The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of preservice students completing their associate’s degree (AS) in early childhood education (ECE). My intent was to discover, from the preservice teacher’s perspective, what skills and knowledge preservice students consider necessary to teach young children. I was also interested in how they viewed their professional preparation at the completion of their AS program. The methods included participant interviews, documents and assignments completed by students, and program contextual data (faculty focus group and program documents). Seven themes were identified that represented the student’s perceptions of the skills and knowledge needed for working with young children (child development, learning environment, guidance, curriculum, teaching, assessment and experiences with children). All students reported the development of knowledge and skills through their participation in the ECE program. Each of these themes identified student support and belief in the philosophy of developmentally appropriate practices. Three themes were identified that supported the overall perception of their professional development (reflection, National Association for the Education of Young Children [NAEYC] New Teacher Standards, becoming a professional). All preservice students identified development of professional skills, and reported increased confidence in their preparation to be early childhood classroom teachers. All identified NAEYC New Teacher Standards as part of their professional development and understanding. This study provides the perspective of the AS degree seeking ECE preservice student. Little research is available on 2-year students. Further research in this area would aid in understanding and preparing teachers who are likely to work with the youngest in our society.

This study describes the effects of an 11 week training for 2 preschool teachers focusing on systematizing an inquiry learning approach inspired by the literature on Reggio Emilia inspired practices. This study uses a qualitative, multi-methodology approach including interviews, examination of classroom documentation, and examination of the Broderick and Hong Cycle of Inquiry (© revised 2007) planning forms. Qualitative coding and narratives describe each teacher's data taken at 3 intervals in the study and describe changes, challenges, and successes in teacher practices. Results indicate that these teachers learned successful inquiry learning strategies and grew in both their understanding of the process and their ability to translate this to the classroom. Further studies are needed to determine the effects of adding administration to the mentoring process and if a short-term training can change long-term classroom practices.

There is a lack of understanding of how teachers in Early Care and Education (ECE) work to overcome occupational stress and burnout. Many investigators have documented the stress and burnout that often result in high levels of attrition in ECE teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine to what degree a teacher's protective factors help in mitigating the experiences of stress and burnout often associated with working as a teacher in the field of ECE. Guided by Werner's theory of resilience, which highlights the importance of protective factors as a means of overcoming risk factors, the research questions examined strategies that help promote resilience and mitigate stress and burnout among preschool teachers. The methodology was a qualitative, case study research design. Data were collected via in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 16 ECE teachers and analyzed using thematic analysis, which identified 3 categories of protective factors: family supports, workplace supports, and positive individual characteristics. Additionally, the study revealed that teachers did utilize particular protective factor strategies to help mitigate risk, stress, and burnout, such as family and friends serving as a positive support system, faith, prayer, and belief in a higher being. A recommendation is that teachers participate in an eLearning course developed to introduce protective factors teachers can use to increase levels of resilience. Positive social change may result from this study because it advocates for the support, promotion, and attention to the mental health and well-being of teachers in ECE. This eLearning course will promote teacher well-being, which can have a direct positive impact on the care of young children and the effective facilitation of curriculum and instructions within school systems.

Hållbar utveckling (HU) har under senare årtionden fått en alltmer given plats inom förskolan. Både på policynivå och inom forskning betonas barns kritiska tänkande och aktörskap inom ramen för utbildning om HU samt att HU består av tre sammanlänkade dimensioner: den miljömässiga, sociala och ekonomiska dimensionen. Dock finns ett kunskapsgap kring hur förskollärarutbildningar lägger grund för undervisning inom detta område. Genom en diskursanalys av förskollärarutbildningarnas kursplaner syftar denna undersökning därför till att belysa hur olika framställningar kan tänkas bidra till tillblivelsen av undervisning för hållbar utveckling (UHU) i förskolan. Resultat av undersökningen visar att många kursplaner reflekterar en fragmenterad förståelse av HU baserat på antingen den miljömässiga dimensionen eller de sociala och ekonomiska dimensionerna. En av slutsatserna är att dessa framställningar kan tänkas resultera i UHU som bygger på faktabaserade och normerande undervisningstraditioner som identifierats i tidigare forskning. Andra kursplaner reflekterar en mer holistisk och problematiserande förståelse av HU. Dock saknas här över lag utgångspunkter för hur en komplex förståelse av HU-begreppet kan omsättas i praktiken. I vissa kursplaner utesluts barns roll som kritiskt tänkande aktörer medan detta betonas i andra kursplaner.Det aktörskap som betonas inbegriper dock inte att barn ges stöd av förskollärare i sitt utforskande av HU som en holistisk företeelse. En slutsats är att för att barn i förskolan ska ges möjlighet till ett sådant utforskande kan förskollärarprogrammens kursplaner behöva konkretisera utgångspunkter för hur UHU kan formuleras i praktiken.

