Loose Part: Finding Innovation in Learning Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Education Programns

H T ead Start is a preschool program for disadvantaged children which aims to improve their skills so that they can begin schooling on an equal footing with their more advantaged peers. Begun in 1965 as part of PresidentJohnson's "War on Poverty," Head Start now serves over 800,000 children in predominantly part-day programs, almost 50 percent of eligible three and four year-old poor children (...

Early Childhood Education Programs

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Organisational Factors Affecting IT Innovation Adoption in the Finnish Early Childhood Education

Continuous technological development has created new ways of utilising IT in the public sector. However, the use of information technology is still to a large degree in its infancy in early childhood education. The study focuses on the adoption of IT innovations within early childhood education context in Finland. IT innovations can be used for instance in communication between different actors...

Learning from innovation in pharmacy education

Well-Managed Classroom with Effective Use of Technology in Early Childhood Education

While the number of computers in the classroom continues to increase and tremendous support for technology integration exists in government, business, and academia, a major discrepancy exists between the level of technology use that is expected from the educators and the actual use and integration of technology in the classroom. However, effective technology integration in early childhood educa...