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Mariana Souto-Manning 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2007,34(6):399-405
Resolving conflicting linguistic traditions and struggling with new identities are significant challenges for immigrants to
the United States. This case study introduces an immigrant mother from Mexico who renamed her youngest son on his first day
of first grade to avoid the widespread stereotypes and academic stagnation experienced by her two older sons. Such (re)naming
practices constitute and represent the very precarious social and institutional relationships taking place in schools involving
immigrant children. In this case study, there was indication of negative aspects of assimilation processes taking place as
the family adapted to a new culture and language. For example, the misconception is still widespread that efforts to learn
two languages rather than just one diminish a child’s ability to learn other things, which should be learned. However, research
in language acquisition and development, points to bilingualism and multilingualism as resources rather than deficits (Souto-Manning,
2006). 相似文献
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Michelle M. Neumann Michelle Hood David L. Neumann 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,36(4):313-319
The ways in which parent-child interactions can encourage the development of emergent literacy skills in young children remains
to be fully explored. The present report describes how one parent scaffolded her young child’s emergent writing and letter
knowledge in the home. Environmental print provided many rich and meaningful examples for the parent to show that print conveys
meaning and is constructed with letters that have names and make sounds. The parent used idiomorphs, a multisensory approach
incorporating the tracing of letters and whole body movements, and common household objects to guide the child’s learning
of letter names, sounds, and shapes. Emergent writing skills were scaffolded by using directional language and by the child
copying environmental print. The strategies and examples that are described may give guidance to parents and teachers on how
to provide engaging opportunities for literacy learning in the home environment or in an early educational context. 相似文献
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This study examines teachers’ beliefs regarding linguistic diversity and their approaches to teaching Spanish as a second language (SSL) in the inclusion of immigrant students whose first language is not Spanish. Grounded in a qualitative study in multicultural schools in Andalusia (Spain), we compared the voices of two groups of teachers: regular teachers and specialist language teachers. Teachers reflected monolingual beliefs -from assimilationist to deficit approaches- and attached great importance to the role that SSL has for immigrant students. Results indicated the need for professional development for teachers to promote multilingualism based on beliefs of language-as-resource or language-as-right. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTMigration-related multilingualism is a core issue of academic discussion regarding educational inequality in German schools. While existing studies have analysed the discrimination against children’s languages from linguistic minorities in school, this paper focuses on social practices in a primary school that seeks to recognise and value multilingualism. The aim of this article is to investigate the extent to which the inclusion of migration-related multilingualism can transform language orders in school and classroom. For this purpose, we examined linguistic practices on the micro-level of the classroom based on lesson protocols. The observed practices indicate that the inclusion of the children’s languages is meant both as a means of valuing and acknowledging the children’s multilingualism and as part of comprehensive language teaching and learning. The question as to the scope of individual schools for overcoming monolingual ideologies within the structural context of the national educational system and dominant societal discourses remains, however. 相似文献
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Angela K. Salmon 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2008,35(5):457-461
Conscious of the interplay between nature and nurture in determining a child’s individuality and success in life, the author
embarked a group of teachers in an action research project towards nurturing a culture of thinking in young children. Considering
the positive effects of routines in early learning experiences, the research consisted in implementing thinking routines to
engage young children’s minds in thinking activities. The study took place in two Reggio-inspired schools where participating
teachers documented children’s work as part of their teaching. The documentation was a key element to make children’s thinking
visible as they installed the culture and language of thinking in their classrooms. The study found that thinking routines
build up positive attitudes about thinking and learning. By re-visiting their documented work children developed metacognitive
and critical thinking skills which make them more alert to situations that call for thinking. 相似文献
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Guiseppina Rullo Tullia Musatti 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2005,20(2):107-119
This study focuses on mothers’ and young children’s everyday social experience by analyzing their social relationships, social
support in child care, mother-child interaction, and mothers’ evaluations of all these aspects. Three hundred and eighty-four
mothers with a child aged between I and 3 years, living in a city in Central Italy, were interviewed. A Principal Components
Analysis was performed on items concerning mothers’ and children’s social experience and mothers’ evaluations. Four PCA generated
factors were regressed on the mother’s and Four PCA generated factors were regressed on the mother’s and child’s characteristics.
