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Life chances and birth registration: A study from rural China 生活机会与出生登记:来自中国农村的研究

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.3.71

B. Nyland, Yang Gao, Zeng Xioadong, J. Ng

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引用次数: 1

What Knowledge and Skills Do Chinese Kindergarten Teachers Need in a Time of Reform: Director’s Perspectives 改革时代中国幼儿园教师需要什么样的知识和技能:园长的视角

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.3.27

Xin Fan, B. Nyland, C. Nyland

{"title":"What Knowledge and Skills Do Chinese Kindergarten Teachers Need in a Time of Reform: Director’s Perspectives","authors":"Xin Fan, B. Nyland, C. Nyland","doi":"10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.3.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.3.27","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on a research program that investigates policy and practice relating to the building \u0000of a Chinese early childhood workforce in a context of changed government policy, improved \u0000standards regarding teacher qualifications and curriculum content, and changing parental expectations. \u0000The evolving context reflects the fact that recent economic development in China has witnessed \u0000enhanced need for a workforce that is suitable for jobs that require advanced skills and a high \u0000capacity to learn. This identified need has brought a renewed interest in early childhood education. \u0000Subsequently, policy makers have raised questions regarding what early childhood teachers should \u0000know and the skills they need to acquire to be competent practitioners. The research findings draw on \u0000interviews conducted with 24 kindergarten directors from provinces across China. The interview \u0000explored opinions about skills and attributes teachers require, level and form of knowledge they need, \u0000and how teachers’ capacities might be enhanced.","PeriodicalId":37367,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"27-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90874044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

Research on Children’s Outdoor Play: Analysis of Published Journal Articles in Korea from 2005 to 2015 儿童户外游戏研究:2005 - 2015年韩国期刊论文分析

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-05-01 DOI: 10.17206/apjrece.2016.10.2.29

Dongju Shin

引用次数: 2

A Study on What Makes Young Children Happy 一项关于什么能让幼儿快乐的研究

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-05-01 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.47

Yonghee Hong, Haejeon Kim, W. Jeun

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引用次数: 3

Creating collective scientific consciousness: A cultural-historical study of early learning about earth and space in the context of family imaginary play 创造集体科学意识:家庭想象游戏背景下早期地球和空间学习的文化历史研究

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-04-30 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.93

Yijun Hao, M. Fleer

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引用次数: 5

Children’s Understanding of Racial Diversity through Role-Play: A Case Study of Kindergarteners in South Korea 儿童通过角色扮演对种族多样性的理解:以韩国幼儿园儿童为例

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-04-30 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.125

Su-Jeong Wee, So Jung Kim, Kyoung Jin Kim

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引用次数: 1

The complexity of preschool children’s dramatic play behaviour and play styles in Australia: a mixed methods study 澳大利亚学龄前儿童戏剧游戏行为和游戏风格的复杂性:一项混合方法研究

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-04-30 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.71

N. Robertson

引用次数: 8

Special Issue: Power of Play in Young Children’s Growth and Learning - Guest Editor’s INTRODUCTION 特刊:游戏在幼儿成长和学习中的作用-特邀编辑简介

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-04-30 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.1

Wontaek Rhee

引用次数: 0

Play and Policy in Early Childhood Education in the Asia Pacific Region 亚太地区幼儿教育中的游戏与政策

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-04-30 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.2.7

S. Grieshaber

引用次数: 7

Motivation, Responsibility and Anxiety: Parenting Dispositions of Chinese Mothers 动机、责任与焦虑:中国母亲的教养倾向

Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI: 10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.1.1

K. Guo

{"title":"Motivation, Responsibility and Anxiety: Parenting Dispositions of Chinese Mothers","authors":"K. Guo","doi":"10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17206/APJRECE.2016.10.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"One of the key principles in the ideology which underpins education is the value of children’s family experience. Central to this idea is the view of parents as important. Parenting has become a vital dimension in contemporary education. Parenting discourses traditionally focus on such concepts as parenting style, approach, attitude or practice. The main consideration behind these concepts is what parents appear to be doing at a single point of time, referring to parenting per se. This paper takes on the notion of disposition in order to understand urban Chinese mothers’ habitual and characteristic ways of child rearing. It presents evidence to show that a group of Chinese mothers had parenting dispositions of motivation, responsibility and anxiety. Data came from a series of conversations between 50 Chinese mothers of preschool children and five early childhood teachers through a synchronous online text chat. In the process of consulting the early childhood teachers, the parents expressed many concerns, questions and views of childrearing and early childhood education, thereby providing evidence about their thinking and behaviour. Drawing on the concept of ‘disposition’, the study provides insights into the common thinking threads that characterized Chinese parenting and the ways those threads were woven into their disposed approaches to child rearing and early education.","PeriodicalId":37367,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education","volume":"12 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76447995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3