Preschoolers' Difficult Questions and Their Teachers' Responses

Autor/in	Sak, Ramazan
Titel	Preschoolers' Difficult Questions and Their Teachers' Responses
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Education Journal, 48 (2020) 1, S.59-70 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sak, Ramazan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1082-3301
DOI	10.1007/s10643-019-00977-x
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Preschool Teachers; Teacher Student Relationship; Information Seeking; Teacher Attitudes; Sex; Religion; Pregnancy; Daily Living Skills; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Informationserschließung; Lehrerverhalten; Geschlecht; Geschlechtsverkehr; Schwangerschaft; Alltagsfertigkeit; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	This qualitative study examined preschoolers' difficult questions and their teachers' responses to them. Data were gathered via interviews with 324 preschool teachers, who were asked two questions: "Could you please share the questions you have been asked by preschoolers in your classroom that were difficult for you to answer?" and "How did you answer these questions?" Data were analyzed via the cutting-and-sorting technique. This yielded four main themes among the questions--science and nature, religion, sex and fertility, and daily life--and five main themes among the responses: realistic answers, insufficient answers, wrong explanations, leaving the question unanswered, and irrelevant answers. Only a quarter of the responses were realistic, meaning that most were inappropriate to supporting preschoolers' learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01