Results show that, even in a context characterized by social conditions supportive to mothering, there is a comparatively
widespread desire for social interaction with other mothers and children. A stress related to intensive mothering was found
in a minority of the mothers and was predicted by the mothers’ continuous commitment in child care during the whole day. Results
are discussed in relation to the hypothesis that social contacts with other mothers may have a mitigating effect on mothers’
stress. One implication is that early educational services that provide the opportunity for social intercourse among parents
can be an important resource for them. 相似文献
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Jinhee Kim 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2011,39(2):133-141
This study examines what a Korean heritage language school means to Korean immigrant families and their children, considering
Korean immigrant mothers’ perspectives on American early schooling. As part of an ethnographic research project on Korean-American
children’s peer culture in a heritage school, seven mothers, two guardians (grandmothers), and their young children were observed
and interviewed during one academic year. The analysis showed that the heritage language school functions as a social and
emotional support system, a buffer for reducing the detachment from parents, and a safety net for the Korean-American children’s
challenging lives. The Korean immigrant mothers also showed that they felt burdened by different cultural views of their children’s
behaviors, and described how their children were often considered problematic. The social and culture barriers caused by their
immigrant status profoundly influenced their reasons for sending their children to a Korean heritage language school. This
study suggests that teachers’ deep understanding of culturally different perspectives on children’s behaviors, along with
systematic social and emotional support, can help these children attain psychological well-being. 相似文献
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Cathlin M. Davis 《Children‘s Literature in Education》2011,42(4):340-353
Louisa May Alcott’s juvenile fiction is often focused on aspects of children’s lives that were also topics of reform in nineteenth
century America. In Jack and Jill and Eight
Cousins, Alcott presents an idealized picture of child-centered learning, building on three central principals: (1) Good teachers
are sympathetic and understanding of children; (2) Every child needs to be healthy in order to learn; and (3) Children should
be allowed to explore their world through self-directed, active learning. The ideal educational environment that she describes
has much in common with the theories of John Dewey that would emerge some years later; using Dewey’s writings can give further
insight into Alcott’s fiction. In this article, I argue that Alcott sees the world from the perspective of her young characters,
and describes it in a way that simultaneously connects to her young readers and gives adults insight into the child’s world. 相似文献
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Niina Junttila Marija Vauras Eero Laakkonen 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2007,22(1):41-61
A latent variable structural model was constructed to test the relations among mothers’ and fathers’ parenting self-efficacy
(PSE), their loneliness, and their child’s peer-evaluated social competence, self-evaluated loneliness, teacher-evaluated
motivational orientation, and academic skills. In order to do this, first the Self-Efficacy for Parenting Tasks Index (Coleman
& Karraker, 2000) was applied to a sample of mothers (n=876) and fathers (n=696) to test the relevance of these parenting
task categories to Finnish mothers and fathers. The results of the latent variable structural model indicated a strong relationship
between both mothers’ and fathers’ loneliness and their PSE, consisting of Nurturance, Discipline, Recreation, and Participation
factors. Moreover, there was a modest relationship between parents’ PSE and their child’s social competence and consequently
between social competence and child’s loneliness. The relationship between PSE and child’s academic achievement were mediated
via child’s social competence. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to explore how social support, mother’s psychological status, and maternal sensitivity affected
attachment security in children with disabilities by using the structural equation model (SEM). Subjects were 141 pairs of
children with disabilities and theirs mothers. Empirical data was obtained through a series of questionnaires such as marital
satisfaction, support from people around, maternal depression, and parenting stress. In addition, maternal sensitivity and
attachment security were obtained through a Maternal Behavior Q-set and an Attachment Behavior Q-set. The results were as
follows: first, mother’s psychological status was fully mediated by social support and maternal sensitivity. Secondly, mother’s
psychological status had a negative effect on maternal sensitivity, while her maternal sensitivity, in turn, had a positive
effect on the child’s attachment security. However, maternal sensitivity did not fully mediate between a mother’s psychological
