Early Childhood Teachers’ Perspectives of Growth Mindset: Developing Agency in Children

Comparison of Salivary Secretory IgA in Caries-free Children and Children with Severe Early Childhood Caries

Background & Aims: Sever early childhood caries (SECC) is a multifactor common disease that unfortunately there have been a lot of unknown points about it. This study was performed to compare the levels of total S-IgA in children with and without SECC. Methods: In this cross-sectional study 44 children aged 6-24 months were divided into two groups of with SECC (n=20) and without SECC (n=24). Th...

Early Childhood Development and Children with Disabilities in Developing Countries

Principles under pressure: student teachers' perspectives on final teaching practice in early childhood classrooms

Hybridity: A Theory of Agency in Early Childhood Governance

Contemporary social science research concerning governance tends to take an institutional perspective that privileges structural analysis. The resulting body of literature has an emphasis on classification, typologies and regimes. This approach has been criticized on the basis that it neglects the role of agency and context when research concerns complex and heterogeneous community governance c...

Historical perspectives on literacy in early childhood.

PURPOSE To more fully understand current trends in preliteracy research, as well as controversies that continue to surround best teaching practices, it is essential to have an understanding of the historical evolution of ideas and practices relevant to preparing young children for learning to read. METHOD Several interrelated historical movements relevant to placing current research and pract...