ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AT PRE-SCHOOL LEVEL

Mathematical Reasoning at Pre - School Level

Preparedness of Malaysian Pre-school Educators for Environmental Education

The shaping of attitude and values, commitment and skills needed to preserve and protect the environment of individuals begins at an early age. Hence educators especially pre-school teachers play an influential role in developing new patterns of behaviors of the young to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. A study was conducted to assess the level of preparedness of the pre-school teachers in Malays...

Technologies and Learning in Pre-school Education

The paper reports a study based in eight pre-school settings that used a process of guided enquiry with practitioners to identify ways of enhancing children’s encounters with information and communication technologies. Researchers used the concept of guided interaction to describe the ways in which learning could be supported and practitioners explored this concept in a range of technology-base...

The school curriculum and environmental education: A school environmental audit experience

Thirteen primary and pre-primary schools in Extremadura (Spain) were participants in an educational research project, "Ecocentros", based on school environmental audits (ecoaudits). To understand the contribution these experiences can make to achieving the objectives of environmental education, it is essential to know what is actually incorporated into the curriculum and how. Progress was made ...

Pre-school Education and Attainment in the NCDS and BCS

This paper considers the effect of how children pass time before entrance to school on attainment in primary school. We find in NCDS data that children perform marginally better at seven and eleven if they spent time with their mother, or at a pre-school, rather than in informal care. This holds when one controls for parental education, social class, and assessed parental interest in the child’...