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本研究旨在探討幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能之關係。首先瞭解幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能之內涵及現況；其次分析不同背景變項在幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能之差異情形；接著探討幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能之相關，以及瞭解幼托園所主管教學領導行為對教師教學效能各層面之預測力。 本研究方法除了以文獻探討，分析教學領導行為與教師教學效能之理論與相關研究外，並兼採問卷調查法及訪談調查法。問卷調查之對象以基隆市、臺中縣、臺中市、彰化縣、南投縣，已立案之公、私立幼稚園及托兒所教師為母群體，採兩階段抽樣法進行取樣，共發出720份問卷，總計回收有效問卷493份（有效回收率68.47%）。使用之研究工具為自編之「幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能關係調查問卷」，問卷回收後，採描述性統計、信度分析、t考驗、單因子變異數分析、皮爾森積差相關、典型相關、逐步多元迴歸及薛費法多重比較，進行資料分析。在訪談調查部分，乃針對十位幼托園所主管及教師，進行電話訪談。本研究所獲致之主要結論如下： 壹、幼托園所主管教學領導行為方面 一、幼托園所主管教學領導行為表現積極，其中以「發展支持的工作環境」表現最好。 二、「園所主管年資」在幼托園所主管教學領導行為達顯著影響；而「園所所處地區」、「園所性質」、「園所規模」及「園所主管最高學歷」在幼托園所主管教學領導行為未達顯著影響。 貳、教師教學效能方面 一、幼托園所教師教學效能表現良好，其中以「教學互動」表現最好。 二、「園所性質」、「園所主管年資」、「教師年齡」、「教師任教年資」及「兼任行政職務」在幼托園所教師教學效能達顯著影響；而「園所所處地區」、「園所規模」、「園所主管最高學歷」及「教師最高學歷」在幼托園所教師教學效能未達顯著影響。 參、幼托園所主管教學領導行為與教師教學效能兩者之關係方面 一、「幼托園所主管教學領導行為」與「教師教學效能」呈現正相關。 二、「幼托園所主管教學領導行為」對「教師教學效能」具有預測力。 最後研究者根據研究結果，分別對幼兒教育行政機關、幼托園所主管培育機構、幼教師資培育機構、幼托園所主管、幼托園所教師以及後續相關研究提出相關建議，以期對未來幼教的發展有所助益。 / The main purpose of this study was to: (1) Investigate current situation of directors’ instructional leadership behaviors and teachers’ teaching effectiveness. (2) Explore the different influence effect of different variables on these two areas. (3) Analyze the relationships between directors’ instructional leadership behaviors and teachers’ teaching effectiveness. (4) Explore the predictive power of directors’ instructional leadership behaviors on the part of teachers’ teaching effectiveness. To accomplish these purposes, literature review was adopted in addition to questionnaire and interview (telephone survey). In questionnaire aspect, the teacher subjects were included public and private kindergartens and nursery schools in Taiwan, specifically Keelung City, Taichung County, Taichung City, Changhua County, Nantou County by means of stratified two-stage simple sampling. “The Kindergarten and Nursery Directors’ Instructional Leadership Behavior and Teachers’ Teaching Effectiveness Questionnaire” was designed to collect the data. 720 questionnaires were delivered, and 493 were retrieved with an effective return rate of 68.47%. The questionnaire data analysis included description statistics, reliability analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson-moment correlation analysis, canonical correlation, multiple stepwise regression analysis, and Scheffé’s posteriori comparison through the use of SPSS 10.07 for Windows. Ten directors and teachers from the sample of questionnaire interviews were selected for the telephone interviews. The major results were summarized as follows: A. In the aspect of director’s instruction leadership: a. Instruction leadership behavior of director is above average. For directors, the best dimension is to “develop a supporting environment”. b. Directors’ service years have a significant effect on director’s instruction leadership. Kindergarten location, kindergarten category of public or private, school size, and highest educational degree of the director do not have a significant effect on director’s instruction leadership. B. In the aspect of teachers’ teaching effectiveness: a. Teachers’ teaching effectiveness is above average. For teacher, the best dimension is to “instructional interaction”. b. Kindergarten category of public or private, directors’ years of service, teachers’ age, teachers’ years of service, part-time administrative position have significant influences on teachers’ teaching effectiveness. Kindergarten location, school size, highest educational degree of the director and highest educational degree of the teacher do not have significant effect on teachers’ teaching effectiveness. C. In the aspect of relationships between directors’ instructional leadership behaviors and teachers’ teaching effectiveness: a. There was a positive correlation between directors’ instruction leadership and teachers’ teaching effectiveness. b. Directors’ instruction leadership was predictive of teachers’ teaching effectiveness. In the last part, based on the findings, the researcher proposes some suggestions for the education authorities, the director training institutions, the teacher training institutions, the preschool directors and teachers, and the future researchers, hoping to benefit the development of preschool education in the future.

