This study aimed to review the roles and practices of preschool teachers regarding reading and writing skills in preschool education. A sample of 234 preschool teachers working in Ankara participated ...to this study. Through employing complementary mixed method design, both qualitative and quantitative data were collected by using a descriptive data collection instrument, semi-structured interviews and observation form. Research findings indicate that preschool teachers mostly conduct teacher centered activities focused on concept learning for literacy development at desk activities. The preschool teachers stated that they usually distribute books and other printed materials to children; to read poems, fairy tales, stories and picture books aloud, and to examine those to give information about their features such as the back and front covers, the beginning and the end of the book. Although misconceptions and different activities were observed, it was found that teacher preferences were generally made in the light of the materials and attitudes of the institutions they worked in.
The aim of this research is to consider the differences in aspiring early childhood teachers’ self-perception of their competence in the integration of digital technologies into early childhood ...educational practice, before and after the realization of the teaching process, and before and after passing the exam for the elective course titled “An early childhood teacher in a digital environment”. The research sample consisted of thirty-five third-year students of the Preschool Teacher Training and Business Informatics College of Applied Studies - Sirmium, who took and passed the exam in the elective subject “An early childhood teacher in a digital environment”. The results of the study show that aspiring early childhood teachers assess their competence for the integration of digital technologies into early childhood educational practice more positively after attending classes and taking the exam in the course “An early childhood teacher in a digital environment”. Future early childhood teachers feel more competent in applying digital technologies to all four areas of early childhood teachers’ work: direct work with children, real program development, professional development and professional public action.
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This research was conducted to determine to which degree pre-service kindergarten teachers practice the twenty-first century skills of learning and creativity, digital culture, and life and work with ...the kindergarten child in light of vision 2030. Descriptive analytical approach was employed. A representative sample of the study population was selected by stratified random method. Therefore, 250 female teachers were relied upon as selecting the study sample. An online survey was created by Google Docs. Results show that all the three skills are highly practiced by pre-service kindergarten teachers.
The article analyses the various external factors of the quality of working life that exerted an impact on the subjectively perceived well-being and job satisfaction of kindergarten principals in the ...first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. Data (N = 1,080) obtained from the Economic and personnel management of kindergartens during the Covid-19 pandemic research project was used for the analysis. An integrated approach to the analysis of both the quantitative and qualitative data was applied to answering the various questions with the aim of capturing both the importance and variety of the conditions that influenced the subjective assessment of well-being in autumn 2020. The factors that negatively affected the well-being of kindergarten principals included their overwhelming workload and difficulties with communication within a decentralised management system. Internal ethical struggles resulting from the desire of principals to protect their own health and the health of their employees, while at the same time fulfilling their professional responsibilities towards both children and families, also contributed to the problem.
The paper examines the compensation of tuition fees for Czech kindergartens (N = 1,080) during the first wave of the pandemic (spring 2020). It also analyses unpaid school fees for September and ...October 2020 (the second wave of Covid-19). The results revealed that due to quarantine closures the parameters of the multi-source financing of kindergartens exerted a negative impact on the multi-source financial model, which forms the basis of the management of kindergartens in the Czech decentralised regional education system. The willingness (or not) of the relevant authorities to compensate for unpaid school fees for the period of the local quarantine closure of kindergartens (or certain classes) highlighted regional inequalities in terms of the financing of preschool education during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Service-learning (S-L) aims to promote the quality of education as well as improve local development in the community. In this approach, a child learns theories in the preschool classroom, but ...practices work in the local community. The best example of service-learning is described in the Concept of education for the 21st century, where Delors (1996) states: “Learn for learning, learn to work, learn to be, learn to live together with others.“From this concept, one can notice lifelong learning that has a specific social intervention based on solidarity and realization of true needs in the community. The research was conducted on a sample of 17 kindergartens in Zenica-Doboj Canton that applied Service Learning in their work. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Service Learning can influence the development of civic competencies in preschool children. According to the research data and statements made by a preschool teacher, children had excellent experiences during the realization of Service-Learning ( S-L). In addition, parents and community members had positive attitudes and readiness to work in partnership with kindergartens. Namely, Service-learning as a project method in kindergarten is a great example of how the youngest can set a community in motion but also encourage its development through civic participation. The acquired data suggest that Service learning had been recognized as activity “civic education” in an area that enables them to act and educate the future generation of socially responsible citizens.
This paper studies the expansion of church supervision in the running of kindergartens. We aim to explore the ways church-run kindergartens differ or reveal similarities to church-run primary ...schools. We present the extent of church expansion, modes of takeover and the regulatory framework of kindergartens maintained by local governments and various churches. Drawing on a small-scale qualitative pilot research based on interviews with kindergarten teachers, we discuss the opportunities and constraints arising from church supervision in terms of working conditions, human resource supplies, the selection of children and the pedagogical program.
