Action or reaction!: Reflecting on Sally Lubeck’s wisdom to reinvent the field of early education
An account of the late researcher Sally Lubeck’s critical perspectives on Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) and the standardization and surveillance of early education
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Balancing the readiness equation in early childhood education reform
A case study of the design and implementation of an assessment tool that defines and aligns teacher academic performance expectations for students with school district standards from field notes, document analysis and interviews with 11 assessment task force members and 15 staff of a prekindergarten program in an urban district in Texas
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The care of mildly ill children: Perspectives of Canadian parents and childcare directors
A comparison between parents' child care preferences for mildly ill children and those of child care directors
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Child development and childcare in Japan
A validity study of a scale to measure the physical, social, and academic development of children and a study to develop national norms for the scale based on the responses of 22,819 Japanese children birth through 84 months of age enrolled in child care programs
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Chinese early childhood educators' perspectives on dealing with a crying child
An investigation of changes in Chinese beliefs regarding early education, comparing preservice teachers' opinions of an older teaching methods video with the perspectives of inservice teachers
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Constructive competition in preschool
A study of children’s views on cooperation and competition, based on interviews with and observations of children in two preschools in 2003
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The corporatization of Australian childcare: Towards an ethical audit and research agenda
A critical analysis of how the rapid corporatization of Australia's child care system has affected child care quality and a discussion as to whether the Australian government should continue following its current child care policy agenda
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Developmental dynamics of phonemic awareness and reading performance during the first year of primary school
A study examining the relationship between phonemic awareness and literacy acquisition in Finnish primary school children during their first year of school
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Early childhood and care in England: When pedagogy is wed to politics
A distillation of the perspectives and contributions of the late researcher Sally Lubeck, and a discussion of her influence on the field of the sociology of childhood
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Early childhood care and education in Africa: The case of Botswana
An overview of the early care and education programs in Botswana, discussing caregivers, quality, curricula, participants, group size, educators' experiences, equipment, and physical locations
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Early childhood education and equity issues in Portugal: A case study of four settings
An examination of the issue of equity in four early childhood environments in Portugal
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Ethnographic approaches to child care research: A review of the literature
A review of the literature on ethnographic research on child care contexts, with a discussion of the caregiver-centered, mother-centered, child-centered, and societal perspectives that dominate the field
Literature Review
An examination of differences in fathering activities across race and ethnicity
A study of the frequency with which 33 social, cognitive, caregiving, and physical activities occur between fathers and their children, based on the self-reported data collected from 485 African-American, Latino, and European-American fathers and father figures of children from low-income households
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Family-school-community partnerships in rural PreK at-risk programs
A study using focus groups to examine how parents, teachers, and administrators perceive the purpose of rural prekindergarten at-risk programs and to examine factors that they consider to act as possible barriers to effective family-school-community partnerships
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From developmental-constructivism to socio-cultural theory and practice: An expansive analysis of teachers' professional learning in early childhood education
A description of the process by which early childhood teachers in Australia generated changes in their teaching practices by reflecting on existing practices, modeling new frameworks, and sharing with colleagues, as prescribed in the Development Work Research (DWR) method
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Gender, work, and child care: Crossing borders in the life and work of Sally Lubeck
A topical overview of the contributions of the late researcher Sally Lubeck to the field of child care and early education
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Handling hard-to-manage behaviours in pre-school provision: A systems approach
An examination of preschool workers' perceptions regarding children's behavioral problems, as well as their methods for managing perceived misbehavior
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Head Start children's transition to kindergarten: Evidence from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
An analysis, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, of the reading and math assessment scores of Head Start children as compared to their same-age peers at kindergarten entry
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Home-education: Comparison of home- and school-education children on PIPS baseline assessments
A study comparing the academic performance of home-educated children to school-educated children, using the Performance Indicators in Primary Schools (PIPS) assessment
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How do they manage?: A review of the research on leadership in early childhood
An overview of qualitative and quantitative research regarding leadership and management in early childhood settings
Literature Review
How long is a woman's life, finally?
An account of several contributions to the literature of the field of early care and education by the late researcher Sally Lubeck
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Intergenerational learning between children and grandparents in east London
A study of the learning activities shared by children and grandparents in the homes of Sylheti/Bengali-speaking and English-speaking families, based on ethnographic studies of 9 families and survey responses of 20 families, all of whom have a young child enrolled in an east London preschool
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Investigating the impact of working in multi-agency service delivery settings in the UK on early years practitioners' beliefs and practices
A study using local evaluative data from two publicly funded Centre of Excellences to examine child care center staff's beliefs and strategies when dealing with controversial issues
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A journey to a close, secure, and synchronous relationship: Infant-caregiver relationship development in a childcare context
A qualitative study of three infant-caregiver dyads' relationships in a child care setting and an investigation of factors contributing to these relationships
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Learning research: Insights from Head Start
An account of the study design, data collection, and creation of a presentation for the Social Context of Head Start study, a qualitative study of 4 Head Start sites, and an account of the contributions of the late researcher Sally Lubeck to the study
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