Submitted by SBI Biblioteca Digital (sbi.bibliotecadigital@puc-campinas.edu.br) on 2018-12-11T18:40:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Fernandes Lopes Dornelas.pdf: 1193324 bytes, checksum: 04f92bb6718a57bfc6ffcf2a7775b04c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T18:40:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniela Fernandes Lopes Dornelas.pdf: 1193324 bytes, checksum: 04f92bb6718a57bfc6ffcf2a7775b04c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-18 / This research discusses pedagogical practices in Early Childhood Education and analyzes the concepts and practices of teachers of children from zero to three years of age on the development of oral language. Therefore, the research problem reflects on how the development of oral language is understood by teachers of Early Childhood Education who work with children from zero to three years. Considering the importance of the relationship between language and thought in the development of concepts in children, we identified the relevance of studying the development of oral language in children from zero to three years in the perception of teachers. For this research, two schools of Early Childhood Education were selected, one public and another private, in the city of Indaiatuba. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the teachers, one from each school, and also systematic observations of their classes. The research is based on the theory of human development in the historicalcultural perspective of Vigotski and historical-critical pedagogy, supporting the education of young children based on an educational work that aims to bring students to the systematized knowledge produced by mankind in a historical, cultural and scientific way. After analyzing the interviews with the teachers and observation records of their classes, we identified the following categories of analysis: Beyond the expansion of vocabularies; Once upon a time there was the language and the thought...; Play and talk, just get started!; What?s said, done and the effect. We could verify that the practices of the teachers could contribute more to the development of oral language, if there were adequate working conditions, as well as an academic formation that provided a theoretical and practical base directed to the phase with which they act. Thus, the contributions of this research aim to deepen the studies in the area of Early Childhood teacher education, highlighting the importance of intentional teaching related to the development of oral language, especially those who work with children from zero to three years, and also reinforcing the need for an academic formation that meets the specifics of teaching for this age group. / Esta pesquisa trata do desenvolvimento da linguagem oral de crian?as de zero a tr?s anos de idade na Educa??o Infantil, cujo objetivo central situa-se em conhecer concep??es e pr?ticas de professoras relativas ao desenvolvimento da linguagem oral. Assim, o problema da pesquisa visa analisar como o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral ? compreendido por professoras da Educa??o Infantil que atuam com crian?as de zero a tr?s anos. Considerando a import?ncia da rela??o entre a linguagem e o pensamento no desenvolvimento dos conceitos nas crian?as, reiterada de forma consistente na literatura cient?fica sobre o tema, identificamos a relev?ncia de se estudar sobre o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral em crian?as de zero a tr?s anos na percep??o de professoras. O campo de pesquisa foi composto por duas escolas de Educa??o Infantil, uma p?blica e outra particular, do munic?pio de Indaiatuba. Foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com as professoras, uma de cada escola, e observa??es sistem?ticas de suas aulas. A an?lise do material emp?rico apoia-se na Teoria hist?ricocultural de Vigotski e na pedagogia hist?rico-cr?tica, ao sustentar a educa??o das crian?as pequenas com base em um trabalho educativo que visa aproximar os alunos do conhecimento sistematizado produzido de maneira hist?rica, cultural e cient?fica pela humanidade. Ap?s a an?lise das entrevistas com as professoras e dos registros de observa??o de suas aulas, identificamos as seguintes categorias de an?lise: Para al?m da amplia??o do repert?rio; Era uma vez a linguagem e o pensamento...; Brincar e conversar, ? s? come?ar!; O dito, o feito e o efeito. Pudemos verificar que as pr?ticas das professoras poderiam contribuir mais para o desenvolvimento da linguagem oral, considerando essa pr?tica como um elemento mediador que envolve significados e sentidos, tornando-se assim um ato de pensamento, caso houvesse condi??es de trabalho adequadas, assim como uma forma??o inicial que proporcionasse um embasamento te?rico e pr?tico direcionado para a fase com a qual atuam. As contribui??es deste trabalho visam aprofundar os estudos na ?rea de forma??o de professores de Educa??o Infantil, destacando a import?ncia da a??o pedag?gica intencional no que se refere ao desenvolvimento da linguagem oral, em especial, os que atuam com crian?as de zero a tr?s anos, al?m de refor?ar a necessidade de uma forma??o inicial que atenda as especificidades da doc?ncia para esta faixa et?ria.

