The aim of the present study, which involved preschool teachers, was to explore area working with musically gifted children. In particular, we focused on identification children and monitoring their musical development, teachers’ competence for children, evaluation factors important development Research results showed that majority teachers: were able identify children; rarely monitored documen...

Spiritual well-being is perceived to be reflected in the quality of relationships that people have in four areas, namely with God, others, nature, and self. Many spiritual well-being questionnaires exist, but not many provide an adequate assessment of these four relationships. As part of a survey of parental perceptions of holistic early childhood education in kindergartens in Hong Kong, 1383 p...

Recently, communication between participants about children’s development has become more necessary in kindergartens and nurseries. Thus, we have been developing an Interactive Communication System through which participants communicate about childhood education using motion pictures recorded in kindergartens and nurseries. This system requires ex-post selection of motion pictures. However, sin...

An outbreak of food poisoning (emetic syndrome) occurred in three kindergartens (A, B and C) in Berlin, Germany, on 3 December 2007 after an excursion during which food was served. We conducted a retrospective cohort study among the kindergarten children and personnel who participated in the trip. The overall attack rate among the 155 participants was 30%. It was 31% among the 137 children (age...

To know the prevalence of Enterobius vermicularis infection and what are the most important risk factors, we evaluated the incidence and risk factors of enterobiasis among children attended in kindergartens in Busan metropolitan city, Republic of Korea. A total of 1,674 children from 21 kindergartens in 11 of 16 autonomous districts of Busan were evaluated for E. vermicularis infection by the c...

OBJECTIVE To study the relative share of asymptomatic forms of Hepatitis A in family reservoirs of infection with different hygienic conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Asymptomatic forms were identified by detecting anti-HAV IgM using ELISA. Two types of households: with poor hygiene and with good hygiene, were studied. The study was designed as case-control. A group of Hepatitis A contact chi...

There is a lack of knowledge about Mapuche educational values among teachers in kindergartens located indigenous territories. The object the present work was to identify content expressing values, contribute an epistemic base for education boys and girls, both non-Mapuche, with intercultural perspective. methodology used qualitative research, focus on following interpretive paradigm, through co...

189 1 In order to improve the quality of early childhood education, the implementation of individualized instruction is very important. For its implementation, it is necessary to gather qualitative and quantitative diagnostic information about children’s developmental characteristics, learning strategies, problem solving strategies, developmental level, etc. However, kindergartens in Korea have...

Digital technologies have significantly impacted the culture of many kinds of educational communities, from kindergartens to post-doctoral environments. These technologies can play an important role whether students are learning in a face-to-face setting or through a distance learning setting. Moreover, an expanded definition of the term educational community has evolved with the emergence of n...