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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Early Childhood Education and Care"”.
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Quality of Early Childhood Education and Care: Examining Different Conceptualizations and Levels of Quality
… proportion of young children spend many 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. …
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An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Learning in an Early Childhood Education and Care Degree
… to deterritorialise the pedagogical spaces of an Early Childhood degree. Inspired by Richardson and St. Pierre’s (2005) notion of writing as inquiry and Creative Arts Practices (CAP) Ethnography I experiment with poetry, art and film in order to find my research voice and move through the …
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In the Eye of the Beholder: Perspectives on Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care
The multiple layers of both similarities and differences across parents and teachers suggest that their values and beliefs can account for their perceptions of quality ii in early childhood programs. It is argued that the official discourse should make more effort to understand what teachers are …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
… undoes (Spivak, 2012) a doctoral study in the early childhood education and care classes of an NGO run school in Pune, India. I tell the story of my original research project that intended to develop a rich understanding of children’s play and early learning in an early childhood education and …
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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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Effective family partnerships in early childhood education and care: an investigation of the nature of interactions between educators and parents
Early childhood education and care in Australia is recognised as playing an important role in determining the long term educational benefits and outcomes for children across their life span. A key determinant of a quality early childhood program is the quality of relationships that educators …
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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?
Background: Childhood food allergies (FA) are increasing in Australia. Although death from anaphylaxis caused by FA is rare, food-induced anaphylaxis could be fatal. It is unclear if staff in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) are well prepared to manage food-induced anaphylaxis. This …
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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?
… to introduce the concept of sustainability 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 …
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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
Attachment theory has influenced research, policy and practice over the last six decades, offering a framework for understanding risk and protective factors in early childhood. However, this work has primarily been influenced from a medical health or psychological perspective. Despite the …
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What are the experiences of the two-year-olds in the emotional environment in early childhood education and care settings that offer funded places?
… the emotional environment of two-year-old Early Childhood Education and Care settings that provided funded provision. The extensive literature review drew upon social psychological theories and concepts such as the consciousness of emotions (Damasio, 1999), attachment theory (Kinreich et …
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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
… to identify best practices, quality indicators, and teacher qualifications and sustainable 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 …
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Impediments to Effective Enactment of Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Pedagogy in Tanzania: Issues and Experiences of Teachers in Urban and Rural Pre-Schools
… was to investigate experiences, possibilities, and issues encountered by teachers in the enactment of early childhood education and care curriculum and pedagogy in the Tanzanian context. Worldwide, the concept of early childhood education and care does not refer to a single entity; rather, the …
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Playcentre leadership: A learning story
Research into leadership in early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand is in its infancy. At this early stage, distributed leadership has been identified as the most common style of leadership used in teacher-led early childhood education and care services. However, as a parent-led early …
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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
… <p>This study responds to the need to explore and/or propose models of leadership for 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 …
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Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
… Chinese perspectives of practitioners, parents and children on the curriculum and pedagogy of a private kindergarten delivering the Western Multiple Intelligence (MI) programme. This ethnographic study captures practitioners and parents perspectives by employing multiple methods including …
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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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Children under three in Greek day-care relationships with adults, peers and environment
… to two years eleven months old in two Greek day-care nurseries, with the aim of informing thinking about the future development of policy and practice in relation to Greek Early Childhood Education and Care (henceforth known as ECEC) services. The study’s framework is an ethnographic case study …
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Beliefs and Relationships during Children’s Transition to School: Parents, Practitioners and Teachers
… but also their life chances. This understanding has led to governments in England investing 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 …
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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.
… 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 …
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