Accelerometer measured level of physical activity indoors and outdoors during preschool time in Sweden and the United States
A comparison of young children's physical activity and sedentary behavior during indoor and outdoor time for both boys and girls in Swedish and United States settings, based on data from 50 children with an average age of 52 months, at two sites in Malmo, Sweden and two sites in Raleigh, North Carolina
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Assessing quality day care: The child care facility schedule
A description and validity study of the Child Care Facility Schedule, a research instrument tested in Greece, Nigeria and the Philippines, for observer measuring and personnel self-evaluation of child care center quality
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Atypical working hours: Consequences for childcare arrangements
An inquiry into the child care arrangements and work-life balance of families with parents who work atypical hours, based on a subsample of 12 families from France, Finland, and Portugal from the SOCCARE Project
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 1. Australia, Denmark and the Netherlands
An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Australia, Denmark, and the Netherlands affect parents trying to balance work and family life
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 2. Austria, Ireland and Japan
An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Austria, Japan, and the Republic of Ireland affect parents trying to balance work and family life
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 3. New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland
An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in New Zealand, Portugal, and Switzerland affect parents trying to balance work and family life
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Babies and bosses: Reconciling work and family life: Vol. 4. Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom
An examination of ways in which tax and benefit policies, child care policy, and employment and workplace practices in Canada, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom affect parents trying to balance work and family life
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Child care and early childhood education in Hungary: An examination of teacher-child relationships in Hungarian preschools
A comparison of variations in teachers’ interactions with children in their preschool classrooms in Hungary and the United States
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Child care and Economic Development [Special issue]
A special issue of the International Journal of Economic Development, examining the the link between child care subsidies and economic development and the role of child care in the economies of the United States and Canada
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Childcare and the European Union: A bumpy but upward path
A comparison of government's approaches to child care policy between Canada and the European Union
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Child care and school performance in Denmark and the United States
A cross-national comparison of studies of the relationships between child care type and elementary school academic achievement, based on analyses of data from large samples of children in Denmark and the United States
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Child care and the social investment model: Political conditions for reform
An exploration of the political conditions that lead to a national reformation of child care policies and social investments, using Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom as examples of the political conditions for social change
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Child care co-operatives in Canada 2007: A research report
An examination of the role of co-operatives in Canada’s historical and contemporary child care markets, an explanation of federal and provincial/territorial child care policy, and a comparison of information about child care co-ops in Canada and in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom
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Child care co-operatives in Canada 2007: A research report [Executive summary]
A summary of an examination of the role of co-operatives in Canada’s historical and contemporary child care markets, an explanation of federal and provincial/territorial child care policy, and a comparison of information about child care co-ops in Canada and in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom
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Child care, family benefits, and working parents: A study in comparative policy
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Childcare, multiculturalism, and welfare state regimes: Policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Sweden
A study of the policy and practice of multiculturalism as well as speech activities in preschool and primary classrooms in 3 minority school districts in London and in Stockholm, from interviews with one academic expert, one national official, three local officials, and 22 public school teachers or administrators in each country, as well as classroom observations
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Child care, parental leave, and the under 3s: Innovation in Europe
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Child care policies in diverse European welfare states
An analysis of the role of gender in child care policy agenda setting and formation in Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and France since the 1990s.
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Child care policy at the crossroads: Gender and welfare state restructuring
A critical discussion identifying and deconstructing the themes that have formed traditional views of early childhood education; a new concept of early childhood education is offered that is based on social justice and humanity
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The childcare triad?: Indicators assessing three fields of child policies for working mothers in the EU-15
A comparison of public child care policies promoting maternal employment in European Union countries (EU-15) according to a working family friendliness model, determined by simultaneously high female employment and fertility rates
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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 views on childcare quality
A survey of child views on child care provision, using data from surveys of Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships (EYDCPs), a review of literature on child care provision in the United Kingdom, and consultations with children who are either disabled, aged 10-13, or from families of minority ethnic backgrounds
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Comparing early childhood educators' teaching beliefs and intentions between the U.S. and Taiwan
A comparison of early childhood educators' teaching beliefs and intentions in the United States and Taiwan from surveys of convenience samples of 24 early childhood teachers and teaching aides working in the U.S. and 26 in Taiwan
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A comparison of early childhood education systems in Japan and the United States
An observational investigation comparing the United States' early education system with Japan's, focusing on government involvement, child care affordability, regulations, and curricula
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Conceptions of Finnish and Estonian pre-school teachers' goals in their pedagogical work
A study of similarities and differences between Finnish and Estonian early care and education teachers' goals and their thoughts of ways to achieve these goals in their pedagogical work, based on data from 30 teachers from Finland and 30 teachers from Estonia
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