Pub Date : 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2025.2456613
Gazi Azad, Liana Eisler, Isabella Taormina, Victoria Herrera
The transition to kindergarten can impact children's academic, social-emotional, and behavioral well-being. Caregivers and teachers play a critical role during the kindergarten transition, especially for children with developmental disabilities, such as those on the autism spectrum (AS). In this study, we used qualitative data from focus groups (N = 7) with 11 diverse caregivers and 14 special education teachers from public schools to understand the transition to kindergarten for children on the AS in the northeast of the United States. The 11 themes that emerged from our data indicated that caregivers and teachers had concerns about children (e.g., daily living skills) and the school (e.g., support staff). Early, frequent, and personalized communication between caregivers and teachers that was bi-directional and action-oriented were reported as facilitators. Limited, non-existent, or negative communication between caregivers and teachers, as well as external circumstances (e.g., access to WiFi, busing), were highlighted as barriers. During the transition to kindergarten, effective caregiver-teacher meetings warranted clear expectations, a team-based approach, and data to promote home-school alignment. These findings suggest that trainings during professional development should encourage teachers to take a tailored approach in working with families to ensure a smooth kindergarten transition for children on the AS.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-07DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2389234
Peter Wood, Elizabeth Malone
Emotions work, such as relational pedagogical approaches to teaching, and more targeted interventions designed to enhance children’s social and emotional skills, known as competence promotion appro...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2367411
Vusi Msiza
In South Africa, the recruitment and retention of men to teach in the foundation phase (Grade R-3) has gained national attention. In a patriarchal society such as South Africa, where such jobs are ...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-28DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2370379
Aijuan Cun, Ting Huang
The purpose of this study is to examine the representation of Asian refugee stories in children’s literature. Intersectionality is used as the theoretical framework. By drawing upon the three-dimen...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-27DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2369126
Anna S. Gibbs, Deborah K. Reed, Hyeri Hong, Jing Ma, Dana P. Urbanski
The purpose of this study was to systematically review the components of oral language (OL) instruction and meta-analyze the effects of OL instruction on vocabulary and listening comprehension (LC)...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-25DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2367406
Dewi Satria Elmiana, Shiyi Shen
Teachers have faced difficulties in selecting acceptable picturebooks for young students, particularly in terms of image selection, content, and the integration of both. The lack of meaning-making ...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-29DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2327485
Soomin Kim, Deborah Norris, Jennifer Francois
Pretend play provides enriched environments for multiple cognitive and social purposes. The quality of children’s pretend play depends on the process, including children’s back and forth proposals ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2325470
Lena Wintermantel, Christine Grove, Stella Laletas
Therapy dogs can improve the social and mental health outcomes for children and adolescents. School-based interventions that address social and emotional learning (SEL) can promote children’s overa...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-19DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2326139
Margaret F. Quinn, Rebecca Rohloff
Early writing (i.e. young children’s emerging skills prior to the onset of skilled writing) provides important foundations for literacy; however, its components are not evenly understood, assessed,...
{"title":"Understanding Young Children’s Composition Across Three Key Components: Transcription, Connection, and Discourse","authors":"Margaret F. Quinn, Rebecca Rohloff","doi":"10.1080/02568543.2024.2326139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2024.2326139","url":null,"abstract":"Early writing (i.e. young children’s emerging skills prior to the onset of skilled writing) provides important foundations for literacy; however, its components are not evenly understood, assessed,...","PeriodicalId":46739,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research in Childhood Education","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140201401","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}
Pub Date : 2024-02-15DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2024.2316713
Cara S. Swit, Anne L. McMaugh, Wayne A. Warburton
This article explores video-stimulated recall as a novel approach to understanding children’s decisions to engage in relational and physical aggression. Past studies have relied on caregiver and ob...
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