Topic: Early Years

Zeni M, Schnellert L, Brussoni M. “We do it anyway”: Professional identities of teachers who enact risky play as a framework for Education Outdoors. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. 2023. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-023-00140-6.

Kimberly Nurse, Magdalena Janus, Catherine Birken, Charles Keown-Stoneman, Jessica Omand, Jonathon Maguire, Caroline Reid-Westoby, Eric Duku, Gerald Lebovic, Muhammad Mamdani, Janis Randall Simpson, Mark Tremblay, Patricia Parkin, Cory Borkhoff, 38 Developmental Screening Using the Infant Toddler Checklist at 18 Months and School Readiness at 4 to 6 Years, Paediatrics & Child Health, Volume 27, Issue Supplement_3, October 2022, Page e19, https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxac100.037

Tollan, K., Jezrawi, R., Underwood, K. et al. A Review on Early Intervention Systems. Curr Dev Disord Rep 10, 147–153 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40474-023-00274-8

Cleary J, Nolan C, Guhn M, Thomson KC, Barker S, Deane C, et al. A study protocol for community implementation of a new mental health monitoring system spanning early childhood to young adulthood. Longitudinal Life Course Stud. 2023 Jul 1;14(3):446-65. Available from: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/llcs/14/3/article-p446.xml

Zhang K, Guhn M, Conklin AI. Association between social jetlag and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in adolescents in Western Canada. Eur J Public Health. 2023 Apr 1;33(2):287-92. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36478224.

Guhn, M., Gadermann, A., Almas, A., Schonert-Reichl, K. A., & Hertzman, C. (2016). Associations of teacher-rated social, emotional, and cognitive development to self-reported wellbeing, peer relations, and academic test scores in middle childhood. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 35, 76-84.

These preliminary studies, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, assess the practicality and challenges of implementing health interventions across diverse settings. The authors highlight various obstacles encountered, including cultural and contextual sensitivities, administrative hurdles, training needs, and safety concerns.

Oberle E, Ji XR, Alkawaja M, Molyneux TM, Kerai S, Thomson KC, et al. Connections matter: adolescent social connectedness profiles and mental well-being over time. J Adolesc. 2023. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12250

Duflos M, Hussaina H, Olsen L, Ishikawa T, Brussoni M. Is parental propensity to risk associated with their child’s medically-attended injuries? A cross-sectional study. Journal of Safety Research. 2023;85:436-41. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002243752300049X.

Duflos M, Lane J, Brussoni M. Motivations and challenges for grandparent–grandchild outdoor play in early childhood: Perception of Canadian grandparents. Family Relations. 2023. Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fare.12952

Researchers from multiple Canadian universities studied the link between neighborhood socioeconomic factors and developmental vulnerability in kindergarten children before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Early Development Instrument (EDI) data from 2017-2023, they analyzed a large dataset of children across Canada.

The feasibility and relevance of ORICL suggests its potential for triggering significant and sustained improvement in pedagogy and practice for infant-toddler education and care. Further research has been funded to (1) generate the evidence needed to assess the uptake and impact of ORICL, its usefulness as a professional learning resource, and its coherence and reliability as a measure of infant-toddler learning experiences; and (2) advanced knowledge of infant-toddler pedagogy and practice...

Pighini MJ, Guhn M, Zumbo BD. Over-reaching with causality language in neurodevelopmental infant research: A methodological literature review. Early Hum Dev. 2023:105781. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378223000774.

Thomson KC, Jenkins E, Gill R, Hastings KG, Richardson CG, Gagné Petteni M, et al. Parent psychological distress and parent-child relationships two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from a Canadian crosssectional study. PLoS One. 2023;18(10):e0292670. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292670

Oberle E, Ji XR, Molyneux TM. Pathways from prosocial behaviour to emotional health and academic achievement in early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence. 2023;43(5):632-53. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02724316221113349.

Janus M, Ryan J, Pottruff M, Reid-Westoby C, Brownell M, Bennett T, et al. Population-based teacher-rated assessment of anxiety among Canadian kindergarten children. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023;54(5):1309- 20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9

Prime, H., Andrews, K., Markwell, A. et al. Positive Parenting and Early Childhood Cognition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 26, 362–400 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10567-022-00423-2

Gerlach, A.J.; McFadden, A. Re-Envisioning an Early Years System of Care towards Equity in Canada: A Critical, Rapid Review. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9594. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19159594

Talarico F, Liu YS, Metes D, Wang M, Wearmouth D, Kiyang L, et al. Risk factors for developmental vulnerability: Insight from population-level surveillance using the Early Development Instrument. Digit Health. 2023;9:20552076231210705. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231210705

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, it becomes important to comprehend service utilization patterns and evaluate disparities in mental health-related service access among children. This study uses administrative health records to investigate the association between early developmental vulnerability and healthcare utilization among children in Alberta, Canada from 2016 to 2022.

McCray G, McCoy D, Kariger P, et al. The creation of the Global Scales for Early Development (GSED) for children aged 0–3 years: combining subject matter expert judgements with big data. BMJ Global Health 2023;8:e009827. doi:10.1

Sando OJ, Sandseter EBH, Brussoni M. The role of play and objects in children’s deep-level learning in early childhood education. Education Sciences. 2023;13(7):701. Available from: https://www.mdpi.com/2227- 7102/13/7/701.

Sando OJ, Sandseter EBH, Brussoni M. The role of play and objects in children’s deep-level learning in early childhood education. Education Sciences. 2023;13(7). Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13070701

Race-related data are not routinely collected as part of the Canadian kindergarten teacher reported Early Development Instrument (EDI) data collection even though they could be used to inform provision of supports for students and educators. Therefore, the goal of our exploratory study was to gather an understanding of teacher perceptions regarding the assessment of items on the EDI in the context of children’s race, gender, and family status and teacher positionality.

This study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine the developmental well-being of refugee children in British Columbia, Canada. Quantitative analysis, using government data and the Early Development Instrument (EDI), compared refugee children's developmental scores across five domains to those of immigrant and non-migrant children.

Whitehead J, Schonert-Reichl KA, Oberle E, Boyd L. What do teachers do to show they care? Learning from the voices of early adolescents. J Adoles Res. 2023;38(4):726-60. Available from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/07435584221076055.