As special education director of the Ypsilanti public school district in the 1960s, David Weikart encountered daily the school failure of children born in poverty. In this time of the civil rights movement and the man-on-the-moon initiative, this was not a fact of life to be endured but a problem to solve. So, with the High/Scope Perry Preschool program that operated from 1962 to 1967, he began...

Little research has explored how preschools can support children’s second-language (L2) vocabulary development. This study keenly followed the progress of twemty-six Turkish immigrant children growing up in Norway from preschool (age five) to fifth grade (age ten). Four different measures of preschool talk exposure (amount and diversity of teacher-led group talk and amount and diversity of peer...

With this article the authors would like to deepen the resilience and psychomotricity as action strategies in preschool education. They analyse too the importance of resilience and psychomotricity and their impact in the learning of disadvantaged children at a preschool age that are exposed to adverse social and personal factors and to assess the efficiency of an intervention program based in p...

In the work is investigated the state of formation of communication skills of deaf preschool children in conditions of use of sign & verbal languages. The use of psycho-lingual, socio-cultural approach for the study & development of communication of deaf children enabled to analyze the steps, tools, forms, content, structure, communication mechanisms & the specific characteristics of deaf presc...

The authors examine black, white, and Hispanic children's differing experiences in early childhood care and education and explore links between these experiences and racial and ethnic gaps in school readiness. Children who attend center care or preschool programs enter school more ready to learn, but both the share of children enrolled in these programs and the quality of care they receive diff...

Considering the significance of the preschool teacher’s influence on early childhood, it is relevant to put in the research focus their personality characteristics. Therefore, the main question of this study was to explore personality traits of preschool teachers. A personality analysis was run and discussed within two personality models: Eysenck’s and Big Five personality model. Subjects were ...

Although preschool has been shown to improve children’s school readiness in many developing countries, preschool attendance in poor rural areas of China is still low. The high cost of preschool is often regarded as a major barrier to attendance. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a one-year voucher/CCT intervention on preschool attendance and school readiness. To do so, we conducted a ran...