This dissertation explores how women kindergarten teachers in Pakistan understand the concept of gender as evident from their own reflections of their life experiences and from their interaction with their students. Early childhood education and gender equality in education are critical policy issues in Pakistan. Women pre-primary teachers have received little specific attention and little is known about their experiences. Seven women kindergarten teachers from one co-educational, private, English-medium school in the urban city of Karachi, Pakistan were involved in this mixed-method study. Multiple methods were used, namely, life history interviews with the women teachers, classroom observations of their teaching practice and interactions with girls and boys, and document analysis. Data were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The findings were presented and discussed through the five nested interrelated structures – microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem - of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development. Study findings reveal that the family and school are critical microsystems that have shaped the women kindergarten teachers’ understanding of gender in terms of possibilities and impossibilities for girls and boys, women and men within the norms of the broader patriarchal macrosystem. Throughout their lives across the chronosystem, they have had to negotiate multiple positions in their patriarchal extended families, schools, and, to some extent, the larger community in response to social change across diverse geographical spaces. Compromise and conformity have formed much of how they have understood their role and position as women in this patriarchal context. As women and as kindergarten teachers, they are doubly disadvantaged. They have been inadequately prepared to take up positions as pre-primary teachers. Nevertheless, their developing knowledge of teaching young children based on their practice and in-service training in a school with a positive outlook towards teaching has led to a more professional perspective of themselves and their careers. They are committed to teaching, but face the challenge of coping with their professional and familial demands. Often times, they draw upon their religion for strength and to make sense of their gendered experiences. Tensions are evident in their understanding of gender, particularly in relation to their own children and their kindergarten students, about following ascribed gender norms or allowing for more change in tradition in a context being rapidly influenced by globalization and socio-economic change. For the most part, their interaction with their students reflected their internalization of dominant patriarchal values and their active role in perpetuating them. Nevertheless, their gendered teaching practice has also presented possibilities for change in their unconscious and, occasionally conscious, attempts to push gender boundaries towards more equitable gender relationships in this patriarchal context. This study is significant for bringing to the fore women kindergarten teachers’ lived experiences to provide a dimension of education which has gone largely unexamined locally and globally, and which, in the context of Pakistan, are critical to consider in light of issues related to quality, access, and gender equity in early childhood education.

This dissertation explores how women kindergarten teachers in Pakistan understand the concept of gender as evident from their own reflections of their life experiences and from their interaction with their students. Early childhood education and gender equality in education are critical policy issues in Pakistan. Women pre-primary teachers have received little specific attention and little is known about their experiences. Seven women kindergarten teachers from one co-educational, private, English-medium school in the urban city of Karachi, Pakistan were involved in this mixed-method study. Multiple methods were used, namely, life history interviews with the women teachers, classroom observations of their teaching practice and interactions with girls and boys, and document analysis. Data were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The findings were presented and discussed through the five nested interrelated structures – microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem - of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model of human development. Study findings reveal that the family and school are critical microsystems that have shaped the women kindergarten teachers’ understanding of gender in terms of possibilities and impossibilities for girls and boys, women and men within the norms of the broader patriarchal macrosystem. Throughout their lives across the chronosystem, they have had to negotiate multiple positions in their patriarchal extended families, schools, and, to some extent, the larger community in response to social change across diverse geographical spaces. Compromise and conformity have formed much of how they have understood their role and position as women in this patriarchal context. As women and as kindergarten teachers, they are doubly disadvantaged. They have been inadequately prepared to take up positions as pre-primary teachers. Nevertheless, their developing knowledge of teaching young children based on their practice and in-service training in a school with a positive outlook towards teaching has led to a more professional perspective of themselves and their careers. They are committed to teaching, but face the challenge of coping with their professional and familial demands. Often times, they draw upon their religion for strength and to make sense of their gendered experiences. Tensions are evident in their understanding of gender, particularly in relation to their own children and their kindergarten students, about following ascribed gender norms or allowing for more change in tradition in a context being rapidly influenced by globalization and socio-economic change. For the most part, their interaction with their students reflected their internalization of dominant patriarchal values and their active role in perpetuating them. Nevertheless, their gendered teaching practice has also presented possibilities for change in their unconscious and, occasionally conscious, attempts to push gender boundaries towards more equitable gender relationships in this patriarchal context. This study is significant for bringing to the fore women kindergarten teachers’ lived experiences to provide a dimension of education which has gone largely unexamined locally and globally, and which, in the context of Pakistan, are critical to consider in light of issues related to quality, access, and gender equity in early childhood education.