Bakhtin for Preschool Teachers

Preschool Teachers: Who and With What Characteristics?

The purpose of this study was to investigate viewpoints of experts and teachers about individual characteristics and specialized capabilities of the preschool teachers. This research is descriptive-analytic that two qualitative and quantitative methods are used to conduct it. The population of qualitative phase includes faculty members of universities, PhD students, masters teachers in fields o...

Bakhtin E Os Processos De Desenvolvimento Humano Bakhtin and the Processes of Human Development

Bakhtin’s work has been appropriated not only for linguistics but also for different areas of knowledge such as Psychology, Education and Arts. Approximating this author’s work to the field of human development, it can be understood how dialogism and the Arts. In approaching this author’s field of language and human development, we can understand how the dialogism and polyphony can be evoked in...

Preschool teachers' fidelity in implementing a comprehensive language-rich curriculum.

PURPOSE This study examined preschool teachers' fidelity to the language-focused curriculum (LFC; B. Bunce, 1995), a comprehensive classroom curriculum designed to improve at-risk children's language outcomes through targeted improvements to a classroom's activity contexts (e.g., dramatic play, art, storybook reading) and instructional processes (e.g., teacher use of open-ended questions, recas...

The Effect of Students’ Gender on Preschool Teachers’ Mathematic Interactions

Relationship between Flow and Personality Traits among Preschool Teachers

The main objective of this study is to examine the relationship between the experience of flow on the job and personality traits among preschool teachers. The study was conducted on a sample of 96 teachers from six kindergartens in the area of Primorsko-goranska County, Croatia. Two questionnaires were applied in this study. The Flow Questionnaire was used to measure the flow and the Big Five I...