Development of Key Literacy Skills in Early Childhood Education

ISBN-13: 9783631886458 / Angielski

Kamila Urban

Opis

The curricular reform of 2016 presented us with a unique opportunity to compare children who had followed the previous early childhood curriculum in Slovakia with children who attended preschool after the successful implementation of the new preschool curriculum. Our book is based on the findings of research carried out in the ecologically valid environment of Slovak preschools. The results offer a unique perspective on literacy development in the context of a national reform implementation that had a direct impact on educational practice.

Spis treści

Kamila Urban - Acknowledgments -Contributors -Introduction: The Importance of Literacy-rich Classrooms -Role of Shared Book Reading Practices in Early Literacy Development - Identification of Differences in Key Literacy Indicators Under the Old and the Innovated Preschool Curriculum -Role of Story Listening Comprehension in Early Literacy Skills -Role of Metacognition in Early Literacy Development - Preschool Narrative Production as a Precursor for Successful Reading and Literacy Development -Conclusion: The Difficult Journey of the New Literacy Curriculum to Preschool Education: Promising Impacts and Future Perspectives -Index

O autorze

Kamila Urban is a researcher at the Institute for Research in Social Communication, Slovak Academy of Sciences, and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her current research themes are metacognitive development, self-regulated learning, creativity, and motivation in education.