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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Childminders
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 763). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of the characteristics of family child care providers in the United Kingdom, including average number of children served, income, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Full day care providers
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 760). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of characteristics of organizations providing full-day child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Out-of-school providers
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 761). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of characteristics of organizations providing out-of-school time child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Overview report
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 764). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A comparison of characteristics--including staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care provider organizations in four sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, and part-day providers--in the United Kingdom, based on provider surveys

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Sessional day care providers
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 762). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of characteristics of organizations providing part-time child care in the United Kingdom, including characteristics of children served and staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys

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2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 2006
Paris: UNESCO Publishing.

An assessment of the progress made by countries and national organizations toward meeting the goals of equitable provision of learning opportunities to all citizens from infancy to adulthood, expressed at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All, based on cross-national education statistics, household surveys, consultations, literature reviews and commissioned papers, with a focus on national strategies for creating programs and improving services devoted to early childhood care and education

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2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report: Strong foundations: Early childhood care and education [Summary]
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, 2006
Paris: UNESCO Publishing.

A summary of an assessment of the progress made by countries and national organizations toward meeting the goals of equitable provision of learning opportunities to all citizens from infancy to adulthood, expressed at the Jomtien World Conference on Education for All, based on cross-national education statistics, household surveys, consultations, literature reviews and commissioned papers, with a focus on national strategies for creating programs and improving services devoted to early childhood care and education

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ABC Learning Centres: A case study of Australia's largest child care corporation
Rush, Emma, 2006
(Discussion Paper No. 87). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia Institute.

A study of child care quality in child care centers operated by ABC Learning Centres Limited, the largest child care corporation in Australia, based on responses from ABC Learning Centres staff from a national survey of child care center staff and on detailed follow-up telephone interviews with staff

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Adjustment to the first year in school: A Singapore perspective
Yeo, Lay See, 2006
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 14(2), 55-68

An examination of adjustment to school by 90 first graders from different ethnic, language, and socioeconomic backgrounds entering a school in western Singapore

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Affordability funding models for early childhood services
Purcal, Christiane, December 2006
Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31(4), 49-58

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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Aiming away: New Zealand child care supervisors' responses (2001-2002)
Duncan, Judith, 2006
Journal of Australian Research in Early Childhood Education, 13(2), 151-161

A study of child care supervisors’ perceptions of the purposes of their child care services, such as nurturing children, helping children learn, working with parents and community, and cultural advocacy, and their rankings of the importance of a list of stated purposes, based on the questionnaire responses of 78 New Zealand child care supervisors

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An appropriate curriculum for 4-5-year-old children in Northern Ireland: Comparing play-based and formal approaches
Walsh, Glenda, 2006
Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 26(2), 201-221

A comparison of the quality of learning experiences for 4-5-year-old children in formal versus play-based models of education in Northern Ireland

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The association of early childhood care and education to children's experiences in kindergarten
Kohen, Dafna E., 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia, Human Early Learning Partnership.

A study showing the relationship between kindergarten readiness and experience in early child care or early childhood education using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) and the future benefits of early childhood education to Canada

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Availability of childcare support and nutritional status of children of non-working and working mothers in urban Nepal
Nakahara, Shinji, 2006
American Journal of Human Biology, 18(2), 169-181

An examination of the effects of child care and maternal employment on young children's nutritional status in urban Nepal, comparing the nutritional status of children with working mothers with those of children whose mothers did not work

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Between ideology and economy: The ''time politics'' of child care and public education in the two Germanys
Hagemann, Karen, 2006
Social Politics, 13(2), 217-260

An examination of the time politics of child care and public education through a comparison of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic after 1945

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Biological essentialism, gender ideologies, and role attitudes: What determines parents' involvement in child care
Gaunt, Ruth, October 2006
Sex Roles, 55(7-8), 523-533

An examination of the relations among Israeli mothers' and fathers' gender ideologies, fathers' role attitudes, and their involvement in child care in terms of tasks and hours of care

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''Bite off only as much as you can chew'': Gambia's policy for early childhood
Choi, Soo-Hyang, 2006
(UNESCO Policy Brief on Early Childhood No. 34). Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Excerpts from an interview with a government official and a college administrator on efforts to develop a sustainable national early childhood policy for Gambia

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"Boundary crossing": Negotiating understandings of early literacy and numeracy pathways
Kennedy, Anne, December 2006
Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 31(4), 15-22

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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Build child care: A national social program that’s vital to strong communities
Canadian Union of Public Employees. Research Dept., May 2006
Ontario, Ottawa, Canada: Canadian Union of Public Employees, Research Dept.

A discussion of the impact of Canadian federal budget cuts on municipalities’ provision of quality child care and early education services

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Building a community architecture for early childhood learning and care: Analysis and recommendations
Mayer, Debra, 2006
Toronto, Ontario: Young Women's Christian Association of Canada.

A discussion of a three-year project called Building a Community Architecture for Early Childhood Learning, which created task forces in four settings in Canada to develop community models for comprehensive, integrated early childhood learning and care

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Canada-wide spending on early childhood education and care (ECEC) (2005/2006)
University of Toronto. Childcare Resource and Research Unit, 2006
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto, Childcare Resource and Research Unit.

An overview of public spending on early childhood care and education in Canada in the 2005 to 2006 fiscal year

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Canadians' attitudes toward national child care policy
Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario: Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada.

A national telephone survey of Canadians' opinions about a proposed policy to introduce an annual child care allowance for families with children under six years old

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Canadian early learning and child care and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Friendly, Martha, 2006
(Occasional Paper No. 22). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: University of Toronto, Childcare Resource and Research Unit.

A review of the political and social child care context in Canada and its implications for Canadian commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

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Capturing quality in early childhood through environmental rating scales
Sylva, Kathy, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(1), 76-92

A study of the relation between process quality and developmental outcomes among 3 to 5 year olds in a nationally representative sample of English pre-schools

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Care and education: Towards a new paradigm in early childhood education
Brostrom, Stig, December 2006
Child & Youth Care Forum, 35(5), 391-409

The identification of a theory of unifying care, upbringing, and teaching, based on the incorporation of select philosophical, psychological, and pedagogical theories into current child care practices in Denmark and other countries

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