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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"ECEC"”.
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Perceptions of ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) practitioners on how their gender influences their approaches to play
Quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) has the potential to impact greatly on outcomes for young children and improve their life chances. Children (0–5 years) in England benefit from a play-based curriculum although there is little uniformity in the ECEC settings they attend. One …
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Barnsyn och lärandesyn : en jämförelse av barnets plan för småbarnspedagogik och grunderna för planen för småbarnspedagogik
… personnel of early childhood education and care (ECEC) describe the child and learning in the child’s individual ECEC plan and to analyse how well the children’s plans comply with the national core curriculum of ECEC. In 2016, ECEC in Finland changed from daycare to pedagogy when the national core …
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International early childhood education and care professionals practices to engage family members of young children with special education needs: a comparative study of professional practices in China and the United States
… policy in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). This study explores strategies ECEC professionals in China and the United States implement to engage family members of young children with special education needs. In-depth interviews were conducted with 22 ECEC professionals in China and the …
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Food allergy management in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Services: Are services aware of training guidelines for food allergy management?
… if staff in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) are well prepared to manage food-induced anaphylaxis. This cross-sectional study utilised an online survey to assess the preparedness of ECEC staff nationally to manage FA. Method: A survey addressing training, knowledge, skills and staff …
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How can a continuing professional development programme cultivate a community of sustainability informed early childhood education and care (ECEC) teacher/educators?
… into Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in England, a critical challenge given the climate crisis impacting young children (Louv, 2012). The literature review revealed limited research in this area, with UNESCO (2023) reporting insufficient progress toward achieving the 2030 …
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Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care: Examining Different Conceptualizations and Levels of Quality
… hours in early childhood education and care (ECEC) and such care is costly. Given this context, it is important to examine the quality of care children receive, whether they experience quality differently, and the effects of quality on child development. Exposure to high quality ECEC is …
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Discursive constructions of teachers’ professional identities in early childhood policies and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand: Complexities and contradictions
… landscape of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Aotearoa New Zealand. From an increasingly supportive approach, aiming to ensure access to and the participation of all children in quality ECEC provision, the country has swung towards a 'hands off' approach, which allowed the market to …
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Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
… in the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) sector over the past 20 years. Over time a “discourse of readiness” has become increasingly apparent in ECEC policies. The revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (DfE, 2012a) framework states that the purpose of the framework is to ensure …
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Work-Family Reconciliation Policies Reexamined: Good or Bad for Gender and Class Inequality in Employment across Twenty-Four High-Income Countries?
… work-family reconciliation policies—leave and ECEC. I constructed a comprehensive set of leave and ECEC policy measures for 24 high-income countries using secondary and country-specific sources. The goal was to determine which countries provide leave and ECEC policies that are “well-developed” …
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Exploring Manifestations of Pluriform Love in the Leadership of Christian Early Childhood Communities: A Phenomenological Study 2019-2024 in New Zealand
… Christian early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings in New Zealand (NZ). While previous studies identify love and care as a priority there is a need to define and prioritize Biblical understandings of love that may align with the principles of the national ECE framework. The study …
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‘It’s just so much work for our little hands’: Exploring the multi-dimensionality of pre-school children’s lived experience in shaping expressions and perceptions of learning.
… within Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Concepts of ECEC practice within England continue to be shaped by the lasting legacies of those regarded as early years ‘pioneers’, alongside theories of child development and an ever-increasing influence of governmental legislation and …
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Nursery workers' narratives: what makes a 'good' nursery worker?
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is a complex field of study. This research explores the creation of an understanding of the ways in which the concept of ‘good’ nursery workers is constructed in the current political, economic and societal context in England. It discusses the findings of a …
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Early Years Professional Status: A Narrative Study of Leadership and Contradictory Professionalism
… quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) in England, particularly in the private voluntary and independent (PVI) sector. Professional status was a new phenomenon in this sector and a narrative approach was taken in this study to explore, the experiences and perspectives of four …
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Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
… rights in early childhood education and care (ECEC) provision in China. Practitioners and parents demonstrated a positive view about the MI programme and supporting children’s learning in relation to their different patterns of intelligences. Children liked the opportunities to develop their …
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Organic carbon and fertility of forest soils on the Allegheny Plateau of West Virginia
… of effective cation exchange capacity (ECEC). No strong correlations were observed between VOC and other measured parameters. The total stocks of Ca for these series ranged from 497 to 1095 kg ha-1. The total stocks of Mg ranged from 2085 to 6662 kg ha-1. The total stocks of P ranged …
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Narratives from the nursery: negotiating a 'professional' identity
… the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) might contribute to challenging narrowly prescriptive constructions of professionalism. This thesis contributes to debates that stem from a recognition, and problematisation, of the gendered and classed nature of ECEC. By critically …
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Children under three in Greek day-care relationships with adults, peers and environment
… Education and Care (henceforth known as ECEC) services. The study’s framework is an ethnographic case study which took place in two settings over the course of six months. Children’s perspectives were researched using an adaptation of the Mosaic Approach (Clark and Moss, 2011). This …
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NATURALLY ACIDIC OR ANTHROPOGENICALLY ACIDIFIED? UNCOVERING THE DRIVERS OF STREAM ACIDITY DURING STORMFLOW IN THE NEE SOON CATCHMENT, SINGAPORE
… content, effective cation exchange capacity (ECEC) and base saturation (BS). During storm flow, all streams experienced a decrease in ANC as the concentration of nitrate and sulfate increased. BS of the soils was low, indicating that soil exchangeable acidity may increase and contribute to …
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An unfamiliar face, an unfamiliar environment: Investigating educators’ understanding of their attachment relationships with infants and toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care settings
… their practices within education and care (ECEC) settings. The aims of this study were to investigate educators’ knowledge and understanding of attachment theory and the practices they use to support the development of secure infant/toddler–caregiver relationships. Drawing upon an …
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Soil mineralogy of an upper coastal plain landscape in Virginia
… charge nature of the soils is reinforced by low ECEC data.
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