Early childhood educators' knowledge, beliefs, education, experiences, and children's language- and literacy-learning opportunities: What is the connection?

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 36, Issue , 2016, Pages 281-294

  Schachter, Rachel E ^a   Spear, Caitlin F ^a   Piasta, Shayne B ^a   Justice, Laura M ^a   Logan, Jessica A R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Educators; Experience; Knowledge; Language and literacy instruction

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MODEL; TEACHING;

EID: 84956634171     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2016.01.008     Document Type: Article

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