in a classroom, library or laboratory. Teachers facilitate learning on different levels. On the other hand, apprenticeship is a combination of training on the job and related classroom instruction through the supervision ...

Birthrates in industrialized nations are falling worldwide. In the 21 nations that reported the lowest birthrates, 17 are in Europe and four are in Asia . The United States’ birthrate is maintaining itself at the replacement rate, or 2.1 births per woman. There are several reasons for the drop of births in both the United States and around the world: more women are remaining single than ever before, by choice; those women who are marrying are doing so at an older age; and more women are pursuing an advanced education. These factors are all contributing to having more women in ...

Is ‘Play’ on Its Way Out?

Is ‘Play’ on Its Way Out?

Introduction

The paper addresses two questions in service of the overall query, “Is ‘play’ on its way out?” The two questions are: - Do children play less than they used to? - Why should we be concerned?

Do Children Play Less Than They Used To? Two research efforts have concluded that children do indeed play less than they used to. Hofferth and Sandberg (cited by Gray, 2011) compared 6 to 8 year old children in 1997 with children of the same age in 1981 and found a substantial decrease in time spent ...

Research suggests that early childhood education is extremely important for the success of children as they age. Without proper early childhood education, children are set up for failure in their lives before they even begin to attend school; children who attend preschool programs, for instance, have a much easier time learning in the kindergarten and first grade classrooms than children who are immediately placed into those same classrooms (Edwards, Cutter-Mackenzie et al., 2014). Perhaps some of the most important skills that children learn in these early childhood educational experiences are not academic skills, but are the skills that they need ...