In early childhood period, art education has a crucial effect for children’s gaining aesthetic perception, attitude and skills. Early childhood educators and teacher candidates need to have enough knowledge and skills while planning and implementing art activities and they should make this process enjoyable and effective for the children. Within this context, the aim of the study is to examine the explanation of art education, ideas about the importance of art education of early childhood education teacher candidates, methods and techniques used by them in implementation process and what they do to develop themselves. In the light of findings, early childhood education teacher candidates think art education is important. There are explanations about the importance of art education as creativity, motor and social development and school readiness. During the implementation process of art activity, teacher candidates use mostly coloring, cutting-gluing, waste material and kneading materials. Also, in order to develop themselves, teacher candidates have stated that they make literature review, follow the social media and blogs, participate in seminars and educations and ask to field expert. Keywords: early childhood, art education, teacher candidate.
This study examined the relations between receptive language development and other developmental domains of preschoolers from low-income families, through an inter-cultural perspective involving the United States and Turkey. A total of 471 children and their caregivers participated in Turkey, while 287 participated in the United States. Children's development was assessed using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire for both samples. Different versions of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test were used for Turkish and US samples, to measure receptive language development. Results revealed similar patterns, with some differences, between the two countries. Receptive language predicted only communication and personal–social scales in the Turkish sample, while the US children's receptive language skills were associated with communication, problem solving, personal–social, and fine and gross motor development scales. These results were discussed in the context of each country, and the comparative conclusions contribute to the extant literature by illustrating the importance of language for three domains.
ÖZETBu çalışmanın amacı; 3-6 yaş grubu çocuklar için hazırlanan resimli çocuk kitaplarında yer alan olumsuz duyguların sıklıkla hangileri olduğunu tespit ederek kitapta yer alan karakterlerin bu duygularla hangi yöntem ve stratejileri kullanarak baş ettiklerini incelemektir. Araştırmanın amacı doğrultusunda ölçüt örnekleme yoluyla, ulusal yayınevlerinden ulaşılabilen 61 resimli çocuk kitabı, resimli çocuk kitaplarında yer alan olumsuz duygular ve karakterlerin, bu duygularla başa çıkmada kullandıkları stratejiler açısından incelenmiştir. Veriler, Parrot'un yapmış olduğu duygu sınıflamasına göre öfke, üzüntü ve korku olmak üzere üç ana kategoriye ayrılarak işlenmiş; başa çıkma stratejileri ise araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan Olumsuz Duygularla Başa Çıkma Stratejileri Ölçüt Listesi'ne göre değerlendirilmiştir. İncelenen 61 resimli çocuk kitabında en sık rastlanan olumsuz duygu durumunun üzüntü olduğu ve bunu sırasıyla korku ve öfke duygularının izlediği görülmektedir. İncelenen resimli çocuk kitaplarında karakterlerin olumsuz duygularla başa çıkmada çoğunlukla işlevsel stratejiler kullandıkları ve kitapların çok azında işlevsel olmayan stratejilere yer verildiği görülmüştür. En sık görülen işlevsel başa çıkma stratejisi akran ya da yetişkin desteği arama olarak belirlenmiştir.
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