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Dr Betty Liebovich

Staff details

Dr Betty Liebovich

Position

Lecturer

Department

Educational Studies

Email

b.liebovich (@gold.ac.uk)

Early years expert; interest in history of early years education; interest in play based curriculum and culture

Coordinator of early years education in the Educational Studies department, contributing to Undergrad, PGCE and Postgraduate programmes.

Academic qualifications

  • EdD in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 2005
  • MSc in Human and Community Resources with Family Focus from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 1994
  • BA in Women's Studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison 1988

Featured publications

2024: Liebovich, B. “Metacognition and young children: an exploration of how metacognition contributes to children’s thinking and learning”
Book chapter in in Mikkelson, J. (Ed.) Metacognition: New Ways to Think and Learn. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: England.

2020: Liebovich, B. (March 2020). Patty Smith Hill: Early Childhood Pioneer in Young Children: The Journal of the National Association for the Education of
Journal Article

Liebovich, B. (September 2019). “Margaret McMillan’s Contributions to Cultures of Childhood” in Special Issue "A British Childhood? Some Historical Re
Special Issue Contribution

Publications and research outputs

Book

Liebovich, Betty. 2006. Early childhood preservice teachers' perceptions of advocacy. York: ProQuest. ISBN 0542230267

Book Section

Hinitz, Blythe F. and Liebovich, Betty. 2023. History of Early Childhood Education in the United States. In: Susan C. Faircloth, ed. Oxford Bibliographies (Education - Curriculum and Pedagogy). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Liebovich, Betty and Hinitz, B. 2016. “History of Early Childhood Education”. In: D L Couchenour and K Chrisman, eds. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Contemporary Early Childhood Education. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.

Liebovich, Betty. 2016. History of Early Childhood Education. In: , ed. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Contemporary Early Childhood Education. Los Angeles: Sage. ISBN 9781483340357

Article

Coşkun, Kerem; Çıkrıkçı, Ozkan; Liebovich, Betty and Kara, Cihan. 2023. Parent-child interaction in academic experiences: Scale development and validation. Current Psychology, 42(3), pp. 2268-2278. ISSN 1046-1310

Coskun, Kerem; Liebovich, Betty; Kara, Cihan and Cikrikci, Ozkan. 2022. Is theory of mind correlated with moral identity among primary school children? Journal of Social and Educational Research, 1(1), pp. 27-33.

Liebovich, Betty. 2019. Margaret McMillan’s Contributions to Cultures of Childhood. Genealogy, 3(3), 43. ISSN 2313-5778