Exploring Attitudes of Four Groups of Stakeholders Toward Family Childcare and Recommending Best Practices to Promote Positive Experiences

<p>This research aimed to increase the awareness of licensed family childcare programs and use the viewpoints of four stakeholder groups to construct recommended best practices. These best practices are crucial for supporting effective business practices and providing high-quality services to their stakeholders. Online surveys and virtual interviews were used to acquire the stakeholders' perspectives. The collected data revealed three principal thematic codes: family childcare provider, family childcare business, and family childcare environment. Within these three codes, the family childcare program's areas of improvement, inconsistencies, and strengths were identified and evaluated to construct recommended professional and business best practices. Some of the categories of recommended best practices included professional development, professional identity, marketing, and business techniques, all valuable in supporting high-quality, licensed family childhood programs.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D. Doctor of Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teaching and Learning

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Williams, Yvonne S

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ayn Keneman
• Teri Talan
• Stuart Carrier

• Family Childcare
• Quality Childcare
• Recommended Best Practices
• Home based childcare
• business practices
• early childhood education
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• Pre-Elementary, Early Childhood, Kindergarten Teacher Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/745

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1800