status and the child’s attachment security. These structural relationships were not different between children with pervasive
developmental disorders and mental retardation. There were also no significant differences in the structural paths according
to children’s developmental age. 相似文献
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Engaging young children in literacy activities at home is one way for families to augment and enrich the home literacy setting
and to participate in their child’s education at an early age (St. Pierre et al. in Dev Psychol 41(6): 953–970, 2005). Burgess et al. (Read Res Quart 4(4): 408–426, 2002) suggested that the resources families have at their disposal, the quality of literacy role models provided by parents, and
the types of literacy and language activities in which parents and children engage, are all related to young children’s developing
literacy and language abilities. Other studies demonstrated that even modest literacy-promoting interventions can significantly
enhance a young child’s early literacy environment by increasing the frequency of parent–child book-sharing activities (Weitzman
et al. in Pediatrics 113(5):1248–1253, 2004). Dever (J Early Educ Fam Rev 8(4):17–28, 2001) and Dever and Burtis (Early Child Dev Care 172(4):359–370, 2002) emphasize the use of family literacy bags for early childhood development. Developing and sharing take-home literacy bags
is an exciting literacy-promoting activity that may be shared with children and families to provide support for emergent literacy.
This article explores the development of the BAGS (Books and Good Stuff) take-home literacy kits and provides suggestions
for content, construction, implementation, and evaluation. Sixteen current books are reviewed and recommended by theme. 相似文献
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Defiant behavior in two- and three-year-olds is a natural expression of a young child’s growing autonomy, and, although frustrating
to adults, is a natural phase of a child’s socio-emotional growth. L.S. Vygotsky’s socio-historical theory of the development
included a discussion of “crisis” periods, one of which he felt occurred at age three. The crisis that Vygotsky asserted occurred
at three is characterized by a group of seven “behaviors”, all of which indicate a struggle with the child’s position in relation
to family social structures. This study examined the occurrences and characteristics of defiant behavior in two-and three-year-old
children during outdoor play at a child development center, and the existence and context of defiant behaviors the modern
childcare setting. Patterns in defiant behaviors during play in different age groups were apparent, and suggested an instrument
to facilitate the documentation and analysis of defiant behavior in modern group-care settings. 相似文献
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Isabelle Roskam 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2002,17(3):203-220
The purpose of this paper focuses on mothers’ beliefs about their child’s personality and development (stability or change and causal attributions) and how these beliefs can be affected by mothers’ experience (being a mother of a six or of a twelve-year-old child and being a mother of a normally-developing or of a mentally disabled child). The scales were completed by several samples of mothers. The effect of the temporal orientation (retrospective or perspective) was also considered. The results show that the mothers rate their child with an optimistic bias while the mothers of disabled children are less positive than those of the broad-ranging sample. The results are also in accordance with the decrease of positiveness as the child grows. Finally, the optimistic bias differs in function of the temporal orientation for the mothers of normally-developing children and for the mothers of mentally disabled children. The retrospective change is also overestimated with regard to the prospective one in the broad-ranging sample. 相似文献
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Four year old children’s acquisition of print knowledge during electronic storybook reading 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The experiment reported here explored the importance of engaging 4-year-old children’s interest in the print itself during
storybook reading. We explored the effect of computer animation of the print in order to draw the child’s attention to each
word as it was read. We also investigated the influence of illustrating that not all visual displays are readable print on
the child’s print knowledge. The measures of interest were print concept knowledge and early reading skill. Results indicated
that simply drawing children’s attention to the print during shared reading was insufficient to facilitate children’s learning
of print conventions, but this attention to print while hearing stories read did improve children’s letter reading. The child’s
active engagement with the print during shared story reading led to further improvements in written language skills, as illustrated
by gains in knowledge about print concepts. 相似文献
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Irina Tsybina Luigi E. Girolametto Elaine Weitzman Janice Greenberg 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,34(2):177-185
