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Affordability funding models for early childhood services A presentation of a model of available approaches for governments to use to ensure affordable early childhood services using international data from affordability models used by countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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Beyond child care: How else could we do this?: Sociocultural reflections on the structural and cultural arrangements of contemporary Western child care An exploration of how young children learn to be part of a group within child care settings using a sociocultural framework |
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"Boundary crossing": Negotiating understandings of early literacy and numeracy pathways An exploration of activities to facilitate the acquisition of early literacy and numeracy skills by young children, based on a study of 65 children in the year prior to school entry in Victoria, Australia |
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Bridging the Gap: Improving literacy outcomes for Indigenous students An evaluation of an at-home family book reading intervention designed to provide aboriginal children with the prerequisite literacy skills for school entry |
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Child care and the role of employer sponsorship |
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Children's rights and early childhood education A discussion of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as an advocacy tool for reforming early childhood services and policies in New Zealand and worldwide |
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Children's services, wages and work choices An examination of the possible effects of the federal workplace relations system, providing employers the opportunity to challenge gender equal-remuneration decisions, for child care worker wages in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia |
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A collaborative approach to literacy: Inner-city preschool children, families and the school community An action research account of a take-home “Literacy Boxes” project in one early childhood classroom serving a low income area of a Saskatchewan city with a large aboriginal population |
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Complexities and compromises: Understanding parents' experiences and choice of early childhood education and care services An exploration of the influence of parents’ experiences with early childhood education and care (ECEC) services on their choice of arrangements for their children, based on interviews with 23 parents from Central Queensland, Australia |
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Computer use by preschool children: Rethinking practice as digital natives come to preschool A study of computer use, skills, and access at home and elsewhere among a population of children who attend child care centers in a diverse region of Australia |
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Conceptions of art in Hong Kong preschool children A qualitative study of children’s experiences of art, based on themes emerging from individual and group interviews with 27 children aged 5 and 6 at a Hong Kong preschool |
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Concerts for young children An investigation of the characteristics of appropriate and effective musical concerts targeted at children under age 7 based on interviews with three musicians specializing in giving concerts for young children, two early childhood educators, and two parents |
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Constraints and facilitators for physical activity in family day care An examination of the beliefs of Australian family child care providers in terms of the provision of physical activity as well as an investigation of the constraints and facilitators to providing more physical activity for children |
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The construction of early childhood teachers’ professional identities, then and now An overview of the ideas and work of Lillian de Lissa, the first principal of Kindergarten Training College in Adelaide, Australia, between 1907 and 1917 |
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Contextual factors affecting inclusion during children’s transitions from preschool to school An examination and comparison of social roles and social inclusion among Down Syndrome and typically-developing boys during their transitions from child care to school, based on qualitative observations of four boys and interviews with their parents and teachers at several stages of the transition process |
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Early childhood education programs for indigenous children in Canada, Australia and New Zealand: An historical review An outline history of early childhood programs for indigenous children through a comparative study of initiatives in Canada, Australia and New Zealand identifying common and distinct developments in the three nations over a period spanning 200 years |
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Early childhood education: A public right and not a privilege An examination of current literature supporting early childhood education and a discussion on the purpose communities have in supporting early childhood education in the same manner as public school |
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Early childhood teachers coping with educational change A study of coping strategies used by 63 early childhood educators in Perth, Australia, when adopting mandated changes to their teaching practices |
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Encouraging the reflection process in undergraduate teachers using guided reflection An account of the use of guided reflection exercises with a group of 5 second-year student teachers enrolled in a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education program |
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Enhancing environmental awareness through the arts An outline of an action research project in which an arts-based curriculum is used to teach children about the natural environment, based on data collected in a classroom of 28 children |
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Enhancing parent-child book reading in a disadvantaged community A description of an Australian preschool reading program for increasing children’s literacy development in school, and parental reading with children at home, in a low income community with a high percentage of English as a second language speakers |
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Exposing young children to music through the production and presentation of music-appreciation television programs A study of children’s preferences and teacher’s opinions of three music appreciation activities: a world music activity, an Orff Schulwerk activity, and a narrated multimedia activity that included physical movements, based on data collected from 168 children and 16 teachers at kindergartens and child care centers in Hong Kong |
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Family literacy: Schools and families of young children working together A proposal for the collaboration of schools and families with young children to develop literacy skills, and a discussion of the implications of family literacy |
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A focus on literacy in home day care |
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From bogey mountains to funny houses: Children's desires for play environment A study of young children's preferences in play environments, based on an an analysis of 15 drawing and discussion sessions with 49 Finnish children between the ages of 6 and 7 |
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