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...

I was initially apprehensive about the invitation to speak at the Conference on Early Childhood Mathematics because I had very little experience working with young children on mathematics. I was invited to the conference as one of the mathematicians, and the other mathematicians expressed similar concerns. Nonetheless, the early childhood teachers, representatives from state education departmen...

The objectives of this paper are to present the conclusions from the workshop 'Education for childhood obesity prevention: a life-course approach', coordinated by the Pan-American Health Organization and the Pan-American Health and Education Foundation, and held on 14 June 2012 in Aruba, as part of the II Pan-American Conference on Childhood Obesity (http://www.paco.aw/). This workshop focused ...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that social, educational, cultural and physical factors in childhood and early adulthood may influence the chances and direction of social mobility, the movement of an individual between social classes over his/her life-course. This study examined the association of such factors with intra-generational and inter-generational social mobility within the Newcastle ...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and health across the life course and their variations by gender and race/ethnicity. METHODS The sample included 19,949 respondents aged 50 or over from the 1998 Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS Lower childhood SES was associated with worse health outcomes in later life. Part of the effect of childhood SES on adu...

Education, childhood IQ, and occupational social class are associated with mortality and morbidity. One possible cause of these associations is via their impact on health behaviours such as smoking. Less educated people are more likely to continue smoking, but smoking is more strongly related to occupational social class than to education. Childhood IQ is related to education and occupational s...

In an effort to provide high-quality preschool education, policymakers are increasingly requiring public preschool teachers to have at least a Bachelor's degree, preferably in early childhood education. Seven major studies of early care and education were used to predict classroom quality and children's academic outcomes from the educational attainment and major of teachers of 4-year-olds. The ...

James Maxwell served as the contracting officer's representative. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department of Education. No official endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any product, commodity, service or enterprise mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred. for multiple contributions to the preparati...

This paper reports on a research project that investigated the use of touchscreens by children in early childhood and junior primary settings by introducing touchscreens in five classrooms in Melbourne. Several methods to obtain information about how children interacted with the touchscreens were used including observation, journals and field notes, and interviews. The research identified five ...

Abstract Introduction Connection of socioeconomic status measures (such as income and education and parental addiction) to childhood leukemia are likely to vary with place and time. The aim of this study was to assess the relation between socioeconomic status and childhood leukemia. Materials and Methods a case- control study conducted on 86 case of acute lymphoblastic leukemia age 0-14 yea...