scholarly journals The Perspectives of Head Start Employed Community College Students who Earned an Associate Degree in Early Childhood Education Programs: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Challenges and Successes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Robyne Taylor
2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-79
Author(s):  
Mark M. D’Amico ◽  
Bob Algozzine ◽  
Karen M. Algozzine ◽  
Vivian I. Correa ◽  
Reem Muharib

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Currie

This paper discusses early childhood education programs: their goals; effectiveness; optimal timing, targeting, and content; and costs and benefits. Early intervention has significant short- and medium-term benefits: most notably it reduces grade repetition and special education costs, and provides quality child care. The effects are greatest for more disadvantaged children. Some model programs have produced exciting improvements in educational attainment and earnings and have reduced welfare dependency and crime. The jury is still out on the long-term effects of Head Start, but Head Start would pay for itself if it produced a quarter of the long-term gains of model programs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Perez ◽  
Marie Donaldson ◽  
Namita Jain ◽  
June K. Robinson

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Smith

As early childhood education programs in the United States increasingly serve a growing number of children from linguistically and culturally diverse families, understanding teacher practices to better serve these families continues to be an important focus for the profession. In programs that serve migrant farmworker families, little is known about teachers’ communication practices and ways in which teachers promote parent engagement with migrant farmworker families. This article explores the practices of teachers relevant to family communication and engagement in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, a branch of Head Start program for farmworker families, mostly of Mexican origin. This study used qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and a focus group to bring forth the perspectives and lived experience of Spanish-speaking and English-speaking teachers working with farmworker families in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Key findings illustrate the role of shared language and culture, mediated language barriers, the reliability of interpreters and written communication, and authentic ways of creating home–school connections with the migrant farmworker community.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8080
Author(s):  
Maria Grindheim ◽  
Liv Torunn Grindheim

Individuals’ capacities to contribute to more sustainable living are deeply influenced by their early life experiences. Hence, there is a need to discover which experiences are relevant to young children’s contemporary and future contributions to more sustainable living. Perceiving children as aesthetically oriented to the world and their sense of belonging as a core experience for social and cultural sustainability, and using the example of dancing, we investigate how such a sense of belonging can be supported through aesthetic first-person experiences. This article is therefore structured around the following research question: How can adults’ experiences of themselves, others and their sense of belonging—when dancing—inform explorations of ways to foster embodied and aesthetic belonging for social and cultural sustainability in early childhood education (ECE)? Drawing on a phenomenological study, we analyse interviews with four dancers, who differ in age, gender and dance genre. Our analysis reveals their experiences when dancing as being in a meditative state, having a sense of freedom and feeling body and mind as one, described as an overall “different”, resilient way of being and belonging in a social context. Our findings indicate that facilitating moments of sensible and bodily awareness can support a non-verbal understanding of oneself and others, as well as arguments for promoting aesthetic experiences while dancing as relevant to sustainable practices in ECE.


Jurnal HAM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Oksimana Darmawan

Implementasi Program Nawacita Pemerintahan Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla sebagai revolusi karakter bangsa, maka diperlukan aplikatif pembentukan karakter positif anak sejak dini melalui kearifan lokal permainan tradisional. Permasalahannya adalah bagaimana potensi kearifan lokal yang terdapat dalam permainan tradisional dapat dimanfaatkan di satuan pendidikan anak usia dini dan pendidikan dasar untuk menanamkan budaya anti kekerasan. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menilai potensi kearifan lokal yang terdapat dalam permainan tradisional dapat dimanfaatkan di satuan pendidikan anak usia dini dan pendidikan dasar untuk menanamkan budaya anti kekerasan. Jenis penelitian adalah kualitatif melalui metode eksploratif dengan pendekatan induktif. Kesimpulan penelitian adalah potensi kearifan lokal yang terkandung dalam permainan tradisional dapat dimanfaatkan untuk mengenalkan budaya anti kekerasan, yaitu dengan merefleksikan dan memaknai kandungan nilai permainan tradisional dalam proses pembelajaran dan aktivitas bermain anak. Untuk itu disarankan, perlu peraturan daerah sampai peraturan gubernur sebagai peraturan pelaksana permainan tradisional agar bisa diterapkan di satuan pendidikan anak usia dini dan pendidikan dasar.AbstractImplementation of Jokowi-Jusuf Kalla’s administration Nawacita program as nation character revolution, so it is necessary to build a positive and applicative character to children, early through the local wisdom of traditional games. This purpose of this research is to assess local wisdom potencies in traditional games can make benefits at early childhood education programs and primary education to establish idea and attitude of anti-violence culture. This research is qualitative with an explorative method and inductive approach. It concludes that local wisdom potencies can be useful to recognize anti-violence culture by reflecting and interpreting values of traditional games in learning process and child playing activities. It suggested that it is important to regulate rule of traditional games both local regulation and governor regulation of early childhood education programs and primary education.


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