This study examined linguistic recasts provided by 16 early childhood educators to preschool children learning English as a second language (EL2). Recasts are semantic and syntactic revisions of children’s utterances. The educator–child interactions were filmed during book reading and play dough activities with small groups of four children, one of whom was EL2. The EL2 children were rated by their educators as having less well-developed expressive language skills than their unilingual peers. However, despite this finding, educators provided similar rates of recasts to both groups of children. Eight EL2 children with the lowest expressive language skills demonstrated fewer uptakes of their educator’s recasts in comparison to EL2 children with higher expressive language skills. The implications of this study include increasing the rate of recasts and reducing their complexity to provide language-learning opportunities for all preschool children, especially for those learning English as a second language. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a shared reading experience between parent and child in the child’s
home language on the emergent literacy and language acquisition in English of preschool-age English Language Learners. Parents
of Spanish-speaking four-year-old Head Start students read storybooks in Spanish with their children concurrently with the
use of the English language version of the books in the classroom. A single subject design with multiple baselines across
subjects and settings was applied. Observed variables included changes in the frequency of utterances, the Mean Length of
Utterance-word, and the frequency of spontaneous or child-initiated utterances in various settings within the Head Start classroom.
The results indicated that there might be a relation between the shared reading experience in the home language and the child’s
second language acquisition. Additionally, there appeared to be a relation between the behaviors and the settings. Finally,
implications of this study were discussed. 相似文献
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Hannu Räty 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2010,25(4):493-506
This longitudinal study set out to examine the changes that took place in parents’ evaluations of their child’s school in
the course of the child’s complete 9-year-long compulsory education. Over the follow-up period, academically educated and
vocationally educated mothers and fathers (N = 326) were asked to indicate their degree of satisfaction with aspects of their child’s school every 2 years. It was found
that the level of parental satisfaction was fairly high at the start, that the general decreasing trend was gradual rather
than abrupt, and that the proportion of dissatisfied parents remained low and stable. A pattern of differences emerged to
suggest that the parents’ perceptions were structured by their social-psychological distance from the school as measured by
their social positions; for instance, the vocationally educated parents, fathers in particular, displayed less satisfaction
than the academically educated ones. 相似文献
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Pen-Chiang Chao Tanis Bryan Karen Burstein Cevriye Ergul 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2006,34(2):147-153
This study investigated the effects of a family-centered intervention that involved parents in weekly assessments and daily routine activities for promoting young children’s language and behavior. Forty-one 3–5-year-old children at-risk for language and behavior problems, recruited from three developmental pre-schools, were randomly assigned to a control and an intervention group that received parent–professional support. Analyses of covariance (ANCOVAs) were used to examine whether groups differed on post-test scores on the Test of Early Language Development—Third Edition and Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory, using pre-test scores as a covariate. Results showed that children in the intervention group outperformed children in the control group on both tests. The study indicated that family-centered intervention is an effective method for empowering parents to identify and implement concrete solutions to their children’s problems, especially when done as part of a professional collaboration. 相似文献
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Deborah Russell Carter David J. Chard Juli Lull Pool 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2009,36(6):519-526
Language and literacy skills are an essential element of young children’s development and allow them to interact meaningfully
with other people and to develop knowledge in all subject areas. Despite the importance of language and literacy development,
however, more than one-third of children in the United States enter school with significant differences in language, early
literacy skills, and motivation to learn that place them at considerable risk for developing long-term reading difficulties.
The quantity and quality of language interactions children have with their parents and exposure to print in their home environment
prior to entering school have an important impact on these individual differences. This paper provides teachers with guidelines
and tools for helping families identify and create language and literacy opportunities in their home environment that reflect
their unique strengths and routines. 相似文献